Late Nite FDL: Hitting Back Through Home Depot

I’m sure that most of you are as annoyed and disgusted with Bill O’Reilly’s latest smear campaign against the liberal blogosphere as I am. Of course, if you watch the clips, he’s really, really reaching here. Based on nothing more than a couple of nuisance comments from Daily Kos, he insists that anyone who participates in the Daily Kos community or attends the Yearly Kos convention sanctions the murder of Dick Cheney and believes that we should all dress in drab Mao Tse-tung coveralls and proclaim Markos the Dear Leader of our Glorious Revolution while printing up little red books of Noam Chomsky to keep on our persons at all times.

(That’s how you can tell I’m exaggerating, of course. Bill O’Reilly obviously has no idea who Noam Chomsky is.)

This is part and parcel with the Right’s technique of distortion through anecdotal evidence. O’Reilly believes that if his producers can dig up some moronic troll comments on Kos (when they’re not too busy fielding his sexual harassing phone calls), it gives him the right to tar the entire community with the same broad brush.

It’s like insisting that Rudy Giuliani is personally responsible for the graffiti sprayed on to every single subway car in New York.

But, hey, we can play that game, too.

John at Americablog has found some pretty crazily unhinged comments over at Bill O’Reilly dot com. One of Bill-O’s fans says that if Hillary gets the nomination, his “guns are loaded”:

Note that the person has written over 1,000 posts on O’Reilly’s Web site. That means he or she isn’t new, he or she isn’t someone who just came over from DailyKos in order to impersonate a BillOReilly.com member (as O’Reilly ridiculously claimed last night). It’s a BillOReilly.com regular, and Bill clearly has had no issues with this person posting on his site in exchange for cold hard cash.* But what I want to know is why jetBlue promotes this hateful man on their airlines? Does jetBlue agree that we need to load our guns if Hillary becomes president?

(*O’Reilly charges his readers fifty clams each for commenting privileges.)

The Secret Service has apparently taken a distinct interest in O’Reilly’s trigger-happy, Hillary-hating reader, which to my thinking is entirely appropriate. Of course, Bill-O will try with all his might to spin that he can’t be held responsible for every lunatic that posts on his site, in spite of all the noise he has made about being able to control the content of one’s website.

From last night’s O’Reilly interview with Howard Wolfson, Hillary Clinton’s communications director:

O’REILLY: …every respectable blog in the country, and you know this, because I think Hillary Clinton’s website is respectable.

WOLFSON: Thank you.

O’REILLY: Every respectable blog in the country does not permit this hatred. Even…

WOLFSON: Bill, even your website has things on it that you would find objectionable.

O’REILLY: That’s bull. Look, we know what you’re going to say because the Kos planted someone in there. But when we see objectionable things, we take it off immediately. They traffic in it.

Ah, no, Bill. That’s one of your regulars.

So, just to let Bill know that we love him, how about signing on with Brave New Films and Move On in letting Home Depot know that you don’t appreciate their decision to bankroll Bill O’Reilly’s hate speech and the hard-hitting, investigative distorting going on over at Pox News.

Robert Greenwald:

Seen enough? Now it’s time to get to work. Join with us, the Sierra Club, and MoveOn to put an end to this propaganda and distortion by appealing to Fox’s advertisers. Specifically, Home Depot. Why? Because Home Depot says they care about the environment. So we’re giving them a chance to prove it by asking them to stop advertising on Fox until it changes its lies and distortions about the climate crisis.

Go sign the petition.

Or write your own letters and faxes and use their 800-number to let Home Depot know how you feel about their business practices with regards to Pox News:

The Home Depot, Inc.:
2455 Paces Ferry Road
Atlanta, GA 30339
Phone: 770-433-8211
Fax: 770-384-2356
Customer Relations: 800-553-3199

Here’s a link for email.

Go get ‘em, firedogs! You know what to do. It’s time Asst. Principal O’Really got Spockoed.

And remember, be polite, spell check, and that WRITING IN ALL CAPS WILL MAKE YOU COME ACROSS AS A SCREAMING TROLL. Also, please feel free to refer back to my instructions for writing an angry letter if you need to brush up on your kung-fu.

(Show your work! You can leave your emails, letters, and faxes to Home Depot in the comments.)

Enjoy!

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