Building on his extensive resumé of ambush journalism, Bill O’Reilly sends one of his flunkees “producers” to confront Arianna Huffington over cherry-picked comments left by an anonymous person on HuffPo.
I find it laughable to be lectured on hate speech by Bill O’Reilly, who has done as much if not more than anyone else in the media to debase the public dialogue. He spews hate as readily as he breathes. It’s his lifeblood.
O’Reilly’s relentless crusade to smear Arianna should finally leave no doubt that he has absolutely zero journalistic standards and/or shame.
As John Amato just documented with some original reporting, FOX News allows hate-filled-racist comments on their own website. You know, the kind BillO says is ruining our country. We’re still waiting for O’Reilly to clarify those comments or deem them really not hateful at all. Will Howard Kurtz include them in his next column also?
Exit question: If you ambushed the Falafel King and got to ask one question, what would it be? I think I would ask what he meant when he told Andrea Mackris that Al Franken was going to “get a knock on his door” one day and have his “life change forever.”
On Wednesday, Bill O’Reilly continued defending his slanderous assault on Arianna Huffington, repeatedly comparing her to the KKK and Nazis after blaming her personally for a handful of cherry-picked comments from readers of her website, The Huffington Post.
What makes O’Reilly’s phony outrage all the more ridiculous is the fact that his own site has been caught spewing even worse comments from his ‘premium’ members than the few from HuffingtonPost that he’s pretending to get all riled up about. Let’s recap just a few of the comments about Hillary Clinton from billoreilly.com:
If Hillary wins, I will be respectful of our leader. If you could read my thoughts, I would be on the SS [Secret Service] watch list.
As a woman, i would open the door for her…..now, if there was nothing on the other side but empty space and a 50 foot drop into a moat filled leeches and (gulp) rats…well, I can’t be held responsible.
If Hillary wins which I hope she won’t. My guns are loaded for the revolt are yours?
Pot, meet kettle …
Why Fox News, or any network, would continue to allow someone with such a long history of racist remarks even before his Sylvia’s restaurant rant which gained so much attention, much less the same man who just two weeks ago threatened “to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama,” to get away with baselessly and repeatedly calling anyone a racist genocidal murderer on air is shocking.
As Media Matters notes, “O’Reilly frequently attacks those withwhomhedisagrees, comparing them to the Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan.” Last year it wastheDailyKos, now it’s HuffingtonPost. I’m really quite surprised he hasn’t set his sights on C&L by now. Perhaps it’s because he knows we’re well versed here in the ‘three magic words‘ guaranteed to keep BillO at bay: Malmedy, Mackris, and loofah (and for those of you taking notes, falafel will work just as well).
In an op-ed piece for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution entitled “Unfettered ‘citizen journalism’ too risky”, David Hazinski, a former NBC correspondent and associate professor of telecommunications at the University of Georgia, says that
…having just anyone produce widely distributed stories without control can have the reverse effect from what advocates intend. It’s just a matter of time before something like a faked Rodney King beating video appears on the air somewhere….Journalism organizations should head that off. Citizen reports can be a valuable addition to news and information flow with some protections:
• Major news organizations must create standards to substantiate citizen-contributed information and video, and ensure its accuracy and authenticity.
• They should clarify and reinforce their own standards and work through trade organizations to enforce national standards so they have real meaning.
• Journalism schools such as mine at the University of Georgia should create mini-courses to certify citizen journalists in proper ethics and procedures, much as volunteer teachers, paramedics and sheriff’s auxiliaries are trained and certified.
Yes, of course, it was the bloggers who polarized the US body politic. …In 2000, the bloggers stopped the counting of the ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court, and installed the man who lost, as the counting, finished later by researchers, would confirm. …In 2004, the bloggers made sure there weren’t enough voting machines in the poorest and blackest districts of Ohio. …The bloggers made Habeas Corpus and the Bill of Rights optional. …The bloggers established a Gulag system, instituted torture and rendition, and started disappearing people. The bloggers stayed on vacation while New Orleans drowned. Read more…
*Get used to me saying that. It’s the way Southern women use a common two-word put down containing a familiar expletive.
John Amato: Yea, and it was the blogs that spent millions of dollars trying to impeach and indict President Clinton for years and years and of course, we accused him of murdering Vince Foster. Didn’t we? Or maybe it was Richard Mellon Scaife. Isn’t he a blogger too?
The terror filled Shays was laughable. Macca Allen attacked a man with racism—is Shays worried about doing something like that? Although—-remember his Abu Ghraib is a Sex ring thang? And he is a hot head.
Earlier this summer, Shays was forced to apologize after verbally haranguing a capital cop who refused to hold onto the congressman’s cellphone. He had previously been pilloried for his rough handling, during a committee hearing, of widows of Blackwater employees murdered in Iraq.
Don’t Block the Blog rallied against Pakistan’s banning of Blogspot in February 2006. Now Don’t Block is fighting Turkey’s banning of Wordpress. Ali Eteraz has more on the Turkish situation. H/T for the story and the badge to Geography, Telecast.
Skube bashes blogs and admits to Ed Cone that he doesn’t even read them. He answers TPM’s question like this:
So against my better judgment, I sent Skube an email telling him that I found it hard to believe he was very familiar with TPM if he was including us as examples in a column about the dearth of original reporting in the blogosphere.
To which I got this response: “I said I did not refer to you in the original. Your name was inserted late by an editor who perhaps thought I needed to cite more examples … “
Who inserted the names of the blogs for Skube’s article that were included if he doesn’t read them? Ask jim.newton@latimes.com
When a random commenter post something inflammatory on DailyKos.com, Markos endorses and assumes full responsibility for it, no? Well, according to Bill O’Reilly he does. Stephen and Kos squared off last night on this very question.
If you watch FOX News, you would think that Bill O’Reilly’s despicable smear heroic efforts against JetBlue for sponsoring YearlyKos have succeeded. Well, you would be wrong. On tonight’s “Factor,” BillO claimed that JetBlue has decided to pull out of the event. The only problem? It’s not true. BillO says there is no room in America for Kos and has compared it to the KKK and the Nazis, but he’s not a hater….No, no, no…
So, many of you may have seen the erroneous report that JetBlue has canceled the YearlyKos sponsorship. Well, like nearly everything you see on the Faux News channel, that report is out and out false.
Here are the facts:
JetBlue confirmed that it will remain a sponsor of the YearlyKos Convention. As a sponsor, it donated 10 free roundtrip JetBlue tickets for speakers and staff to fly to and from the convention.
JetBlue has confirmed that its logo will remain on the YearlyKos frontpage as an in-kind sponsor.
JetBlue has acted as real heroes here. They have put up with 1,000’s of vicious, hateful emails as a result of Faux News’s false reporting. And yet they are standing by us.
Please show JetBlue some love. The netroots needs corporate sponsors like them — please show them that sponsoring the netroots is worth it.
Send your supporting email to corporatecommunications at jetblue dot com
Ideas that were always previously so radical as to be unthinkable are now routinely identified as “mainstream conservatism.” Conversely, political principles that have been such an integral part of America’s political identity as to be unquestionable are now the hallmarks of “fringe liberalism” (a “fringe” which, as our last election demonstrated, now includes an ever-growing majority of the population). Those whose views of “bloggers” are based upon the caricatures of Time Magazine and The Washington Post would undoubtedly be shocked to learn of just how unremarkable is the Platform of Beliefs of the “Progressive Blogosphere” as articulated by one of its leading and most admired commentators. Read more…
If there are any “fringe” elements in the blogosphere country, they certainly reside on the right, what with their mindless support for endless militarism, torture, indefinite detention and ever expanding executive power.
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When a random commenter post something inflammatory on DailyKos.com, Markos endorses and assumes full responsibility for it, no? Well, according to Bill O’Reilly he does. Stephen and Kos squared off last night on this very question.
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