We all know about actor Michael Richards' racial epithets at last Friday night's performance at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. But yesterday, this exclusive TMZ.com article revealed that the three-time Emmy-award-winning actor had also hurled anti-Semitic slurs at the Improv comedy club in April of this year. According to the piece, Richards yelled at an audience member, "You f***ing Jew. You people are the cause of Jesus dying." And here's the kicker: Richards' own representative has confirmed that this actually happened. (He said it was part of Richards' act.)

So how did the Los Angeles Times cover this latest revelation in today's paper (Thursday, November 23, 2006)? They didn't. In fact, the name "Michael Richards" appears nowhere in today's edition. Compared to the Mel Gibson episode from July, the Times is treating the angry slurs by Michael Richards much differently. Here's the rundown:

PBS talk show host Charlie Rose, who spent the 1980s at CBS doing the overnight interview show "Nightwatch," is never a softer touch than when he has a network star on his show. Monday night’s interview with NBC anchor Brian Williams gave the anchor a platform to present his newscast as a "reasoned, serious" oasis from cable-news shouters, a "half hour of peace and tranquility" with "smart people" like David Gregory and Andrea Mitchell telling you about the world. Their discussion of Katrina coverage had no hint of regret that NBC misled people with Ray Nagin’s wild estimates of 10,000 dead. Williams said, "you remember people saying, well, the media have found their footing again and its name is New Orleans. They were asleep during WMD. But they're awake now."

The interview began with syrupy talk about Williams filling in for Rose during his heart-surgery break. Williams said it was his pleasure, since he was interviewing that genius who is the editor of Newsweek:

Since it doesn't look like anyone is going to write a blog entry about last night's Larry King interview with James Dobson, I'll add something here. As I expected, Larry started out hammering him on Ted Haggard right off the bat, and they continually ran footage of Haggard. In fact, there were four different captions displayed under Dobson's name for the entire hour:

1. Founder and President, Focus on the Family
2. Close friend of disgraced evangelical Ted Haggard
3. 1st TV interview since gay-sex and drug allegations vs. Ted Haggard
4. Helping w. Haggard's "spiritual restoration"

No matter how much I see it on a daily basis, it never ceases to amaze me how the liberal attack dogs will try to tarnish the image of conservatives. Dobson is being a true friend to Haggard and doing what he can to help. Just think what the media would be saying if Dobson didn't want anything to do with Haggard: "Conservative leader abandons friend in time of need." When Larry asked him if he forgave Haggard, Dobson replied that he didn't because Haggard had sinned against God, not him.

Starter topic: What are you thankful for? (politically or otherwise)

Good collection of Thanksgiving cartoons.

Football is also a Thanksgiving prediction so feel free to prognosticate on today's games. In the NFL, Miami is playing at Detroit, the Tampa Bay Bucs are taking on the Dallas Cowboys, and the Kansas City Chiefs are playing host to the Denver Broncos.

There's only one college game today, Miami (the Florida one) is playing #18 Boston College.

Let us all give thanks today that we live in a free society where we can think, and even publish openly, our thoughts, prayers and criticisms.

William Donohue of the Catholic League suggests that some celebrities get left out of the unforgivable-slur category -- when the targets are Catholics, even Mother Teresa. Take Penn Jillette, the loud, tall half of the magician duo of Penn & Teller, who now not only has a Showtime series called "B.S." but a nationally syndicated talk-radio show:

"Michael Richards gets interrupted by hecklers, unleashes a racist tirade, gets blasted by the cultural elite and apologizes. Mel Gibson gets drunk, unleashes an anti-Semitic tirade, gets blasted by the cultural elite and apologizes. Penn Jillette, without any provocation, unleashes an anti-Catholic tirade, gets a free pass from the cultural elite and never apologizes.