Bill O’Reilly e-mail bombs Mike Thompson

[meegbear]

Last Sunday’s editorial cartoon by Mike Thompson stirred the ire of Fox News pundit Bill O’Reilly. Mike’s cartoon was in response to NPR firing long-time analyst Juan Williams for comments he made on the Fox Network about fearing Muslims. The cartoon depicted several Fox News personalities in various garb – O’Reilly in a "Obama=Hitler" shirt, Sarah Palin in a clown suit, Sean Hannity with a chest bomb, and Glenn Beck in a militant uniform.

Rob Tornoe reports that O’Reilly said, "Believe me when I tell you the far left is seething over all of this NPR stuff. The blow back has begun. Take a look at this political cartoon in the Detroit Free Press by Mike Thompson featuring me wearing 'Obama equals Hitler' stuff." He then went on to give out Mike’s email address and urged his views to "let him know what you think."

Mike reports on his blog that he’s received over 2,500 emails – "many of them unsuitable to publish," he writes.

While defending Williams’ right to free speech, O’Reilly and a number of his viewers tried and failed to bully me for exercising my right to free speech. What it all boils down to for people who behave like this isn’t defending the concept of free speech, rather defending free speech that agrees with their partisan point of view. Many of them decry Williams losing his job because, in their view, he was too conservative. But then want to defund NPR and cause everyone else at the broadcasting company to lose their jobs because, in their view, NPR employees are too liberal. Many of them would stand silently next to people carrying “Obama = Hitler” signs at Tea Party rallies that O’Reilly encourages and promotes, but scream foul when I put the slogan on his shirt in a cartoon. These same people decry what they see as a journalist being punished because of political correctness, then turn around and exercise their own form of political correctness by sending torrents of disparaging, and threatening e-mails in a failed attempt to intimidate a journalist who doesn’t agree with their worldview.

He also lists a few of the emails he’s received, including a death threat.

http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2010/10/26/bill-oreilly-e-mail-bombs-mike-thompson/?utm_source=wordtwit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wordtwit#ixzz13Yk9OyZK

[BootinUp]

1. The cartoonist nails it. nt

[Blue_Tires]

2. brilliant...

[DefenseLawyer]

3. 2,500? For a guy who supposedly leads the masses, that's pretty lame.

I would think a local DJ in Milwaukee could get a response of 2,500.

[rurallib]

4. But I think that would tell Mike Thompson that his cartoon

hit the nerve he wanted to hit.
And the troops responded like the puppets they are.

[UTUSN]

5. K&R #10 for THOMPSON. O'LOOFAH's grasp of legal matters is ludicrous

Not to mention hs grasp of "irony." It's not the 1st Amendment he's touting in Juan's case, it's his usual opportunity to bash Libs, while (further irony: ) claiming to be an Independent. Whenever he's harranguing with the guest lawyers, even the Faux wingnut type lawyers, the absurdity of his arguing legal cases is palpable. Even his wingnut lawyers tell him he's obtuse. He is the totally programmed Catholic school kid, ruled by the vague "moralities" in his psyche, not by any legal grasp. Not to mention his stupendous DENIAL. Oh, little things about how he can't admit he did something wrong and *illegal* with his fallafel/loofah talk. His "boycotts" and threats are clearly seen in this incitement to be nothing but mob rampage. His followers must be SO moral.