The American Spectator

Dweezil| 3.29.09 @ 4:51AM

More crap from Soros. The guy is the energizer bunny of the Left.

Dale Mader| 3.29.09 @ 8:20AM

Not an O'Reilly fan, but anything that gives Olbermann an opening to talk trash (what doesn't?) can't be good. FedEx just gained at least one customer, and, I suspect, many more.

Jon| 3.29.09 @ 8:26AM

This is one of the very rare instances where Olbermann is in the right. The ambush in question was not to illicit information, it was just bullying, to punish the woman for drawing attention to O'Reilly's indefensible comments about a rape and murder victim. Read the transcript- O'Reilly called the dead girl "moronic" and blamed her for what she was wearing. That wasn't an isolated incident either- O'Reilly has a disturbing pattern of such behavior. Conservatives shouldn't fall into the trap of reflexively defending him just because he agrees with us on most issues. He deserves to take the hit on this one.

patriot| 3.29.09 @ 10:57AM

http://investor.shareholder.com/ups/contact/contactus.cfm

Contact info for UPS Investor Relations. Tell them that in addition to becoming a FedEx customer you will not be buying their stock anytime soon or if you own any, you'll be selling.

Basil Plumley| 3.29.09 @ 11:50AM

@ Jon

What the heck are you talking about?
I must have missed that episode or you are mischaracterizing it.
It's funny how the Left is outraged when Rev. Wildmon(sp) promotes boycotts of sponsers of TV shows he finds morally distasteful yet embraces a tactic even worse when O'Reilly, Rush, etc. are involved.

It is ironic that the Left has never figured out how the Free Market works. Then again, the Left has never trusted "the people" to do the right thing.

H. Applebee| 3.29.09 @ 1:02PM

@Basil

Definately Jon hasn't read the trascript . If he did he woudl know this is way out context. (The left did the same thing to Bill Bennett a few years back)

The bigger point is how they intimidated UPS. Well, we should sound the trumpet for a national counter boycott of UPS or any program that advertises them. The real cause here is freedom of speech and CAPs intimidation to stifle that based on trumped up charges against a perceived enemy. Intimidation can work both ways and ours is the cause that is just.

Angel| 3.29.09 @ 4:09PM

That's it! I'm calling UPS tomorrow to tell them I'm never using their services again. BOYCOTT!! We have to stand up for the truth--the marxist Obama's tyrannical police state methods have to be stopped!! If we can get Rush in on this we'll have UPS on their knees. I'm going to email Rush right now.

Willey| 3.29.09 @ 4:12PM

It's only a matter of time before Podesta and his Brown Shirts come for us. Wake up, people!

CH| 3.29.09 @ 4:17PM

Jon is a troll, probably works for Podesta. I might not always agree with O'Reilly, but I know he has helped out hundreds of thousands of the vulnerable. And he turned the tide on the liberal push to ban Christmas. I will always be grateful to him for that. Obama/Soros are going after O'Reilly now--last time it was Rush. Who is next?

ruth| 3.29.09 @ 4:18PM

UPS is gonna be sorry. LOL!

Dennis| 3.29.09 @ 4:38PM

I'm thinking this should be called, "The Bogus Factor." Outside of the post on the Think Progress web site and multiple cross posting (with gleeful leftist giggling), there doesn't appear to be a single corroborating story anywhere about the UPS decision. I searched Ad Age for a mention but came up blank. O'Reilly's site doesn't have a peep either. I've also sent a request to UPS media department for a confirmation, but have not received a reply (weekend of course). This is not passing the "sniff" test!!

PALIN TIME| 3.29.09 @ 4:51PM

Could be that UPS, Cap One, At&T and Ford are sending out feelers, checking for customer blowback. They'd kiss Podesta's a$$ in a heartbeat if it didn't cost them anything. But it will--BIG TIME.

Jeremiah| 3.29.09 @ 4:58PM

Not a very interesting piece. Just so I'm clear, is Vadum seriously comparing Bill O'reilley's television show to 60 Minutes?

Say what you like, they're apples and oranges.

Olbermann is almost as big a jackass as O'reilley. Anyone who takes cable news seriously at all has to reconsider.

Remember: cable news is OK, just as Rush is OK, and Michael More is OK, as long as its used properly: as entertainment.

News comes from REPORTERS. Reporters actually go out into the world to find out what's going on. They don't sit around in tv studios berating one another.

Jeremiah| 3.29.09 @ 5:01PM

Willey --

Do you even know what the word "brownshirts" refers to?

Good Lord. The brazenness of your ignorance is just a thing to behold.

Brownshirts. Spare me.

Willey loves PALIN 2012!!| 3.29.09 @ 5:05PM

Spare us from the Brown Shirts, little Hitler Jeremiah. O'Reilly tells the truth--Olbermann lies. They are NOTHING alike. Olbermann is just another liberal liar like you, Jeremiah. Just ask Trimelda.

PALIN 2012!!| 3.29.09 @ 5:08PM

Vadum is comparing Podesta to Hitler's Brown Shirts, dummy. Seriously, Jeremiah; you're losing it. All that lying is catching up with you.

Jeremiah| 3.29.09 @ 5:19PM

Palin 2012 --

If Vadum is comparing Leon Podesta to Hitler's brownshirts (the SA) then he's a bigger fool than I thought.

Any such comparison is mired in such error that one doesn't know where to begin.

Historically, morally, politically, spiritually, logically the analogy doesn't come close to holding up.

I don't know what else to say. If that kind of debasement of political discourse works for you, good fortune to you.

I'd urge you to liberate yourself from such nonsense.

You might begin by getting a better education of the Nazis themselves. There are many, many great books available on the topic. Really almost any information you could gain would be an improvement.

Nothing excuses the squalors to which people have sunk when they are able to sit in the world's richest, freest, most powerful nation, having just had yet another election and another peaceful transfer of power, and stare into a computer screen, and bring themselves to compare some political operative or members of their government, which guarantees them more political freedoms than any other government in the world, to Nazis. It's just unfathomable, inexcusable, pathetic ignorance, and it's shameful. You really ought to be ashamed.

PALIN 2012!!| 3.29.09 @ 5:26PM

Liberate yourself from BUSHITLER, Jeremiah. You Obamabots are police state thugs, and we know it. Did you answer Trimelda's post yet? She sure nailed you and your fellow lying, loser liberals. She sees right through you and your liberal powermonger friends. Hopefully, more black folks will wise up to your new form of slavery.

NOBAMA| 3.29.09 @ 5:28PM

You believe in infanticide, Jeremiah. You have the nerve to try and shame me? Gook luck with that, libturd.

Joe| 3.29.09 @ 5:31PM

No one appears to see it.

Auld Sailor| 3.29.09 @ 6:36PM

I stopped using UPS when I could not get some businesses to ship to FPO/APO addresses. They have contracts with UPS . UPS will not ship to FPO/APO and these businesses are prevented by contract from using anyone except UPS. UPS is hostile to the US military and their families.

Bill Bailey| 3.29.09 @ 6:53PM

Vadum didn't write anything about brownshirts. Some of you guys have serious reading comprehension problems.

Bill Bailey| 3.29.09 @ 6:53PM

Vadum didn't write anything about brownshirts. Some of you guys have serious reading comprehension problems.

Will Sasser| 3.29.09 @ 7:07PM

Send your comments folks, threaten to move to Fedex!

I just wrote a scathing letter to let them know that I'll be moving my business to Fedex!

Jeremiah| 3.29.09 @ 7:07PM

Nobama --

You accuse me of being a "baby killer"? You lack wit; that's not your fault. But you have no decency, either. That is.

Jeremiah| 3.29.09 @ 7:09PM

Bailey --

I didn't think Vadum had made such a stupid claim in the above piece. I just responded to what some of his vapid supporters claimed was his view. My intention was not to say who was saying such nonsense; it was only to police it up, and move it to the trash where it belongs.

Jeremiah| 3.29.09 @ 7:12PM

Palin 2012 ---

So I'm not only a baby killer, but I'm also a slave monger.

How pithy.

Did you ever consider reading my post and responding reasonably?

Any ass can bray; any goose honk; any dog woof; and grackle po-tweet; any ape yawp. Sir, reason is what differentiates you from the beasts of the field. Use it.

edword| 3.29.09 @ 7:12PM

Jeremiah -
Were have you been for the last 8 years I wonder.

v| 3.29.09 @ 7:32PM

If someone is saying thinkprogress is taking O'Reilly's comment about how the rape victim was the one at fault out of context, then please provide the transcript.

Here's one of his brilliant statements:

"So anyway, these two girls come in from the suburbs and they get bombed, and their car is towed because they're moronic girls and, you know, they don't have a car. So they're standing there in the middle of the night with no car. And then they separate because they're drunk. They separate, which you never do. All right.

Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning. She's walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she's out of her mind, drunk."

To O'Reilly if you separate and get your car towed you're moronic. As if she deserved what happened....

Whatever, if you don't know cable news/entertainment is crap by now, then whatever...

The ambush style he used also wasn't a "last resort" as he hadn't contacted the person he ambushed before that...

Jen| 3.29.09 @ 7:36PM

If I'm not mistaken, UPS cannot deliver to an APo or FPO for the same reason that DHL and FedEx can't either... I think it is a Federal contract with another Federal agency... that would be the USPS.

Don't know if UPS is actually "hostile" to military families or not, but I seriously doubt it.

Pete| 3.29.09 @ 7:59PM

I won't deal with UPS anymore. FEDEX stops at my complex anyway so it will be an easy switch. And UPs was so wrong to play into the far lefts hands! But, hopefully, there will be a big backlash for them!

Archie| 3.29.09 @ 8:03PM

Jeremiah, re-read your history or read it for the first time. Hitler came to power under the laws of Germany at that time. It was what he did after he came to power that made the difference. So yes there are comparisons in Oshama's radicalism.

Sarah| 3.29.09 @ 8:06PM

sometimes in the news-gathering process the approach is justified as a last resort.

Explain to me how stalking a young woman for 2 hours, across state lines, is a last resort when not a single person from FOX even attempted to contact her via telephone, or invite her to answer questions on O'Reilly's show directly. Get your facts straight.

jharp| 3.29.09 @ 8:30PM

By Matthew Vadum on 3.29.09 @ 4:31AM

"Surely nothing the O'Reilly team has done is any worse than anything done by myriad leftist commentators"

Do you think before posting such utter stupidity?

It does NOT make it OK simply because someone else does it.

Birdbrain.

Angel| 3.29.09 @ 8:44PM

Baloney. Where'd you get your propaganda, Sarah--the leftist smear machine, Media Matters? O'Reilly tried to contact this woman repeatedly, and she refused to speak to him. Pales in comparison to what John Podesta and NBC News did by sending a mob to protest the fundraiser of 'It Happened to Alexa', a rape crisis organization that helps rape victims. First, liberals tried to stop dissent by attacking Rush, now O'Reilly, who will be next?

Willey| 3.29.09 @ 8:56PM

NBC has become a rogue enterprise that is the mouthpiece for the leftist Obama administration. They will stop at nothing to block dissent and grab power. Obama has demanded that The CEO of GM be fired, so Rick Wagoner is stepping down. Since when does the president have the power to fire senior executives of major corporations? Power grab.

Palin 2012| 3.29.09 @ 9:03PM

Jeremiah, you defend Obama's pro-abortion policies, right? You defend ACORN; you defend your liberal wealth re-distribution policies. Infanticide is baby killing, Jeremiah: Wealth redistribution is all about white liberal power--power-monger. You called yourself a slave monger, and so did the black woman--Trimelda.

Bill Bailey| 3.29.09 @ 9:06PM

Our simple little friend, jharp, is back from the Land of Trolls. He/she/it writes,

>jharp| 3.29.09 @ 8:30PM
>By Matthew Vadum on 3.29.09 @ 4:31AM
>"Surely nothing the O'Reilly team has done is >any worse than anything done by myriad leftist >commentators"
>Do you think before posting such utter >stupidity?
>It does NOT make it OK simply because >someone else does it.
>Birdbrain.

Again, jharp, you either miss the point (in which case you are stupid) or you are deliberately engaging in misdirection (in which you case are evil). This was not a post about whether ambush journalism was acceptable. This was a post about the condemnation right-wingers get when they do it as opposed to the utter lack of condemnation left-wingers get when they do the exact same thing.

We can think without your help, troll, so please f*** off.

Angel| 3.29.09 @ 9:14PM

One irate poster called jharp--jherpes. Crude? For sure, but I thought the moniker apt.

Shawn| 3.29.09 @ 9:41PM

I'm constantly amazed at how people are so fearful of the name 'Soros.' He gives money to organizations that he believes in...big deal. I'm glad there are people out there that have the ability and interest in doing work like that. Let's all take deep breaths and stop being so cowardly.

Joan | 3.29.09 @ 10:22PM

Typical of Liberals who can sure dish it out, but can't take it! Wimps!

Bill Bailey| 3.29.09 @ 10:24PM

How is it, 'cowardly,' Shawn, to dislike Soros? Grow up.

Matt| 3.29.09 @ 11:02PM

O'Reilly is a perfect symbol of right-wing intelligence and methods in the current environment: the Factor peddles ignorant, inacurrate, occasionally defamatory data, information and assertions and attacks its opponents by calling them "Liberals who can sure dish it out, but can't take it" and "Wimps!" There's nothing more amusing and pathetic than "victimized" conservatives who are now being subject to the same tactics they have used for years. One literally must be brain-dead to be a conservative nowadays ((not to mention the disgusting bigots that pass as "social conservatives") and listen with an open ear to O'Reilly and Hannity and the rest of the right-wing crowd who couldn't even understand complex issues if they tried.

Jane| 3.29.09 @ 11:08PM

I think everyone knows that ambush interviews are sometimes necessary but what people are mad about is the way they are done. Waiting at someones house and then following them for 2hrs is not right.

And does anyone think O'Reilly cares about loosing advertisers, one goes down there are 2 more waiting to be picked up.

K. L. Kraemer| 3.30.09 @ 12:09AM

How can anyone think that Rush or O'Reilly is simply an entertainer? Rush presents opinions in an entertaining way. He really believes what he says and so do most of his listeners. They're all entitled to their opinions.
O'Reilly presents his view and questions the views of guests in an interesting way. Then he asks the audience to decide whose views they agree with.

Jeremiah| 3.30.09 @ 12:27AM

Kraemer --

There's nothing wrong with being an entertainer. Rush and O'Reilly are entertainers and commentators. Rush is, in addition, a brilliant satirist.

Having said this, neither men are journalists -- which at least should be kept in mind when critiquing their work. Neither man is a reporter; neither is bound by the ethics or standards of journalism; neither maintains journalistic decorum or abides by conventions of journalism. Both engage in vitriolic ad hominem attack, sarcasm, and a kind of outraged cynicism as a regular part of their performance. Again, there's nothing wrong with this, but looking to either man as reliable sources of information is foolish.

Willey| 3.30.09 @ 12:51AM

Jeremiah you're talking about the lying losers on MSNBC and the crazy leftist nuts on Huff/Post., etc. O'Reilly and Rush are always correct--they have to be with jackasses like media matters on their backs 24/7. Liar.

Basil Plumley| 3.30.09 @ 1:21AM

@ Willey

Please leave the liar Jeremiah (hey, that rhymes) alone. He is quite the entertainer. It's not every day you see someone wear a dunce cap for all the world to see.
Jeremiah the liar wears a dunce cap. Bob wears a beanie (with the propeller) to show he is smart. Jharp wears his mommy's clothes. Interloper wears prison stripes.
You would think the left the Left could find a more intriguing bunch.

v| 3.30.09 @ 2:05AM

@Willey

With logic like that, I'm sure you're one enlightened individual... yikes

Willey| 3.30.09 @ 2:40AM

v--you're another liberal moron who is obviously ignorant of the leftist 'watchdog' witch-hunt groups funded by Soros. They're on Conservative pundits like white on rice. Idiot dumtard.

nick| 3.30.09 @ 3:19AM

I find it funny that whenever there is a rational argument made regarding this situation it is immediately responded to with calling that person part of the Leftist-Soros-NBC-MSNBC-60 Minutes-Nazi party that the author thinks is an accurate description of Obama and the Democrats. It shows a ridiculous amount of intellectual dishonesty and a complete lack of objectivity.

Bottom Line: Whether it was a righty or a lefty, you don't go around blaming the victims of rape and murder for their circumstance because of how they dressed. It should disgust anyone that he said that. Then, when a blogger simply quoted his words and without asking her for an interview, he ambushes her on her vacation after following her from DC to VA for over 2 hours. I'm sorry, but rational, objective, intellecually honest thought only creates the reality that Bill O'Reilly is a jack ass, and I would say the same if this was the actions of any other show host.

Some of you really need to get over yourselves.

MT| 3.30.09 @ 6:46AM

Good one, nick--Leftist-Soros-NBC-MSNBC-60 Minutes-Nazi Party-ACORN cheating thugs who steal elections-Pro-infanticide democrat party--Yup, pretty much sums up Obummer and the democrap party of thugs.

moondancer| 3.30.09 @ 7:52AM

OK Matt, so you'll be cool with me following you on your next vacation and screaming " hey nazi thug, why are you trying to destroy America?" in front of all the street traffic and of course your spouse and family. I didn't think so.

Jeremiah| 3.30.09 @ 8:58AM

Willey and Basil --

When someone gives his interpretation or opinion on a topic (Rush Limbaugh, say) it's not rhetorically effective to respond simply by calling him a "liar."

I'm not primarily asserting some fact to be true (e.g. "Bubonic plague is ravaging the midwest killing thousands of its inhabitants.") I'm simply giving my opinion, which you can accept or reject.

Ideally, I guess, robust political debate and discussion happens when people make arguments. An argument is a claim or series of claims that require some kind of support or explanation. At some level, in other words, you have to be explaining your reasoning to be considered a person who is engaging in political debate. Calling me a "moron" or a "liar" or whatever isn't an argument; it's not interesting or important in any way.

I've said this before. If either one of you have something of substance to offer or become capable of rational discussion, I'm happy to hear what you have to say. Until then, you should try to think about why you have the ideas that you have and then think about ways you can articulate, develop, defend, and explain those ideas like a reasonable person.

Or, if you can't do that, and you wish to confine yourselves to unkind remarks or name-calling, at least contrive somehow to be witty.

Jeremiah| 3.30.09 @ 9:01AM

I mean, really, Willey. Do you realize you call a poster above an "idiot dumtard"?

What are you, in the sixth grade?

Be a man, for God's sake. Take some responsibility for your ideas and have a little pride.

Basil Plumley| 3.30.09 @ 9:02AM

The problem with most of you on the Left is you love to take things out of context. It is much akin to Rush's "phony soldiers" or "I hope Obama fails" comments.

This reminds me of an interview many, many years ago of a famous actor who stated that there are 27 different ways to "I love you". This can be done by stressing a word or words and by using various intents.
Of course, when one reads the script, the words say "I love you". We don't know if it was said with erotic passion or sarcasm.

Once again, the Left shows its dishonesty. They have taken words out of context, out of their original intent.

Original intent ......... Imagine that .......... The Left having a problem with "Original Intent". That explains the Left's hatred for Scalia, Thomas, Alito, and Roberts.

Basil Plumley| 3.30.09 @ 9:12AM

Jeremiah

My reference to your lying goes beyond this thread. You remember the time when you accused the Bush White House of hiring a reporter to ask questions?
When pushed to provide evidence of your charge, you didn't want to discuss the matter any further. Of course, that is not your only flirtation with telling lies on this board.

Therefore, you have earned a healthy skepticism for anything you say.
I have no problem with your opinion on this board. I do have a problem when you use lies to buttress your opinion. That makes you a liar.

Perhaps, we should keep a score of your lies?

Your Doctor| 3.30.09 @ 9:21AM

I was directed here to help, but there's just too much wrong here.

Nothing more than a handful of crazy's talking to themselves to justify their own existance.

MT| 3.30.09 @ 11:51AM

Don't let the door hit you on the butt on your way out, loser.

rpppolyp| 3.30.09 @ 12:08PM

@ Angel...

Actually no, there were no previous contacts with Terkel and O Reilly until the Watters surprised them (unless you have links otherwise, I'm sure O'Falafel provided email and/or phone lists showing his guys tried to contact Terkel's-otherwise BS)... Terkel DID try to contact O'Loofah thru his stalker/producer Jesse Watters but last time I saw Watters hadn't returned Terkel's emails (this was as of last week... he might have realized this time that he could have emailed/called her prior to following her two hours down to her Virginia weekend getaway.)

As for mobs... great thing about the interwebz, one can find photos of just about any event. Gee, I'd think a horde of GE/MSNBC/Podesta anti-rape crisis center protesters (see how moronic that sounds already) would have shown up somewhere in some web image search...

Now if there were a few folks protesting the interesting choice of the author of "Those Who Trespass" as a speaker that's one thing... if they were chanting "Down with the Alexa Foundation" that's different I would think BillO would have had photos and video of the protesters chanting "down with rape crisis centers!" Or was Jess Watters unavailable that night?

rpppolyp| 3.30.09 @ 12:08PM

@ Angel...

Actually no, there were no previous contacts with Terkel and O Reilly until the Watters surprised them (unless you have links otherwise, I'm sure O'Falafel provided email and/or phone lists showing his guys tried to contact Terkel's-otherwise BS)... Terkel DID try to contact O'Loofah thru his stalker/producer Jesse Watters but last time I saw Watters hadn't returned Terkel's emails (this was as of last week... he might have realized this time that he could have emailed/called her prior to following her two hours down to her Virginia weekend getaway.)

As for mobs... great thing about the interwebz, one can find photos of just about any event. Gee, I'd think a horde of GE/MSNBC/Podesta anti-rape crisis center protesters (see how moronic that sounds already) would have shown up somewhere in some web image search...

Now if there were a few folks protesting the interesting choice of the author of "Those Who Trespass" as a speaker that's one thing... if they were chanting "Down with the Alexa Foundation" that's different I would think BillO would have had photos and video of the protesters chanting "down with rape crisis centers!" Or was Jess Watters unavailable that night?

Alan| 3.30.09 @ 12:56PM

by Willey| 3.30.09 @ 12:51AM

O'Reilly and Rush are always correct...

That has to be the funniest 6 words I have read in a long!

davod| 3.30.09 @ 1:27PM

"O'Reilly and Rush are always correct... "

You got that right.

MT| 3.30.09 @ 1:34PM

Polyp--You liked your lies so much you posted them twice. Loser.

Heather H| 3.30.09 @ 1:38PM

You leftist jackasses are just attacking O'Reilly because he is a threat to your fascist power grab. First you went after Rush (AND FAILED!!), now it's O'Reilly's turn. You will fail miserably once more. Who is next? Democrat fascist repression of dissent.

Kraemer| 3.30.09 @ 6:36PM

@Jeremiah I know there's nothing wrong with being simply an entertainer like Stern, Stewart, Colbert, Leno but I'm saying that O'Reilly and Rush are not just entertainers. And both of them freely admit they are not journalists. They are commentators meaning they look at the news and make their views known. They also have guests/callers to agree or disagree. Most of us get our news from journalists and then turn to various commentators to hear different perspectives.
Journalists are supposed to be objective but....well, take the case of the "LA Times" who doctored a picture to make it appear as though a soldier was pointing a gun at a child. You won't find Rush or O'Reilly doing anything like that. Both of them are are successful because they are interesting and present views in a logical way; they make sense to their many listeners. Yes, Rush is a brilliant satirist but that is not the meat of his show.
Liberals are free to get on the radio and make a success of themselves as well. Nothing is stopping them...except perhaps talent and a sensible message.