FNC’s Juan Williams writes a piece in Time magazine talking about the Bill O’Reilly incident…

The lesson from the rappers and comedians is that any young brother or sister who is proud to be black has to treat education with indifference, dismiss love and marriage as the business of white people and dress like the rappers who dress like prisoners — no comb in the jail so they wear doo-rags all day, and no belts so their pants hang down around their butts.

That was the heart and soul of the conversation between O’Reilly and me. The point of the whole exchange was to defeat corrupt, untrue and racist images of real black people.

So imagine how totally astounded I was when I heard O’Reilly was attacked on the basis of that radio conversation as a “racist.” He was slammed for saying he went to a restaurant in Harlem and had a good time. He was slammed for saying the audience at the concert was nicely dressed. The suggestion was that O’Reilly had racist preconceptions about the restaurant and the concert crowd.

That twisted assumption led me to say publicly that the attacks on O’Reilly amounted to an effort to take what he said totally out of context in an attempt to brand him a racist by a liberal group that disagrees with much of his politics. But the out-of-context attacks on O’Reilly picked up speed and ended up on CNN, where one commentator branded me a “Happy Negro” for allowing O’Reilly to get by with making racist comments without objection.

This is so far from the truth of the conversation on the radio that it is beyond a matter of words being taken out of context. This is a pathetic cowardly, personal attack against me intended to damage my credibility and invalidate any support I offer to O’Reilly against the charges that he is a racist.

TVNewser reports that FNC correspondent Kim McIntyre is leaving FNC due to a “personality conflict” in the Dallas Bureau. However, sources have told ICN that the real issue for McIntyre was FNC Dallas Bureau Chief Russ Cosby - she couldn’t stand working for him, and he didn’t make it easy for her to do her job. Sources say that Cosby’s management style is too much for any good reporter to handle.

TV Newser contributor Gail Shister has an interview with CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin…

The New York Daily News’ Lisa Chase writes about Shari Lewis’ daughter’s Mallory’s new children’s DVD…

Childhood friend and former longtime CNBC host Liz Claman was thrilled to be a “test mom” for the DVD.

“My son Julian was the perfect age of 2 when he saw this,” the mother of two says. “People get hyper about kids watching TV, but if you restrict it without being frantic and crazy, it can be good.

“Instead of turning his brain into mush watching this DVD, Julian was walking up to the television and pointing at the answers when Mallory would ask, ‘Where is the bar of soap?’ For me to see that, I was thrilled.

“Of course it didn’t surprise me, to have someone like Mallory - who is brilliant and raised from her genius mother; it was a dream come true to see that as a mom.

“It was the best of Shari and the best of Mallory and my kid responded immediately, running up to the TV and talking to it, saying, ‘E, e, elbow!’

“Now he has the alphabet down and it’s helping him read more quickly. Even his 5-year-old sister, Gabrielle, found certain things compelling, like the counting, the humor and some of the phonics.”

The San Diego Business Journal’s Connie Lewis writes that Kyra Phillips will co-host the 17th annual “Cox Presents: A Salute to Teachers” October 6th at 7 pm PST…

The Academy Awards-style TV special honors the county’s 26,000 public-school teachers, culminating with the announcement of the San Diego County Teachers of the Year.

The presentation is produced in cooperation with the San Diego County Office of Education. It will air live on Channel 4, in high definition on Cox Channel 704 and on ITV Channel 16 on Cox and Time Warner Cable.

Post your nominations for this week’s edition of What’s hot/What’s not. I will post the finalists on Sunday…

HLN’s Nancy Grace show at 8pm was first to break the news that the Nevada girl that was in the video had been identified and found. CNN followed suit about fifteen minutes later during Rick Sanchez’s Out in the Open. Police have requested that all future showings of the video stills camoflage the girl’s face. However HLN was not fast enough to cover her face for the first Nancy Grace repeat. The second repeat did cover her face. CNN and FNC both covered the subsequent presser during the 10pm ET hour…