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On The Factor this evening, host Bill O’Reilly brought on a panel to discuss Fox News contributor Sarah Palin’s falling poll numbers. The Polling Company founder and president Kellyanne Conway suggested Palin’s increased visibility and celebrity status may be partially to blame for the falling numbers. In a word: Overexposure. Fox News contributor Tammy Bruce, meanwhile, was more interested in how those poll numbers might change once Palin is given an “unfiltered” platform for espousing her political beliefs – insinuating, of course, that Americans have yet to truly hear Palin’s opinions or her take on political issues.

What's with the recent trend of tagging articles with palin or sarahpalin that have nothing to do with Sarah Palin? If your article has nothing to do with Palin, please don't tag it as such. It's bad enough that journalists use her name to get hits to their articles or as a cheap source of writing material. We don't need that attitude here too. Just because people want to increase traffic to their posts, doesn't mean they should tag their posted articles with palin or sarahpalin. This just clutters the keyword/tagging system.

My girlfriend, for some absolutely incomprehensible reason, likes American Idol. She flipped the channel over to that show. And who appears on my TV set? That blue-lipped fascist Kenyan Muslim usurper. Barak Obama. I thought, "How appropriate. Soma for the mind, American Idol, and here's Obama encouraging people to keep watching. It's as if American Idol is actually intended to lull us to sleep". And at the end of his little endorsement for the charity that AI is supporting, he actually said, "You're all my dawgs." And I thought, "Can I please have a President who does not refer to...

TLC's 'American Chopper' reaches end of the road 54 minutes ago (AP:NEW YORK) "American Chopper" is riding off into the sunset. The popular TLC series based on the feuding Teutul family and their custom-built motorcycle business is going off the air after six seasons. TLC said Wednesday that the final episode will air Thursday. The end isn't a surprise. Paul Teutul and his son, Paul Jr., have frequently fought on the air. The son recently left the New York-based Orange County Choppers to start his own business, and the two are in a court dispute over money. The network said...

So let us now turn our attention to an item in yesterday's Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa entitled "Carroll woman's answer to highly visible Obama: Selling her televisions." A 78-year-old Carroll woman says she's so tired of seeing President Barack Obama on the airwaves that she's selling her television sets - two of them. Deloris Nissen, a retired nurses' aide and former Kmart employee who was raised on a farm near Audubon, placed a classified advertisement with The Daily Times Herald for Friday's paper. In the $5.50 ad, Nissen tells readers she has two television sets for sale. The...

A 78-year-old Carroll woman says she's so tired of seeing President Barack Obama on the airwaves that she's selling her television sets - two of them. Deloris Nissen, a retired nurses' aide and former Kmart employee who was raised on a farm near Audubon, placed a classified advertisement with The Daily Times Herald for Friday's paper. In the $5.50 ad, Nissen tells readers she has two television sets for sale. The reason: "Obama on every channel and station."In an interview Nissen said she is serious about selling two TVs - and genuine about her disgust with what she believes to...

The White House announced late Friday afternoon – on its Twitter page – that President Obama will hold a primetime news conference on Wednesday, July 22nd at 9:00 p.m. Eastern Time. "You heard it here first: Primetime presidential news conference at the White House, Wed. 7/22 @ 9PM EDT," the White House said, prompting an immediate flurry of retweets. It will be Mr. Obama's forth prime time news conference and his fifth formal solo White House news conference.

Barack Obama could soon be adding baseball broadcaster to his résumé. With the president scheduled to throw out the first pitch Tuesday in St. Louis for the All-Star Game at Busch Stadium, Fox Sports has made a formal request to interview the president during the game, and the White House is considering it. "We are discussing with Fox the prospect of him being in the booth," White House spokesperson Dan Pfeiffer tells SI.com.

Barack Obama will be adding baseball broadcaster to his résumé. SI.com learned Sunday that the President will join Fox Sports announcers Joe Buck and Tim McCarver during Tuesday's All-Star Game. Obama is expected to be in the booth sometime between the third and fifth inning. SI.com reported earlier that the White House was considering Fox Sports' request to interview the President during the game.

I tried to watch the Olympics but am I the only one that is sick of Beach Volleyball? This makes four nights now that they have shown the same women's duo and I know more about them than all other athletes (except Phelps). I give up and I guess politics is not the only thing NBC can ruin.

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) -- Indy Racing League rookie sensation Danica Patrick escaped injury after crashing into the wall during Sunday's A.J. Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile. The only woman racing in the IndyCar Series was running sixth on the 126th of 225 laps when it appeared the rear of her Rahal Letterman Racing entry slid out from under her, sending her car back end first into the wall at the second turn. Patrick, who has caused considerable excitement with her performances this year, including a fourth-place finish in the Indianapolis 500, quickly scrambled from the car and walked...

Before taking the podium the Marriott in Knoxville on Friday, U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. made his presence known by making his way to every table at the Freedom Fund dinner. After smiling for pictures with dozens of people at the event hosted by the Knoxville branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Ford put on a serious face to talk about the war in Iraq. Advertisement Ford, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006, spent his Memorial Day weekend in Iraq. After that visit, Ford knows the NAACP theme, "The Struggle for Freedom...

Is gay sexuality going back in the closet? By PATRICK MOORE The courts have set in motion the real possibility of gay marriage in the United States. HIV treatment, at least for those with health insurance, has vastly improved. Gay characters are regularly featured on network television. It would seem that the golden age of gay life in the United States has arrived. However, there is a growing sense among progressive gay thinkers that these provisional victories have come with a high cost. What has the gay community given up to reach this point? In its 2003 decision striking...

We've been privy to every intimate detail of their private lives -- sometimes until we want to hurl. So who would we like to see push the pause button on their 15 minutes of fame in 2003? We asked our editors, and here's how the votes came down: #10: Rosie O'Donnell She came out of the closet and off our TV screens as headliner of her own talk show in 2002, spatting then splitting with her self-titled magazine and taking up the cause of gay adoption in Florida, before having a child with longtime partner Kelli Carpenter. It was as...