LOWE'S YANKS ADS FROM THE O'REILLY FACTOR

Lowe's, the national home-improvement chain, has pulled its ads from Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor after host Bill O'Reilly suggested that kidnap victim Shawn Hornbeck came to like his circumstances, according to the online Radar magazine. Radar quoted O'Reilly as saying on his Jan. 15: "The situation here, for this kid, looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his 'old' parents. He didn't have to go to school, he could run around and do whatever he wanted." Radar cited the website News Hounds as saying that viewers who complained about O'Reilly's comments by email, received replies that Lowe's had pulled its ads as of Jan. 25. An FNC spokeswoman said that they had been shifted to other programming.

05/02/2007