Victory for O’Reilly…
Jet Blue is pulling its name off the Kos convention…(via Michelle Malkin)
In a letter to O’Reilly, JetBlue says it is “an airline” not “a political organzation.” Glad to hear it.
July 19, 2007
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Woohoo!! Good for Jet Blue!
Comment by Noelle — July 19, 2007 @ 7:28 pm
Why?
Comment by Steve — July 19, 2007 @ 7:32 pm
Agreed - good to see that O’Reilly laid bare what Jet Blue was getting involved in.
Now in keeping with his “hate is hate, no matter where it comes” philosophy, I hope in the future he is equally critical of “right wing” websites and any corporations that endorse them.
Comment by FishOil — July 19, 2007 @ 8:04 pm
Nice to see the Kosacs get a little taste of their own medicine after bullying the Dems to boycott FOX news at the debates….paybacks a b*tch ain’t it Kos?
Comment by mlong — July 19, 2007 @ 8:43 pm
O’Reilly vowed to go after the right, but instead, he just aired a piece on that horrific behavior of preacher Fred Phelps, and his followers, who protest the military funerals.
My question to O’Reilly is to ask why he’s categorizing these people as part of the right? Most evangelicals or anyone else on the “right” are in extreme support of our military and our country, unlike Phelps, and would abhor the behavior as put forth by Phelps et al.
O’Reilly is correct in his criticism of Phelps, but errs when he calls him part of the “right”.
Comment by Missy — July 19, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
Comeon Missy, you of all people know that you can be conservative, or a “righty”, and still oppose the War. All you have to be is part of the Paleo-con “isolationist” camp.
Comment by Spud — July 19, 2007 @ 9:21 pm
Bill nailed them on his radio show and TV.
Comment by julie — July 19, 2007 @ 9:49 pm
The far right has traditionally been protectionist and anti-war. Remember your history: WWI, Korea. Note that the staunchest supporters of the war are Republican moderates: John McCain and Lindsey Graham.
Comment by erljr — July 19, 2007 @ 9:58 pm
Bill nailed them on his radio show and TV.
Please, he nailed absolutely no one. His main points were people post 9/11 conspiracy diaries, someone called the pope a primate and random cherry picked comments. Firstly what O’Reilly crack staff forgot to mention is that you get banned if you post a conspiracy diary. No warning, nothing. So that point was bs. Secondly O’Reilly is an incredibly horrible catholic and terrible English speaker. He must have stopped reading his word of the day calender at opine because had he had a little patience they probably would have made it primate where he could have found out that yes the pope is one in multiple ways. Hell we’re all primates, but the pope especially, it’s one of his titles is the Primate of Rome. Don’t believe me google primate and rome, guess what the first link is?
And then O’Reilly cherry picking comments and applying them to the whole is not just wrong, it’s enormously stupid. You can go to absolutely any website on the internet and find stupid comments. I saw a bunch on Abc today and saw even more at Espn yesterday. One of the benefits of allowing comments is you get feedback immediately, another is you stand a good chance of getting well thought out comments discussing whatever you happen to be writing, unfortunately though you stand an even better chance of getting sometimes lewd, sometimes racist, sometimes out of bounds, usually stupid comments. How a website deals with them is up to them. Some have a place where you can flag a inappropriate post, other like Spud for example approve each comment. Those like Kos, and a growing number of websites, use a voting system where you can rate a post, the most famous being slashdot. But to think that any one system other than a completely closed system is moronic. What he did can apply to every website on the internet and just shows the depths of his insanity. He should have just stuck with his make believe lesbian gangs roaming the streets of Washington.
Comment by Steve — July 19, 2007 @ 10:23 pm
O’Reilly vowed to go after the right, but instead, he just aired a piece on that horrific behavior of preacher Fred Phelps, and his followers, who protest the military funerals.
My question to O’Reilly is to ask why he’s categorizing these people as part of the right? Most evangelicals or anyone else on the “right” are in extreme support of our military and our country, unlike Phelps, and would abhor the behavior as put forth by Phelps et al.
O’Reilly is correct in his criticism of Phelps, but errs when he calls him part of the “right”.
I agree it’s completely unfair to lump the likes of Fred Phelps in with conservatives.
Comment by Steve — July 19, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
Kudos to O’Reilly for supporting yet another honorable cause. From pushing Jessica’s law to burying the Daily Kos he stamps out fires of moral ineptitude across the country.
Comment by Fox Fan — July 19, 2007 @ 10:41 pm
“Lumping in” is precisely what pundits do.
Ted Bundy was a proud, active Republican. Discuss.
Comment by steve — July 19, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
Ted Bundy means nothing. You are building the straw man like a pro for your argument.
Comment by Fox Fan — July 19, 2007 @ 11:01 pm
Spud et al, how many other “right wingers” do you know who attack military personnel or their families, and disrupt funeral services? What part of Phelps’ behavior is conservative here?
Most conservatives (until recently) were pro-war, so why would they attack the memories of those who fought and lost their lives?
Comment by Missy — July 19, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
I saw tonight’s Factor and thought that his attempt at being balanced by going after the Fred Phelps family was pretty weak. He scored a bonus in that Phelps included him in one of his videotaped tirades, but the important part of this is that Fred Phelps’ family and what they do is based on religion (the Westboro Baptist Church, I believe), not political affiliation.
On a related note, in his “beat the press” segment, Dan Abrams caught Bill in a bit of faulty logic…O’Reilly stated that he never said that he didn’t “ambush” the CEO of Jet Blue, but in a segment a day earlier he claimed it wasn’t an “ambush” interview because his show staff had e-mailed the CEO a week in advance and knew they were on to him (paraphrasing).
Comment by FishOil — July 20, 2007 @ 12:55 am
O’Reilly is a ginormous CREEP. So are all of you delusional conservatives. Wake up. Start giving a rat’s ass about someone besides yourselves!
Comment by Savannah — July 20, 2007 @ 12:57 am
O’Reilly does go after the right when they engage in hate, but the fact is the right doesn’t have as much power or platform as the left, and they don’t generally spew the kind of hate and vitriol that the left does.
As far as ambushing JetBlue, O’Reilly did say it was an ambush in the sense that they appeared without telling JetBlue they were coming. It wasn’t, however, an unfair ambush because they had given them a week to comment on the situation and they refused.
Comment by Laurel — July 20, 2007 @ 1:11 am
O’Reilly criticizes the right frequently. He’s been adamant about them doing something on immigrant and has criticized the mistakes in the Iraq War numerous times.
Libs, who don’t watch and don’t know any better, accuse him of being a RNC messenger. That is hardly the case.
Comment by bigred — July 20, 2007 @ 1:25 am
#17 - I really couldn’t say which “side” spews out more hate, and really it doesn’t matter because both sides are guilty of it. I think what people would take exception to is the fact that if you watch O’Reilly on a regular basis (as I do, but I’ll skip it when he has fill-ins) you would know that he shines a big spotlight on the “left” and a penlight on the “right.” But again, if you watch O’Reilly enough you’ll know that he would best fit in the “right” category, although I would not say he is a “right wing water carrier” as, say, Sean Hannity is.
As far as having a platform, the issue at hand is the internet, and (thankfully) there is a level playing ground in play. O’Reilly can state a somewhat viable case in regards to the media, but the internet is rife with both left and right wing websites, and many do “traffic in hate” as O’Reilly is condemning.
As for the Jet Blue thing…it’s really not that big of a deal, but O’Reilly’s guy did confront the CEO as he was coming out of his apartment on his way to work. I’d call that an ambush considering that he wasn’t informed that a reporter would be waiting for him to come out of the building. That being said, the reporter was not hostile…he presented the facts (albeit cherry-picked comments left on the website from anonymous users) and made it clear to the CEO who he was getting his company aligned with. I think the end result speaks for itself (not taking sides, just saying I don’t think the CEO had a full understanding of the website).
Comment by FishOil — July 20, 2007 @ 5:06 am
Bill O’Reilly did go after ‘right-wing’ hate speech in his ‘ridiculous item’ segment at the end of his show.. wake up FishOil #3
Comment by Chet — July 20, 2007 @ 11:19 am
#20 - If you read through the comments, you’d see that I addressed this in comment #15, Chet. You might want to go through everything before telling a person that they need to “wake up.”
And in regards to the idea that if a group is religious, then they automatically fall into the “right” category, I hate to break it to you but I know plenty of people who attend church every weekend but are also devoted Democrats.
Comment by FishOil — July 20, 2007 @ 2:54 pm