According to Bill O’Reilly’s website, the Fox News host Monday evening will be taking on a decision by airliner JetBlue to sponsor YearlyKos, the second annual convention of Daily Kos and company:
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This information was obviously made available to the Kossacks, as regular DK diarist mcjoan had plenty to say on the subject in a posting early Monday (h/t Charles Johnson, emphasis added throughout):
Bill O'Reilly has discovered that sometimes people say stupid things on the Internet. And he's going to have a big story about it tonight, supposedly.
He's decided to play David to what he imagines is a corporate Goliath, JetBlue, because they're one of the sponsors of YearlyKos. This is undoubtedly happening on Murdoch's orders: Markos led the way in getting the Democratic presidential candidates to boycott the Fox debate, and we're going to be having a Democratic presidential candidates forum at YearlyKos.
So they ambushed JetBlue's CEO outside of his apartment last week, demanding to know why he was sponsoring people who are mean. Meaning they cherrypicked the worst of the comments on Daily Kos, many which were probably from GOP trolls anyway, and found a couple of 9/11 conspiracy diaries and are trying to smear the whole of the lefty blogosphere with a handful of kooks who've been banned from the site for being, well, kooks.
This cherry-picking defense by mcjoan is rather laughable. After all, when a virtually unknown blogger named Spocko tried to get sponsors of conservative radio station KSFO to pull their ads in January by sending them cherry-picked, out of context quotes made by various hosts, the folks at Daily Kos were largely responsible for disseminating the story throughout the liberal blogosphere.
In fact, as NewsBusters reported on January 15, a January 3 diary posted at DKos by contributor Mike Stark was what got Spocko’s campaign going throughout the netroots.
I guess when the Kossacks want to bring down some entity they don't like by presenting cherry-picked comments, that's fine. But, when the shoe is on the other foot, they think it's inappropriate behavior.
Hysterically, this is just another example of the liberal mantra “Do as I Say, Not as I Do!”
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"Meaning they cherrypicked
July 16, 2007 - 23:05 ET by Intellectual Honesty"Meaning they cherrypicked the worst of the comments on Daily Kos, many which were probably from GOP trolls anyway, and found a couple of 9/11 conspiracy diaries and are trying to smear the whole of the lefty blogosphere with a handful of kooks who've been banned from the site for being, well, kooks."
So DK diarist mcjoan has set a benchmark that they surely will not be able to live up to. With constant monitoring of their site (shutter) it will be easy to prove that many longtime posters have 9/11 Conspiracy leanings, have no problem with coalition troops (especially US ones) being attacked, yada yada. Our task would be so much easier if mcjoan and Daily Kos would actually enumerate what they classify as a "leftist kook." But the bottom line is Daily Kos now purports to having a "kook threshhold" that can not be crossed. Therefore from here on out any DK poster that types the outrageous claims/thoughts/beliefs of the far left and DK administrators fail to ban said poster gives creedence to their critics assertions that their website is well out of the mainstream of american political thought. And that they are liars and hypocrites
Soros and JetBlue
July 16, 2007 - 23:17 ET by BondPlainBondSoros at JetBlue's Control and Sorting Out Soros's JetBlue Stake
The New York Post has is right, I believe. Soros calls the shots at JetBlue, no matter his stake of shares.
Can someone please explain
July 16, 2007 - 23:56 ET by mikejCan someone please explain to me why the Democratic candidates aren't linked with the far left whenever they post on these websites or attend these tinfoil derbies?
But let a Republican speak at Bob Jones University, then that candidate is painted as agreeing with every single view of the administration of Bob Jones and as a racist for attending such a function.
I think it would be
July 17, 2007 - 03:44 ET by JerI think it would be instructive to read the comment posted by "A Right Leaning Lurker Speaks Regarding O'Reilly" posted on the Daily Kos web site for a different perspective on this issue
No one can beat the Leftoids for Paranoia.
July 17, 2007 - 07:51 ET by acaiguanaNo one can beat the Leftoids for Paranoia.
"Meaning they cherrypicked the worst of the comments on Daily Kos, many which were probably from GOP trolls anyway,"
So it goes...
I cannot imagine any GOP denizen caring about KOS enough to play at this game. I wish it were so. //sarc off
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Let me be the first to coin
July 16, 2007 - 16:40 ET by MightyMouthLet me be the first to coin the phrase "JetBlows". :-)
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
After all their problems with
July 16, 2007 - 16:42 ET by Chris NormanAfter all JB's problems with delayed flights, etc. this past year, it'll be a wonder if any of the kossacks will make it in time for their convention. That's why the airline has become known as JetBlues. Better that they fly Air America...
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
The Kommie Kozzies are a bunch of sell-outs.
July 16, 2007 - 16:44 ET by Dave RSo, let me get this straight. A bunch of enviro-nutcase, anti-corporate, anti-free-enterprise haters of all things capitalistic, including this country, are going to allow their spit-swapping fest to be sponsored by an American corporation that just happens to be a polluting airline, to boot.
Either these people are extremely desperate for any sort of sponsorship, or they are some of the biggest hypocrites on Planet Earth.
Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.
And wasn't it the Left that w
July 16, 2007 - 16:47 ET by Chris NormanAnd wasn't it the Left that was frothing at the mouth when it was found that JetBlue had turned over some of their passenger lists to the government a few years ago? I guess all is forgiven - once forgiveness was purchased...
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Chris,It was them, as I rem
July 16, 2007 - 17:09 ET by Dave RChris,
It was them, as I remember when that story hit the proverbial fan.
Why would anyone in their right mind want to fly on an aircraft that is maintained by people that are hired by a company that likes the Kozzies enough to want to sponsor their little get-together?
Not me.
BTW-I bet JetBlue backs out once this story gets aired-out on BOR tonight.
Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.
Yep. That's it. I wonder if t
July 16, 2007 - 17:16 ET by Chris NormanYep. That's it. I wonder if this sponsorship was arranged pre - or post - David Needleman?
The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.
- Arabian Proverb
Look who's talking cherry picking.
July 16, 2007 - 17:33 ET by NforceThese are the same liberal ass clowns who tell us corporations are evil and profiteering is evil as if making a profit hurts the poor and working class. These are the same idiots who lecture us about supporting corporations who contribute to the cultist lie of man-made global warming. Well, coming from Mike Stark, I should say nothing surprises me. Those people are freaks and will do everything necessary to shut the conservative voice down. Don't think for one minute they wouldn't love to control blogs by some legal ramification like the "Fairness Doctrine." This is Mike Stark being "fair" during a George Allen event:
http://fredericksburg.com/News/Web/2006/102006/1031allen/index2_html?qstart=1
Liberal freaks.
Noel,I just caught the segm
July 16, 2007 - 19:06 ET by Dave RNoel,
I just caught the segment on BOR. If you ask me, Bill was far to timid, but that's okay.
My guess is JetBlue runs for the tall grass on this one and withdraws its sponsorship.
Help Fred defeat the RINOs, along with the Hitllary-Obama Axis, & win the White House in '08.
Noel, thanks for having thi
July 16, 2007 - 19:14 ET by terrigNoel, thanks for having this up right away. The fact that that Barger clown hesitated even for a second much less the amount of time he did when Jesse asked what he thought about "troop attacks are justified" from our friends at Kos, leads me to state right now that the our family will NEVER, EVER FLY JET BLUE, regardless if they would pull their sponsorship of this "event". We have some pretty hateful characters on this site who I truly believe are people from Kos, DU, etc. and they get their panties in a wad and call us "hateful", etc. 99% of these people are allowed to continue to post, a courtesy that is not given to people like me on their site. Being a liberal means never having to say you're sorry.
I like to know why he didn'
July 16, 2007 - 19:43 ET by mlongI like to know why he didn't bring up the worst comment of all from Daily Kos..that being the infamous "Screw them" from their founder Markos Moulitsos Zuniga about the murder of cilvilian contractors in Iraq...I would love for someone in the MSM to ask the Dems about that when they show up at the convention..but we know that'll never happen.
mlong,Do you really think t
July 16, 2007 - 20:18 ET by Dave Rmlong,
Do you really think there will be very many even semi-prominent dims show up at their little "party" plenum- oops, I meant conference?
My guess is, given the lower than whale-dung ratings of the current congressional leadership, which was supported mightily by the nutroots at Kos and elsewhere, most reasonably intelligent (did I type that?) dims will stay as far away as they can possibly get.
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