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Kos v O'Reilly
July 20, 2007 5:18 PM
I've been watching this fight out of the corner of my eye, from up here in the cramped ABC News Senate booth on Capitol Hill.
Fox News' Bill O'Reilly has all but declared war against the DailyKos website, writing (LINK) about a "vicious far-left web site called the DailyKos, one of the worst examples of hatred America has to offer."
O'Reilly also said of some of the postings on DailyKos: "this is hate of the worst order. It's like the Ku Klux Klan. It's like the Nazi party. There's no difference here. People should die."
Today came news that O'Reilly's push against airline JetBlue for sponsoring the YearlyKos convention worked -- and the company dropped its official sponsorship of Kos's yearly blogger convention.
YearlyKos will be addressed this year House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and DNC Chairman Howard Dean, as well as Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, former Sen. John Edwards, D-NC, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
And loads of others.
Writes Kos (LINK): "Anyone who tries to claim this is a 'hate' gathering is saying, essentially, that the entire Democratic Party is a 'hate' party. And sure, there are plenty of rabid crazies on the other side that would make such a claim, but no reasonable person will think that. And that's the key -- anyone who claims this event is anything but a celebration of the best the Democratic Party has to offer is simply, to put it mildly, blinded by partisan rage and completely out-of-touch with reality."
The Dodd campaign (LINK) and others have used the opportunity to beef up their netroots cred by slamming O'Reilly.
So what do you guys think? Connect to the links above and read up and come back and share your thoughts...
-- jpt
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O'Reilly is a nut case and should just be ignored. As for Jet Blue? Boycott them
Posted by: Randy | Jul 21, 2007 1:30:06 PM
Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter are two of the most vicious, abrasive, right wing fanatics out there today. I'm not sure why any company would listen to anything either one of them has to say. Well maybe except Fox News. That way Fox would know what to put on its network.
Posted by: rightone | Jul 21, 2007 1:11:17 PM
I try to read different news and opinion sources the further from reality or my perception of reality the less I interact with the source. Bill has exposed people to Kos who might not have heard of it otherwise. Bill espouses some views I don't think he believes himself. Mr. Oreilly is somewhat like a fake religion attracting those who are in it just to keep from going to hell. Those who are in it just because they think they will get some of the benefits that are being doled out to the few at the expense of the many. Even though they have a better chance at the lottery.
Posted by: thomas | Jul 21, 2007 12:38:34 PM
The right has Bill O'Reilly, the left has Keith Olbermann. How does any of this name calling and partisan bickering further the debate on whether or not web sites or blogs should censor statements encouraging criminal acts? So you don't like O'Reilly, now let's move forward. How about do you condone or support statements that encourage criminal acts and do you think web site managers should allow that type of "speech" to remain on their sites? If statements of criminal acts remain on a web site, should the editors or managers be held responsible? That is the issue that has been raised by Bill O'Reilly whether you like him or not.
Posted by: Brad S | Jul 21, 2007 12:26:05 PM
O'Reilly is an idiot. Why doesn't he talk about his "sexual harassment" settlement or was that "sexual incompetence". Why anyone would listen to this jerk and take action at his direction shows baffles me.
If anyone spews hate it is him and he is just trying to undermine DailyKos before the election season gets into full swing. Ain't gonna happen, if anything it fires us up. So thanks, idiot jerk.
Posted by: Avvorio | Jul 21, 2007 12:16:57 PM
I can honestly say that I've never heard of DailyKos (or even YearlyKos) before this article. Of course, I don't watch/listen to O'Reilly, either.
The irony of O'Reilly's slam is that, after I finish this post, I think I'll go see what all the fuss is about.
Posted by: Bret | Jul 21, 2007 10:58:58 AM
Bill O'Reilly is an example of hate.
Posted by: WW | Jul 21, 2007 10:37:58 AM
This from a man that continues to have Coulter on.
Word on the street is he knew, when he declared his "War on Christmas" thing, that Best Buy really did not ever instruct their employees not to say "Merry Christmas" - but he ran with it anyway.
That seems kind of hateful to me. Takes one to know one.
I still say the far right is more hateful than what I see out of the left. They raised the bar. Of course you see fools on both sides.
Posted by: Sandra | Jul 21, 2007 10:37:23 AM
you go bill
Posted by: richard | Jul 21, 2007 8:38:57 AM
Bill O'Reily?? Let's see, this is the guy that slams every non-neocon person ot issue ever heard of. This is ther person whose sexual proclivities are question. If their is anyone out there who actually listens to what this moron says, God love ya!!!
Posted by: rjstolb | Jul 21, 2007 8:09:06 AM
O'Reilly, poor guy. It's usually the case that those who slam others are only projecting their own inadequacies on what they see. To call Kos a hate site is just an expression of the inner hatred that the man harbors. Don't take him seriously. He'll fall by the wayside as collective consciousness rises. Creating coherence in national consciousness will get rid of all the hate on both sides, and that's the only way.
Posted by: Emanuel | Jul 21, 2007 7:51:41 AM
When they stop writing the news for 6th graders and and delivering it by Barbie Dolls and pompous condescending_______(fill in the blank) the need for DailyKos would not exist.
People who speak aginst the establishment pay a very high price.
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Angela Davis, Jane Fonda, Bob Dylan, the Smother's Brothers, the students and Kent State...., and yet our lives have been enriched because of their voices.
We are intelligent enough to sort the wheat from the chaff (maybe Bill isn't) and make up our own minds.
We have the right to question. We have the right to debate. We have the right to speak out when we feel there is injustice.
It is freedom of the press and freedom of speech that saves us from becomming a dictortatorship! Be damned if we are going to fight for democracy for the Iraqi people and cannot speak freely at home about how that is working out!
Talk about drinking the KoolAid!
Bill , when your all wrapped up in yourself you make a pretty small package!
Posted by: White Mountain | Jul 21, 2007 7:33:43 AM
I think we (as a society) are either of the radical right or the radical left. The middle has disappeared. If you label yourself a liberal, you are a communist loving,wealth distributing,union loving,"let the government take care of me", pacifist, truth dispenser. If you are a conservative, you are a Bible thumping, business focused, limited government, war loving,libertarian, truth dispenser. The fact is that the truth can be spun anyway it wants by those who are good at spreading the propaganda. The example cited in the KOSDaily (San Fran) did dot overtly state to blow up the tower. It stated that the federal money should be pulled from it because it was a special interest cause. Without federal money, protection would not be provided and the chance of a structure being targeted goes up....simple fact.
Posted by: Bob | Jul 21, 2007 7:13:11 AM
Yea, there are left wing looneys like their right wing nut cases. I don't remember any politician denouncing Swiftboatsfortruth. Or Bill O refusing to have Coulter on his show because of HER hateful statements. You can't control the extremes in either side of the political spectrum.
But this is Bill-O's weak argument which is typical of the Right wing smear machine. Go after the extremist no-names insignificant on the left and condemn the legitimacy of whole group. Where the main-stream right wingers are spewing the hate. And if not directly, not criticizing those (swift boaters, colter) who do and giving them a stage.
Posted by: roy | Jul 21, 2007 6:53:25 AM
Bill has issues- big time issues! I watched the show for just a few minutes one night and was amazed at how he can just twist the facts into a web of bs that not only bears no resemblance to truth, but also makes no sense half the time.
Posted by: Rachel | Jul 21, 2007 5:14:32 AM
didn't bill o'reilly become irrelevant a couple of years ago?
Posted by: mitch | Jul 21, 2007 3:28:58 AM
True hate speech first appeared in mainstream American journalism via the right wing. There was simply nothing like it until people like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Bill O'Reilly appeared on the scene. It simply didn't exist- not in major broadcast outlet journalism.
Bill O'Reilly is the single most radical deliverer of hate who has ever regularly appeared on American network television. Yet he wants to call out a mild, mainstream Democratic site like DailyKos and slander it with exaggeration and outright lies? It's preposterous.
Who in America still considers this man credible?
Posted by: elodie | Jul 21, 2007 2:37:40 AM
"Bill O'Reilly is talking about the idiots at the DailyKos who say things like Tony Snow should die of cancer and that's just the tip of the iceberg."
Really? Actaully, there were literally thousands of comments wishing him well and good health. If there were a few trolls that said otherwise, their comments were troll-rated and subsequently hidden. Perhaps you could provide a link, beyond O'Reilly's unsubstantiated allegations?
Posted by: Mike | Jul 21, 2007 2:10:03 AM
Funny how the right-wingers here talk about "libr'ls" being haters. Have they listened to one word of Ann coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'reilly? Did they not notice the incredible racism in the immigration debates? (and they call us nazis?). The rpeulbican party is built on hate... Without hate, they have nothing. Hatred of gays, hatred of minorities, hatred of other religions, hatred of the poor, hatred of the sick... hatred of "libr'ls".. it is the tie tha binds.. talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Posted by: Mike | Jul 21, 2007 2:08:00 AM
Poor wittle Bill O'Reilly. He's so nice and kind and ever so balanced. His poor feelings have been hurt? Give me a break. O'Reilly is perhaps the most one-sided, rabid ultra-right wing nutjob on TV. And to top it all off, he makes believe that he's giving you "No Spin"!!
Only problem is Mr. Nasty can't take it when it comes back at him -- then the other side is playing unfair. What a delusional, mean-spirited, cowardly jerk.
Posted by: fauxnewsstinx | Jul 21, 2007 1:40:44 AM
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