…but O’Reilly says he doesn’t belong to a gym:

Whom to trust? The notoriously imaginative New York Daily News gossip duo? Or Bill O? We just don’t know!

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Wayne Madsen, an investigative reporter who is embraced by many on the left, is soon to make a major change to his popular Web site, Wayne Madsen Report. Big Head DC has learned that he will begin charging visitors to read his full scoops, such as his recent revelations that Dick Cheney may have used the services of Deborah Jeane Palfrey.

“It’s been tough running the site on contributions while having the MSM grab stories off of it, most of the time without attribution or credit,” Madsen tells us. ”Although there are a few MSM outlets who do give credit — I should mention Richard Johnson’s column in the New York Post as one that has given credit, the radio shows of Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Alex Jones, and Mike Malloy, and there are others, many of them foreign outlets.”

However, the vast majority of news outlets that regularly steal Madsen’s news are giving him zero credit. 

Some outlets, including Radar Online in recent days, have even taken swipes at Madsen, calling him lonely and backwards. Madsen believes that Radar editors likely dislike his reporting because he believes Radar ”is obviously linked to the right-wing and the neo-cons.” He says that Radar ”started partly with seed money from Mort Zuckerman, one of Bush’s toadies in the MSM.”

As for Wayne Madsen Report, the free site concept as a business model is just not working, according to the longtime reporter. “The site will have to transition to a pay-for-view site with a nominal monthly or yearly fee,” Madsen tells BHDC. ”There will still be free content and, of course, the teasers for articles will be available at no charge.”
 
Concludes Madsen: “It is not really fair that those who contribute most generously to keep us up and running are essentially helping to subsidize the corporate media.”

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The U.S. News-er does not appreciate WaPo’s Style musings on the Rest of Virginia (or RoVa) compared to oh-so-elite NoVa. (Examples of the Post’s “humor” from yesterday: “In NoVa, a lab is the family dog. In RoVa, a lab is the family meth business” and “In RoVa, they like freshly killed venison. In NoVa, they like Alfred, Lord Tennyson.”

Paul Bedard said on his blog yesterday that he’s proud to live on the West Virginia border as a “camo-wearing, gun-toting, deer-hunting, blackberry-growing, Cracker Barrel-loving” Washington, D.C. gossip columnist.

Oh, God, Paul, that sounds really bad now that we read it over. Rush & Malloy are so gonna start laughing at us.

Never mind. We agree with the Posties.

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The mere thought makes us want to hurl. But R & M have an item today about another gay Congressional controversy (they’re popping up like viruses this flu season), which includes a gross reference to our favorite red line stop:

Sen. Larry Craig is blasting a claim that he’s gay. Blogger Mike Rogers, who was among the first to out former Rep. Mark Foley, alleges that the Idaho Republican had sex with men – sometimes in the rest room of Washington, D.C.’s, Union Station. A spokesman for Craig, who is married, told the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review a lawsuit “isn’t out of the question,” but that “would be taking it a little more seriously than it deserves.” Rogers, who brands Craig a hypocrite for opposing gay rights, counters: “I have enough information … to protect myself.”

Is this falltime for Hitler?

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The perennial Presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton will have to make that decision long before 2008. But, currently, battling Cracker Barrel restaurant (yuck) appears to be on top of his plate.

NYDN’s Rush & Malloy report that he’s been quite busy helping Chris Rock’s mom, Rose, draw attention to her complaint that she was left waiting for service at a South Carolina venue due, she says, to her race. Sharpton’s National Action Network will likely pay for Rose’s impending lawsuit against the chain, which could turn into a class-action suit against more CB restaurants.

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