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Kamiya vs. O'Reilly Salon challenges the bullying Fox host to stop misrepresenting our "Liberation Day" story and debate its author fairly. - - - - - - - - - - - - April 23, 2003 | On April 11, Salon published, as its lead article, a piece by executive editor Gary Kamiya. The headline read: "Liberation Day: Even Those Opposed to the War Should Celebrate a Shining Moment in the History of Freedom -- the Fall of Saddam Hussein." The accompanying photograph showed an Iraqi man kissing an American soldier. Here is the central argument of the article: "To...

Get in on it!Fox News Bill O Reilly has declared war on actor/director George Clooney over the latters sarcastic remark about Charlton Heston and his suffering from Alzheimers.The broadcaster compared the popular Clooney to Michael Jackson and Woody Allen.O Reilly said he was certain that George's career would be negatively effected.

In the late 1980's Bill O'Reilly was a second-tier correspondent for ABC News, scrapping to get airtime. He walked with the same swagger he has today, but back then no one took it seriously. A good day was when Peter Jennings handed him the trifling task of doing the 30 second afternoon news breaks.So, on October 16 when anchorman Peter Jennings wrapped up his evening newscast and headed over to the FOX News Channel studios outside New York's Times Square to be interviewed by his former underling, it was another sign of how far O' Reilly has come. Like so...

LOS ANGELES -- Pepsi has canned Ludacris. Pepsi-Cola of North America said Wednesday that it was was pulling its television spot featuring the Atlanta-based rapper because of consumer complaints about his sexually explicit, profanity-laden lyrics."We have a responsibility to listen to our consumers and customers and we've heard from a number of people that were uncomfortable with our association with this artist," the PepsiCo Inc. unit said in a statement."We've decided to discontinue our ad campaign with this artist and we're sorry that we've offended anyone.""There are many different types of talented celebrities and artists, but not all of them...

Larry Johnson (Former Deputy Director of the State Department's Office on Counterterrorism) -told FOX News Channel's Bill O'Reilly-that he along with a growing contingent of independent probers, believes that John Doe No. 2 is actually Hussein Hashim Alhussaini, a former member of Iraq's elite Republican Guard.'The thing that really concerns me relative to 9-11 (is that) when he left Oklahoma around 1996 and 1997, he went to work at Logan Airport in Boston,' Johnson told O'Reilly. 'We don't know where he is now.'As bizarre as the Logan Airport tie in may seem, the coincidences don't end there, according to Johnson.'The...