Bill O’Reilly on THE VIEW!

Bill O’Reilly Reups With Fox News

Nabs $10 mil a year as host of ‘Factor’
By Paul J. Gough
Oct 22, 2008, 01:05 PM ET

NEW YORK — Papa Bear is remaining in the den.

Bill O’Reilly has re-upped with Fox News in a multiyear deal that pays in the neighborhood of $10 million a year. It would keep his top-rated cable news program, “The O’Reilly Factor,” through the entire term of the next president.

“Bill O’Reilly is the most prominent and influential name in all of cable news, and his contribution to the network’s success cannot be overstated,” FNC chairman and CEO Roger Ailes said. “After 12 years, ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ maintains remarkable and consistent viewership growth and has firmly established itself as the top destination for newsmakers to reach a wide, diverse audience.”

O’Reilly said he will continue because of Ailes and because Fox is a great place to work. He also took a shot at those in the mainstream media who don’t like him by saying, “And, if I retired, I know my friends in the elite media would miss me greatly.”

The former ABC correspondent has found unprecedented success at Fox, which he joined in 1996. It has been the top-rated cable news program for 94 months, with an average viewership of 4 million a night.

Meanwhile, Fox News Channel has been locking up many of its key stars, including O’Reilly, Sean Hannity (who re-signed recently) and anchor Shepard Smith, plus luring CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck to anchor a 5 p.m. program.

A Constitutional Convention vs. Legislating From The Bench

The federal government is a failure on many different levels. Primarily, the current Congress is an abject failure in that it does not adequately represent the views and concerns of “we, the people.”

Congressional Job Approval, as of the time of this writing, is 15.7%, on average. That means that 15.7% of those polled approve of the job Congress is doing. By contrast, 28.8% of those polled approve of the job President Bush is doing.

General public opinion towards President Bush is fairly negative, and the media is nearly overwhelmingly anti-Bush. This being the case, it would seem that people feel even more negatively towards those representing their interests (or failing to do so, as the case may be) in Congress. They seem to feel that Congress does not adequately represent them, and, thus, is failing to do their job.

Whether or not the media, Hollywood and the far-left zealots in America like it, the United States is still a mostly traditional-values (read “Judeo-Christian values”) place to live. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, approximately 81% of Americans, ages 30 and younger (and a higher percentage of those over 30) identify with a religious tradition, despite a steady – but slow – increase in the number of people who choose not to identify with a religious tradition over the past two decades.

Like Congress, the Judicial Branch is failing Americans. In California, Massachusetts and Connecticut gay marriage is now the law, although a new referendum, “Proposition 8,” seeks to overturn the State Supreme Court’s decision, which legalized same-sex marriage in that state.

Liberal advocates of gay marriage know that any attempt to go through the legislature to legalize same-sex marriages by amending their states’ constitutions would be a futile endeavor, as most law makers would not risk offending their traditionalist constituents.

In order to advance their agenda, they seek to circumvent the democratic process by bringing lawsuits against the states in which they live. Liberal, activist judges then legislate from the bench, reinterpreting the very definition of marriage to include homosexual couples. The will of the people is being subverted, and the liberal minority is forcing their values on the majority.

This is ironic, since the far-left has always screamed about a need for “TOLERANCE” at the top of their lungs any time a hate crime is committed against homosexuals or any other deviant individual whose reprehensible behaviour they want to protect (see ACLU’s protection of NAMBLA). Liberals, however, do not want to have to tolerate the traditional values of the majority in this country; instead, they try to circumvent the will of the majority, as upheld by the democratic process, and get their dirty work done through the courts.

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The Executive Branch has a surprisingly good record on the issue of gay marriage. President Bill Clinton signed the DOMA into law “on September 21, 1996, after moving through a legislative fast track and overwhelming approval in both houses of the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress. Its Congressional sponsors stated, “[T]he bill amends the U.S. Code to make explicit what has been understood under federal law for over 200 years; that a marriage is the legal union of a man and a woman as husband and wife, and a spouse is a husband or wife of the opposite sex.”” President Bush is also known to have pro-traditional values with regard to the defense and protection of traditional marriage.

The Executive Branch of the federal government cannot, however, act to create new laws, but can only approve (or veto) new laws created by Congress. This being the case, we can only really judge the Executive Branch by their past performance, and their actions, to date, have been adequate, though it would be nice to see a stronger push, on the part of the Executive Branch, for a Constitutional Amendment to protect traditional marriage.

Because the federal government has utterly failed the American people by allowing the circumvention of democracy and by failing to represent their values and interests, and moreover for failing to uphold a strict originalist interpretation of the Constitution, a Constitutional Convention is required to enact a Constitutional Amendment that will define marriage as being between one man and one woman.

This will ensure that traditional marriage is not further eroded by the misinterpretation of the Constitution by liberal, activist judges. It will also send a message to Congress that, if they cannot act effectively on behalf of the people, the States themselves will rise up together to provide an appropriate power-check to the federal government and to enact the will of the people.

Never before has a Constitutional Convention been used to enact a Constitutional Amendment, but all other avenues of action have been exhausted, and if Congress fails to act, this may be our last best hope to protect the most fundamental unit of our society – the traditional family. If that ultimately breaks down, as it will inevitably do if traditional marriage is undermined in the way gay-marriage activists seek to do, our society will continue to decline culturally until we will fall, as Rome did.

Gay Marriage in Peril in California

A state ballot measure to ban gay marriage in California is gaining momentum, with polls showing almost even odds of it passing after trailing by double digits a month ago.

In June, the state legalized same-sex marriages. The next month, Proposition 8, defining marriage as between a man and a woman, was put on the ballot for November. Initial polling showed that a majority of Californians were likely to vote against Proposition 8. A Sept. 18 poll by the San Francisco-based Field Poll found the measure losing 55% to 38% among likely voters.

But now the measure is favored 48% to 45% among likely voters questioned in an Oct. 17 poll by Survey USA of Verona, N.J. The poll’s margin of error, four percentage points, means the results were a statistical tie.

A group leading the fight against the measure, Equality for All, said this week that one of its internal polls shows Proposition 8 leading by four percentage points. The close results of that poll, too, may suggest a dead heat as the Nov. 4 election approaches.