Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Bill O’Reilly goes off the deep end tonight (video at left) because of alleged comments his producers claim to have found “on a vicious far-left website called the DailyKos, one of the worst examples of hatred that America has to offer.” O’Reilly proceeds to take issue with Jet Blue for sponsoring the DailyKos convention (with 10 plane tickets!) which, coincidentally, is this week in two weeks, August 2-5. At one point O’Reilly makes some rather unfortunate comparisons with the DailyKos:
UPDATE/ADDENDUM FROM BRAD: As dKos diarist “mcjoan” a pointed out over there in advance of O’Reilly’s big hate scoop, perhaps No Spin Boy may have a gripe against dKos founder Markos Moulitsas Zuniga that he failed to mention in his hit piece. “Markos led the way in getting the Democratic presidential candidates to boycott the Fox debate,” she writes, “and we’re going to be having a Democratic presidential candidates forum at YearlyKos.”
There’s that, and the fact that dKos is only the largest community in the blogosphere, either Left or Right, and a grave threat to folks like Fox “News” and O’Reilly, since they have a habit of countering their spin with actual facts.
And most importantly, O’Reilly forgot to mention that the comments he alluded to on the site could well have been posted by anyone, since it’s an open site. A question one might ask then (one that’s at least as responsible as O’Reilly’s ridiculous attack): Did Bill O’Reilly or one of his producers post those “hateful” comments at dKos themselves? Perhaps someone should ambush them to find out. Without evidence either way, I’ll just go ahead and say O’Reilly did it himself. Why not? O’Reilly has no journalistic credibility and he’s got the biggest show on cable “news.” Perhaps we need to start making stuff up too!
FURTHER UPDATE FROM BRAD 7/17/07: Daily Kos’ “DarkSyde” responds directly to O’Reilly segment, patiently explaining exactly what Billo doesn’t grasp about the progressive blogosphere. “ShaunMcDonnell,” a dKos diarist who claims to be a “Right-Leaning Lurker” takes O’Reilly to task for his hit piece calling it “easy” and a “cheap shot”. And Kos himself posts a few of the pieces of hate mail (ironically enough) from O’Reilly’s fans that he’s received since the story ran yesterday.
Evil Bill O’Reilly! Lying again and again. Bill O’Reilly spews his hate by blaming others for what he does best.
Bill O’Reilly the evil, hateful Hypocrite!
I know a lot of drunken Irishmen, just like O’Reilly. He should sponser a Hot Air balloon race.
Oh, gosh. How awful. How totally awful. JetBlue legitimizes (O’Reilly’s word choice, not mine) free speech, by supporting a progressive free speech website, while Fox legitimizes b/c administration lies, lies that result in the invasion of a nation that never attacked us, and the resulting deaths of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, and the deaths of (what is it now?) about 3,500 U.S. servicepeople? Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of people left limbless, functionless, familyless, and otherwise destroyed. OK. I think I get it now. According to O’Reilly, supporting free speech, and all that it entails, is wrong, is anti-American,, while enabling the senseless death and destruction by the b/c administration is right, is oh so patriotic.
Would somebody please expose O’Reilly for what he really is, expose his hypocrisy, to his “fans?”
“Bill O’Reilly goes off the deep end tonight…”
Boy, there’s something new.
My concern is not so much propagandists like O’Reilly, Hannity, and Limbaugh, it is about the great masses that buy this propaganda as truth.
If you see a nutcase spewing venom on a soapbox in the middle of town, you tend to pay him no mind. If you see he’s gathered a large crowd of people who think his rap isn’t bullshit, you need to question the motives and intelligence of the general gathering.
It’s people like this who have made a rich man out of Bill O’Reilly, instead of him being just another Coulter on a soapbox. They play to people’s greed, bigotry, and selfishness for great profit.
O’Reilly is simply tuning in to America’s newfound hatred of right-wingers.
After the last seven years, just about everyone in the country, if not the world, hates Republicans with a near-homicidal fury. The children of Republicans are getting beaten up at school. Their cars are being vandalized, their property destroyed. People are punching them out in the street. It’s kind of funny, really.
Bill O,
May the southern end of a northbound camel breathe upon you. Again.
Take a spin in the no-facts zone, with Bill O’LIEly. Buy one of his 95%-off clearance bin books, “The war on the no-facts zone…for kids”.
…his book has a flag on it, so you should buy it. It’s red, white, and blue…like Hannity’s 95%-off clearance bin books.
btw, I LOVE JETBLUE!!! I have flown JetBlue on numerous occasions. It is a very fine airline, started up by a very happening, progressive-thinking guy. JetBlue’s support of a progressive website will cause me to go out of my way to fly JetBlue. And the fact that O’Reilly will not be sitting next to me makes JetBlue even more appealing.
It now flies out of both SFO and Oakland, for any Bay Area passengers who may be interested. Their flight attendants are pleasant and friendly, the on-board accommodations are completely fine, and I always get a kick out of the communications the pilots have with the passengers. It’s apparent that the people who work for JetBlue are happier in many ways than the people working for other airlines.
AND JETBLUE’S EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE RATES WILL MAKE IT MORE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO SPEND MONEY AT YOUR DESTINATION ON MORE FUN THINGS THAN JUST SITTING ON A JET!
Maybe bill o’reilly is suffering from late stage syphilis ? ? ?
The one good thing about Billy’s rant against Kos is that it will attract a bunch of angry righties to dailykos.com looking for a fight…and there won’t anybody to fight against.
Daily Kos is the best-organized, most civilized political website I’ve seen. Guests are treated with complete fairness as long as they remain civil. Logical, evidence-supported arguments are never rejected. Can the right wingers say that about ANY of their sites?
I’ve visited a few of them, and I found that they were like festering sores of angry, ignorant people who could not bear to hear anything not blessed by their autocratic leaders. There’s nothing fair about right wing sites, nor anything balanced.
And there’s no variety, either. Rightie sites are incredibly boring. They have an iron-clad political agenda, and that’s all they want to talk about.
B O R I N G.
I don’t know about you people but I love it when that lard ass gets pissed off.