Monday Factor
I’m guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor tonight at 8pm Eastern. Lots of good stuff lined up: an overview of the Kos convention and “diversity,” a debate about the South Korean hostage crisis (yes!), and the madrassa in Brooklyn, among other topics. Tune in.
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Finally, some Korean hostage analysis on the Factor.
Looking forward to the show.
Can’t wait for some more coverage of this nonsense from Brooklyn. Good luck with the show.
Good, I’ll watch.
Looks like my “What to do at 8:00 this evening” question just got answered.
“Pinch hitting” indeed. You own that program, Michelle.
Seeing more and more of the
O’ReillyMichelle factor is definitely one of those instances where I don’t mind the exception swallowing the rule. I’m anticipating the “cymbal crash moment,” when that Bill-what’s-his-name guy shows up for a guest appearance…Michelle,
Another hot topic, would be Pakistan and the Red Mosque, there is going to be an aftermath to that event. Karzai is visiting, I remember how everything always started in Afghanistan and then flares up elsewhere. I wonder if the Terrorist Propaganda Machine, that appears to be entrenched in Pakistan, is going to send up one of these flares? We have been getting all kinds of warnings.
That is great news! I’ll be there.
Besides the S. Korean hostage situation update, I’d love to know how those Arabs in Brooklyn chose the name “Khalil Gibran International Academy” for their school. As I understand it (from my late father, who met Gibran) the author of the best seller “The Prophet”, Khalil Gibran, was a Maronite Catholic! He may have run afoul with the church for wanting to marry the bishop’s daughter but to become a champion of Muslims??? I’d love to know how that happened.
Good News! MM on the Factor! Hey whats up with the explosive guys? I’ve been running around all day and havn’t heard anything.
I was thinking the same thing.
Looking forward to seeing the Korean hostage coverage. It’s been woefully absent from media coverage (including Fox)
I’m lost here – who are the ‘explosives guys?’
hey guys slow down. Bill might go postal.we still need him.i do like MM looks better thou
jrl, go to the “lead story page and scroll down to the “saturday night bomb scare story….
Oh my! Like I said after Friday’s hosting, better than Monday NFL football and now MM is on Monday night!
An old man’s heart can only take so much and besides I know my wife is suspicious why I only watch OR on certain nights
Sweet mother of Pearl!!
Stay firm and resolute dear Korean hostages, Michelle is on the way!!
It’s been the Malkin Factor more often than not lately…
Not that any of us are complaining! Like Bill, Love Michelle.
Thanks, AJ….
hoo hoo only on the right can you find good looks and brains
Hey,mom…what’s for dinner?…why,talkin’ with Malkin,of course…and plenty for everybody
A lot of good posts here, I always look forward to Michelle hosting the factor.
Hey whats up with the explosive guys? I read somwhere that they were charged with having the explosives.
better than Monday NFL football THE NFL IS BEING CHALLANGED!
only on the right can you find good looks and brains THAT IS A UNDEBATABLE FACT!
Double-M,
Not to engage in conspiracy theories, but you have hosted the factor alot lately. Are you holding Bill O’Reilly hostage? Show proof of his safe existence or I shall send either Angela Lansbury or Matlock to investigate.
Also, with all due to respect to Double-M, NOTHING is better than Monday Night Football.
Perhaps she can break down the divisional races and give her opinions on the AFC West.
Otherwise, I guess there is other news.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/07/06/in-the-news-today/
eric
I hope Michelle gets to talk about the South Carolina “explosives” … it is on FNC website … says they had “pipe bombs” in the car …
Ahmed Abda Sherf Mohamed (24) and Yousef Samir Megahed (21) … Both are students at the University of South Florida in Tampa and in the country legally …
They were pulled over for speeding …
Officers became suspicious because they hurried to put away a laptop computer and couldn’t immediately say what they were doing in the area or where they were going …
Already the Tampa area Muslim rights group is yelling “racial profiling” and false arrest …
NO TERRORISM HERE … RIIIIGHT !!!!
Any reactions to the June 30 OP ED piece in the NYT by the two Brookings Institution gents who just came back from Iraq.
I might be way behind the curve on this one, but these were 2 die hard critics of Bush before they went over to see how the surge was going.
“A War We Might Just Win”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/30/opinion/30pollack.html?pagewanted=1
Perhaps a “war update” on the Factor sometime?
FYI, Brookings Institution has been bean counting the war for some time.
http://www.brookings.edu/iraqindex
How ya gonna live without MartyBall?
Sounds like a good show. I’ll toon in.
You go girl….Any chance of your getting your own FACTOR? A daily dose of MM could do all of us some good!
bear1909
Chris Wallace had them on yesterday on Fox News Sunday … it was an interesting interview … I am sure there is hysterical reaction from the left loonies …
As a life long Steelers Fan (they won last night by the way) I can say that if both Michelle and the Steelers were on the tube at the same time, I’d DVR the game and watch Michelle. Really.
Thanks, DL.
With the dearth of coverage I figured it was prolly a scare piece to the Left.
When the good news comes out in force from over there, we are bound to see all kinds of looney tunes from the Left….like the crap going on in Pelosi’s House and Harry’s Senate.
I hope MM brings up the deal cut with some Hong Kong based firm to x-ray containers for radio active material coming into the US. No US customs available to do it. AT ALL.
more stench. it never ends.
People keep asking for a Malkin factor.
Remember Bill wanted to retire about 2 years ago or so? In the end he stayed but, their was a long line of guest hosting.
Michelle Won the game by taking over, not only Friday nights, but other nights Bill wants off as well.
I PREDICT: When Bills contract is up THE MALKIN FACTOR BEGINS!!!!
darn it all, i just found out. guess i’ll have to wait for the rerun. maybe mondays aren’t so bad after all!
Hot air will probably post a video of the highlights late tonight.
Hey, Good job on the Factor tonight, Ricks a natural and it’s nice to have a face with the name now.
It sounded like Michelle said it was a “Fairy Debate” but I knew she meant “Fiery” We know how tricky those Teleprompters can be.
Great show, as always.
I look forward to you getting your own. Maybe right after Bill, and Gretta can do weekends.
And Geraldo can just go away.
Bravo Michelle, Bravo! Very smooth, controlled, informative. Mr. Bill should start to worry! I hope your Friday gig will turn into something more permanent.
Maybe on Friday there will be news as to why that school in New York used the name Khalil Gibran.
We should all keep praying for the S. Korean hostages and all those held against their will.
I dont have cable.. but at least with XM I can listen to Fox News..
Great show as always MM. looks like your getting more comfortable and at ease…very nice indeed. It was a pleasant surprise, i tuned in to watch the BOR, had no idea MM was going to be on. When i heard her voice…big sigh of relief. Watch BOR out habit and nothing else on at that time…MM needs her own show.
- James Na was spot on, great stuff. Rev. Kang? Not so much. I think he represented mainstream thought on this crisis in Korea.
- Michael Brown & Juan Williams, blowhard extraordinairres. Love how you keep them in check. This is the ‘No Guff Zone’ baby!
- Carrie Fukas (sp?) Where she come from? Nice job with it Carrie.
-RL Smith. Lynching?! WTF? I think he smoked a LOT of the hippy lettuce in his day. Its kinda showing…a lot.
Also, FOX really does need a shake-up. It’s like ever since Kiran Chetry
defectedleft for CNN, FOX has kind of lost it’s way to an extent. Malkin fills that void and then spilleth over. She needs her own show. Either split Greta’s show in half and give Malkin the other half or she should just replace Geraldo outright in his slot. Surely FOX is already on it. Rupert’s no dummy. Malkin = ratings boon. Kinda simple.Hope you get a slot Michelle. FOX needs a SOUL again.
Oh yeah! And Kudos to Rick Moran! PRIME TIME! Head to Head with the Arch-Blowhard Juan Williams! Nice job with it!
Wow, Thats where Kiran went, guess I’ll have to change channels more…..not!
Good job Michelle … enjoyed it as always … keeping people like Juan Williams and Michael Brown on subject and in check and off their Dem talking points is a feat in and of itself …
Just one thing missing … Although you challenged him on his Michael Vick race baiting pontifications I kept waiting for you to throw the gauntlet down about his double standard concerning the “let him have his day in court” statements …
Where were he and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and all the other radical race baiters when the Duke LaCrosse players were being convicted without “their day in court” …
Answer … simple … leading the rush to judgment charge against the now proven innocent young men …
Such hypocrites …
oops … the challenge I was talking about was to Mr White
MM,
Great show. This show was hard hitting. Good job covering the Michael Vick case. The Mr. O segment supported your show because you also covered the netroots. They fit together like peas and carrots. I think you should have taken Juanito out at the knees! The Michelle Factor has become an extension of your blog. Quote of the evening “There is a religion of peace.” Good job, Rick Moran. Awesome!!!!!!
Yeah DL, Now THAT was a lynch squad.
The biggest problem with Juan Williams’ desperate diversion attempt in trying to compare the Kos hate gang with Michael Savage is that the major presidential candidates aren’t spending weekends pandering to Savage.
ajmontana
I agree … I just keep waiting for all these people on the talk shows like Mr White to have their double standard challenged under a massive spotlight for the world to plainly see … they never seem to be challenged directly with the comparison to their actions during the Duke case
Michelle was smiling and relaxed and did a great job tonight. As far as her own show, I have no doubt that the decision-makers at Fox are looking at Michelle very closely right now. Pretty face, big ratings, huge appeal to the core audience base and now looking very comfortable and in control of the entire venue. I know this biz, and I can almost guarantee that decision- makers at Fox are quietly tossing her name around here and there at opportune moments. You don’t need to be a sooth-sayer to see that one.
Rick also did a very nice job and seemed surprisingly ready for prime time for someone with presumably little on-air experience.
As far as Juan Williams trying to equate KOS to Michael Savage, a salient point near and dear to my heart was missed and would have left Williams stammering: The Democrat Candidates agreed to go to KOS, a comparitively minor collection of grassroot extremists, but are too afraid to show their faces on Fox News in a debate, where millions of people can see them advertise themselves live. Had someone brought that up, I think the whole Michael Savage response tactic would have vaporized, because the Republicans have debated on CNN – regardless of U-Tube modifications to the CNN debate format – while Dems are terrified to debate on Fox ever. It’s such a handy issue, I cannot imagine why that card isn’t being played hard at every opportunity.
Mr_Conservative_Cat
Nice comment on Juan Williams … you are right about the comeback … I would have loved to hear the response to that question …
I sometimes wonder if any of our posts ever give Michelle any ideas regarding future questions she could ask …
Yup, MrCC, the question isn’t about who says nasty things, but about to whom the candidates are pandering and prostating themselves.
Desert Lover,
Michelle seems to be an entirely independant thinker, and as such I’d guess she takes her inspirations from wherever they present themselves.
Purplepeep,
Your point is well taken, but I wonder if we can’t take it one step further and frame it like this: “The question is about who says nasty things about whom while pandering and prostrating themselves to whom”.
I, for one, believe that Juan cleaned Michelle’s clock on the show yesterday on the “Yearly Kos” segment.
When Juan mentioned that the hate started with people like Michael Savage he was, in fact, partially right. Whether Savage started it or not is immaterial, but there is no denying that he – and sometimes Ann Coulter, who DOES refer to Obama as “Hussein” – go over the line into the same territory that Kos’ loonies do.
What Michelle missed completely – and what would have completely buried Juan – was the simple retort:
“You’re right about Michael Savage, and there most definitely *is* hatred on the Right. But tell me, Juan, how many candidates for the Republican Nomination are on Savage’s show this week? The issue isn’t whether there is hate, the issue is whether a person who supports that hate – who ENDORSE that hate – should be the leader of the Free World.”
Would have been nice to see Juan try to handle that one.
I’m sure michelle has plenty of ammo for these blowhards but, due to the time constraints on the program its impossible for all points and counterpoints to be made.
Sounds like it was an awesome show. I’m sorry I missed it.
Sorry, but Michael Savage is not hateful, nor a hate-monger. It’s preposterous. He is oftentimes abrasive, and uses very fiery rhetoric when he gets worked up, but sorry, not truly ‘hateful’ like the radical left. Not even close. I’m an avid listener of Savage, I know better, and I’m not going to throw him to the sacrifice alter as a hater on the right just because Juan Williams just throws it out there as gospel. Juan Williams is overly loyal. He will throw out any defense on any topic regardless if he believes his argument or not. He’s the textbook definition of a shameless shill. No, that’s really what its come to.
Comparing ‘Screw em’ Kos to Savage? Please.
RobM1981 you beat me to it, because I was thinking the exact same thing. Michelle missed a perfect opportunity there to show the difference between the two.
I saw the segment with Juan and Mr. Moran. I thought MM was a biased, unfair host. Her goal was clearly to make KOs people seem like radical nuts. Thankfully, Mr. Moran didn’t take the bait and was measured as was Juan. MM, learn from your betters.
LOL, as if Michelle has to do anything to make KOS folks look like the radical moonbats that they are. Her goal is to let people see for themselves. That’s all that needs to be done.
Biased and unfair? Are you looking in the mirror mikeb?
Re Kahlil Gibran – I bought “The Prophet” for $5 years ago and his writing is beautiful. A friend borrowed it to read a passage (Pg 80 “We would ask now of death”) at her cousin’s funeral. Why has his name caused alarm or suspicion?
Schweggie,
Savage, of course, isn’t Michael Savage’s given name. It’s his stage name, and he chose it well.
He has, in fact, referred to Condoleeza Rice as a “token.” He routinely refers to his opponents with verbiage every bit as foul as you will find on Kos. The fact that he can’t and doesn’t curse makes no difference. Savage uses words like “vermin,” “syphillitic,” etc. when describing people.
Sorry, but that can’t be viewed as civil discourse or debate. It’s certainly no worse than what the Dixie Chicks were (rightfully) vilified for. It makes Jon Stewart look like a choir boy.
Consider: Ann Coulter is at her best when she is making hard-hitting, fact based points. Hers is a brilliant legal mind, and I love hearing her use it. When she resorts to calling people “Harpies,” however, it erodes her credibility. Savage is the same, only more so. He actually *does* have some excellent points, and even some of his more extreme ideas have some merit.
But by presenting them couched in the language of hate and contempt, he gives people excellent reasons to ignore him. Hate is a great reason to tune someone out, no?
Any presidential candidate that endorses Savage by knowingly appearing with him would lose my vote.
I didn’t know, but it was an awesomely pleasant surprise to see you. You are getting really good in this format – though you don’t seem as controversial as you used to be. It could be the choice of guests. But you moderate discussions well.
Tell Bill O’ to take more vacations.
Rob, I certainly understand your viewpoint, it’s a viewpoint I’m familiar with regarding Savage, I just don’t agree with it. Perhaps our definitions of hate differ slightly. I think he airs his disgust at people and policies with great ease, but hate is something different in my my view. Saying someone is syphilitic is airing disgust. It cannot possibly be equated with Kos’s opinion that the contractors who were murdered in Iraq deserved it because they were only ‘paid mercenaries’. That is hate in my opinion. I don’t see the equivalence here. That’s just my opinion, or one man’s opinion as Savage would say.
If Kahil Gibran was discussed last night, I’m sorry I missed it. Like zorro (#6), I’m curious how the school chose his name and whether or not it is entitled to use it. Although he was born in Lebanon, wrote in Arabic before coming to U.S. and began writing in English, there is no indication he was Muslim. If the school is teaching fanaticism, it would be contrary to Gibran’s philosopy…guess I just answered my own question.
Okay, those of you who thought MM was all fair and balanced? What was Michelle’s response to Juan’s comment about Cheney cursing out a senator which he never apologized for? You got it, nothing at all. It’s okay for conservatives like Cheney and Savage to use foul language but not liberal bloggers?
Flip that statement, the same holds true.
There were some people pleading with the mainstream media and others to say that the boys in the Duke case were innocent until proven guilty. Now they are attacking groups and figures who are pleading with the media to defend Michael Vick.
Such hypocrites.
MikeB,
Michelle’s comment about Cheney *should have been* “The Vice President expressed his strong opinion one on one with Senator Leahy. He didn’t publish it on a website, and then gloat for all the world to see.”
That’s not a subtle difference. My complaint with Michelle wasn’t that she wasn’t fair and balanced; it’s that Juan was, intellectually, a sitting duck last night. Much like you appear to be right now, if that’s your best argument.
Cheney’s comments were private; Kos are broadcast at a convention that the Dem Candidates flocked to.
And, Schweggie, re: Savage,
How can we forget this direct quote that got him rightfully fired: “Oh, you’re one of the sodomites. You should only get AIDS and die, you pig.”
I’m pretty sure it’s about 7 clicks past “disgust” and deep into “hate” when you wish someone dead, and then call them a pig. That’s something you’d expect to hear from a Grand Wizard, not a reasoned debater.
Micheal Savage is fairly insignificant to me. I don’t listen to him, and don’t plan to. My talk radio time is full with Rush and Hannity on the air, plus Hewitt, Bennett and Levin through my broadband.
As regards to Cheney’s remark to Leaky Lahey, the VP was responding to a man that had slandered him relentlessly in public for shameless partisan reasons, then walks up to him and presents all this fake Senate decorum, “my good friend from Wyoming”, which I must say would have ticked me off too. What two-faced hypocrisy. Good on Cheney for speaking his mind in an honest way. Leaky deserved it, and more. To quote someone we all know, I feel nothing for him, screw him.
The issue isn’t if KOS is an extremist hate group, they are. The issue is that they wouldn’t be an issue in this election at all if the Democrat Presidential candidates weren’t elevating such a vile organization by bowing to them as though they represent some percentage of the mainstream electorate. The Rebublicans don’t go to KKK meetings, and the vile pioson that KOS spits out is easily as bad on the left as the KKK are thought to be on the right (the fact is that the KKK is mostly still esconced in the”Democratic South” where clan officials like Democrat Senator Robert Bird preach their own particular arian view of the master race, so let’s not allow our adversaries to define us as conservatives untruthfully).
You are known by the company you keep, and if there was ever evidence of mainstream media bias in favor of the Democrat candidates in an attempt to increase their prospects, it is the deafening silence from that august group of “journalists” on the hate that KOS fosters and disseminates with an unapologetic appearance of murderous intent.
I’ll concede that one Rob. I’m sure he regrets that one. But do you view Savage as a systematic hate monger? Do you absolutely equivocate Savage and Kos? Surely not I hope.
And Brian, love him or hate him, Savage is eminently brilliant, talented, and highly listenable. You should give him a try.
Great show, Michelle. I’ll add my voice to the chorus of those who think it’d be really, really neat if you get your own show one of these days…
Savage is a valuable asset to talk radio. That’s my opinion about Savage. I don’t have an opinion about the rest of the talkers. I listen to others when i can. So I don’t want to have to take shots because somehow my opinion about Savage is a swipe against others.
Here in the Bay Area Savage demonstrates to his listeners (people I know) his command of American history.
And he wields his knowledge with great acumen while instructing his audience.
It goes a long way in helping his listeners create reference points that explain the emotional impacts of American politics today. And this clears the way for some sobering realism about where we are headed as a Nation.
For example:
Since 9/11 I have had this sense that our nation has not seen the kind of angry, explosive divided camps that we see today.
And the ridicule heaped on GWB as an imbecile, moron, and evil genius -to me- seem unparalleled except for what Lincoln went through.
(I am not comparing two men, two Presidents that are different from night and day. I am comparing the general public’s disposition toward their narrowly elected President.)
Savage made the same connection one day on his show, talking about what it must be like to be GWB, wondering if he would survive his Presidency. He illustrated his point using the times of Lincoln and the Civil War.
Present day we are in a similar pickle:
We are being exploited as an electorate- a divided nation. IslamoFascists, globalists, banking cartels (Saddam was invaded the first time not because he invaded Kuwait, but because of his defaulting on a $10 billion loan from a globalist connected Italian bank- Banco Lavoro Nationale (?)), rogue shadow corporations, socialists and bolsheviks, and aspiring central planners.
Who is placing it in context *for free*? Who?
I measure the worth of a media “player” by their ability to place the “story” into an historical context (and not just back to the story’s spawning and evolution).
I measure a player’s worth by their distance from the “insiders”. The more the “insiders” disdain a Michael Savage, the more it appears to me the “insiders” are trying to steer things back into the status quo.
I am interested in the point of view that can articulate why Daily Kos has any traction with rational human beings; why anybody would *believe in* Nancy Pelosi; why anybody would keep voting for Babs Boxer.
I am interested in hearing the ryhming patterns of history as they unfold.
Savage shares this passion.
Schweggie,
I can’t say that I’ve listened to him much since then. It really turned me off. I do, occassionally, find myself stuck in traffic and he’s on.
And I agree with you re: disgust. That is clearly his dominant theme and emotion – and he can be funny with it. The trouble is, it’s hard to stay in that mood and not occassionally slip into hatred.
How can you not hate something that you actively hold in such bitter contempt, all the time? It’s like “the dark side of the force,” if you will. It’s very powerful – and Savage certainly makes a LOT of money through it – but it’s also uncontrollable. It consumes you.
If there is one thing that differentiates Rush and O’Reilly – who don’t seem to care for each other, btw – it’s that they rarely show contempt, and if they do it’s not for very long. They don’t stay contemptuous for very long. They’ll disagree, even loudly, with someone. They might call someone “crazy” or worse – but only to a limit, and then they calm down and try to refocus themselves.
I’ve often thought that there’s a reason why conservatives can operate this way, while liberals often can’t: strength of ideas.
Liberals are shrill largely because it’s all that they have left. It’s hard to argue, logically, why candidates would go on Kos. Had Michelle just capitalized on Juan’s mistake, she would have left him as Bill normally does: wandering for another point, which he would likely not make.
Savage has found a formula that works for him. Like Ann Coulter, he has discovered that “the dark side” can be quite lucrative. The trouble is, for every point he makes, he gives one to the other guys. He allows them to say, “see the Right is full of hate. See? Ann calls Obama ‘Hussein’ because she can’t come up with anything substantive…”
And before Savage or Coulter can then change gears and cream Obama on one of the many problems he has, on the issues, the opportunity is lost: the listener has already listened to that little voice in their head that said “you’re right. they’ve resorted to name calling… ignore them.”
After listening to Savage with regularity, that is exactly what I realized that makes Savage a cut above. He goes well below the surface of an issue and eloquently provides many layers of context. Savage and Prager are very skillful at that. Many of the other talk show hosts frankly don’t delve much deeper than the talking points.
This is what I find refreshing about Savage however. I crave that deep seated conviction that the ‘talking points’ folks just don’t deliver on, or often enough.
You make very good points, though some I still may not agree with. I still think the word ‘hate’ is being used to loosely. Calling Obama ‘Hussein’ is not hate. A pointed jab? Sure. So if the left says that’s a hateful comment, then they’re just wrong. In too many cases I think we’re just too willing to throw Savage and Coulter on the stake for what is falsely perceived as ‘hate’. The tone and ‘take no prisoners’ rhetoric that Coulter and Savage wield is hard for many to listen to, I understand, but their style does not quite fit into my definition of hate…