NEWS: Bill O'Reilly Starts a Fight He CanÂ’t Win

POLITICS: Bill O'Reilly Starts a Fight He Can’t Win

Bill OÂ’Reilly is an idiot. We cannot deny that fact with years of overwhelming evidence. Yet Bill never stops trying to confirm his idiocy to the world. Recently he went to war with the Democratic website Daily Kos. It is a war he is losing.

Every year liberal bloggers have convention called Yearly Kos. Yearly Kos was organized by readers and writers of Daily Kos, but is not run by the websiteÂ’s founder, Markos Moulitsas. An independent group called Bloggerpower.org produce the convention. None of these facts got in the way of BillÂ’s hateful rant against the convention.

A couple of weeks ago, Bill went on the attack and started comparing Daily Kos to the KKK and Nazis. He claimed the website was a far left group that traffics in hate.

It is true. Also, Hitler started as a website. Bill backed up his claims with evidence. He pulled some posts from the message boards, which anyone can post on by simply registering with the site. The messages were ugly, but you could find such messages on any board on the Internet. Bill then went after a sponsor of Yearly Kos: Jet Blue.

He sent a camera crew to confront the CEO of Jet Blue on the street, demanding to know why he was supporting radicals.



Jet Blue pulled its sponsorship from the convention. Meanwhile, Bill continued his assault on Daily Kos, mining the site for posts and occasionally digging up a hateful one. He claimed the random posts were the opinions of the website founder Moulitsas. Daily Kos decided to hit back and asked for help from other liberal blogs. For the left, it was like having a dream enemy.

It was not a difficult effort. Hundreds of bloggers and readers sifted through the message board posts of BillÂ’s site and turned up some hateful messages.

The posts on BillÂ’s message boards claim that Islam is a murderous cult, the capitol building should be burned down, Rosie OÂ’Donnell should die and Hillary Clinton should be killed. You get the idea; itÂ’s your standard right-wing retarded bullshit.

This is just typical bullshit you find on any political message board. Idiots need to be able to voice their opinions also. The problem is that Bill attempted to use the posts to label the site's veteran owner a "Nazi." The big difference between the Daily Kos message board and BillÂ’s board is that OÂ’Reilly makes people pay to post on his, which makes it a private group, and therefore he is more responsible for what is posted.

The left-wing blogging community was not satisfied with just calling Bill out on his hypocritical attacks. One Daily Kos member even went to BillÂ’s house to confront him in the exact same way he had confronted the Jet Blue CEO.

Even right-wing bloggers knew Bill had made a huge mistake taking on the liberal blogs. Michelle Malkin and Little Green Footballs both denounced BillÂ’s campaign against Daily Kos because they knew what was coming.

The liberal bloggers pulled quotes from BillÂ’s show and posted them on their sites. Then they targeted BillÂ’s sponsors. Thousands of people first targeted Lowes. At first the stores consumer service team attempted to deflect the complaints, but eventually the company caved and pulled their advertising from OÂ’ReillyÂ’s show. Home Depot was the next to pull advertising. Currently the blogs are on a campaign to get BMW to halt all advertising on The Factor.

In a pathetic attempt at damage control, Bill has now decided to go after right-wing sites. He probably hopes it will pacify the liberal bloggers. It will not.



He has only riled up a new group. The man is a car crash falling on top of a train wreck.

Hooray!

That is all.

Wait. That man is a fucktard.

There, that is all.

Hahahahahaha. Awesome.

No wait - AWESOME.

Awesome stupidity. "Oh Really" (as Keith Olberman calls him) never disappoints.

awesome, indeed.

Poor guy, engaged in a battle of wits, and forgot that he was unarmed.

By the way, if I may borrow/rent/pilfer this quote,

and I will, I promise to give credit where credit is due.

This reminds me a lot of someone who's been making a nuisance of himself around here lately.

In any event, I'm glad O'Reilly's wave of bullshit may have finally hit its high-water mark. Perhaps it will herald a more widespread change in the tenor of discourse in this country - the popularity of the legion of right-wing bloviators seems to be generally declining, and patience with their more reprehensible remarks is demonstrably thinning.

Still, that's a hope without much expectation.

Cool, Bill O'Reilly should die, be killed, my guns are loaded, with poop, cause it would be way more hilarious to shoot him in the face with poop.

oup d'etat cay? i'm-ay eady-ray. e-bay iscrete-day!

WTF are you talking about ebay for??

Its the "Fair and Balanced" I've been hearing about

Wow.
This is some really powerful stuff going on. Internet communities getting corporations to pull advertising is pretty kickass.
I'm always out of it due to work, and I can't recall blogging communities having the power to sway what appears on television. Does anyone have any other examples of this happening?

well, O'reilly doesn't have much to worry about...when he loses his job at Fox News he can be the man to sit and monitor free republic.

Then again, Reilly doesn't let anybody else actually talk.

O'Reilly is bad, but the real douche is Hannity

Ha ha!

Why does every American on this site get all bent out of shape about Bill O'Reilly, Half your country watches the guy and likes him, half of you share his political views and beliefs so therefore this site being a far more libertarian leaning site why would you bother commenting on this posted story. The guy is a dickhead yet most of the people here get so emotional and offened by him and his followers. It never ceases to amaze me how emotional American's get over the dumbest things/people who no one else on the planet would even give a second look.... get over him, his like minded people would never frequent this place anyway.

If you want to see something great, check out Senator Dodd's rip of O'Reilly on his show. He puts old bill to shame on the Kos issue.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7ApOkZJN7-c#

Well I have long thought Bill O' Reilly was an idiot and his continued hipocrisy shows in every crazy campaign he undertakes. I am glad someone has finally taken him on and beaten him at his own crazy game now if we can finally get rid of "Adolf "Bush oh excuse me I mean George than all will be well

this is the second best news all day - the first being of course that the Bourne Ultimatum is here.

More people watch O' Reilly (at least 2 million a night) than any other cable news show. So I have to point out the fact that people who have never heard of the daily KOS website are now informed of it and will see the amount of hate that is on it. So in the long run Bill will win because of his strong ratings and nobody can dispute that.

Forgive us for being human.

The subhuman and mentally deficient need something to watch during the day when Survivor and American Idol aren't on.

And you know you're a totally fucked right-winger when Michelle Malkin and LGF turn on you.

I agree with Mr. O'Reilly, I heard this segment on Serious Satalite Radio and he made a lot of good points.

I don't think Bill would be losing sponsors if he had 150 million viewers, bub, though maybe Hasbro would be more involved if it were a true half. Nice of you to give us your expert opinion on the American political climate and awareness though.

People talk about Bill because it's entertaining to watch him fuck up. People go and read/watch the news and then turn on O'Reilly to be entertained, getting their guilty pleasures listening to him say outlandish things they'd like to say in their "patriotism", or just to confirm that they are right about everything they believe in as Billy the Culture Warrior tries to quash them.