Kristof's Pledge Drive Yields $727,568 to Send Bill O'Reilly to Darfur

[kpete]

Kristof's Pledge Drive Yields $727,568 to Send Bill O'Reilly to Darfur

By E&P Staff

Published: February 21, 2006 9:55 AM ET

NEW YORK In a postscript to his regular New York Times column on Tusday, Nicholas Kristof reveals that he has raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars from readers to send Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to troubled Darfur.

Kristof, embroiled in a public feud with O'Reilly, launced a pledge drive recently with this end in mind, and reports today that he has been "deluged by 6,675 pleges, averaging a bit more than $100." The grand total comes to $727,568, "so Mr. O'Reilly will be able to fly first class with the very best satellite phones and fill his water bottles with San Pelegrino."

O'Reilly has called Kristof's pledge drive "simply a gimmick, a ploy, to bring my name to his passion."

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[rodeodance]

1. if he goes he will go with a lot of hired guns

[Beelzebud]

2. ROFL Great stuff. Call the chickenhawks on their bloviating.

I'll bet O'Rielly will begin pretending Kristof and his money doesn't exist. :D

[tanyev]

3. I suspect most of the money was pledged for a one-way ticket only.