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Deborah Orin-Eilbeck, The Post's longtime D.C. bureau chief whose passion for politics and unrivaled integrity kept Washington on its toes, died yesterday after a battle with cancer. "Laura and I were saddened to learn of the death of Deborah Orin-Eilbeck," President Bush said. "Deb had a distinguished, decades-long career as a journalist, covering every presidential campaign since 1980 and joining the New York Post's Washington bureau in 1988. "Deb fought a valiant battle against cancer with the same tenacity, devotion, and determination that she brought to her work in the White House briefing room through numerous administrations," the president said....

Laura and I were saddened to learn of the death of Deborah Orin-Eilbeck. Deb had a distinguished, decades-long career as a journalist, covering every Presidential campaign since 1980 and joining the New York Post's Washington bureau in 1988. Deb fought a valiant battle against cancer with the same tenacity, devotion, and determination that she brought to her work in the White House briefing room through numerous Administrations. Laura and I send our condolences to Deb's husband Neville Eilbeck, and to her family, friends, and colleagues. She will be missed by all of us at the White House who cared deeply...

"Mission Accomplished" vs. "Halp us jon carry - we r stuck hear n irak" (media bias) Compare the coverage in the liberal media of the "Halp us jon carry - we r stuck hear n irak" banner by our troops in Iraq this week vs. the feeding frenzy over the "Mission Accomplished" banner from the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln returning from an extended deployment so they could participate in Iraqi Freedom back in March 2003. This morning ONE major newspaper decided to run a picture of the banner along with a cover story... The New York Post, ironically the only...

12 MORE YEARS The Post today also endorses Hillary Clinton for re-election to the Senate. Surprised? Well, so are we - a little. But, then, there really isn't much of a choice in this race. Clinton has an insurmountable lead in the polls. She's worked hard the last six years, and it shows. And the Republican candidate, John Spencer, isn't a credible alternative. He's a down-to-earth, if not earthy, fellow who once served Yonkers well as mayor and who now appears to be running for another term in that office. If so, we endorse him - for mayor. As for...

DON'T get your hopes up for "One Night With the King." It isn't about a hot time in the sack with Elvis. No, it's a dull time in the theater with Esther. Esther (Tiffany Dupont) is a nice Jewish girl from ancient Babylon who becomes wife of Xerxes, king of Persia (an area now know as Iran), and prevents the slaughter of her race. (Nice going!) Director Michael O. Sajbel has gathered what is sometimes known as a "cast of thousands," as well as Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif. The cinematography and sets look great, but the script is a...

WELL, at least the Dixie Chicks have the Canadians on their side. After Tuesday's premiere of Barbara Koppel's documentary about the Chicks, "Shut Up and Sing" - which is about how their fans revolted after Natalie Maines bashed President Bush two years ago - Toronto Film Festival managing director Michelle Maheux said, "This country would never allow something like this to happen." While the Canadian crowd ate up the movie, conservatives were riled up again - specifically with lead singer Maines, who calls President Bush a "dumb [bleep]" in the film. "What a fascist little bee-atch!" said one angry post...

July 2, 2006Biased Times And Post Badmouth Bush The New York Times has done it again – laced Uncle Sam’s feet in a sack for the race between liberty and terrorism.  It revealed last week a secret monitoring program for international electronic bank transfers between Al Queda cells.This was done legally with cooperation of the Brussels-based Worldwide Interbank for Financial Telecommunication.  The “Gray Lady” of journalism (so called presumably for venerable age) considered this an encore for a similar, irresponsible revelation last December.  In that, the Times asserted the National Security Agency (NSA) was tapping illegally into telephone calls...

It was nice to see the New York Times commemorating Independence Day this week with a tribute to its favorite Revolutionary War hero, Benedict Arnold. Times editor Bill Keller spent the day attending Revolutionary War battle re-enactments, where he passed the Continental Army's secret battle plans to the British. Get Yours FREE! This week I plan to reveal my own top secret information: an interview I did with the New York Post the week my current No. 1 best seller, "Godless," was released. On account of an important breaking story on Angelina Jolie's new tattoo, the Post never found room...

3 HOURS ON QNS. STREET ALL IT TAKES TO GET FORGED PAPERS IN SECURITY SHOCKER CAUGHT IN ACT: Post reporter Douglas Montero (left) shakes hands with shady documents dealer "Flaco" Photo: Matthew McDermott NEW YORK POST INVESTIGATION For an illegal immigrant desperately seeking to work in NY City, getting a high-quality forged green card or Social Security card is almost as easy as buying a soft-shell taco....... this reporter arranged a face-to-face meeting in Queens with a 20-something Hispanic man known in the neighborhood as "Flaco" - the Spanish word for thin......Flaco didn't appear threatening at all - surprising, considering...

INTELLIGENCER Remember the Jared Paul Stern gossip-ethics kerfuffle? The FBI does. Stern, a longtime freelance contributor to the Post’s “Page Six,” was accused by billionaire Ron Burkle of trying to extort $200,000 from him in exchange for keeping negative stories about him out of the paper. Now the “Page Six” editor, Richard Johnson, has been contacted for questioning by a group that includes prosecutors from the Southern District and federal agents. Asked about a looming interview with the G-men, Johnson referred calls to a publicist. One of Johnson’s lawyers, Ed Hayes, says he is aware the Feds requested a routine...

June 25, 2006 -- A Brooklyn anesthesiologist callously ditched his wife and three kids, leaving them homeless after he secretly sold their house and fled the country with all their money, the wife alleges. Dr. Raihan Chowdhury was deemed a fugitive Wednesday for ignoring repeated court orders to provide for his hapless family. His wife, Sharmin Sultana, who gave up her career as a gynecologist to become a full-time mom, is now broke and staying at a women's shelter with the couple's two daughters and toddler son. All while her husband lives in luxury in his native Bangladesh, possibly having...

NEW YORK - New York Post gossip writer Jared Paul Stern, who's accused of trying to extort $200,000 from billionaire Ron Burkle in exchange for positive coverage, says he was set up by the businessman and is being smeared. Stern said Burkle initiated discussions about the payment, offering money for the writer's clothing line called Skull & Bones. "He set it up through a middle man," Stern, a freelancer for the newspaper's Page Six gossip column, said in a telephone interview Sunday. "He initiated discussions in a potential investment in my clothing company. That's where the whole money issue originated....

It was 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon, March 31. In a spacious bilevel Greenwich Village loft, two men sat on wrought-iron chairs across from each other at a round glass table.One was Jared Paul Stern, the New York Post's Page Six reporter and magazine editor. The other was Ron Burkle, a West Coast billionaire investor who had rented the loft for a month while he was in New York City considering new acquisitions, including a $2.2 billion bid for a chain of 12 newspapers.But this bit of newspaper business with Stern was different.

A New York Post Page Six staffer solicited $220,000 from a high-profile billionaire in return for a year's "protection" against inaccurate and unflattering items about him in the gossip page, the Daily News has learned.

JUST ASKING WHICH political reporter attends so-called "circuit parties" while flying high on ecstasy? "It stuns me that a prominent figure with public responsibility would show such poor judgment," said one witness, "not to mention that it's totally illegal."

<p>Osama bin Laden emerged from his rat hole long enough to release yet an other tape in which he taunts Amer ica. But beneath all the bluster, invective and threats may reside some real news: It seems that the evil Osama wants to sue for peace.</p>

NEW YORK - Les Goodstein, president and chief operating officer of the Daily News, has joined News Corp., owner of the rival New York Post, as a senior vice president, the Post’s publisher announced Tuesday. In the new position, Goodstein will be responsible for new business development and advise the Post and other News Corp. divisions, said Paul Carlucci, chairman of News America Marketing and publisher of the Post. The Daily News’ publisher, Mortimer Zuckerman, told the newspaper’s staff in a statement Tuesday that he would announce “major new leadership appointments” next week, including that of chief executive officer. Fred...

While there may have been just one especially outspoken supporter of Al Franken's embarrassing attempt at confronting US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last week, mainstream media liberals sure know how to make it count. Late Tuesday, CBSNews.com gave John Nichols of The Nation top billing for his "Al Franken V. Antonin Scalia" piece. While the site's opinion section does also feature conservative commentaries, they sure seemed happy to highlight this Op-Ed with a major headline and prominent real estate. Addressed previously here at the Radio Equalizer, this essay resembles a slowly-spreading virus, destined to undermine the truth in a...

So much for Al Franken's "A-List" celeb aspirations. In confronting US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a New York event Monday, Franken was exposed as insignificant. With this sobering reality check, perhaps Al will learn to stick to the Smalley routines. Don't take the Radio Equalizer's word for it, New York City newspapers are having a pre-Thanksgiving journalistic feast, thanks to our friend Al. According to the New York Daily News, Justice Scalia wasn't even familiar with Franken as the two sparred during outgoing Time honcho Norman Pearlstine's latest "Conversations On The Circle" event: ....

November 17, 2005 -- Bill Clinton demonstrated yet again yesterday that, as far as he's concerned, the rules don't apply to him. In a speech to students at the American University of Dubai, the former president fired a rhetorical broadside against President Bush, saying the invasion of Iraq was "a big mistake." Toppling Saddam Hussein may have been "a good thing," said Clinton, "but I don't agree with what was done."