E.D. Hill loses her Fox News show after ‘terrorist fist jab’ remark.»

[doublethink]

Last week, Fox News’s E.D. Hill called a fist pound between Barack and Michelle Obama a “terrorist fist jab.” Following Hill’s remark, Media Matters launched a petition calling on Hill to apologize. TVNewser is reporting that Fox News has canceled America’s Pulse, the nightly news show anchored by Hill: “America’s Pulse anchored by E.D. Hill goes away, but Hill stays with the network in a capacity to be determined.” The cancellation comes just four days after Hill’s “terrorist fist jab” remark, although the network would not give the reason for its actions. Hill apologized for her remarks on her show today. Watch it:



http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/10/ed-hill-loses-her-fox-news-show-after-terrorist-fist-jab-remark/

[malaise]

1. Fuck her

welcome back to the valley asshole.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Now thats just disgusting

I'm a discriminating, hard drinking Sailor and I would never, ever fuck HER.

[smoogatz]

8. I was going to make a joke about how I wouldn't either, not even

with O'Reilly's falafel, but it was just too gross.

[Warpy]

14. Ouch.

Still, it's comforting to find out that both you and Pox News have standards.

They may be low ones, but they're there.

[malaise]

17. LOL

:rofl:

[doublethink]

6. ...........

[miles 2 go]

27. I like this pic. We should darken one hand and put an OBAMA banner on it

It should be his symbol. Oh yeah, add some red white and blue stripes.

Terrorist fist jab.:rofl: What morans!1111

[doublethink]

30. Great Idea maybe some photo-shopper DU'er will pick up on it ...

:thumbsup:

Hey and why not a 'fist bump' smiley on DU come to think of it while we wait ???? :think:

[miles 2 go]

31. that's a cool idea too! n/t

[doublethink]

32. like this only without the beer mugs .... little fists instead .....

:toast:

Yeah I actually went looking for a minute awhile ago and these are the closest I came up with ....

looks like a 'high five' though ...

and this is superman .... offering a 'fist bump' .....

Okay better get some work done now ... enough screwing around for a bit ..... :rofl:

[miles 2 go]

42. the beer mug (without the mugs) is the one we need n/t

[doublethink]

103. Check it out ...... 'fist bump emoticons'

in this thread .... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6348632

:)

[cyberpj]

98. Wow. I was just directed to this thread.

I swear my button came from my own search for fist bump images and I was working on it all day before posting to DU that night. If I had seen this thread first I would definitely have given credit but it seems we were all having the same idea that day. And I'm STILL singing that "weeee've got to bump... we like to bump" song from the 70's and can't find it on the net.

Anyway...
great minds and all that.


:pals:

[doublethink]

102. Hey I got no problem with it ...... great minds always think alike !

I'm just glad someone got on it :) ...... one suggestion though after finding your button in another thread ... maybe put Obama 2008 on it somewhere ? Just a thought ....... oh and I just saw someone else on DU just made a couple of emoticons (fist bump smilies too !!!} here's the link to that thread ..... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6348632

Neat on both accounts :thumbsup:

Okay lastly about that song your trying to find ...... I'm gonna take a shot and say the first song that came into my mind after reading the lyrics you posted (call me psychic) ..... okay ready ?? Well I think you got the lyrics wrong and It's a Parliament song called 'Give up the funk' ...... the chorus goes 'weeee want the funk, give up the funk, we need the funk, we gotta have that funk' but I read your lyrics ...... and it could sound like that is what they are saying ....... okay tell me I'm wrong and not psychic now !!! Ha Ha ........ here's a link to it on you tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0eWPqgshQ

Let me know if I'm wrong .... you got me wondering and I'll take another shot at finding your song. Peace.

[cyberpj]

106. DING DING DING! You got it! And so did my darlin' husband Motty. Check it out:

He's a music trivia freak - my whole family calls him "info-man"
So great minds are continuing to think alike.
But he didn't get the link - THANKS for that!
p.s. - you're showing your age (right along with us)
p.p.s. - do I know you? do you by any chance know anything about a group called SparkPeople?


From: motty@XXXXXXXXXX
To: PJ <cyberpj@XXXXXXXXXXX>
Subject: Re: Song?
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:55:20 +0000

Actually it's more like...
Weeeeee got the funk...
We got the funk yeah,
Weeeee got the funk...
Gotta have that funk,yeah...?

It's George Clinton you little doofus,
we just saw that TV special about him, remember?
Probably why it's in your head.

-------------- Original message --------------
From: PJ <cyberpj@XXXXXXXXXX>

> Can you remember that 70's dance song about ....
>
> weeeeeeeeee like to bump....
> we like to bump
> weeeeeeeeee like that bump
> we like that bump
>
> ?
>

[Gabi Hayes]

37. Bumper Sticker. I'm making one

need to find a place to do it in unfadeable ink.

any I've made have faded fast in my car window

[miles 2 go]

43. Post one for us when u get it. n/t

[doublethink]

60. Check it out .....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3424789 They're getting the Idea .... ;)

[miles 2 go]

86. Looks more like they took the idea

They could of at least given us credit. It's the same picture and everything.

[Clark2008]

67. I think we should use the orignial

[backscatter712]

2. As Nelson would say...

HA-HA!!!

[doublethink]

9. :):):) ......

[jgraz]

78. .

[smiley_glad_hands]

3. Maybe Murdoch has come to terms with the inevitable.

The pendulum is swinging.

[Captain Hilts]

4. If only MSNBC would follow suit. nt

[SoCalDem]

25. Well they DID fire Tucker.. Now if they'd only give Rachel a show

dump the Muppets (Buchanan & Barnicle) and CLONE Keith, I'd be a happy camper...

More Keith-i-ness is definitely needed :)

[doublethink]

26. I second your amendment !!

Or ehhhh request, wish? :)

[krkaufman]

96. Well, they cancelled his show, but like FOX with Hill ...

... have kept him on in another capacity. Rather than having one concentrated hour of fTucker to avoid on MSNBC, you now have to worry about him being sprinkled into all the other programming -- except, blessedly, Countdown.

[SoCalDem]

100. As soon as his contract runs out, we'll be rid of him

No doubt they have to pay him until then, so they do actually make him come to work now and then..but hopefully once it's up..he's gone.. I think I read somewhere it ends in JUNE... and it's JUNE now..fingers crossed :)

[krkaufman]

105. This is pleasant news. Thank you. n/t

[Rosemary2205]

104. When did they drop kick Tucker?

Seems like I just saw him within the last couple weeks.

[Lex]

7. Temporarily yank her show

to then promote her to something else, probably.

[Lasher]

10. Prolly fired her for apologizing, not making the remark. n/t

[doublethink]

11. Wasn't much of an apology ...... seen it ??

here it is ...... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x145704 Peace. :)

[XOKCowboy]

15. She said she was just reporting on how it had been "characterized" in the media...

Who in the "media" called it a "terrorist fist jab"? What bullshit. She'll just be replaced by another empty-headed blonde spewing the same bile. :puke:

[doublethink]

18. Yeah 'characterized' in what meda ???? Geesh ......

that was a new one on me though the media comes up some pretty outrageous things ...... well she's off the air for awhile anyway.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

76. FreeRepublic.com

FAUX Noise monkeys scour it for all the latest "sources".

[yardwork]

19. some people say...

Now what about that woman who called for Obama's assassination a few weeks ago. What happened to her?

[Mz Pip]

20. The only place I heard that from

was E.D Hill's piehole.

She took one for the team. She got the meme out there, issued the obligatory apology days later and will quietly disappear for a while. She'll be back and will probably get a higher salary for being such a good team player. :puke:

[XOKCowboy]

39. Hey she tried to do Rupert's bidding..

I doubt she'll suffer much from this. I don't doubt that she'll be back spewing soon also. :)

[Lasher]

16. Thank you for the link.

Looks like more of a clarification than an apology. Too bad for her, you can't un-ring a bell.

Now please excuse me while I gouge my eyes out.

[1Hippiechick]

46. She sounded really pissed, I thought..........

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

75. She had that "laughing right-winger" voice

"Oh, you liberals and negroes are sooooooo sensitive!".

[1Hippiechick]

85. LOL - great description!

:rofl:

:applause:

:woohoo:

[Sheets of Easter]

12. I heard that on Stern this morning, and was in shock.

Something makes me think she's forced to play the patsy, though, for the talking points of some of the Faux higher-ups. Still, good riddance.

[doublethink]

21. I think your correct ...... and she should come out and say if .....

somebody else wrote that 'script' for her .... would be interesting to know.

[Wizard777]

13. OPPS! I guess she forgot Murdock is backing Obama.

[Breeze54]

69. Whom isn't Murdock backing? I can't stand that POS!

:grr:

[spanone]

22. i'm surprised faux did the 'right thing'

[doublethink]

24. Wonder how much of a backlash they were getting to cave so early?

The Media Matters petition ..... was nice to see this morning .... Peace.

[Heather MC]

73. Why didn't they Fire O'Liely for his "Lynching Party" Comment as it related to Michelle Obama

She is colateral Damage E.D. is not that popular
I will clap when they toss Olliely on his ass!

[Lifetimedem]

23. One thing about Fox

You do not need to have brains to work there

[doublethink]

28. That's the bottom line, and not just in this thread. Peace. :)

[UTUSN]

29. She's one of the Faux originals, will NEVER be fired. She said, "BOMB them, just BOMB them" (N.Korea

She and DOOCY fed hatred off each other, then she got her own show.

[AlCzervik]

33. omg did you see her "Apology'? Fuck you Faux.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806100009?f=h_latest

i don't give a shit who was trying to characterize it as what, it was fucking stupid and we know what they're trying to do and who their consumer is.

[Fuzz]

34. That wasn't an apology!

Not even close.

[Jack Rabbit]

35. What is Murdoch's game?

First, Liz Trotta apologizes for her gaffe and now this. Where once the junta's privatized Pravda would have given its personalities a raise for such remarks, now it demands an apology and cancels Ms. Hill's programs.

Does Rupert want to stay on the good side of the winning team?

[lonestarnot]

36. Thank you God!

:bounce: :woohoo:

[doublethink]

38. Hey look I know this is superman but just pretend okay ......

Okay here goes ..... just play along ..... this is what the little guy is saying ....

"What's that I hear? Faux did the right thing for once? Really??? Okay can I get a Fist Bump !!!

[lonestarnot]

57. That was fun!

:shrug:

[doublethink]

59. Well silly anyway ........ :)

[NightWatcher]

40. woohoo *virtual fist pounds other DU'ers*

[frogmarch]

41. Not an apology, just a vehicle

for her to repeat her original fist bump/terrorist remark.

Fuck her and faux news.

[DainBramaged]

44. Didn't she used to be on the morning show with Killme and Doltcy?

She was always making stupid shit comments then, and would ANY FAUX news "moran" say anything without network approval???

[doublethink]

47. I'm leaning towards the opinion that the 'terrorist fist bump' remark was scripted for her.

No idea why I'd give her the benefit of the doubt here after seeing her 'non apology' though. So don't ask me to explain ... ;)

Would like her to explain where she got the info if not from pulling it out of her *&^$$#%$#@*& though !!!

[DainBramaged]

49. She is a bobble head doll with a bad fucking attitude

and she doesn't even have brains in her ass to pull a comment like that out of (I said it for you).

[doublethink]

54. ......

:fistbump:

I'm gonna use that until we get the animated emoticon here on DU .... :)

[newmajority]

99. Yeah, but she looked downright brilliant compared to Killmoron and Douchey

Of course a pet rock would look bright compared to those two.

[1Hippiechick]

45. Did anyone hear the word "communist" this a.m. on Fox when Obama was being talked about?

I would love to see Fox News banished. I watch just to see what outrageous spin they are going to put on the so-called news.
:nuke:

[doublethink]

51. Oh geesh ...... sure this video will pop up online soon enough ......

and we'll see it in the next day or two ..... Faux just won't stop will they?

[1Hippiechick]

52. I may be mistaken, but I was so shocked, that I wasn't sure if I had heard correctly...as much as I

hate FAUX, I truly hope that I misunderstood.

:banghead:

[Blue Belle]

48. Great.

Now if I could just figure out how to pay my cable bill without any of the proceeds going to Fox News, I'll be all set.

[spanone]

50. you sure? just got this email from media matters

On the June 6 edition of Fox News' America's Pulse, host E.D. Hill teased a discussion of a gesture Sen. Barack Obama shared with his wife, Michelle, saying, "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to

interpret differently."

Thousands of people have signed our petition and called Fox News to demand an apology from E.D. Hill.


Today, June 10, at the opening of her show, Hill gave a weak apology, claiming that while people thought she was suggesting the Obamas were doing a "terrorist fist jab," she was really just reporting how it "had been characterized

in the media."

By blaming unnamed people in the media, Hill has ducked responsibility for the smear. For its part, by not responding more forcefully, Fox News is again condoning its hosts' and guests' smearing of progressives and Democrats a

nd trivializing the issue of terrorism.

[doublethink]

56. hmmmmmm I got the link in the OP from ThinkProgress ......

Maybe more confirmation is needed ...... I signed the media matters petition this morning .... link here

<http://mediamatters.org/action_center/fist_bump/>

note: the apology demand link above on media matters has been updated to get a REAL APOLOGY .. ha ha too funny ... and so it continues.

:fistbump: < goes here.

[doublethink]

58. Oh boy ...... update .....

huffington post says yeah her show has been canceled but ....

The Fox News Channel, which has been seeking a new format for the 5 p.m. hour, will place a rotating series of personalities in the time slot beginning next week, including the conservative radio host Laura Ingraham.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/10/fox-news-changes-terroris_n_106306.html

I don't watch Faux anyway ..... so whatever.

Crooks and Liars reporting it ....
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/10/ed-terrorist-fist-jab-hill-loses-her-show-on-foxnews/

MyDD .....
http://mydd.com/story/2008/6/10/151946/128

Intersting can't find a link on any MSM stating her show has been canceled yet though ...?

[DainBramaged]

53. Info on why she got taken off the morning show (from last July)

The network says Knowles is off F&F Weekend and "next assignment is being determined." And the net suggests that the two Big Story producers "apparently no longer had what it takes to work at the network."

At the TCA press tour on Monday, Roger Ailes was "asked about ongoing reports that a reporter and/or host shuffle was in the works" (Variety). "Is there imminent change in talent coming? No," he said, "but I'm looking all the time. I don't want anybody to get lazy and sloppy. You have to be intense about doing your job every day. If you don't want to do that, you should go sell insurance" (NY Daily News).

Certain personnel changes are definitely happening, though. A couple weeks ago, Brigitte Quinn disappeared from Fox News Live. Fox News told ICN that "Quinn asked to have her hours cut back so that she may deal with a personal family issue." On Monday, TVNewser heard that Chris Knowles has been shown the door. (If he goes, does Kiran Chetry go, too?)

But it appears most of the changes are happening behind the scenes. Earlier this month, TVNewser reported that Peter Zorich was taken off DaySide. Liz Smith mentioned the firing in today's NY Post. On Monday a tipster mentioned this "curious departure:" "Both the Senior Producer and the Line Producer of The Big Story with John Gibson announced that they were leaving within days of each other." TVNewser asked two FNC representatives to comment on the changes, and they didn't reply. Update: 1:14pm: "Gibson's senior producer gave his notice three months ago. While some people may be on their way out, he is leaving on good terms," a Fox insider says.

This morning, an anonymous Fox tipster said "lots of people getting canned here." TVNewser can't vouch for any anonymous tip -- after all, some individuals may use the tip box to spread false information. But the drumbeat about personnel changes seems to be getting louder...
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fnc/ed_hill_leaving_fox_friends_44324.asp

[1Hippiechick]

55. Obama and our NC governor did the same gesture...yesterday maybe?

[Eric J in MN]

61. I doubt there was cause-and-effect.

Fox News wants the hosts to associate Obama with terrorists.

Sean Hannity is constantly playing up the Bill Ayers angle to associate Obama with the Weather Underground.

[TXDemGal]

63. Totally agree

No cause and effect. Not that I watch FUX, but I would guess the ratings for E.D.'s show are in the crapper. It's all about ratings.

Incidentally, I used to see E.D. back in the late 80s/early '90s when she was an anchor at WPXI in Pittsburgh. Back then she billed herself as Edye Tarbox (I shit you not). She's probably getting a bit long in the tooth by blonde nooze bimbo standards.

[Mike Stark]

62. I'm new, so this goes here

Bill O’Reilly’s Long, Hot, Summer of Love…

Well, a couple of weeks ago when I announced that I’d be reviving the CallingAllWingnuts concept at Democrats.com, I also told you all that I had some activist efforts cooking and that I’d be calling on y’all to help out.

Well, the day has come… the plan is fleshed out; the die is cast.

Bill O’Reilly is one of the most arrogant and narcissistic personalities in all of show business. (He’s not in news; he is by the strict definition of the term, a vaudevillian entertainer). For the two or three of you not in the know, here’s a review (for the rest of us, we do this because it is so much fun to mock the ignoramus with a gigantic head).

We start way back. He was an anchor at Inside Edition (a show that won journalisms’ highest honor, a <a href=” http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/peabodyfacts1.htm”>Peabody… or Pinocchio…</a> or something that began with P. And, uhm… yeah. It was won after O’Reilly left the show. No matter – BillO will take the credit.)

Anyway, enjoy:
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That was long before I had ever heard of Bill O’Reilly… But it sets the stage.

In 2002, I, like many of you, was going about my business without thinking too much about politics or media or war or anything that tended to distract me from organic chemistry (I had fanciful thoughts of becoming a doctor at the time).

But then, one Saturday afternoon in the fall, I was cleaning my house. (If you knew me, you’d know how much fate had to do with this – me… clean house?) I was sick and tired of listening to the same ol’ music – I think that happens to a lot of us in our early 30’s – so I flipped on the radio for the first time in years. It happened to be set to AM and some guy was talking about war in Iraq.

Well… I had spent 4 years in the Marines; I finished my enlistment in February, 1990. I still remember purchasing a New York Times at an airport that year. Flipping through the pages, I found a mid-sized article about Iraq massing its troops on the Kuwaiti border.

Months later, the war machine, pretty much moth-balled since Vietnam, began sputtering to life. As a recently discharged Marine, I was torn. God knows, I wasn’t cut out for the service; I knew by the end of my first day at boot-camp that the military would have to do without me at the end of my four years… But the thing is… you develop a real bond with your brothers in arms. If they were going to be sent to the desert, well, there was no fucking way I was going to go, but I certainly wanted to know as much as I could about what was going on.

And the more I looked into the first Gulf War, the more I realized the country was being duped. I mean, c’mon… Since when did we care what a bunch of Arabs were doing ½-way across the world?

So I started thinking more about it. Mid-East… Oil… Israel… Geo-political strategy vis-a-vis the Cold War… In that context it made sense. Before 1990, the United States had no bases in the Middle East. The Russians had tried to establish a foothold in Afghanistan, but they had been beaten back. But the message was clear – the Mid-East was a fulcrum point in the Cold War. Oil and Israel. That was why we were going. It had nothing to do with Saddam’s army ripping babies out of incubators…

What does all of this have to do with Bill O’Reilly?

Well, I bring it up because on that fall day that I turned on AM talk radio and heard the discussion about the war, all of these thoughts came roaring back. For me, discussion of war in 2002 wasn’t a way to gin up my ratings. It had nothing to do with politics. I, perhaps naively, thought that the decision of whether or not our country should go to war was an important one… you know, kinda serious.

So I called in to that talk show and shared my thoughts about the first war on Iraq. The host, Dr. Joe Parisi, knew much of what I knew and a little more. We had an all-American and engaging conversation about the enormity of the decision.

The next day, I turned on the radio again. I heard this really engaging guy; he sounded so reasonable. But then I listened to the words. This guy was lying!! Over and over again! His presentation was impeccable, but his words were poison… I was listening to Bill O’Reilly for the very first time.

At the time, I had no idea O’Reilly had a cable television show. Hell, I had no idea O’Reilly’s radio show was national until I heard where the callers were from. Of course, that only made it worse for me – this guy was lying to a national audience?!

Ahhh… Talk-radio virginity…

Well, I wasn’t going to let it stand. I picked up the phone. I called Bill O’Reilly. Maybe he was misinformed. Maybe he just didn’t know. I’d fix things.

I got a busy signal. And another. And another. And another. I didn’t get through that day.

So I tried again the next day. Ugh. Busy signal. Another. Another. Another. Another.

Dammit.

Next day. Busy. Busy.

DIAL-TONE!!

I got through!

The screener asked my name and where I was calling from.
“Mike, I’m from Albany, NY.”

“What do you want to say to Bill?”

“Well, the other day when Bill was talking about…”

“We can’t talk about anything from the other day – do you have anything to say about today’s topic?”

“Uhm… Yeah. Uhm... Uhm…”

“Call me back when you’re ready to go on the air.” Click.

It was about two or three days before I tried again. I ended up getting through, the topic was fuel prices and gas mileage and – on this one topic – O’Reilly was making sense. I got on the air and stammered an incredibly nervous statement that thanked him for taking the right side of this issue. I was on the air for about 20 seconds.

The next day, O’Reilly was back to his lies. In addition, I had come to the realization that Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, my local morning guy, my local afternoon guy and just about every other right-wing talker peddled bullshit for a living.

At about the same time, sometime in 2003, I discovered Howard Dean and the blogosphere. Half of the lies I heard on talk radio sounded reasonable; I would have had no reason to disbelieve them without the benefit of the internet and blogosphere… So… As I sunk deeper into the tar-pit of talk radio, I brought with me an ever expanding oxygen tank of truth; I was always a step ahead of the liars.

That’s when things started to get fun. Before too long, I was going toe-to-toe with Rush Limbaugh and leaving him sputtering. Sean Hannity, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt and all sorts of right-wing guests were forced to deal with inconvenient truths as a result of my efforts. Not every call ended perfectly – I was often cut-off, silenced or hung up upon – but for the most part, good things happened.

All of these guys were a lot of fun, but Bill O’Reilly was special.

I guess it started by accident. One of my major “truth-sources” was the Media Matters website. They don’t do a lot of reporting; instead, they act as a watchdog and correct misinformation in the media. Bill O’Reilly came to be one of their most corrected personalities, and he couldn’t stand it. Before long, he was railing against the “slime-merchants on the internet” – MediaMatters, MoveOn, bloggers and anyone else that found error in O’Reilly’s rants.

So… In 2005, the liberal blogosphere was immersed in the Valerie Plame investigation. Conservative misinformation was everywhere. Bill O’Reilly did his part too. One day I called him and told hijm one of the best sources of truthful, no-spin information on the topic was MediaMatters.com.

He threatened to come to lead a mob to my house to “surprise” me. Paul Krugman noticed and wrote it up in his column later that week. For the first time, I felt like my work was getting results.


A few months later, in early 2006, I noticed that Bill O’Reilly had put a petition up on his website calling for the host of MSNBC’s 8 PM program to be replaced by Phil Donohue. This perplexed me (not!). You see, Bill, many, many, many times on his program had espoused the value of ideas and free speech. It just didn’t make sense that Bill O’Reilly would want Keith Olbermann fired.

So…

I recruited a bunch of people to call into Bill’s radio show to tell him how much they enjoyed Keith Olbermann and that they didn’t think Keith should be fired.

Well, Bill didn’t like that very much. Throughout the week, he kept track of the phone numbers that called in to his show. Finally, after caller number 15 or so got through with the message, Bill could stand it no longer. He threatened to send Fox News Security after us, said we’d be getting a “little visit from our local authorities” and, in general, he was coming after us.

The next night, Keith Olbermann had one of my callers on his show and the entire media world was snickering – or laughing outright - at Bill O’Reilly.

There things stood for about a year. O’Reilly’s goons at his website canceled my subscription so I couldn’t download the audio of anymore shows, they used caller-id to screen out my calls and, for the most part, all I could do was highlight some of the more absurd things O’Reilly said on his radio show.

In August of 2006, I began law school; as a first year law student, I couldn’t afford to spend a lot of time on CallingAllWingnuts. Instead I turned my efforts to defeating George Allen in Virginia’s Senate race. That turned out pretty well too, but it’s an entirely different discussion.
BillO couldn’t leave well enough alone.

In the summer of 2007, with more time on my hands, I started paying attention again. B.O.’s newest crusade involved demonizing the premiere netroots political gathering, YearlyKos. When O’Reilly discovered the convention had acquired corporate sponsorship, he went ballistic.

JetBlue had offered several airline tickets to the organizers of the event in exchange for a couple of banner placements in exhibitor’s hall. O’Reilly savaged the company, eventually going so far as to send a camera crew to the home of JetBlue’s CEO to conduct an ambush interview.

That was all I needed.

I used to work at ICM – an agency for creative talents. I’ve cultivated contacts in the industry. I made a call and within a few hours, I had BillO’s home address.

So I visited him.

I brought a photo-journalist and my video camera with me. I brought the courtroom pleadings that contained allegations most-vile regarding O’Reilly sexual harassment of a young female producer at Fox. I made signs and spread them throughout his neighborhood. “Bill O’Reilly: Mackris has your cash” (the lawsuit was settled for millions); “Bill O’Reilly: Can’t be trusted around your daughters”; “Bill O’Reilly: Cheater” (he was cheating on his wife while she was pregnant with his child); “Bill O’Reilly: Liar”.

Here’s the video I made:
<embed id="VideoPlayback" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" flashvars="fs=true" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=4005359924897645686&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>

So yeah… I’ll be blogging at Democrats.com this summer. I’ll be making another trip out to BillO’s place. If you want to come with me, you should email me at [e-mail]. Hopefully we’ll have enough people to charter a few buses. (He lives on Long Island; we’ll probably leave from New York City).

Also: I’ll be ramping up another call in effort. His show depends on calls. He can block my phone number, but he can’t block all of us. We’re just going to call his show and ask him how he kept the falafel together in the shower. (As part of the sexual harassment claim, BillO suggested that he’d rub the woman down in the shower – with falafel).

Y’all in?

[Emit]

64. Welcome to DU, Mike Stark

:hi:

I've seen your video before -- it was posted here at DU some time a while back -- Great job!

When you get enough posts under your belt, you should re-post this story in General Discussion. I think folks here would be interested!

:thumbsup:

Here are a few posts related to you and Billo:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2301031

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2274224

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2271925

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1502611

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=1478533

Keep up the good work!

[Mike Stark]

79. thanks for the welcome mat!

I'm noticing that my activism is very much a matter of taste. Some people get really upset at teh idea of anyone confronting the bad guys aggressively or in any kind of unorthodox manner...

So...

I need to reach out to a larger universe. I'm really hoping to do some pretty neat stuff this year and the more people that get involved, the better. Activism can't be about one person - that person is too often and too easily marginalized as a kook.

So yeah, I'm looking to organize a 21st century band of Merry Pranksters... And I hope to find some kindred spirits here...

[Swamp Rat]

81. You may have

:D :hi:

[babylonsister]

65. Bookmarking for Mike Stark, and welcome to DU! nt

[doublethink]

66. Mike ...... welcome aboard ....... :)

awesome. We're with you 100%.

[Gold Metal Flake]

68. Welcome to DU!

[Breeze54]

70. What took you so long to get here?!

Welcome to DU, Mike Stark!! :hi:

Great first OP and wow... have you been busy! :D

[Mike Stark]

80. That is a fantastic question

I've visited several times; always enjoyed what I found...

I think it is just that I was busy with my own blog, my kids, law school, and doing stuff over at 'Kos...

None of them are good excuses - I shoulda been here years ago when I first visited. But... I'm here now and glad about it...

[doublethink]

83. Hey come on over and say hello to your official "welcome thread" dude .....

when you get time here .... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3425705

just comment to anyone there ..... you're close to legend around these parts ... it was the 'Hanity Sucks' sign that did it for me (that was you wasn't it?) !!! Anyway carry on ..... :rofl: Peace.

[Swamp Rat]

82. Great vids

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[LanternWaste]

87. Very, very cool stuff, Mr. Stark.

Very, very cool stuff, Mr. Stark. Ridicule is a wonderful way to puncture holes in the hide of propaganda and you're pretty darn good at it...

:patriot:

[Skittles]

71. good

these kind of remarks are absolutely disgusting

[JI7]

72. i imagine the asshole is pissing about the liberals who went after her

she was on that awful Fox Morning show with those other assholes Douchebag and Killme. they are worse than o'Reilly and Hannity.

[Rex]

74. Foxnews sucks ass and should be removed from the airwaves.

It is offensive to democracy, which is viewed as a tool to make even more money. They should cancel Foxnews.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

77. Too bad she's merely a bleach blonde bobble head.

The guy who wrote it for her still has a job.

[hokies4ever]

84. The real question is did she adlib it or did her producers write it

Obviously it's unacceptable either way, but I want to know if she is the only one responsible for it or if she is just taking the fall for it.

[Ikonoklast]

88. Don't feel too sorry for her

She still has her stripper pole skills.

[King Coal]

89. I've been playing golf with terrorists and didn't even know it.

[ecstatic]

90. Awesome. THe hateful witch had it coming--now what about the lady

on Fox News who joked about wanting Obama killed?

[NoSheep]

91. Perfect...it's hard to believe that network can do anything I'd agree with.

[frickaline]

92. So ... Why is her show on right now?

I thought she got canned, and rightfully so, however I'm watching her right now on America's Pulse. Have they not pulled the show off the air yet for some reason ?

[doublethink]

93. Wouldn't be the first time Faux lied ...... ?

:) ... maybe they are in the 'process' .... who knows .... here's a few links from yesterday in this response up-thread reporting the shows cancellation ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3422513&mesg_id=3423963

We shall see ..... Peace.

[frickaline]

94. Thx for the link

I saw the other threads as well, I just found it weird she was still on the air. Hopefully they are just in process.

Here's hoping they do the right thing! :toast:

[krkaufman]

95. What a load of crap... "being talked about in the media"?

what "media" referred to it as a "terrorist fist jab" other than Hill and some Right Wing nutjob somewhere on a blog? Lame-ass rationalization and not a real apology.

[Dukkha]

97. she seems like the type who likes getting fisted

good riddance along with Gibson and Carlson. It's a good start for the clean air act.

[woo me with science]

101. Um.

That was not an apology.