Last night I appeared on the conservative TV talk show The O'Reilly Factor, ostensibly to talk about political blogs and the impact they are having on the American political process.
Or so I was told by the two producers for the show who spent over an hour pre-interviewing me. Unbeknownst to me, however, the show turned out to be a total set-up job in which host Bill O'Reilly and guest Jed Babbin spent the entire time attacking the web site Media Matters for having posted commentary in the past critical of them both.
Kline had been invited on the talk show to supposed to have a chat about the impact of American blogs and how they are affected the American political process. Alas, at the last minute, O'Reilly (can't imagine why) and his producers pulled a bait and switch and railed on against Media Matters. Media Matter doesn't seem to be very fond of Bill, and aren't afraid to show it. Anyway O'Reilly got his knickers in a knot about this, and went off on the blog, despite Kline having absolutely nothing to do with the blog whatsoever.
It's a good read. You should click here.
While you're at it, check out Media Matters to see their reaction to this. Here's a choice cut:
In a segment on the October 4 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor that he promoted as examining "the most vicious political websites in the country," host Bill O'Reilly named Media Matters for America "the worst," falsely claiming that Media Matters "make[s] stuff [up] about me ... [e]very day of my life" and has "no ethics or scruples." He also referred to Media Matters as "assassins" and called those alerting the media of items posted at Media Matters "zombies."
Nothing like a good cat fight to help you wake up in the morning while you are waiting for the coffee to brew!
what's wrong with the NRA? do you even know what they do or are you a kneejerk liberal?
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