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It looks like Bill O'Reilly still isn't finished spreading the same lies he was telling when he had his meltdown on air with Alan Colmes last week, because he decided to devote his Talking Points Memo and the opening segment of his show this Monday to defending and repeating those same lies -- and as Media Matters noted, despite getting his facts wrong again, O'Reilly claimed his "righteous anger" elevated the conversation about the debt.

The only thing we see Bill-O "elevating" in this segment is his ego. We've already been through the litany of B.S. O'Reilly was shoveling in the previous post here, so I'm not going to rehash that, but my fellow contributor here at C&L, Ellen at NewsHounds took the time to break down the segment above and I'll share just a bit of that here: O’Reilly Justifes His Meltdown With Alan Colmes: I’m Looking Out For You:

You don’t need to be a psychologist or a body expert to figure out that Bill O’Reilly’s justifications tonight for his bullying attack on Alan Colmes last week are a lot of hooey. In fact, there was so much hooey, I’m not sure I can catch it all in one post. But for starters, there was the hooey that O’Reilly likened Colmes’ “lie” about federal spending cuts to the danger posed by Al Qaeda (which included the hooey that Colmes had his facts wrong in the first place), plus the hooey that O’Reilly attacked Colmes out of a public-spirited desire to draw attention to this big danger, plus O’Reilly’s "admission" that he shouldn’t have called Colmes a liar – even though he immediately afterward described Colmes as lying. And my favorite hooey: O’Reilly said he’s not in his job for money or fame, but to look out for us.

Sure he is. How could anyone ever get the idea that O'Reilly was just all about the money or fame? Go read the rest for more of Bill-O's hackery and the back and forth during the panel segment, and as she noted, Mary Katharine Ham and Juan Williams did nothing but suck up to O'Reilly and reassure his poor bruised ego that he's really just a nice guy, no matter how badly he treated Colmes the previous week. I don't know about anyone else, but watching those two during this segment reminded me of a couple of battered wives telling their abusive husband that they still love him.

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You can take Bill O'Reilly's dismissal as the best endorsement Occupy Wall Street can get.

Here's O'Reilly from this Monday's show pretending that he's ever had anything besides derision, belittlement, mockery or scorn for the people out there protesting Wall Street, ever since the movement they would have preferred to ignore started.

O'REILLY: I'm an independent, alright? And I looked at this group in the beginning and gave them a shot and wanted to know what they were all about, but once they started to attack our personnel here, including John Stossel and and Geraldo and all of that, I said, you know what? I don't want any part of these people.

I guarantee you ninety percent, ninety percent of Americans Juan are saying the same thing... we don't like them, we don't trust them, we think they're radicals and if anybody throws in with them, we're going to vote against that anybody. And that's what's going on on Juan.

WILLIAMS: No. But remember, about sixty percent of Americans tell pollsters, they are in fact in sympathy with the idea...

O'REILLY: Wait until you see the new poll on it.

WILLIAMS: … with the idea that the Wall Street people are a bunch of greedy bums.

O'REILLY: Wait until you see the new poll on it. Okay? It ain't gonna' be that sixty. It's going to be down to forty or thirty five, and the more loons like you saw over the weekend... and they will. Because to continue, Mary Katharine to get themselves in the media, they've got to do this stuff. The media's tired of this story now!

WILLIAMS: If they become anarchists... if they are doing stuff like in that video...

O'REILLY: They're already anarchists Juan! Want do you want them to do? Burn the house down?

Media Matters has been monitoring Fox's coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement and has more on that here -- A Guide To The Smear Campaign Against Occupy Wall Street:

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Fox News' Bill O'Reilly has come up with one more reason for his viewers not to watch MSNBC.

The host of The O'Reilly Factor warned Monday that there could be mass suicides on the air at MSNBC if Democrats sustain major losses in Tuesday's midterms.

"It's going to be interesting to watch tomorrow and the rest of the week if [the election] plays out the way Gallup says it's going to play out, how the president will handle it, how the liberal commentators [will handle it]," O'Reilly told Juan Williams.

"I'm going to issue a viewer warning right now for children not to watch MSNBC because some people may commit suicide, alright. They may set themselves on fire over there and it would be gruesome to watch that," O'Reilly said.

A survey released Monday by the polling organization Gallup showed that likely voters favored a generic Republican candidate by as many as 15 points.

The results are from Gallup's Oct. 28-31 survey of 1,539 likely voters. It finds 52% to 55% of likely voters preferring the Republican candidate and 40% to 42% for the Democratic candidate on the national generic ballot -- depending on turnout assumptions. Gallup's analysis of several indicators of voter turnout from the weekend poll suggests turnout will be slightly higher than in recent years, at 45%. This would give the Republicans a 55% to 40% lead on the generic ballot, with 5% undecided.

Alan Abramowitz, Professor of Political Science at Emory University, determined that just a 13 point margin likely voters the the generic ballot could mean an 80 seat gain for Republicans.

But O'Reilly'spredictions of mass suicides at MSNBC may be premature because Gallup's survey indicates more optimism for Republicans than most other polls.

"A half-dozen independent media surveys conducted over the last two weeks have yielded narrower margins among 'likely voters,' ranging from a nine-point Republican lead to a two-point Democratic edge," wrote pollster Mark Blumenthal.

An average of polls other than Gallup's shows that Republicans only have just a five point lead on the generic ballot.

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Bill O'Reilly may have some dirt on Christine O'Donnell but he isn't coming clean just yet.

The Fox News host said Monday that he had videotape of the Delaware Republican Senate candidate saying "crazy stuff" but wasn't going to air it yet in hopes she would come back on his show.

O'Reilly's strategy for procuring an interview seems to be the opposite of Bill Maher's. On his Friday HBO show, Maher released a tape of O'Donnell saying she "dabbled" in witchcraft. Maher said he would release a new clip every week until O'Donnell agreed to come on his show.

In the 1999 Politically Incorrect interview, O'Donnell admitted, "I dabbled into witchcraft." She added that she never joined a coven.

Maher told The Associated Press that he likes O'Donnell.

"I'm trying to be fair to Christine O'Donnell," said O'Reilly. "She's been on the program a couple of times, and we have some kind of crazy stuff that she said. We're not going to play it yet. I don't think it's relevant - yet. We'd still like Ms. O'Donnell to come on the Factor. I'm not in the business of injuring her. I'd like to see if she's the better candidate."

O'Reilly didn't elaborate on what "crazy stuff" O'Donnell might have said on his show.

Perhaps one such incident is an 2007 appearance on The O'Reilly Factor where O'Donnell contended that American scientists were cross-breeding animals and humans.

Scientists are "coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains," O'Donnell said.

The candidate canceled two national media appearances Sunday with Fox News and CBS. She told Sean Hannity Tuesday that he would be her final national television interview before the election.