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While Rep. Michele Bachmann says she’s not afraid of MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, it’s curious that her next big media appearance following that statement wasn’t Olbermann’s show but the friendlier Bill O’Reilly’s. Something else she’s not afraid of: a handout.
Reader Kate writes in to ask whether Bachmann — who told O’Reilly on Wednesday, “I don’t need [...]

Did ACORN win the U.S. Senate race for Al Franken? Bill O’Reilly raised the topic last night with rightwing pundit Laura Ingraham. ACORN reportedly registered some 43,000 voters here, and O’Reilly says he’ll ask Gov. Pawlenty to look at those registrations to “see if those people actually exist.”

Bowing to pressure from some parents in the district, the superintendent of schools in Fergus Falls is directing teachers not to show President Obama’s live “Back to School” speech to students next week. But while some call the speech unprecedented, in 1991 the roles were reversed: a Republican president was blasted by Democrats for the same type of address to students.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty probably wishes he hadn’t been included in the presidential straw poll at the just-concluded Conservative Political Action Conference. Pawlenty was the top choice of just 2 percent of voters to be the GOP’s standard-bearer in 2012.
The winner of the straw poll was former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, garnering 20 percent of the [...]

The Daily Beast has a provocative piece up today theorizing that Sen. Al Franken might be just the remedy for an ailing Republican Party. Writer Benjamin Sarlin posits that Franken presents exactly the type of frothing, over-the-top liberalism that the GOP needs to demonize Democrats as out of touch with mainstream Americans. He cites Franken’s [...]

It’s that most wonderful time of the year again, the “War on Christmas” season.
Over the past day, Gretchen Carlson, a co-host of “Fox & Friends” and the last Minnesotan to become Miss America (1989), invoked her local roots as part of a full-court press to put the issue – now an annual holiday tradition in its [...]

Michele Bachmann has done over 20 major television appearances since the beginning of September — far more than any member of Minnesota’s congressional delegation. How does a freshman Congress member from the minority party find herself in the limelight so often?

Easy. You and I pay for it.

Bill O’Riled: As old footage of Bill O’Reilly going ballistic on the set of Inside Edition burns up the Internet, RevoLucian makes an NSFW remix sure to make Dick Cheney proud. [Or New York newscaster Sue Simmons who let 'er rip on air Monday night with her own rendition of the f-word.]

Strib land bids due: [...]

Last night on Fox, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann engaged in a cheerfully fact-free five-minute colloquy with Bill O’Reilly regarding the case of Olga Franco, the Guatemalan woman who caused the southern Minnesota school bus crash that killed four children.

It culminated in this exchange:
O’Reilly: In Minnesota, there is no urgency to solve this illegal immigrant crime [...]