Dem Candidates' Attacks On Winger Media Figures Continue As JetBlue Caves To O'Reilly

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Dem Candidates' Attacks On Winger Media Figures Continue As JetBlue Caves To O'Reilly
By Greg Sargent | bio

You may have heard by now that JetBlue, under fire from Bill O'Reilly, has caved ignominiously and yanked its sponsorship of YearlyKos.

As Kos says, Hillary has actually taken the lead in pushing back against O'Reilly, and this gives me a chance to flag what I think is one of the more interesting -- and unexpected -- developments in Dem primary politics this year.

That development is this: Little by little, it's becoming almost de rigeur for Dem primary candidates to forcefully push back against right wing media figures, on behalf of themselves and others, as a way to appeal to progressive Dem primary voters.

Needless to say, this is a good development. It amplifies to an untold degree the critique that many of us have been pushing for some time and it generally makes life more complicated for wingnut slime merchants, who, treated regally for two long by craven network execs and others at the big news orgs, had grown accustomed to thinking of themselves as untouchable.

We've already of course seen lots of this from the John Edwards campaign, who really put this strategy on the map this cycle. We've had the early pullouts by Edwards (and subsequently the other Dems) from the Fox debates, Elizabeth Edwards aggressively targeting Ann Coulter, etc., etc. Obama early on aggressively targeted Fox News over its bogus madrassa story, winning plaudits, but the Obama campaign appears to have dialed this back somewhat.

Now, in the wake of JetBlue's cowardly decision, Hillary is taking this route, too, with this petition attacking O'Reilly over on her Web site:

"TELL BILL O'REILLY: STOP SMEARING GRASSROOTS PROGRESSIVES," it blares on Hillary's site. Now that's a sign of the times if there ever was one.

[bunkerbuster1]

1. Hillary to O'Reilly: Bring it on.

Me likey.

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2. Just don't fly on JetBlue I hear is has a bad record anyways.

But when you buy tickes with another airline photocopy it and say this could be you JetBlue, how many times has the Bile spewer Bill O'Reilly rode on your plane...ta ta.