If you read more than just the Vermont blogs, you've undoubtedly heard about Bill O'Reilly's jihad against DailyKos, attempting to label it a "hate site." If you missed it, there isn't much to the narrative; O'Reilly thinks he can bully Kos out of existence by using troll rated comments to rationalize the harassment of a "Yearly Kos" convention sponsor (Jet Blue) out of the program. In that he has been partially successful, but of course this has done nothing but fire up the netroots crowd who are not only (of course) finding more objectionable user comments on O'Reilly's own site (as well as targeting his sponsors), but have also begun to get organized and coalesce into a netroots driven, rapid response, anti-Fox truth squad. O'Reilly's return volley has been simply to become obsessive in his attacks on dKos by trying to brings his TV guests into the fight, demanding they join him in comparing bloggers like us to nazis, the Klan, Mussolini, Al Capone, etc.
But thereisnospoon is now reporting that the battle has been joined by Sean Hannity (Hannity, for those who don't listen to talk radio or watch Fox, is the slightly dumber version of Rush Limbaugh who doesn't talk about himself as incessantly). Hannity is now attacking The Huffington Post on air, again based on comments users have posted on her site (and again, there are even nastier comments on Hannity's own site).
This begs the question as to whether or not we're seeing the beginnings of an all-out proxy war between the two major political parties being waged by their media manifestations.
(Just this once, since one of Vermont's biggest boosters really jumped the shark last night, I thought I'd share my regular morning feature from Cobalt6 with you.)
1) "If I'm the president of the United States, I walk right into Union Square, I set up my little presidential podium, and I say, 'Listen, citizens of San Francisco, if you vote against military recruiting, you're not going to get another nickel in federal funds. Fine. You want to be your own country? Go right ahead. And if Al Qaeda comes in here and blows you up, we're not going to do anything about it. We're going to say, look, every other place in America is off limits to you, except San Francisco. You want to blow up the Coit Tower? Go ahead.'" --after San Francisco voted to ban military recruiters from city schools, Nov. 8, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)
2) "I just wish Katrina had only hit the United Nations building, nothing else, just had flooded them out, and I wouldn't have rescued them." --on his radio show, Sept. 14, 2005
8) "Now it's so bad that I spend an enormous amount of money protecting myself against evil." ?on being Bill O'Reilly, Oct. 18, 2005
Last night on the O'Reilly Factor:
And Bill' O Reilly, who PROGRAMS hate every night on his poisonous, falsehood-laden little show, is going to talk about hate to us. Oh, wonderful.
First of all, the "quotes" he uses, without sourcing, were very probably trollrated into oblivion (I know for a FACT any such talk about Tony Snow was; I threw some donuts on that stuff myself) and some were very probably planted there by O'Reilly shills, probably working for "Fox Security.")
Right-wingers plant stuff on Daily Kos all the time. Old news. I've busted 'em myself.
More on the toad's meltdown last night under the fold. We might get to some other stuff too.
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