O'Reilly Again Smears YKos and gets it wrong about the JetBlue Sponsorship
By SilentPatriot Thursday Jul 19, 2007 2:37am
If you watch FOX News, you would think that Bill O'Reilly's despicable smear heroic efforts against JetBlue for sponsoring YearlyKos have succeeded. Well, you would be wrong. On tonight's "Factor," BillO claimed that JetBlue has decided to pull out of the event. The only problem? It's not true. BillO says there is no room in America for Kos and has compared it to the KKK and the Nazis, but he's not a hater....No, no, no...
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So, many of you may have seen the erroneous report that JetBlue has canceled the YearlyKos sponsorship. Well, like nearly everything you see on the Faux News channel, that report is out and out false.
Here are the facts:
- JetBlue confirmed that it will remain a sponsor of the YearlyKos Convention. As a sponsor, it donated 10 free roundtrip JetBlue tickets for speakers and staff to fly to and from the convention.
- JetBlue has confirmed that its logo will remain on the YearlyKos frontpage as an in-kind sponsor.
JetBlue has acted as real heroes here. They have put up with 1,000's of vicious, hateful emails as a result of Faux News's false reporting. And yet they are standing by us.
Please show JetBlue some love. The netroots needs corporate sponsors like them -- please show them that sponsoring the netroots is worth it.
Send your supporting email to corporatecommunications at jetblue dot com
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Haters? lol..
He's just blatantly lying now, comparing the dailykos to nazi's. Things are starting to get more out of hand than I imagined they would. Fox and O'Reilly don't even attempt to portray reality anymore.
I love Bill O'reilly he is the bestest most coolest TV guy ever. I just wish he'd stop all the peace love and understand crap. He's starting to make me sick with his fairness and his balancedness! It's just driving me mind fuckingly twisted insane! C'mon Bill where's the ususal screaming and YELLING GODDAMNIT?! START YELLING I TELL YA! YELL MOTHERFUCKER YELL! Now as I was saying, I love you Bill, goodnight sweet prince.
For Mr. O'Reilly, some 121 year old snark...
"We know him well
He cannot tell
Untrue or groundless tales,
He always tries
To utter lies
And everytime he fails"
But Really. When I stop vomiting, I ususally just laugh at him.
VeeKaChu @ 3:
That's pretty sweet. Who said it?
Prehaps he got his information from "The Paris Business Review"?
Surfed to Jetblue toleave kudos but company website does not let me leave comment without a flight number in a required field box. :(
[...] O’Reilly Again Smears YKos and gets it wrong about the JetBlue Sponsorship [...]
How can we contact Jet Blue?
This is the only page I could find and they require you enter flight info to send comment...
http://www.jetblue.com/help/contactus/
Could you clear something up for me... The e-mail he quotes MUST be real, isn't it? I mean, if it's not then he'd be massively liable, which I don't think he would allow. I mean it's the US, they'll sue his ass, right? Or, am I watching too many american movies!?
Anyhow, doesn't this mean he was mislead while on his path of misleading?
While O’Reilly's lies are appalling, the fact that he is even talking about YearlyKos shows just how much we have accomplished. And just how scared Billy is.
is jetblue a corporation?
with stockholders?
hmmmm.
beware ties to the darkside!
He keeps using that word, "smearing." I don't think that word means what he thinks it means.
I flipped him off when he said that Air America went bankrupt because it peddles so much hate.
The irony just overwhelms me. Even his target audience has to see how transparently dishonest this guy is.
emailed:
Airlines and other corporations should avoid taking political stances, but helping individuals to take an active part in the political process is appropriate and commendable. This is almost a corporate equivalent of volunteering at the polls. Thank you for sticking with your sponsorship of the YearlyKos, despite harassment by Fox News and Bill O'Reilly.
-Adam
Let me start off by saying what I always like to say: Bill is a douche.
And let me finish by saying Bill is an arrogant douche.
Poor Billo.
Guess he hasn't "scrutinized" this hate site yet... lol...
http://www.billolielly.com
I Am A Banana @ 15:
You're WRONG.
Bill is an arrogant douche BAG.
And a popmpous ass too lol.
His audience isn't necessarily stupid, just stupified. Unfortunately, if you remain stupified long enough, eventually it becomes permanent.
He makes me so sick to my stomach. :O~~
While Bill O'Reilly is inarguably a worthless pest, I don't think JetBlue is particularly heroic:
I think JetBlue may be entitled to some appreciation in a measure consistent with their limited contribution, but nothing more.
However, feel free to heap whatever copious amounts of scorn you may like onto Bill O'Reilly. And visit my take on the dust-up: Is Bill O’Reilly Lying About JetBlue? - complete with incriminating screen captures.
Just remember these two factoids:
1) Most of BO's consitutency is waiting to die, if not deceased already.
2) For that matter, TV as we know it is a dying medium.
3) We own the Internet, not Fox.
OK, so it was three...got on a roll there
Billo makes my soul wither and die, piece by piece.
"any corporation or politicitian who supports haters"..............so BILLO, where does the entire REPUG party stand with SLUTTO/Coulter & Pat Roberstson?
You Hypocritical fish bait!
Dictionary
primate 1 |ˈprīˌmāt; ˈprīmət| noun Christian Church the chief bishop or archbishop of a province : Cardinal Glemp, the primate of Poland. DERIVATIVES primatial |prīˈmā sh əl| adjective ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French primat, from Latin primas, primat- ‘of the first rank,’ from primus ‘first.’ primate 2 |ˈprīˌmāt| noun Zoology a mammal of an order that includes the lemurs, bush babies, tarsiers, marmosets, monkeys, apes, and humans. They are distinguished by having hands, handlike feet, and forward-facing eyes, and, with the exception of humans, are typically agile tree-dwellers. • Order Primates: several families.ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from Latin primas, primat- ‘of the first rank’ (see primate 1 ).
Thesaurus
primate noun See table. Primates
ape gorilla monkey
aye-aye guenon orangutan
baboon hamadryas proboscis monkey
Barbary ape hanuman rhesus monkey
bonobo howler silverback
bush baby indri spider monkey
capuchin langur squirrel monkey
chimpanzee lemur tamarin
colobus loris tarsier
douroucouli macaque titi
drill mandrill vervet
gelada mangabey wanderoo
gibbon marmoset
ASSHOLE n. loudmouth venom spewing right wing hate monger.
See O'reilly, Bilious.
Maybe it's because I'm way over here in Japan, but I'm really suprsied by this. Neo-cons really flooded jet blue with emails?
That would require them standing up for their own convictions. Can someone verify for me if the neo-cons themselves sent the emails or did they just have the six hundred military people not in Iraq send them on their behalf? Neo-cons are so fond of having the military stand up for their (the neo-cons) convictions that I'm more than a little surprised.
Whenever I fly, I'm going to go Jet Blue, if I can.
I think O'Reilly reserves this kind of vitriol only for people who bring up O'Reilly's sexual harassment, and for George Soros. Kos ought to get a falafel maker to sponsor his event. Watch Bill's head blow up real good.
"The netroots needs sponsors like them..."
Me thinks the corporations are the problem (as currently empowered).
Yes, Billo is nuts (and a shameless liar). Yes, it's great JetBlue hung in. But, you take their money and they "own" you.
...
Paul @ 26:
The CEO contributed to Mitt "Double Gitmo" Romney. Eeek.
...
I know it's pointless to point this out, but it's killing me: the pope is, in fact, a primate.
I sent JetBlue my thanks this morning. O'Reilly needs someone to pry the month old Depends off his butt. It's gotta be an irritating factor for the O'Reilly Factless.
Looks like YearlyKos is shaping up to be a major political event. All the publicity can't hurt. Another indication of the growing influence of the Netroots.
Towards the end there BillO sounded like he was describing himself and his show. "There are TV performers who make a living smearing people." lol
I also tried to email Jet Blue with support a few days ago but could not find a way to contact w/o a flight number. Oh well, maybe they'll read these comment. ;) Rest assured I WILL fly Jet Blue whenever possible.
yobananaboy @ 34:
Dude, they contributed to Mitt Romney. MITT ROMNEY! "We ought to double Guantanamo".
Yeah, THAT Mitt Romney.
Bill, bill, bill. So ugly, inside and out.
I didn't watch this video knowing full well it's full of hatred and sheer stupidity. Who needs a dose of that? We need to keep body and soul together for what's here and what's ahead, and Kos's forum gives us something for our minds to stand on.
Ludicrous creatures of his ilk find discourse with our own elected officials past and present a threat. Just crazy. Just see him as the loud insane empty fop that he is.
Whether he knows it or not, he attracts thrashing discontents like himself to no real end or result. They're always been there. Loud and ineffectual.
It does concern me there is an effort by Mr. Creepshow and his "type" to push msnbc (specifically Keith Olbermann's voice) to sell at public auction in favor of 24/hr news blah.
Kudos to Jet Blue for standing up for the principles it values.
Given the hostile propaganda campaign that FOX is waging against Jet Blue, JB ought to dump FOX as it's inflight "news" service. If this is the treatment Jet Blue gets for not going with the program to support a universal, corporately directed propaganda messageIf, JB ought to sever all business relations with FOX. If you go onto JB's website, you will see prominant advertisements for "FOXinFLight". the prospect of having my travel experience contaminated by the lies and propagnda of FOX Noise i would seem a great reason not to choose Jet Blue.
So Billo says there is no room in this country for haters. So why is he still on the air?
He never seems to have "Truth", just "Truthiness"(Copyright Colbert Show)
Billo is the darkness, not the light. People of his ilk should be ignored. Yet this blog seems to publicize him for free. Oh well...
3) We own the Internet, not Fox.
Not any more. They will be taking that away in the next year and a half. The internet will belong to the mega corporate masters soon, and they will begin to control the content.
To the good people at JetBlue,
I am glad to hear you have not pulled out of sponsoring YearlyKos through hate and pressure tactics from the miscreants at Fox News. I sincerely hope that you will consider suing Fox News for slandering your company by comparing it with National Socialism.
Despite what that loudmouth Bill O'Reilly says, hate is not hate. There is a significant difference between the irrational hatred of Jews and gypsies at the hands of the National Socialist party of the 1940's and the hate involved in wanting to change the political flow of the country and reminding Neo-cons that their philosophies are not only not the default, but that they are obsolete as well.
In order for anything to change, one must hate the current status quo of that thing in some small amount to justify changing it. If they love it the way it is, then there is no reason to change it. The difference between the two types of hate is whether or not the object in question can be rationally changed or not. For example, a person's personal philosophies are subject to change at a moment's notice and thus promoting the desire to change them is not at all like hating a person for that which can not be changed, like their skin color, gender, or sexuality.
Bringing change is the true nature of rational hate. It is not the same as the irrational hate that the KKK, the Neo-Nazis, Ann Coulter and Fox News spews.
Kudos to you for not swallowing the hate bait dangled in front of you by Fox News.
Your friend in business,
G
It does bother me a great deal that DailyKos said to attack Israel, according to Bill O'Reilly; and I do recall reading that on Daily Kos. But if I'm mistaken, somebody please correct me.
Old Billy @ 13:
The problem is, his "target audience" is the same dwindling bunch of mouth-breathers that listen to Rush Limpdick, Sean Handjob, Shit Hume, and all the rest of the Neocon water-carriers at FAUX. This "target audience" are all good little Nazi's and will believe in the Fuhrer Bush and Reichsmarhall Cheney forever.
For anyone that disbelieves that good German people could embrace a man like Hitler and the Nazi Party, I give you George Bush, his cronies and the Republican Party in the House and Senate that enable Bush by following the party line instead of doing the right thing by the nation. Their blind loyalty has so seduced and corrupted the Republican base that Republicans are like robots.
And it’s not just limited to Fox’s main target group of idiots and other closed minds. Even college-age people are listing and believing this SHIT. View your next crop of loyal “Bund” creeps, SO dedicated, SO committed, SO afraid to join the military and fight for their beliefs:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/19/generation-chickenhawk-max-blum...
Mike, everything you say may be true, except, unfortunately, their target audience is most definitely NOT dwindeling. It appears to be increasing -- by leaps and bounds over MSNBC and CNN.
Bliss @ 41:
It was most likely taken from one of the posts on any of a hundred comment boards online posted from anyone with a free account. It is unlikely that the DailyKos promotes the idea war on Israel, or by association, the Jews.
It is also worth mentioning that, by the same logic that Faux Noise employs, the quotes "The Pope is a Primate" and "Israel should be attacked" can now be attributed to Bill O'Reilly since he said them on his show.
when did orly let something small like facts get in his way?
Zenrage, I wish what you're saying was true, however, Daily Kos ran and titled a thread, "Imagine a World without Israel" implicitly, at least, inviting anti-Israel and/or anti-Jewish comments. I just re-read to comments. Perhaps C & L can urge Daily Kos to retract that.
Good business decision too.
Everybody knows Fox News viewers who rarely travel, except to the next county for gun shows and monster truck rallies.
By the way:
Why aren't we calling Fox News a Hate Group or Terrorist Organization?
That should be the way we refer to them from now on.
This is such a joke. So I go to the JetBlue website and right on the homepage it says that they show "FOX InFlight" (and other media) on most flights. FOX InFlight is produced by 20th Cent Fox, which is owned by News Corp. Somebody should tell O'Reilly that his own company is doing business with JetBlue. Maybe he'll be so outraged he'll quit.
Someone wake me....when Bill O'Lielly gets something right...
As for the references to the Nazis & KKK.....
Google Nazis or Neo-Nazis and GOP or Republicans....you'll find some interesting stuff there
Also...its a well known fact that the KKK is not only pro-GOP, big time ultra-conservative bigoted christian righties...they've actually run candidates for the Republicans...David Duke anyone?
Anyone who listens to and/or watches this blowhard is a fool. Seriously, how far out does this vile, moronic, bullying liar of a cretinous creep have to go before everyone with at least 2 brain cells speaking to each other simply turns away? Thank goodness JetBlue, at least, understands that this oozing pile of swamp mud really has no serious following or influence. I don't know who his "fans" are -- but I shudder to think, and seriously hope that modern medical science can find way to help them back to normality or, at the very least, prevent them from drowning in their own drool.
I have an idea! Just stop reporting anything about BillO. Completely disappear him from this and all liberal web discussions. He is an insecure bully weakling and being ignored as irrelevant would unravel him.
Uh Bill, I don't want to seem like a hater but the Pope is a primate.
We all are.
The FOX, TERRORIST HATE RADIO GROUP, just gave JET BLUE a big boost. Lots of us who don't even think when we buy our tickets to wherever, will now have JET BLUE at the Top of the list. I for one have to travel to California from the East coast in a couple of weeks, and now, instead of Delta or United, I WILL Fly JET BLUE.
And yes #47 (Bush Bites) we most surely should be calling them HATE GROUPS and Terrorist.
JetBlue just earned my business.
Anything that isn't connected to or comes from the "white repug xtian viagra-using pedo/pervs" is a threat to the big giant head. It must be terrible for him to live in a time when people are allowed to have opinions other than his AND they even have the gall to speak them aloud! Poor poor b.o.
I can see him trying to take a walk. "Eek the sun! My skin is melting! OMG a WOOMAN! And she's not wearing a burka or walking six feet behind her owner! OMG! The horror! A person of color! Since when are THEY allowed to roam around free?!?! What is this disgusting world coming to! Hey you there! Put your shirt on and cut your hair you look like a... OMG A HIPPIE!! WHY oh WHY didn't I bring my automatic hand gun with me???" He finally curls into a fetal position by a mailbox when a kindly passer by asks him if he's ok IN SPANISH! the horror.
The bestest thing about the big giant head is he's an OLD ugly white guy. Let's hear it for mortality. I wonder if there's a product that will remove urine from a headstone? He should probably look into that now because I guarantee he'll need it later.
Bill is either suffering from the same mental disorder as GWB, or he's drinking the same moonshine.
right wing hater @ 50:
I guess we should just call you "Rip". ;)
actually, the pope IS a primate. we all are. in classfication, "primates" is an "order." humans are also hominids (which in classification terms is a "family"). you'd think those hateful dailykos bloggers were calling the pope a piece of shit or something (personally, i think the pope is irrelevant, and prefer that people learn to reason but....)
here is an excerpt from wikipedia with a physical description:
“The rise of the internet has lead to a rise in hate…”
So that’s why I’m so out of sorts. Here I thought it was the Chimp and his followers.
votingvet @ 52:
I never watch him. Never have. I won't even look at the clips. I recall having seen him on one or two short occasions in the distant past and I wondered at the time why anyone would want to watch a rude screeching idiot. I thought it was intended as comedy at first. Then realized it wasn't and boggled that an obnoxious moron like that would have it's own show. Then I realized it was fox. Home of Morton downy and jerry springer. The only difference being they made more sense. The people who take the brain damaged ameboid seriously are equally as mentally deficient and it's completely possible that enjoying the show could be considered the first sign of some kind of socio/psychopathic disorder.
I've flown JetBlue since their inception, and it is a really good airline. They actually treat you like a human being, and not herd you onto the plane like Southwest Airlines, for the same ticket prices.
I just don't tune into the Terrorist Network when I fly them, but they have good satellite TV for long distance travel and you have your own screen, plus the plane is roomy and comfortable.
I'm glad that I have given, and will continue to give them my business, just for standing up on principle and not caving in to the likes of the Terrorist Network.
Whomever coined the nickname "Shit" Hume, LMBO...:-)
Enough's enough. Get this bastrad Orally's sppnsors list and let's boycott them and force to back off his show. This guy is the real ' Enemy Within '. For once C&L do something worthwile instead of just preaching to the choir. Get this bastard NOW.
Bill Oreilly saying someone else HATES! Ha Ha Ha!
Also Bill for your further education, the Pope is a primate as are you. Go look it up for yourself (if you can read). That is fact not hate talk.
Not to worry...Billo is doing for YKos & Jet Blue what he did for Franken. Buy Jet Blue stock now!
Im sorry, but I cannot watch this FAT HEAD... not even for a few seconds. I have long since been convinced that he is nothing but a ZERO. To watch him is to patronize him, to give him an audience. I refuse. I can peruse your report and know that he is indeed STILL a FAT HEAD LOUD MOUTH BRAGGART for the right wing.
I wonder if JetBlue can sue Bill O'Reilly for slander/defemation. It's obvious that he's lying and if it hurts there business and leads to numerous threats from Billo's unhinged minions, isnt' there grounds for a lawsuit?
Just wondering.
I am shocked that the master of high standards has something on his show with less than the highest veracity ideals!
Shocked, I say!
He must be sitting on a falafal again.
"indepedent" Bill who only has righties Malkin and Kasich guest host won't say anything about free republic, little green footballs or lucianne goldberg's sites
Heres is the email to Jet Blue corporate that works to voice your opinion. Go to bottom of page and click the email address to coporate communications
http://www.jetblue.com/about/pressroom/pressreleases/pr.asp?year=1999&ne...
Old Billy @ 13:
I wish.
Mike @ 42:
Is Bill's target audience dwindling? What are his ratings like? His ratings are like threat assessments - the lower they are, the safer I feel.
I did have to make a comment on the last bit right after the fellow from Westboro Baptist was on there. When B.O. was asking "Me?", etc I noticed he almost (emphasis: Almost) took on the mannerisms of Keith Olbermann. Maybe he's getting desperate. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
Here's the email I sent them yesterday....
JetBlue --
Just to let you know that I totally support you and hope that you keep steadfast in your commitment to YearlyKos. Bill O’Reilly is a liar and dissembler in his attempts to cast Daily Kos as radical. He is rapidly becoming an anachronistic embarrassment. It would be a terrible thing if he were able to shut down healthy political debate by intimidating corporations such as yours. And corporations such as yours deserve my business.
Thanks for listening,
i tried to contact jet blue and thank them for supporting progressive causes (even though I know its all about money and publicity) but I couldn't find where non-customers can write to them.
Do we have an email so that we could express gratitude?
The email address is written out and bolded at the bottom of the post~sitemonitor
Bliss @ 46:
I've just done a search of DailyKos' stories and they don't have anything with the mentioned title. They have plenty about Israel in their diaries sections - which are written by individual users, not the organization itself. Perhaps if you had a link to support your claim.
Jane Hall was handicapped by Bill having Bernie Goldberg in the segment. It ended up being Bill and Bernie against her. If Bill wanted to be truly fair and balanced, it should have been just Jane and him.
MackJ @ 55:
Actually, MackJ, there is an ecclesiastical definition as well which makes Billo seems all that much more stupid--or at least a bad Catholic:
From Dictionary.com:
pri·mate /ˈpraɪmeɪt or, esp. for 1, ˈpraɪmɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[prahy-meyt or, esp. for 1, prahy-mit] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1. Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
2. any of various omnivorous mammals of the order Primates, comprising the three suborders Anthropoidea (humans, great apes, gibbons, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys), Prosimii (lemurs, loris, and their allies), and Tarsioidea (tarsiers), esp. distinguished by the use of hands, varied locomotion, and by complex flexible behavior involving a high level of social interaction and cultural adaptability.
3. Archaic. a chief or leader.
Jeez, you people are dense. The e-mail address for Jet Blue is at the bottom of the post:
"Send your supporting email to corporatecommunications at jetblue dot com"
And primate is also: "A bishop who has precedence in a province, group of provinces, or a nation." So the Pope, as the number one bishop (of Rome) is not just a primate, but the primate. As well as having five fingers, etc. Do you clowns like this site because it's easier for you to watch television clips than to read anything?
P. S.: Don't get me wrong, I'm as progressive as any of you, if not more so, just not very tolerant of ignorance.
Oops, looks as if someone else who can read beat me to the primate definition.
Jet Blue has indeed pulled out of YearlyKos (reported today at Dailykos) .....figures.....so stop sending them thankyou notes!
Well, now you can really make some use of their e-mail address.
UPDATE:
JetBlue caved in to O'Liely:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/20/125838/015
Guess I need to rescind my earlier comment about them, and beg Southwest's forgiveness. Rat Bastards.
Virgin America may well be worth a shot - I like Branson and what's he's done with Virgin Atlantic...
Here's the link:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/20/125838/015
THE EMAIL ADDRESS TO CONTACT JETBLUE IS CORPORATECOMMUNICATIONS@JETBLUE.COM WE HAVE TO STOP O'REILLY
O'Lielly lies on purpose and the hillbilly, uneducated, hate monguering, brainwashed, listeners lap it up.
How inane all the above comments are. JetBlue caved and O'Reilly gets the last laugh.
Bliss @ 47:
How is that any different than "Imagine a World Without Iran"
or "Bomb Iran".
It seems that the contest ended up as sort of a draw. Jet Blue withdrew its advertising on DK, but kept its free vouchers for the DK valid.
-tom
[...] Daily Kos and O’Reilly Filed under: politics, media — codesmithy @ 10:09 am In a talking points memo, Bill O’Reilly compared the Daily Kos to KKK and Neo-Nazi websites. The three examples he sited were: Tony Snow should die from cancer, the Pope is a primate, and [...]
It seems Bill O'Reilly told the truth: JetBlue did remove its logo on the YearlyKos website.
JetBlue caved to the moronic talking head. So sad.
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