Friday Factor Update: Video link added
I’m guest-hosting The O’Reilly Factor again tonight and we’ll have a good, meaty show for you: immigration, the Newark case, Pearl Jam, the market, and more. Tune in at 8pm Eastern.
Update: I just finished taping the show. Just a heads-up that we might get preempted early in the show because of breaking news on the mine story. The show repeats at 11pm Eastern. In any case, we’ll be sure to have highlights at Hot Air.
Update: Video highlights here.
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Ahhhh, this will make the Friday BBQ much better…
Looking forward to the great Friday night debates.
a good, meaty show?! Dude, I’m so there.
Pearl Jam going to be in studio by chance?
Ah, got it.
I’m getting very accustomed to seeing you on FNC, Michelle. When the summer is over, what am I supposed to do then? Watch reruns?
I’m despairing in advance for when BigO takes back his FridayFactor. FNC should boot Geraldo El Mustachio and give you that hour on Sat & Sun.
HotAirTV w/ Malkin!
I demand satisfaction!
NO DOUBT. He needs to get back to doing what he does best: Disaster Porn
Scroll till you get to the stache. Heeelarious.
Oh, OK - got to run out for an emergency quick/fix dinner. Had planned to go out, but the Friday night “Malkin Factor” needs our support.
Brian72 - agreed. Weepy, chin quivering, Gerald has gotta go. Every time he’s on I suffer spasms grabbing the ‘mote.
We really shouldnt pick on Geraldo, He actually seems like a nice person that means well for others. Just a tab bit confused maybe…..
Hehehe…..that was pretty good schweggie.
Sounds like a good show. I’ll tune in.
Too bad no monkeys, lettuce, madrassa’s, winter soldiers or the department of insecurity.
Homeland security, What homeland security?
Clear the Damn backlogs, First!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOO-FREAKEN-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/s/
José
Market fights back, down 30 for the week…wonder if Bernanke is flooding the Dow with cash too?
I’ll be propped up in my recliner, eating a shrimp salad, sipping SWEET tea, chilling from this oppressive 110 degree heat……watching MICHELLE.
Make Our Day!
Oh yeah! Friday night cookout with “Michelle, THE Factor”…
I’ll save the sweet tea for tomorrow, tonight it’s a ‘98 Castello di Querceto La Corte to celebrate.
Gayle, shrimp salad, yummm - I just got back from the store but I have a bag of shrimp in the freezer. Change of plans…it’ll be shrimp salad, hard crusty bread, and a bottle of Fetzer’s Gewurtztraminer. Thanks!
How about the subject of a city official trying to eliminate free speech? The SF Supervisor Sandoval versus American Talk Show Host Michael Savage?
Michelle,
Any chance something on Jack Murtha tonight? Those 3 marines, were presumed innocent right, you know like everyone insist Michael Vick be treated. I would very much like the rest of the American Public to know, that Jack Murtha, can defame our Fighting Men while a “Shooting War” is going on but not be reached for comment, when he has nothing slanderous to state about our American Military Service People.
I wonder if enough of us could show up in front of FOX studios with picket signs, demanding Micelle get her own show, if it’d be influential?
Or if not, perhaps if we graduated to torches and pitchforks instead of placards?
Hilarious that somebody on the other side of the country can determine my evening schedule on short notice, but there it is…
Go get ‘em, Michelle!
How about permanent Fridays? Won’t mess up your weekend, and O’Reilly gets a 4 day week…
Great news, and I assume a live blog on HA
Go get’um kid and I will sit here sippin
a Bud lite (frosted glasses) while smilin like a mule eatin honey suckle blossoms.
Finished taping thats great, will you BBQ my Steaks so I dont miss anything?
Pearl Jam?
If there is a band out there I dislike more, I cannot think of them. Eddie Vedder and his surly, “I’m rich, I’m miserable” routine wore thin 5 minutes after it started.
Homeless people cannot help looking grungy. Million dollar spoiled brats in Seattle should shave, put on clean pants and shirts (especially when testifying before Congress), and sip their lattes in silence.
I miss the happy glam rock from 1986-1992. It was optimistic. The grunge era from 1993-1998 was a disaster, with a song about a kid who commits suicide in school, with society to blame. Lovely.
Bring back the 80s, and relegate the grungers to irrelevance. They are the liberals of music…complaining about nonsense while having more money than the rest of us.
Oh, and they are anti-war because they supposedly stand for stuff…like getting stoned.
http://blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com/2007/07/14/war-is-for-tough-guys-bring-on-the-80s-rock-music/
eric http://www.blacktygrrrr.wordpress.com
Game on!
I am stuffed! That shrimp was divine!
I am ready to watch Michelle blast off!
No fireworks……..yet.
You are probably just in time for the BO
rerun
LOL
Give me a plate of that shrimp, please
Buffalo wings, Sam Adams and M2 on the Factor.
Things could be worse.
Well done Michelle! The last segment was great and you did very well against that attorney. You got him riled up.
You could have asked also if it said ‘I have a bomb’ would that make a difference. That was a great point that I didn’t think about and I was siding with the attorney before you brought it up.
On a plane too, the pilot is sovereign. For any reason the pilot can say he doesn’t want someone on his plane and the person doesn’t fly. He’s got much more authority than the cabbies in Minnesota. It isn’t a civil liberty situation. The pilot doesn’t even need a reason (remember the Seinfeld episode?)
Now having said that, let me armchair quarterback. I’d never go on TV anyway so please understand that you are my favorite American and I am only saying this to help. I would suggest trying to eliminate the word ‘um’ when you host on TV. You are great in your conversational interview style, but ‘um’ is annoying a bit. Review the show and count how many times you say ‘um’. Once again, I’m just trying to help. I couldn’t do nearly as well as you do, and I’m thankful that you do what you do. I’m just sayin.
It was a good show though. Well done.
That was a terrific presentation! Bravo! Bravo! Week after week these outings just keep getting better. I would love to know how the Michelle factor (i.e. sitting in for O’Reilly) translates into ratings (increase or decrease). I would wager that the number of viewers goes up relative to when O’Reilly is on a Friday night.
And thank you Michelle for presenting an opportunity to open a fine bottle of sangiovese. There’s still some left if anyone is in the neighborhood! Salute!
Great show Michelle…are you going to keep getting better and better each week? You look in command now, the uncertainy has been removed…I love watching you on “The BOR” you’ll be offered your own show soon, plze do not go to a soup or left wing outfit…PLZZZZZE!
blacktygrrrr,
Gods do I agree with you. The 80’s brought us some of the mot insipid, idioptic music ever. “Grunge” is just the tip of it.
It was the start of the modern boy-band…
If I could undo time, I think I would undo the 80’s, even though it had Reagan.
I hated the music that much.
Great job tonight, Michelle.
Regarding the lawyer—you had him stewing in his PC. The pilot, the airline, and the public flying the skies have every right to not allow t-shirts or flying imams acting weird on planes. They need to get over it their perceived civil rights to scare people.
Wow, Michelle is ready for the big leagues now. After watching tonights show, I can not believe what a great improvement you have made since the first time I watch you. Keep up that awesome smile you had tonight when discussing things.
Best hair night yet Michelle!
Goodshow, Michelle, and yes, great hair night!
I have to comment on “Iraqi American” Raed Jarrar. If I am correct, he and his family are the infamous anti-American bloggers who opposed the liberation of Iraq from the beginning (along with their pal Riverbend) and who somehow wangled their way into the US. http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/
If he didn’t try to set up this lawsuit on purpose, I will eat my hat!
The next time someone is trying to defend illegal immigration by saying our country can’t survive without it, I wish they would be told something like what I am thinking, which is, ” I’ll be happy to pay more, even a lot more for my produce. I’ll mow my own yard, and I’ll even make up my own bed the next time I stay at a motel if necessary. I refuse to believe we can’t survive without millions of illegals to do the work we won’t do. To literally give my country back to Mexico in return for cheap lettuce is not a good trade-off in my opinion.”
Thanks to gayle, our shrimp was great also. Thawed just in time, to the point of deliciousness…
Michelle, please thank your family, from all of us, for supporting you in what you do so well. I won’t say it’s the best you can do, because your best efforts are the children you are raising. Our future depends on what you and others like you teach them. For what you do so well, we all wish you the very best and hope to invite you into our homes on a regular basis.
I’ll have to catch it on the next hour as I went to the movies (very disappointing, but I won’t tell you what it was because we all have different tastes!).
Michelle, I don’t know how you do it. You have up-to-the-second information on what is going on with everything, everywhere. You’re ahead of everyone else with breaking news and stories that impact us enormously, but which the msm chooses to ignore. You are amazing!
Good show Michelle. Thank you.
Sounds great to me as well.
Well, you’d have to check out the mediabistro.com in a few days to see how firday went. I believe MM was in last Monday, and the ratings for the 6th was a very respectable 395 (Olby had just over half that.)
In any case, well done - as usual. Good hair day, and keep it all coming.
You’ve got a lot of people so very proud of you, and wishing you all the best.
Friday nights are much brighter now, what a nice way to begin the weekend, love it
MM,
It was a great show. The quote of the evening “The standing operating procedure, is there is no SOP.” (MM on Factor.) I thought the best segment was with the lawyer. I think you spun him up. You shoved a lot of info down the immigration guy’s throat. He couldn’t keep up. You looked great. The wife is hooked on the Michelle Factor.
A terrific job.
I’ve seen the following manifestation over and over and love it (tonight it occured with the pro-illegal-mexican lawyer): During the segment introduction, the guest who you can easily guess will be in conflict with Michelle sits smiling, smirking, looking very self-satisfied in a dual attempt to sell himself personally to the audience to sway people on the content of his viewpoint while simultaniously calming his own TV jitters. Debate begins, guest starts off with a smiling, extremely patronizing tone of voice as though speaking to a small, confused child and finding the whole experience gently amusing. Fast forward six minutes: guest is now looking like a vet ill-suited to warfare who saw one day too many on the front lines, complete with ten-mile stare and slightly ashen pallor. Vocal delivery, formerly enthusiatic and energetic, is now diminished and barren of confidence. Guest debate content now amounts to vauge and unconvincing generalizations, often punctuated with disconnected non-sequitors. Much self-sorrow bleeds through.
God, for those of us who rely on a few voices to speak up against the MSM, those moments are such a happy catharsis. Thank you, Michelle.
By the way, Michelle, are you aware of any pundits who are planning to make much noise on the issue fo the Dems not debating on Fox. As a TV behind-the-sceneser, I see readily the damage that continued MSM silence on the issue is doing.
Zorro: “I would love to know how the Michelle factor (i.e. sitting in for O’Reilly) translates into ratings (increase or decrease).
I haven’t seen the recent numbers, but a couple of months ago Michelle was proving to be a very healthy transfusion into the body, and a no-brainer it is: viewers like a pretty face (no sexism intended), she has one; Conservatives need a PC-unassailable minority female (a media standard the libs themselves created, ha ha)presence who can lay it on the line and to conservative’s delight, does she ever; her vivisection of unruly or dishonest guests is hugely entertaining - and first and foremost TV must be entertaining or all else is lost. Once Michelle settled in, anyone who knows the slightest bit of this biz from the inside could see her inevitable, skyrocket emergence easily.
Magic 8-Ball says: “There is no question about it”.
Yes, Michelle did a terrific job, again. I had to get my NFL jones taken care of at 7:00cst (Saints vs. Bills @superdome CBS), so I waited until the 10:00cst repeat for my Malkin fix. I bet the late night repeat smoked Uberjerk’s primetime ratings again!
I’ve mentioned several times now that Michelle ought to have a weekend slot on FNC, and Michelle herself has not responded to any of this talk in the comments here. So what about it Michelle? Am I wasting my breath, what do you think about HotAirTV w/Malkin? You haven’t said anything so far, and I’m beginning to wonder if you think that’s out of the question because you don’t have time or something. Is my vision futile, or is that something you would like to do? Maybe your silence indicates something going on behind the scenes, like negotiations with Ailes, maybe? One can hope.
Great show Michele! What’s with the no wedding ring thing? Airline security, muggers, divorce?
Thanks Thomas for the link to the ratings.
viewers like a pretty face (no sexism intended), she has one; Conservatives need a PC-unassailable minority female (a media standard the libs themselves created, ha ha)presence who can lay it on the line and to conservative’s delight, does she ever;
That’s a little crass….and a bit nosy, don’t ya think? Geez….
It was, but MM ignores that sort of thing.
I did too, well sort of.
Michelle, what makes you such a natural for an interactive-format like The
O’ReillyMalkin Factor is the way you balance passion with control. Too much either way would make you appear either shrill or boring, but you thread the needle every time.If I want shrill, I can watch Olbermann or Matthews. If I want boring, anything on the CBS, ABC or NBC PBS will do.
You’re the antidote to all of the above (as well as being much, much more pleasing to regard). My compliments on another great show.
derel3433,
” disagree with the suggestion that Michelle got her job because she’s cute and Asian.”
WHOA! Back up. I never said she got her job because she was “cute” (never used that word) and asian. Rather, she is a brilliant and lucky (for us) combination of “factors” which make her a spectaular juggernaut against the left, and yes that includes the leftist standard of pretty faces and minority ethnicities. For the record, I’m sure Michelle got her factor gig on the basis of her journalistic excellence and debating prowess, both of which are beyond reproach. However, there can be no doubt that her good looks played some part in the decision to place her where she is, and that’s just the showbiz aspect of commercial television which is entertainment first and all else second. We shouldn’t kid ourselves that all excellent journalists are handsome or beautiful and that’s why most newscasts are filled with people who fit those descriptions. Pretty faces are simply easier to watch, and that can be important during heated debates or the reporting of bad news - that’s just television news 101.
But don’t try to put me on record as saying that she got the job because of those superficial qualities. Indeed, in context, I’m pretty sure I made clear that quite the reverse was true, though those superficial aspects certainly matter in television. More specifically, her appearance elicits more viewer sympathy than one gets from, for example, O’Reilly, and with the media 8 - 1 against conservatives, Michelle is for all the reasons for her effective televison presence a terrific general to have in the field
Yes C_Cat, it’s definitely a visual medium. Which has led over the years to many good-looking “journalists” who are lightweights in the “research and understanding” departments. Emphasis on good hair and stentorian tones, never mind if the story is hopelessly wrong. Michelle’s biggest strength is the effort she puts into researching facts - she never sleeps apparently - and that gives her a huge edge in a debate. OK, second greatest strength, her IQ might be #1. It’s the left - as you note - who have been criticizing the right for supposedly not having minorities and women, and now - “bam” as Emeril might say. Smart, well-prepared, Asian heritage, female, and ‘visual” (no offense meant MM). She’s a slam dunk for TV.
AlohaGuy,
You got it.
Additionally, though, my point was also that because of all those qualities (and a quick-witted ability to hang the opposition with the rope of their arrogance and hypocracy) she’s difficult for the left to attack - yes, they do it, but it never really feels right, never has legs. So we have a brilliant conservative voice in the media who has a strong degree of immunity from attacks from the left, do in part to a set of standards they themselves created. And that, too, is just lovely.