O?Reilly vs. Daily Kos: The Feud Hits Home? Bill?s Home

2007-07-31
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If you’re not familiar with the ongoing O’Reilly/Daily Kos feud, well, consider yourself lucky. In any case, O’Reilly’s been accusing the Kos people of harboring hate at their liberal blog/message board, and Kos and others have been accusing O’Reilly of the same.

I tend to agree with Stephen Colbert that website operators are about as responsible for what’s written on their message boards as gas station owners are responsible for what’s written on the bathroom wall, but now the feud has really hit home for O’Reilly — literally.

Some Daily Kos guy went to O’Reilly’s home in Nassau County, while somebody else took pictures, to confront him about his “hateful” words, a sexual harassment lawsuit, and to leave some signs in his neighborhood. If you’ve always wanted to see O’Reilly in his sleepwear, now’s your chance:

After O’Reilly provided an “accountability moment” to the JetBlue CEO at his home, I decided to provide O’Reilly with his own accountability moment at his home.

I’ve just returned to home base.

I’ve got video of O’Reilly in his sleepwear (red shorts and a white t-shirt). I delivered the Andrea Mackris Court filings to all of his neighors – every home in his development got a copy. And I put a bunch of signs up along his street – “Bill O’Reilly: Andrea Mackris has your cash” directly across from his house; “Bill O’Reilly: PERVERT” in front of his home; “Bill O’Reilly: CHEATER” on the road he must take to exit his development and “Bill O’Reilly: Can’t be trusted with your daughters” at the landmark boulder marking the entrance to his development.

According to the Kos intruder, “this was the only way to let him know that he’s not above answering for his loathsome lies…answering directly to the people he’s smearing…”

If this is the way we’re doing business now, the front yards of a lot of us will soon be full of sign-wielding dickweeds — some of whom are in search of a one-way ticket to the ICU.

That said, I don’t think for a second that the “investigative reporter” in Bill O’Reilly had much trouble in the past going to somebody’s house to confront them on charges, whether proven in court or not, so sure, there’s a bit of a “fair play” rule involved here.

I believe that personal residences are off limits for anybody not engaged in direct law enforcement, even if the “visitor” is a reporter, and even if the resident has been accused of a crime or possesses opinions found to be disdainful by some. Their home is their home. I respect private property rights, so I’m weird like that.

Besides, what if O’Reilly owned a pitbull and the Kos visitor got a fair and balanced mauling on O’Reilly’s property? I’ll give you a second to grab a calculator to start adding up the amount of money O’Reilly would have been sued for.

Often these kinds of “visits” have more to do with prompting a violent reaction for financial gain than with seeking “truth.” Which was this? I report, you decide.

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  • S Baker

    A few comments from the Daily Kommie’s founder Moolattes:
    Every third week, Moulitsas has a standing phone call with congressional powerbroker Rep. Rahm Emmanuel (D-Ill.), and he talks regularly with Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

    Moulitsas has become so well incorporated into the party machinery that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) uses him to recruit candidates. “They get calls from, like John Edwards, and maybe Tom Vilsack, and then, always, Markos,” one DCCC staffer told me. This legacy has made him the current champion of that wing of the Democratic Party—anti-war, deeply partisan, young, mostly white, and professional—that seemed ascendant in the year before the first Democratic primaries in 2004.

    “They want to make me into the latest Jesse Jackson, but I’m not ideological at all,” Moulitsas told me, “I’m just all about winning.”

    The DCCC’s executive director, John Lapp, says that Moulitsas’s model is “a signal event in political history, like the Kennedy-Nixon debates, in how it gets people involved.” And Simon Rosenberg, the president of the centrist New Democratic Network (NDN), says that “frankly I don’t think there’s anyone who’s had the potential to revolutionize the Democratic Party that Markos does.”

    “Everybody says I’m an asshole, and they’re right, I am,” Moulitsas says.

    Moulitsas lives here with his wife, a reporter from Wired News

    Moulitsas himself has noticed the parallel. “If I’m not thinking about politics, I’m thinking about sports,” he once told Wired magazine. “

    In June 2003, after television cameras caught a cheering, thousand-strong mob in Fallujah dragging the charred, dismembered bodies of American contractors through the streets, Moulitsas linked to the reports and said of the contractors: “I feel nothing… Screw them.” The declaration, gleefully seized on by right-wing bloggers, provoked weeks of controversy. Democratic candidates came under pressure to pull their advertisements from the site, and even Moulitsas’s traditional allies in the liberal blogosphere—including The Washington Monthly’s Kevin Drum—criticized him. (When I asked Moulitsas recently how he felt about the episode, his mouth stretched into a smile: “Vindicated,” he said.

  • tonysprout

    “said of the contractors: “I feel nothing… Screw them.”…

    Nah, I won’t go there. I refuse to lower myself to their level. and I refuse to read their socialist-commie-nazi crap. Facists!

  • anti armchair generals

    I am not familar with O’Reily vs Daily Kos feud but many pundids like to wash other peole’s dirty linen in public while keping their private life secret.
    Former political consultant blamed police for breaking his trust when reporting his activity to media.
    He had called escort service while his wife was on vacation and the girl gave him oral sex. Next day he found envelope in his car window trying to blackmail him for $25.000 or report the pictures to media. He went to police and demanded confidentiality of the extortion scheme. Once the 3 participants were arrested, the media published the story. He accused police for “beaching his trust”/

  • http://mensnewsdaily.com/author/joyanna-adams/ Joyanna Adams

    They should lock this guy up with Cindy Sheehan. That’s harrasement.

    And Actually, Bill looked pretty nice in his shorts! Thanks Doug.

  • Halo

    Lock him up with Cindy Sheehan? Geez, Joyanna. You’ve got a mean streak. Plus, what if they hit it off, and she got pregnant? Would the baby even be human?

  • The Vicar

    Daily Kos = Daily Krap

    Enough said.

  • tonysprout

    There is a roasting spit in hell reserved for this marxist a-hole.






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