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Do you ever wonder why some people are so transparent? Do they really think we’re idiots? Take the car salesman who loves you as your shopping for the car, but seems to forget your name after you buy it. Or the contractor who loves you as you’re signing the checks, …

WASHINGTON – Media watchdogs decrying “fake news” segments that are actually packages produced and distributed by the Bush administration to promote government programs are demanding the Federal Communications Commission (search) take a stand against the practice. They are joined by some members of Congress and other groups who have asked …

For a long time now, we’ve been telling New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (search) and his folks that we don’t bite. Really! We just ask questions — some tough questions — but always, I hope, fair questions. A great leader can handle that. Tuesday, Eliot Spitzer proved that. He …

A no-spin look at Iraq and how the USA is handling the conflict, that is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Less than 24 hours after the New York Times (search) corrected its misreporting that I said war protesters Cindy Sheehan’s (search) behavior was treasonous, the San Francisco …

I want you to think about something for a second: Jacques Chirac (search) could be on the way out of a job. Voters in France this weekend will likely defy him and reject a referendum on an European constitutional treaty he’s been pushing for months. Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder (search) is …

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine: Mysterious Mailings The New York Times has fired former Baghdad bureau chief Susan Sachs (search) — most recently bureau chief in Istanbul, Turkey — for allegedly sending letters to two Baghdad correspondents’ wives, suggesting their men were being unfaithful while overseas. According …

To watch “The Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thank you for watching us tonight. The sniper and the media. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. Unlike some other cable news programs, we are not spending that much time covering the sniper, because facts are few …

NEW YORK – Audiences who catch Johnny Knoxville and cast performing outrageous stunts in the just-released Jackass: The Movie might wonder where all the professional fall guys have gone. They wouldn’t be alone. With the advent of digital effects and more actors doing their own stunts, some speculate that stuntmen …

To watch “The Memo” click here. Hi, I’m Bill O’Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Well, the Lindh family and its attorneys should be ashamed of themselves. That’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points Memo. Rarely have I heard so much nonsense and spin. The parents and brother of …

While 46 states participated inthe $246 billion tobacco settlement aimed at punishing the tobacco industry for its contribution to public health problems, several of those states have decided to dump the cash right back into the tobacco industry. North Carolina,for instance, was awarded $4.6 billion in the multi-state settlement, and …