Inside Cable News

November 18, 2005

Second Iowa escapee caught…

CNN CNN was the first to break the news that Robert Legendre, the second of two prisoners to escape from a maximum security prison in Iowa four days ago, was caught earlier today in a small town in Missouri.

CNN reported it at 10:19 AM ET
FNC reported it at 10:30 AM ET
MSNBC reported it at 10:31 AM ET

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Bill O’Reilly (hearts) Lis Whiel?

Rush and Molloy have this strange anectdote on the FNC talking head. I’m surprised that R&M ran this item so soon after getting blasted on all sides for the Condoleeza Rice/Lauren Green thing…

Bill O’Reilly appreciates the mind of Fox News legal analyst Lis Wiehl — and don’t get him started on her body.

Liberal watchdogs at Media Matters are agog over O’Reilly’s on-air ogling of the Harvard-educated law prof.

On his Nov. 3 radio broadcast, O’Reilly called for a “full-body search” of Wiehl, adding that “she asked for it.” On Oct. 26, he asked Wiehl to protest outside CBS studios in a bikini. On Nov. 10, discussing an executive who spent $250,000 in one night at a strip club, he told Wiehl “it might be worth learning how” to dance for a $10,000 tip, adding, “You’re a good-looking girl. I mean, if you haven’t seen Lis on TV, she’s a good-looking blond.”
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