Tonight’s topic: Hate speech on the Left.

No, not Geraldo’s. The focus is MoveOn.org’s despicable ad. I worked in a plug at the end of the segment for all of the pro-troops, pro-mission counter-demonstrations taking place this Saturday. See my Gathering of Eagles category for more info. Hope you can be there with us.

And to answer all of the readers who have asked whether I’ve complained to top Fox people about stupid spit-gate, I have. They’ve gotten an earful from me.

I’m not going to let it get in the way of my job. But I won’t forget. Thanks to all of you who’ve expressed your disgust by e-mailing Fox News and thanks for your support of my work.

As far as I know, there will be no talk about Geraldo’s hateful threat to spit on me.

Meantime, I’ve been able to squeeze in some fun and games this summer. Check out our Wii Vent at Hot Air. I’m crazy about Wii. Great for sedentary bloggers. Plus, you can use it to access the Internet on the TV and catch up on your blog reading/Hot Air viewing in between Wii tennis matches.

Current Wii Fitness Age: 29!

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.

Tune in.

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Update: Video here.

Yes, there will be a Lindsay Lohan segment. Don’t blame me. You can always use it to take a bathroom break.

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Here’s your lunchtime blood-boiler: Video of the Michael Chertoff comment I mentioned this morning.

MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: You know, Wolf, first, I understand there’s some people who expect anything other than capital punishment is an amnesty. The reality is the proposal here requires people who came in illegally who want to stay to pay a penalty. Like a fine. That’s a punishment. That’s not an amnesty.

Chertoff’s playing from the same demonization handbook Linsday Graham is reading from: “We’re gonna tell the bigots to shut up.”

Update: I’m told that Fox News asked Chertoff to appear tonight on The Factor to discuss the shamnesty bill. He declined. The deaf and simpatico Wolf Blitzer makes him feel more at home, I guess…

Update: The Chertoff smear underscores one of David Frum’s points:

As we have seen in both the Harriet Miers fight and the Dubai ports deal, this White House’s first instinct when faced with dissent in the ranks is to insult and abuse its strongest supporters. “Sexist”; “elitist”; “registered bigots” were some of the terms cast during the previous fights. Brace yourselves for much, much worse. This is no way to win friends and influence people. And triggering an internecine party conflict on the eve of a difficult and dangerous election is no way to re-elect a damaged incumbent party.

Here are the video highlights and lowlights of my first of two guest host stints on The O’Reilly Factor.

Tonight’s show replays at 11pm Eastern. I’ll be back tomorrow night.

In a nutshell:

One Opio Sokoni informs us it’s all the Founding Fathers’ fault that hip-hop “artists” treat women like meat and can’t finish expressing a thought without throwing in three “niggas” in every sentence. Yep, blame George Washington for R. Kelly and Young Jeezy.

Next, one Malik Shabazz, leader of the “New Black Panther Party,” refuses to apologize for lynching the innocent Duke lacrosse players–and then proceeds to call me a “political prostitute” and mouthpiece for whites. Like I haven’t heard that a half-million times before. (The Left’s whore fixation continues. See also: The vile bile we have to put up with.)

He could have at least rapped it. Or said something about my hair. Maybe borrow a page from Wonkette next time and toss in a gratuitous ping-pong ball joke.

Yup, I’ve heard it all before. Comes with the territory when you’re an uppity brown woman who strays from the liberal plantation, you know.

Just so you know how poisonous this clown is–and why he really never deserves another second on TV airwaves, here’s my full column from Nov. 2, 2001 about Shabazz and his “party:”

More Muslim enemies from within
Nov. 2, 2001
By Michelle Malkin
Copyright Creators Syndicate

There was a venomous hatefest in the nation’s capitol on Halloween night. It was hosted by Malik Zulu Shabazz of the militant New Black Panther Party. Deadly rhetorical spores of Anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism permeated the air for more than four hours.

But there has been no panic. No uproar. Nothing.

If this event had been an anti-Muslim rally, the story would be front-page news. Editorialists and academics would be decrying racial and religious intolerance. Left-wing celebrities and MTV veejays would be hectoring us about the need for unity and harmony. Politicians would be condemning the hatemongers as radical extremists who undermine the American way of life.

Instead, the Muslim marathon of malevolence I watched Wednesday night on C-SPAN-2 received absolutely no mainstream media criticism. In fact, it got no mainstream newspaper press coverage at all — an especially ugly irony since it was held at the prestigious National Press Club in the heart of Washington, D.C. Where are all the dogged, brave-hearted members of the Beltway press corps when you need them to cover a war story in their very own lounge?

This was no ordinary forum of scholars, journalists, and bureaucrats of the sort who normally show up at the National Press Club to rub elbows and nibble croissants. It was a super-charged, anti-American grievance session populated by Muslim crackpots and conspiracy theorists. The so-called town hall meeting in the spacious ballroom of the Press Club was “moderated” by Shabazz, a Howard University law school graduate and fanatical racist agitator who was once described admiringly by a Washington Post reporter as “tall and lean as a pine” with “the grace of an athlete.”

He wore his usual garb – a dark Goebbels-like uniform with patches and stripes, close-cropped hair, and Malcolm X designer glasses. Surrounding him were a unit of peace-loving Muslims in black berets and paramilitary gear, who defiantly chanted “Black power!” on cue.

Shabazz defended Osama bin Laden, blamed President Bush for the 9-11 attacks, called our founding fathers “snakes” and likened them to terrorists, lambasted Catholicism, Christians, and Jews, and repeated his avaricious call for societal reparations to blacks. This is old hat for Shabazz, who rose to power under ex-Nation of Islam exile Khalid Muhamad. Among Shabazz’s resume highlights: stoking the recent Cincinnati race riots; organizing a legal support group for O.J. Simpson; leading a boycott of a D.C.-based Korean grocery store that was later firebombed; urging followers in Maryland to “crush” any “straw-chewin’, tobacco-chewin’ racist redneck” that assaults blacks; and threatening to kill whites and police officers if they interfered with his “Million Youth March” two years ago in New York.

“The only solution any time there is a funeral in the black community is a funeral in the police community,” Shabazz told the marchers at the time.

Consumed by hate of law enforcement, not a single person at the Press Club forum had a shred of gratitude for the hundreds of mostly white cops and firemen who sacrificed their lives to save their fellow Americans of all colors and creeds on 9-11. Instead, panelists and audience members stewed about racial profiling, blamed whites for drug abuse in black communities, and practically danced on the graves of the victims of 9-11 terrorism with repeated references to “the chickens coming home to roost.”

One audience member claimed that the hijackings, destruction, and deaths were “nothing more than a Hollywood lie.” An “imaam” named Abdul Alim Musa agreed, assailing the “Zionists in Hollywood, the Zionists in New York, and the Zionists in D.C.” who “all collaborate” to oppress blacks and Muslims. Another audience member refuted the politically correct notion that the Muslim religion is rooted in peace. After all, he noted, true followers believe that “Paradise is under the shade of our swords.”

Co-hosting the Press Club forum was Mohammed Asi, an official of the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. – where President Bush proclaimed that “Islam is peace” less than a week after the terrorist hijackings. Asi said and did nothing to quell the racist, anti-American terrorist sympathizers in the room.

9-11 taught us that our greatest enemies lurk from within. Before the war, the Malik Shabazzes of the world were treated by the press as curious nuisances in funny costumes. It’s long past time to call and condemn them for what they truly are: Treacherous threats.

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And for those of you who followed the Mohammed Cartoon Rage closely last year, you might remember Shabazz protesting at the Danish Embassy in D.C. We were there as he exhorted his little band of thugs: Watch Takbir! The video.

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Update: Speaking of O’Reilly, check out Power Line’s report on how O’Reilly’s reception in Iraq compared to John Kerry’s–photographic evidence included.