memeorandum: Late Nite FDL: Conservatives UNHINGED!! (TRex/Firedoglake)

1:30 AM ET, April 6, 2007

Top Items:

Bill O'Reilly Loses His Damn Mind — In the entire, dark, black history of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, this is probably the craziest clip ever. A young girl was tragically killed by a drunk driver. But this was not enough for O'Reilly. Instead, because the criminal was an illegal alien …

Discussion: FRAMESHOP, Pam's House Blend, TVNewser, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo

WAVY TV 10:

News conference held in response to Bill O'Reilly's criticism — Thursday night the city of Virginia Beach responded to criticism from a national talk show host. — Bill O'Reilly took aim at the city of Virginia Beadch on his show Wednesday night. City officials held a news conference Thursday evening and responded to O'Reilly.

Discussion: The BRAD BLOG

John Amato / Crooks and Liars:

Bill O'Reilly's head practically explodes as he screams at Geraldo... We've seen Bill lose it before, but I think this one is the wildest segments I've ever seen. I really thought Bill was going to haul off an upper cut to Geraldo's jaw. Geraldo yelled at O'Reilly that the way he used this case was " A SIN!"

TRex / Firedoglake: Late Nite FDL: Conservatives UNHINGED!!

Atrios / Eschaton:

Make Some Noise — Tell CNN to get the facts right on Pelosi trip — For much of the past week, CNN and its White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux have offered a steady stream of inaccurate and incomplete coverage of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East …

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Media Matters for America, Horses Mouth, Sister Toldjah, Firedoglake, Think Progress, Macsmind, All Spin Zone and Washington Post

Media Matters for America:

CNN's Malveaux asked if Pelosi's trip to Syria is "big wet kiss to President Al-Assad" — On the April 4 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, guest host Suzanne Malveaux again asserted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had "no official capacity to negotiate" during her visit to Syria.

Discussion: Think Progress and My Two Sense

Claudia Rosett / philly.com:
Pelosi was nuts to visit with Assad

Discussion: Gateway Pundit

The Columbus Dispatch:
Boehner, Hobson clash on Pelosi trip

Discussion: Dayton Daily News, DownWithTyranny! and Daily Kos

Editor and Publisher:

Joe Klein in Tomorrow's TIME: Bush 'Clearly Unfit to Lead' — NEW YORK In the upcoming issue of Time magazine, out Friday, columnist Joe Klein considers what he calls the Bush administration's "epic collapse." He concludes with a statement that may make some wonder if he is hinting that the president ought to be impeached.

Discussion: Shakesville, Balloon Juice, New Pairodimes, Booman Tribune and Alternate Brain

Joe Klein / Time:

An Administration's Epic Collapse — The first three months of the new Democratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid …

Discussion: Liberal Values, Political Animal, Matthew Yglesias, Macsmind, Democrats.com and The Mahablog

White House:

Interview of the Vice President by Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show — Q It's always a great privilege to have the Vice President, Dick Cheney, with us. Mr. Vice President, welcome once again to our program. — THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you, Rush. It's good to be back on.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, First Draft and Left I on the News

Amanda / Think Progress:
Cheney: Senate Committee Is 'Stalinist' For Blocking Swift Boat Funder's Appointment

Discussion: Attytood

Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
State Department won't rule out paying Swift Boat donor Ambassador

Discussion: NewsHog, The Impolitic, The Carpetbagger Report, Right Voices and Alternate Brain

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Uses Recess to Fill Envoy Post and 2 Others

Discussion: White House Watch, Cadillac Tight, Campaign for America's Future, The Gun Toting Liberal™, NewsBusters.org, TAPPED, Tennessee Guerilla Women and The Democratic Daily

Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:

Probe Targets GSA Chief — Justin Rood Reports: — Another federal investigation is targeting a Bush administration official, this time for possibly using government resources for partisan political purposes. — The Office of Special Counsel confirmed to ABC News it has launched …

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, NewsHog, TPMmuckraker, Political Animal and The Agonist

MSNBC:

12,000 more Guard troops may be going to Iraq — Deployment order planned to lessen 'surge's' strain on stretched-thin Army — WASHINGTON - Coming on the heels of a controversial "surge" of 21,000 U.S. troops that has stretched the Army thin, the Defense Department is preparing to send …

Discussion: AMERICAblog

Brian Montopoli / Public Eye:

The Public Eye Chat With.Allen Pizzey — The Public Eye Chat With...Allen Pizzey — It's Thursday, and that means it's time for the Public Eye Chat. This week's subject is Rome-based CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey. You can read excerpts, and listen to the full interview, below.

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, NewsBusters.org and Hot Air

Online NewsHour:

Petraeus Cites Areas of Improvement in Baghdad — JIM LEHRER: Now to our Newsmaker interview with General David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in Iraq. I spoke to him this morning from the Green Zone in Baghdad. — General, welcome. — GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS, Commander, U.S. Forces in Iraq: Thanks very much, Jim.

Discussion: The Jawa Report, INTEL DUMP, PrairiePundit and Opinion Journal

Gateway Pundit:

Harry Reid Gets Clobbered By Veterans For Not Supporting Troops (Video) — Harry Reid Gets Lambasted By Veterans... In a question and answer session at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Reno, Nev., on Thursday, April 5, 2007, Harry Reid got clobbered by a room full of veterans for not supporting the troops.

Discussion: Redstate, Say Anything and PrairiePundit

Sarah Lyall / New York Times:

Questions Arise About Britons' Actions in Iran — The 15 British marines and sailors held captive in Iran for nearly two weeks arrived back home today. But Britain's relief at their safe return was tarnished by questions about how they behaved during their detention and why they had been captured in the first place.