Sean Penn and Maria Conchita Alonso co-starred in the 1988 film “Colors” but recently have made headlines for their opposing views on socialist Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela.

WMAL’s morning-drive through midnight weekday format was uninterrupted conservative talk, with a lineup of Fred Grandy and Andy Parks, Chris Plante, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Joe Scarborough, and Curtis Sliwa. Weekends include gardening host Jos Roozen, investing adviser Ric Edelman and lawyer Michael Collins.

Radio station 630 WMAL also provides local news coverage. With morning anchors Brian Nehman and Bill Thompson, afternoon anchor Mark Weaver and Web Reporter Jen Richer, the team covers news stories affecting the Washington DC area.

An Illinois appeals court dismissed the case last week ruling that the mother’s conduct was not “extreme or outrageous.” The court also found that to rule in favor of the plaintiffs would bring excessive judicial scrutiny and interference to family life.

Among the allegations and exhibits of in the plaintiffs’ complaint against the mother were the following:

Telling her then 7-year-old son to buckle his seat belt or she would contact police.

An alleged inappropriate birthday card that failed to include a check or cash. The front of the American Greetings card featured a photo of tomatoes spread across a table with one with craft-store googly eyes attached. The birthday message was “Son I got you this Birthday card because it’s just like you … different from all the rest!” and “Have a great day! Love & Hugs, Mom xoxoxo.”

Failure to send care packages to her son while he was in college.

Failure to send other birthday cards to the son for several years.

“Haggling” over the amount to spend on party dresses for her daughter.

Calling her daughter at midnight to ask that she return home from celebrating homecoming.

Steven A. Miner claimed in court filings that he tried dissuade to his children from pursuing the case, but he also wrote that the case is no different than a patient suing a physician “for bad doctoring.”

Bill O’Reilly: “Let me break this to you. Seventy percent of Americans don’t want that mosque down there.” [Later cited a CNN poll.]
William James “Bill” O’Reilly, Jr. (born September 10, 1949) is an American television host, author, syndicated columnist and political commentator. He is the host of the political commentary program The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, which is the most watched cable news program on American television. During the late 1970s and 1980s, he worked as a news reporter for various local television stations in the United States and eventually for CBS News and ABC News. From 1991 to 1995, he was anchor of the entertainment news program Inside Edition.

In early 2007, researchers from the Indiana University School of Journalism published a report that analyzed O’Reilly’s “Talking Points Memo” segment on FoxNews. Using analysis techniques developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, the study concluded that O’Reilly used propaganda, frequently engaged in name calling, and consistently cast non-Americans as threats. O’Reilly responded, asserting that “the terms ‘conservative,’ ‘liberal,’ ‘left,’ ‘right,’ ‘progressive,’ ‘traditional’ and ‘centrist’ were considered name-calling if they were associated with a problem or social ill.” The study’s authors claimed those terms were only considered name-calling when linked to derogatory qualifiers. Fox News producer Ron Mitchell wrote an op-ed in which he accused the study’s authors of seeking to manipulate their research to fit a predetermined outcome. Mitchell argued that by using tools developed for examining propaganda, the researchers presupposed that O’Reilly propagandized.

Joy Behar: “This is America. This is America.”
Joy Behar (née Occhiuto; born October 7, 1942) is an American comedian, writer, actress, and a co-host of the talk show The View. Behar began hosting her own gossip news and commentary program in the fall of 2009, titled The Joy Behar Show on CNN’s sister network, HLN.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), in an open letter to Behar, admonished her description of then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as “Hitler-like,” noting that “Hitler’s actions during the Second World War and his responsibility for the Holocaust have no parallel in history.” The ADL described Behar’s comparison as “inappropriate and offensive,” noting that Hitler’s name should not be “taken out of context or used for personal attacks or vendettas.”

Behar has also drawn criticism numerous times from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. Catholic League president William A. Donohue remarked that Behar, who was raised a Roman Catholic, “is no stranger to Catholic bashing,” pointing to her statement, “Don’t you remember when you went to Communion? ‘In vino veritas.’ The priests were all drunk, don’t you remember?” The Catholic League maintains, “There is an anti-Catholic animus evident among the panelists on The View, with Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar being the worst offenders.”

Whoopie Goldberg: “So you’re saying that Americans are not smart enough to recognize that while it is part of our constitution to say freedom of religion and freedom to worship … and there were 70 families who are Muslim who also died in that building. So you’re saying that his (Obama’s) saying thay have the right to do it and not saying anymore than that is why his approval rating has gone down.”
Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedian, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, and talk show host of The View.

Goldberg’s first appearance on the show — replacing Rosie O’Donnell — was controversial when she made statements about Michael Vick’s dogfighting as being “part of his cultural upbringing” and “not all that unusual” in parts of the South. Another comment that stirred controversy was the statement that the Chinese “have a very different relationship to cats” and that “you and I would be very pissed if somebody ate kitty.” Co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck defended Goldberg — saying that her comments were taken out of context by the press, because she repeated several times that she did not condone Vick’s behavior.

Goldberg also created controversy when on September 28, 2009, during a discussion of Roman Polanski’s case, she stated that Polanski’s rape of a thirteen year old in 1977 was not “rape-rape”. Goldberg later clarified that she had intended to highlight the exact charge brought against Polanski, namely statutory rape, as unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, rather than rape with an unwilling participant.

After comedian Kathy Griffin referred to Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown’s daughters as “prostitutes”, Goldberg said that if anyone insulted her daughter like that, she exclaimed, “I would beat their ass.” The audience reacted with shock, and support and applauded.

On April 1, 2010, Whoopi Goldberg joined Cyndi Lauper in the launch of her Give a Damn campaign to bring a wider awareness of discrimination of the GLBT community as part of her True Colors Fund. The campaign is set to bring straight people in to stand up with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender community and stop discrimination.

Barbara Walters: “It was extremists. You can not take a whole religion and demean them …”
Barbara Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American broadcast journalist and author, who has hosted morning television shows (Today and The View), the television newsmagazine (20/20), and co-anchor of the ABC Evening News and correspondent on ABC World News (then ABC Evening News).

In 2007 Barbara defended co-host Rosie O’ Donnell after she made slanderous remarks against Donald Trump and the winner of the miss USA pageant. Donald firmly responded by saying, “Barbara is off the list.”

On March 3, 1999, her Today Show interview of Monica Lewinsky was seen by a record 74 million viewers — the highest rating ever for a journalist’s interview. Barbara Walters asked Lewinsky, “What will you tell your children about this matter?” and Lewinsky replied, “I guess Mommy made some mistakes,” at which point Walters turned to viewers and said, “And that is the understatement of the century” to close the interview.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck did not get many words in on this segment of the show.

Gloria Allred:
Whatever rehab Tiger participates in, will not be meaningful [crying-like pouty face] or effective unless he (Tiger) acknowledges the relationship that he had with my client Veronica. He must call her … and better yet meet with her in person [Veronica and Allred holding hands] to apologize to her and explain why he lied to her — over and over again.

Veronica gave up her occupation — her primary source of income, her only source of income — as a porn star because Tiger was very jealous. And he could not stand the thought of her being with another man (ie. See her film title list on IMDB.COM). However this former porn star is also a human being, who has feelings. And who has been hurt [Gloria Allred 'sad eyes' face], and who has been devastated by the lies from the man she loved [Gloria Allred 'scorned face'], and whom she believed loved her.

It is time for Tiger Woods to take responsibility for the deep pain that he has inflicted on Veronica. She may not be his wife, but she was a very important woman in his life [Veronica wiping away tears now -- choked up], and it is time for him to ask her for her forgiveness.

Vernoica Siwik-Daniels:
I would be open to a telephone apology from Tiger [Veronica coddled by Allred with 'sad-eyes'], but I really feel that I deserve to look at him in person, face-to-face, in his eyes, because I didn’t deserve this [really crying now]. I’ve had to deal with a lot … and too much from him, and because of him. It never had to come to this. He knows that I was very straight and honest with him. But for a long time he lied to me. I never wanted to cause Elin, Sam or Charlie any pain, but I’m not the sole cause. Tiger pursued me, and over time I fell in love with him, and he told me he loved me too. I’m so sorry for my part [sniff] in any of their pain, being Sam, Elin, or Charlie, but I can’t help that I fell in love with him.

Joslyn James (aka Veronica Siwik-Daniels) — Her STARmeter is down 37% this week. STARmeter ranks the popularity of every person in IMDb.

Where’s the Professional Courtesy?
Considering that Mel Gibson probably thought he was on WGN-TV to promote his movie ‘Edge of Darkness.’ However, he soon realized he was being ambushed about troubles in his personal life. Apparently, there is a media element that is not forgiving. WGN-TV reporter Dean Richards started to sound a little more like a psychologist than a reporter.

On January 29, 2010, WGN-TV aired an interview that Richards conducted with actor Mel Gibson via a remote feed about his new movie, Edge of Darkness, and then queried Gibson about how the public perceives him, given his noted drunken outburst and anti-Semitic rant while being arrested in 2006. The line of questioning annoyed Gibson, who told Richards, “That’s almost four years ago, dude. I mean, I’ve moved on. I guess you haven’t.” After the interview, Gibson — unaware that the camera was still rolling and that he was still on air — took a sip of coffee and used the term “asshole,” presumably directed at Richards. Gibson and his publicist both later claimed that the remark was directed at Gibson’s publicist.

CELEBTV.COM describes the segment this way …
Kelli Zink: “Mel Gibson sure has a funny way of apologizing. Watch the actor lose his cool while promoting his new movie ‘Edge of Darkness.’

WGN used the keywords ‘angry’ and ‘rant’ to classify the video segment on YouTube.

Edge of Darkness Trailer

FULL STORY at Us Weekly — usmagazine.com …

VOICE MAIL TRANSCRIPT
Hey … it’s uh … it’s Tiger.
I need you to do me a huge favor.
Um. Can you please? … ahhh … take your name off your phone …
my wife went through my phone and … ah … may be calling you.
If you can, please take your name off that … and um … what do you call it …
just have it as a number on the voicemail.

Just have it as your telephone number, that’s it … OK?
You gotta do this for me. Huge. Quickly.
Alright. Bye.