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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (259847)	5/31/2002 9:42:39 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

O’Reilly Ratings Flap Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:22 a.m. EDT newsmax.com Earlier this week NewsMax reported that Bill O’Reilly’s new syndicated radio program was not off to a good start. NewsMax quoted a source familiar with New York’s WOR, O’Reilly's flagship station, who told NewsMax that initial Arbitron ratings showed O’Reilly’s ratings peaked in the opening few days after his May 8 launch, but have quickly fizzled. O’Reilly was quick to call NewsMax to inform us that Arbitron has not published any such ratings. NewsMax checked with Arbitron, the mother of all radio rating agencies. They backed up O’Reilly. Though ratings for shows are constantly being tabulated, they are only published at set intervals. The first numbers affecting O’Reilly’s May launch won’t be available until June, with more details following this summer. Arbitron assures NewsMax that tabulated data would not be revealed, either verbally or in written form, by Arbitron officials to any individual associated with WOR, or anyone else, until the data is officially published. NewsMax will take Arbitron at its word on this one. But, as we noted to Bill O’Reilly, NewsMax had a source it deemed "solid" that provided us with the information. We reminded him that the same source provided NewsMax with information last December that O’Reilly was in full-scale negotiations with WOR, that his new radio program was "a done deal" but that the station was not going to run his show live, head-to-head against Rush. (See: O’Reilly on Radio: It’s a ‘Done Deal’) NewsMax broke that story and the information turned out to be dead on. At that time, and soon after, O’Reilly denied publicly that he had any negotiations ongoing or was implementing plans to launch his new show. O’Reilly said he had suspended all activities related to his radio show after it was revealed that Rush Limbaugh had suffered significant hearing loss. When it became clear that O’Reilly’s show was indeed going to launch this spring, Internet reporter Matt Drudge openly called O’Reilly a "liar." Since then, O’Reilly has stated that Drudge is leading a right-wing cabal to undermine his show, in hopes of helping Rush Limbaugh maintain his supremacy on talk radio. Apparently, O’Reilly has now linked NewsMax to the conspiracy. After our story this week, O’Reilly mentioned on both his radio and cable show that unnamed "right-wing" web sites were continuing to publish false information about him and his program. All of this was news to us at NewsMax. If there is a conspiracy, NewsMax has yet to be invited to any of the smoke-filled sessions held by the conspirators. As our editor, Christopher Ruddy, pointed out to Mr. O’Reilly, no other web site has chronicled his ratings success, and that of Fox News, in their overthrow of CNN as the cable news leader. Ruddy noted that had NewsMax been provided positive information about his radio show, and his rating success, we would have trumpeted that story as we have the many pro-O’Reilly stories we have published for years. NewsMax may be fallible - though we’ll put our record up against any major liberal media outlet anytime - but we are still the "no spin zone" site. We wish Mr. O’Reilly the best. Competition is good, and O’Reilly’s voice on the national scene has been welcomed. But we also call them as we see them. O’Reilly’s radio show has been over-hyped (it has nowhere the 10-15 million listeners its syndicator claims), has gotten off to a bumpy start, and his show has been almost universally panned. This week the New York Daily News reported that O’Reilly friend Don Imus is saying that "he isn't impressed with the show so far." Imus told the paper, "O'Reilly s----. It's much more difficult to do radio than anyone thinks." Another O’Reilly fan, legendary KABC broadcaster Ray Briem, says he can’t listen to O’Reilly’s new show. His urgent advice to O’Reilly: "Change the format and tackle controversial issues."

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (259847)	5/31/2002 9:44:25 AM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 769670

Dumbed-Down Schools Hit a New Low Thursday, May 30, 2002 newsmax.com WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Some people think America's expensive but horrible government schools are intentionally dumbing down the country. Perhaps they're right. The substandard government high schools in Palm Beach County, Florida - also known as Pea Brain County, Floriduh, after hundreds of fanatical Al Gore supporters claimed to be too stupid to use the Democrat-designed ballot in 2000 - have stooped even lower. Pupils who miss up to 77 percent of the answers on a history test will pass, according to the educrats who rule from the boondoggle building known locally as the Taj Mahal. Talk about the Lake Woebegone Effect: Those who miss half the questions will be rewarded with an A. "I don't think if you administer a valid test and a kid misses half of the questions, that they should pass," said Thomas O'Brien, who teaches "social studies" (a P.C. replacement for what used to be history, civics, geography, economics, etc.) at Lake Worth High School. Is it any wonder these people can't even vote? By the way, a $14.4 million touch-screen voting system, which was supposed to end all the voting confusion in Pea Brain County, is giving the condo commandos conniption fits. Embattled elections supervisor Theresa LePore, who left the party because bitter Democrats reviled and threatened her after Gore's failure, has scheduled a mock election at the area's mind-numbing number of shopping malls. Some local yokels, however, are not satisfied. And NewsMax, with headquarters in West Palm Beach, gets a front-row gander at the astonishing antics of a Democrat-run, Democrat-ruined county. Well, what can you expect of a place that spends millions of taxpayer dollars to turn a five-lane road into a two-lane road?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (259847)	5/31/2002 9:46:38 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

New Photos Show Chelsea in Drunken Stupor - Again Thursday, May 30, 2002 12:25 p.m. EDT newsmax.com Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton was photographed being carried out of a London nightclub in a drunken stupor last week - and the pictures have been published in one of Britain's most widely read tabloids, the Daily Mail. Photos taken outside the Embassy nightclub in London's fashionable Mayfair district show a "bleary-eyed" Clinton collapsing into the arms of her boyfriend, Ian Klaus, as he sat in the back of their car. She had to be carried to the curb by three male companions, according to an account based on the Daily Mail report in the German wire service Deutsche Presse-Agentur. "They had to pull her legs into the car to get her in," one eyewitness told the Mail. "She nearly fell down and didn't seem to have a clue what was going on." Another witness explained, "She looked very drunk and her friends rang for the car to get her." Others on the scene told the London tabloid that Clinton had to dash to the cloakroom on a couple of times before feeling brave enough to face the cool night air at around 3 a.m. The former first daughter's partying has become notorious, and rumors continue to swirl that Oxford University, where she attended graduate school since last year, is so distressed it's considering expulsion. In January, the American supermarket tabloid the Globe published photos of young Clinton staggering out of another London nightclub. A year before, the same tabloid carried accounts of Clinton getting "sloppy drunk" during a spring break weekend in Aspen, Colo. In contrast to wide coverage given to alcohol-related incidents involving President Bush's twin daughters, the American mainstream press has hushed up Ms. Clinton's drinking problem