Perhaps Michelle Obama needs to make a visit to the O'Reilly Factor. It certainly worked for her husband. O'Reilly softened his stance on the senator after being allowed to yell at and berate him for an hour. Then again, I can't see Bill O'Reilly ever ceasing to assassinate Michelle Obama's character at every opportunity. She's clearly the wrong race/gender combination. You see, she just looks so angry. This was actually a topic of conversation — again — on O'Reilly's show yesterday. Media Matters watched so we wouldn't have to.

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• All you have to do to gain Bill O'Reilly's respect is go on his show and let him bark at you for an hour! [BO]

• Solange, let the beef with Las Vegas go. They care enough about you to follow you around! [TMZ]

• Alicia Keys chats about Secret Life of Bees. [E!]

• Sometimes animal-rights activist Russell Simmons is well-aware that his clothes "are not especially animal friendly." Uh, knowing is half the battle? [BB]

• For the fanatics: Kanye's new album is already on presale at Amazon and Target. [EUR]

• Now Republican women are supposedly boycotting Oprah Winfrey because she doesn't want Palin on her show, as if it is Palin's god-given right to be offered a spot on Oprah's couch. [WAOD]

• Bill O'Reilly gets on Barack Obama over tax increases for the wealthy. [YT]

• 50 Cent won a court ruling — it seems like he always does — and can now see his son more often. [CL]

• Reebok is not trying to waste money on all those C. Johnson jerseys they produced just so the football player formerly known as Chad Johnson can have a jersey that says OchoCinco. [BV]

• Michael Jackson's unwashed underwear is going on sale on eBay for $1 million. Sadly, I believe someone out there is willing to pay that much. [Bossip]

"A man of his word," Barack Obama appeared on the O'Reilly Factor last night to be talked over and rudely interrupted in the "No Spin Zone." The two discussed the war on terror, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan, and there is really nothing stranger than watching a bullying, impatient blowhard and a cerebral, wordy politician try to have an intelligent conversation. Never fear, though. We have all next week to get used to it. Fox is milking this one sit-down for all it's worth, and will stretch it over several episodes. O'Reilly promises that it will be "fairly extensive and provocative."

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OK, we know that by now everyone's as tired of Sarah Palin as the wolves the Alaskan governor uses airplanes to chase to the furthest reaches of her snowy state. But this Daily Show clip – an infuriating tally sheet of conservative mendacity – is simply too good not to post.

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In a profile of Rupert Murdoch in its October issue, Vanity Fair describes an early-summer meeting between Murdoch, Fox News head Roger Ailes and Barack Obama. During the meeting, Obama "lit into" Ailes over the slanted coverage of him and Michelle. Ailes countered that the situation could have been avoided if Obama, who had already appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, had made himself more available to the network. According the the magazine, they struck a "tentative truce." The results of that alleged truce have not been readily apparent, but maybe it has something to do with why Obama agreed to appear on The O'Reilly Factor tomorrow evening. Hillary Clinton braved the shark tank — they ended up having a pleasant discussion about Rev. Wright — so why not Obama? Maybe, just maybe, he'll say something before the show's conservative audience that will help him hold onto his 50-percent standing in the polls. One thing he definitely won't say, much to the confusion of O'Reilly, is "M-fer, pass the iced tea."

Bill O'Reilly's a bully and a hypocrite — this much we all have known for quite a while. Nevertheless, it's interesting to watch the children to whom O'Reilly had decided to dispense advice for money come to this conclusion on their own.

Bill O'Reilly likes calling people pinheads. He called 50 Cent one a while ago, and, now, after joining Color of Change and MoveOn.org in a Fox News protest, Nas has joined the pinhead ranks. O'Reilly wasted a lot of breath last week deriding Nas, saying, among other things, that "new album is a bomb, a disaster, a catastrophe … Two years ago, his last album sold 355,000 copies in its first week, and this one has sold 187,000 copies. Not good. I hope I'm not a 'racist' for pointing that out." Not racist, but completely wrong, considering that Nas was No. 1 on the Billboard charts and remains in the top 10. Of course, O'Reilly said all of this in the "no spin zone" so it must have been correct. [Salon]

Bill O'Reilly continues to take the pretend high road on this Jesse Jackson "nuts" business, despite the fact that he was the one who aired a portion of the civil rights leader's hot mic conversation in the first place. Rumors have been swirling about what else was said in the unaired portion of the convo, and earlier today a reliable source told TVNewser that Jackson used the word nigger, as in "[Barack Obama is] trying to tell niggers what to do" but did not use the word to describe Obama (just the rest of black America).

Anyway, O'Reilly confirmed this bit of news to Shepard Smith, but said he hadn't intended to release that portion of the conversation because it was just "trash talk." "I'm not in the business of hurting Jesse Jackson, because it does hurt Jesse Jackson. And I'm not in the business of creating some kind of controversy that is not relevant to the general subject: one civil rights leader disparaging another, over policy. So we held it back." What a sweetie. [TVNewser]

Jesse Jackson's accidentally-recorded comments about Barack Obama's faith-based initiatives, which he feels are part of a pattern of Obama "talking down to blacks," and his subsequent expression of his desire to personally remove the presumptive nominee's testicles, not only gave the disgusting Bill O'Reilly a chance to gloat and act smug and holier than thou, but it is also causing a serious rift in the Jackson family.

Here's a statement from the national co-chair of Obama's campaign and Jesse Jackson's son, Jesse Jackson, Jr. He might just love Obama more than Dad.

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Not because I'm surprised, but just because we should all stay abreast of these things:

While discussing ninth-grade students at a school in New Jersey who were suspended for distributing topless photographs of their classmates, Bill O'Reilly stated, "But it's an amazing amount of kids involved with this — 20 — in an affluent school district. This isn't, you know, the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system."

While neither affluent kids nor inner city kids seem to have much in the way of a values system these days, at least those people eating out in Harlem still avoid calling their servers "motherfucker."

Bill O'Reilly and Hillary Clinton had a nice time chatting about Rev. Wright today. Of course, it was one of the topics O'Reilly couldn't wait to bring up. "Can you believe this guy?" he asked. Clinton responded, "Well, I'm going to leave it up to the voters to decide." This makes sense, because Rev. Wright is running for president and all. Clearly, Clinton's lack of an "angry, bigoted black preacher who hates America" in her corner makes her the lesser evil in O'Reilly's eyes.

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Gay activist Wayne Besen and Bill O'Reilly squared off recently over Jay Leno’s gay face scandal, which O’Reilly simply can’t comprehend. The Fox News man goes on to complain about how comedians can no longer make fun of minorities with impunity:

It looks to me in America that you can’t ever make fun of any minority group. Ever. In any way. Anymore. In this country. I think that’s where we are really. You can make fun of white Christian men. You can make fun of, famous people. But if you make fun of a minority, any minority…

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Bill O'Reilly: He is a stupid man whose opinions are wrong, but at least he's consistent.

Just a few months after being absolutely shocked that Harlem residents aren't howling black brutes who would boil a white man and grope his wife as soon as look at him, the outraged and outrageous Irishman last night said this: "What’s the difference between the KKK and Arianna Huffington? What’s the difference?" All together now: WHAT THE FUCK!!!!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Billdo's upset that the Huffington Post, Arianna's eponymous news site, allowed some rogue commenters to say reprehensible things about the recently injured former first lady Nancy Reagan. That's right: He's comparing some boorish nerds flaming people on the Internet to a secret society that for decades dedicated itself to murder, torture and disenfranchisement. What a guy!

No, you'll never hear Bill O'Reilly call anyone a nigger, but how many tacit indications of his racism does Fox need before it shuts him down? As we know, where there's smoke there's fire. And sometimes where there's fire there's crosses! Which, of course, raises the question: What's the difference between the KKK and Bill O'Reilly?

• Call Bill O'Reilly! In Michelle Obama's 1985 senior thesis, she said the Princeton community at large didn't make her feel like she belonged. More proof she's unpatriotic! [CBS]

• Michael Jackson stands to lose Neverland Ranch if he doesn't fork over $24 million. Someone just take the property away from him, already. Does he even want it? [People]

• A federal judge says that Britney Spears' civil rights have not been violated. Guess one former pop star was not a part of Dr. King's dream. [Reuters]

• Maybe Gary can smear a little bit of that I Can't Believe It's Not Butter he's shilling on his hands? [RL]

• Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher have teamed together to produce a brand new reality show that is sure to be like nothing you've ever seen before. "Variety reports that the show is understood to revolve around beautiful people living in a house together." [EW]

P.S. Welcome Cord to the Stereohyped fam!