What’s behind Oreilly’s attack on FR?
Here is what I posted kristinn a couple of days ago:
To: kristinn
Kristinn,
Thank you for defending us. He didn’t let you talk because he couldn’t afford it.
I hope he’ll be reading the truth below.
Mr. O’Reilly,
Your attacks on the “Internet, blogs and message boards” started sometime ago and I heard you shouting: The Internet is out of control! The truth is that the Internet is out of YOUR control. The reason was you have been shown in a very bad light, which you have to take responsibility for.
The lefty sites talked about your juvenile phone sex to and sexual harassment of one of your subordinates. I’m not going to re-embarrass you with the salacious details, which you undoubtedly know better than anybody else. You threatened to fight the woman in question tooth and nail but you ended up hushing it up quickly through a huge monetary settlement, which proved that the phone sex tapes existed and that your spin didn’t work.
The lefty sites were vicious because they thought you are a conservative and at the time, they had nothing juicy to bash conservatives with.
Now comes the “Fair and Balanced” fairy tale. By playing an Independent, you had to mix the Left with the Right and bash them both. That is what got us in the present situation.
Mr. O’Reilly,
Just be honest with yourself and think about painting everybody with the same filthy, wide brush. Look at your own program, who are your guests and interviewees? 90 % are FOX staff or contributors. You’re using Geraldo to prop up your program. One thing I have to give Geraldo, although I disagree with him on most subjects, he stood his liberal grounds with you and refused to submit to your fake bullying tactics. If you upset him, uh oh, that’s another liberal who’ll refuse to talk to you and join the bunch whom you plead with (I’ll be nice, just come, etc.) One of them will always keep coming back, your buddy Al Sharpton! Have you ever tried to ask him or remind him of the Tawana Brawley case when his moral hypocrisy shines? Of course not, you can’t because a bird in hand is better than ten on the tree!
I can go on and on about your hypocrisy but I think you got the message; not everyone’s IQ is negative and that this Internet site IS under the owners’ control.
Remember, every time I hear you attacking the “out of control Internet” I, for one, know exactly what you mean: I didn’t do it, honest, vicious rumors from evil people, etc.
Muddying the waters and stepping on people to defend your scandalous behavior won’t cut it. Face yourself and act your age, for a change.
721 posted on 08/01/2007 1:01:46 AM EDT by melancholy (Quiz: name one country, other than the USA, that doesn’t control its borders.)
It may be true that the leftist sites had a field day with O’Reilly’s sexual harassment troubles, but at the end of the day, who was to blame for that?
It was Bill O’Reilly himself who brought that scandal down around his head, and nobody else. The court papers I referenced over at The Smoking Gun are accurate and valid, and they amply demonstrate the kind of person Bill O’Reilly is, and I have no problem with anybody talking about that, be they left, right or in the middle. We are all responsible for our actions and if O’Reilly doesn’t like it, he should have considered that before he put himself in the position where his personal depravities were put on public display by the target of his sexual harassment.
Bill O’Reilly is going to end up meeting the same fate as Dan Rather, and if anyone is going to make it happen, it will be countless Freepers who are even now ripping the fake veneer off that arrogant ba$tard and exposing the rotten wood beneath for all the world to see.
As JimRob said last night, ‘fire at will, fire for effect!’