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Kelly didn't appear Thursday on "Good Day New York," which airs on local Fox affiliate WNYW-TV. General Manager Lew Leone said later that Kelly had requested some time off; Leone didn't elaborate. One of Kelly's recent guests was Vance, who appeared on the show on Monday to discuss the problem of elder abuse. Kelly began his journalism career at NewsChannel 34 in Binghamton, N.Y., after serving for nearly a decade in the Marine Corps. He later covered the Iraq War and the White House for Fox News before joining "Good Day New York" in 2008. He's been involved in an ongoing feud with Joel McHale, host of "The Soup" on E! Entertainment. The show plays clips from television shows to poke fun at people, and McHale has frequently targeted Kelly and "Good Day New York." One clip noted his sullen response to co-host Rosanna Scotto the morning after a loss by the NFL's New York Jets. Another showed Kelly playing disco music on his laptop coming off a commercial. Kelly struck back last Halloween by showing up on "Good Day New York" in a McHale costume and making fun of "The Soup." In 2007, the television show "Extra" identified Kelly as the most eligible anchorman on TV. The show's website said Kelly "has enough heart and courage to make any woman swoon." After serving as police commissioner for a stint in the 1990s, Raymond Kelly returned to the post in 2002. About 20 activists held a news conference Thursday on the City Hall steps to urge Kelly to step down and criticize him for giving an interview to the producers of "The Third Jihad," a film shown to police trainees. The activists said the film encourages Americans to be suspicious of all Muslims. Kelly has apologized for the interview. Bloomberg said Thursday he stood by the commissioner but Kelly would need to redouble his efforts to forge ties with Muslims. Meanwhile, the CIA operative's assignment inside the New York Police Department is being cut short after an internal investigation that faulted the agency for sending an officer to New York with little oversight after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and leaving him there too long, according to officials who have read or been briefed on the inquiry. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the investigation. The inspector general opened its investigation after a series of AP articles revealed how the NYPD, working in close collaboration with the CIA, set up spying operations that put Muslim communities under scrutiny. The CIA said last month that the inspector general cleared the agency of any wrongdoing.
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