FreeRepublic.com, one of the most popular and influential conservative political websites, held a press conference Friday morning, August 17th to announce its intention to sue the Fox News Channel, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, the local Washington DC Fox affiliate WTTG, reporter Sherry Ly and other involved parties, for defamation.

Defamatory statements by Bill O’Reilly were broadcast on the Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor on or about July 31st when he compared Free Republic to DAILY KOS, a left wing website.

WTTG broadcast defamatory statements on or about August 16. The TV station has pulled its video report from its website. Included in the report were comparisons of Free Republic to hate groups like the KKK, according to Free Republic’s Kristinn Taylor, who says he was never contacted for comment when the report was being prepared.

Kristinn Taylor is the Washington D.C. coordinator and media spokesman for Free Republic, one of the most popular on-line forums — rated the #2 political website by Nielsen. He’s demanding that both the local Fox affiliate and the O’Reilly Factor retract their statements, offer a very public apology and donate a substantial amount to a pro-troop charity such as Soldiers Angels. Kristinn will join us Sunday night on “The Andrea Shea King Show” on WDBO AM 580 in Orlando Florida to talk about it.

Free Republic is actively involved in several pro-troop activities, including Friday night vigils at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, as well as the upcoming Gathering of Eagles Pro-Victory Rally set for Sept. 15th in Washington DC in support of the troops and victory. It is timed to coincide with Gen. David Petraeus’ Report to the Nation on the status of the war.

The pro-victory rally will be joined by Move America Forward’s Fight for Victory Cross Country Caravan, which is expected to include thousands of participants at 27 stops across the United States. The Caravan is being coordinated and led by retired Air Force Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson.

Here’s the report. You decide.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dO5TEvSNguQ

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Jen notices two million more reasons why it’d be a really bad idea to elect Hillary Clinton the next POTUS.  I think she (Jen) isn’t going to have a whole lot of company on that epiphany.

The first Rutgers lady cager has filed suit against radio shock-jock Don Imus for his “natty-headed ho” remark last spring.  Funny how it comes just as he lands a (presumeably lucrative) new radio gig with ABC.  The wonder is that both took as long to transpire as they did.

The Bushkins have designated the uniformed Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.  This ostensibly to enable the further turning of the economic screws against the mullahgarchy - and perhaps to push them toward escalating their war against us sooner than planned.  Will we see the “Iranian Pearl Harbor” coming this time?

Is the “Surge” in Iraq going so well that we can afford to start drawing down troops (out of individual “hot spots”, anyway) already?  If so, will that make any difference whatsoever to the cut & run crowd on Capitol Hill?

And treason, treason most foul - in the Bush Citizenship and Immigration Service.  And, evidently, nobody in the agency gave a damn.

Jihadi cells in Dubya’s own open borders-happy immigration bureaucracy - whoda thunk it? 

Harry Reid is busy protecting his investment, not in Nevada real estate, but his investment in losing the war in Iraq.

At bRight & Early I discuss Reid’s preemptive strike on the upcoming report on Iraq. Your comments are welcome.