First Report::Dodd Stands Up To O'Reilly!

[cal04]

Senator Dodd's appearance on "The O'Reilly Factor" to stand up to O'Reilly and defend his decision to attend Yearly Kos will air in just a few minutes. After finishing the interview, Senator Dodd said:

I hope that our discussion today reminds Bill that a free press is at the very heart of this nation's values. The blogosphere is enormous - and to exploit such a tiny fraction of it in such a way is ludicrous, especially considering that Bill himself has said some things in the past that he may not want distorted... Democrats aren't going to be lectured to about the crudeness of language or civility of discourse by Bill O'Reilly.

Dodd successfully exposed O'Reilly's hypocrisy, referring to offensive comments O'Reilly has made in the past including when O'Reilly suggested that Al Qaeda "go ahead" and "blow up" Coit Tower in San Francisco (Media Matters).

The word I got from our communications director Hari Sevugan, who as at the taping and had also previously issued a strong statement on O'Reilly's lack of standing to criticize Daily Kos for offensive comments was that it was a confrontational interview:

1.) O'Reilly cut the interview short. They told us seven minutes, it was around 4 1/2.

2.) It was quite confrontational -- Dodd consistently rejected the premise of O'Reilly's questions.

3.) Dodd hit all the important points: selectively picking a micro-sample of comments that are not representative; 500,000 people a day visit the site

4.) O'Reilly's bluster about Yearly Kos is about O'Reilly not liking the ideology and he ought to be honest about that

5.) Dodd called O'Reilly on making comments that were even worse, then mentioned the Coit Tower piece, when O'Reilly urged terrorists to blow it up. O'Reilly asked Dodd when he said that, and Dodd apparently gave him the date.

6.) Finally, O'Reilly ended the interview abruptly by saying that Dodd "was no Joe Lieberman."

Heh, indeedy.

I hope the interview is well received, as it sounds like Dodd did a great job standing up to Bill O'Reilly. I'd ask that if you think so and if you want to join Dodd in standing up to O'Reilly, visit http://chrisdodd.com/... and add your name to the list of people who are saying "Enough is enough" to O'Reilly's smear tactics.

NB: Crooks & Liars should have the video later. I encourage you all to watch.

Disclosure: I proudly work for Chris Dodd's presidential campaign.

Update:
I'm getting word that Fox's coverage of the bridge collapse is going to pre-empt "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight. The Dodd interview is likely to air tomorrow.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/1/195837/4094

[brettdale]

1. kick

kick, please be as good as it sounds.

[librechik]

2. yeah tomorrow...

heh--hope you aren't holding your breath on that...

Dodd is cool.

[Graybeard]

3. Thanks cal04. K&R.

Just have to stand up to the bullies and they fold. "...cut the interview short...":rofl: What a sniveling coward.

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Dodd rocks! I hope he pointed out Dickhead Cheney's "Go fuck yourself" to Pat Leahy.

O'LIELLY has no legs to stand on when it comes to berating Liberals for crudeness.

The Constitution is "A G-d Damn piece of paper."

Murder, rape, torture, lying, cheating, stealing...the repukes and Bill O'LIElly have cornered the market on crudeness.

WTG, Chris!:thumbsup:

[Canuckistanian]

5. Oh, yes, the old "I never said that. When did I ever say that?"

Kudos to Biden for knowing the exact date!

That's the only way to deal with these bullies.

Hit them in the face with their own words.

[Peace Patriot]

6. Christopher Dodd was one of the chief architects of electronic voting run on 'trade secret,'

proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations. He is the 'Democrat' who colluded with the biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress--Tom Delay and Bob Ney--to get this done.

So I will never trust what he says. The rat bastards at Diebold/ES&S owe him one. He is the stealth candidate of the Corporate Reich, in my opinion. Bill O'Reilly makes an easy target to gain some cred with the Left. It's all bluster and posing by Dodd. Will he disavow "trade secret" vote counting? Not on you life.

[rosesaylavee]

8. Can you give me more info

on this? I had been leaning quite seriously toward Dodd (if Gore doesn't run) but hadn't read any of his connection with Diebold etc before. Links, direction, something to go on would be much appreciated.

Peace.

[sandnsea]

7. Good for him

Sounds like it was a real rip 'em up and spit 'em out. I've never seen Dodd angry, I hope it gets YouTubed because I can't handle watching O'Reilly.

[JHB]

9. About the photo: When did Billo's sensibilities get so dainty and delicate?

Jeez, like no one has ever called a politician a cocksucker before.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Hasn't Orally learned ANYTHING regarding the use of recording devices

following the entire Andrea Mackris episode???

:rofl:

[zanne]

11. oops. correction

http://crooksandliars.com/