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Doc: Are We Paying for Limbaugh's Viagra?

Mary Papenfuss — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:14:00 CST

If Rush Limbaugh doesn't want to absorb some of the cost of female contraception as a health insurance consumer, others are wondering: Why should we pay for Limbaugh's Viagra? "We know" Limbaugh "has used Viagra, which is covered by medical insurance plans," Dr. Nancy Snyderman points out on MSNBC. Limbaugh...

O'Reilly to Fluke: Why Should I Fund Your Sex Life?

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:33:24 CST

Fox man Bill O'Reilly is after Sandra Fluke again, claiming the "committed leftist" who wants him to fund her sex life is at the "center of a campaign to reelect" Barack Obama. "Let me get this straight, Ms. Fluke," said O'Reilly in an earlier program . "You want me to give...

Santorum: Fox, O'Reilly Dissed Me

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:10:30 CST

Seems Dan Savage isn't the only member of the media with whom Rick Santorum has a bone to pick: Even the right-wing media stalwarts over at Fox News have dissed the former Pennsylvania senator's candidacy, he complains today in a radio interview picked up by Mark Halperin of Time . "Bill...

O'Reilly: Lincoln Book Has Just 4 Errors, 2 Typos

Kevin Spak — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:19:12 CST

Bill O’Reilly vigorously defended his book, Killing Lincoln , yesterday, after the National Park Service lambasted it for historical inaccuracies . “Our enemies are full of rage at our success,” he said on his show. He said the book contained "four minor misstatements, all of which have been corrected" along with "two...

O'Reilly's Lincoln Book Slammed for Historical Boo-Boos

Neal Colgrass — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:29:00 CST

Bill O'Reilly's book, Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever , has sold nearly a million copies and currently sits at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list . Only problem is, it's riddled with errors, according to a scathing review from the National Park Service bookstore at Ford’s...

O'Reilly: NYC Protesters Are Crackhead Drug Dealers

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 03:53:26 CDT

Members of the Occupy Wall Street protest are growing skeevier and skeevier—at least in Bill O'Reilly's eyes. To hear him tell it, the "crackheads" are dealing dope, having al fresco sex, and drawing rats by the hordes in their festering campsite at Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, notes Gawker. Even his...

Gawker: O'Reilly Pushed Cops to Lean on Wife's Beau

Kevin Spak — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:15:33 CDT

Did Bill O’Reilly sic internal affairs on his wife’s police officer boyfriend? That’s the soap opera-worthy tale Gawker is hawking today. A source close to Nassau internal affairs officer Richard Harasym says Harasym was asked to meet with a pair of private detectives working for O'Reilly, to investigate a fellow...

O'Reilly Rips 'Ideological' Hacking Coverage

Mary Papenfuss — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:00:50 CDT

Fox News' dead silence on the phone hacking scandal threatening Rupert Murdoch's media empire has finally been broken. And no surprise, Bill O'Reilly is insisting there is absolutely "no intrusion" of the burgeoning scandal on Murdoch's US operations, and that heavy-handed coverage of the scandal is driven by a liberal...

O'Reilly on Anthony Verdict: So Did a Martian Kill Caylee?

Matt Cantor — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:48:05 CDT

Bill O’Reilly is shocked at the Casey Anthony verdict—and he wants everyone to know it. The anchor blasted a juror’s assertion that Caylee’s death could have been accidental. “There’s no evidence—none—that Caylee Anthony died from an accident,” unless, of course, “a Martian came down and put duct...