"Hot Air" and Michelle Malkin get a taste of their own medicine: Bill O'Reilly smears them
By John Amato Thursday May 28, 2009 5:30pm
Bill O'Reilly had Amanda Carpenter on The O'Reilly Factor yesterday (she's now with the Washington Times) to do one his segments called "Policing the Net," which is supposed to highlight the wackiness on the left and right side of the blogosphere. It's an attempt to minimize us, as usual.
The segment dealt with blogger reactions over Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. O'Reilly singled out Michelle Malkin's Hot Air as a blog that had nutty posts on it regarding the Supreme Court nomination.
What O'Reilly did is typical of what some mainstream media types do to us -- and also is what Michelle Malkin, this proprietor of Hot Air, has a history of doing: He cherry-picked some crazy comments and assigned them to the bloggers as if they wrote it as one of their pieces.
Hot Air rightly has a legitimate gripe, because they didn't write the crazy comments that O'Reilly uses to attack them with, but it was from one of their pre-screened commenters instead:
O'Reilly: Alright, I'm going to read a couple of comments, these are from bloggers. Free Republic is probably the roughest right wing website....
This comes from Hot Air.com, "Unqualified, militant and socialist. NEXT please. The GOP has to block any of Hussein's (That's the president) extremist picks".
You know when you read something like that nobody's going to block the pick. Do you ever think who's writing this? Does that person live in the US, it's just not going to happen. The numbers are overwhelmingly democratic and they're going to vote for her.
And the guy who writes this, I guess isn't living here. Let's got to the liberal side.
Amanda Carpenter, once a loyal rightie, didn't even bother to offer up a defense for them (or for Kos). I guess getting a gig with the Moonies has affected her judgment.
I want to ask Allahpundit a question: How does it feel? Your boss has set this very standard up on her own blog by going into liberal blogger comment sections (she does that to C&L quite often) and then cherry-picking our comments to prove her own silly talking points of the moment. It doesn't feel good, does it?
Yeah, you defended Kos one time, but since Malkin set the standard a long time ago, your defense is hollow. Go read her book "Unhinged," and see where it goes.
In response, I know I've highlighted their commenters repeatedly to try and show the MSM what goes on there too. Of course, it's very difficult to post on most right-wing blogs. On the left, we've always kept it pretty open, but once wingers came here and left lynching pictures on my site back in 2005, so I had to change my policies.
The MSM, which was afraid of the right-wingers, used our comments sections to try and paint liberal bloggers as crazy, anti-American traitors who are mean-spirited and vile people. The media always wanted to never give a face to the liberal blogs, but depicted us as this formless, nasty comment entity blob that oozes around the Internet so that it would scare away readers from our work. That didn't work out very well, because readers understood it was a bogus claim. You see, they read what we write and how we present it to our readers. And now the liberal blogosphere is an industry standard that the traditional media are imitating in their quest to catch up with us.
I do agree with Hot Air that O'Reilly smeared them, but I have no sympathy for them, because Michelle Malkin is the queen of using this tactic. Malkin then went on Fox and complained, and righties are asking for a retraction from BillO. Good luck with that, and too bad. You set this up, and now you get to taste what you cooked.
Everyone knows that comments on blogs do not equal what I or any other blogger means when they post. I never even curse in my posts (who would have guessed, since I'm a dirty f*&king hippie). And if Malkin wants an apology she should start by apologizing to all of us first.
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6 frists in a row!!! All bow down before me!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6hDnc0h9AI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LSfrwsoH8CY
I'm up and bowing already. Are you satisfied???
Malkin and O'Reilly tearing into each other!!!
ROFLMAO :)
billo is the little man behind the
drapes. he would come out if malkin
would part her legs.
hope that is not too gross, sorry.
This could be the start of a divide and conquer move within the conservative media. They must know they were one of the major reasons that Gore didn't win the presidency back in 2000. It wouldn't make sense for them to tear into each other now when they are in such disarray - especially when internet feuds (even faux ones) draw so much attention.
If it is a D&C, watch for these two to continue to tear into each other with one taking a more moderate stance while the other take a more extreme stance. Then when it comes time for the 2012 election, they'll magically put their differences aside and "grudgingly" both support the exact same candidate - probably a Romney/Palin ticket
However, were this to be a serious attack, I would think it a complete joke for Malkin to expect an apology from Faux Noise. She tried to pull her weight around that place in an argument with Geraldo Rivera and she got her ass booted then.
It gets better.
Check out First Draft on Monday for the ultimate throwdown - Jim Robinson vs. Bill-o.
Watch! Freepers condemn Bill-o
See! Freepers suck up to Robinson
Plotz! as Freepers perform the mental gymnastics needed to distance themselves from someone they agree with on almost every issue
And the "Obsession" feature at First-Draft isn't much about cherry picking - I feature large chunks of Free Republic threads for continuity's sake. Also, the site is heavily moderated, so we're not talking about a few bad apples, but a carload of rotten fruit. If it's low-hanging fruit, that's not my fault. I'm going to keep kicking their rock over, and enjoying it.
wow
there are many pics of her sans makeup
she was never very attractive
oh, and i think the judge is hot
i love plump, brilliant women.....just like my mom
he still doesnt get blogs...does he
however, hot air has no beef
they, like this site currently, can edit their comments
funny how loofa boy made sure not to post the more racist comments that can be found on right wing blogs
and nice of amanda to say that there is no defense for the justice's comments....if taken in context with the entire speech, they are very easy to defend
and obama's nominating her was brilliant, because the supreme court should reflect the american population...
i hope his next nom is gay and an athiest
amen
Gotta criticize the comment of a comment of a comment.
I'm part of the MSM. I'm a reporter for a wire service here in D.C. (Need to keep anonymous). While Fox and Washington Times has some good journalists there, they are far and few inbetween. Nobody really considers Fox and Wash Times real news outlets just big players that spend alot of money.
To paint them as representative of the MSM afraid and attacking the blogosphere is quite silly. And I don't know anyone who considers O'Reilly a journalist, or even human for that matter.
this site likes to goof on them
and fox has good reporters? name one
and shhhhh about working for a wire service....
one of the wingnuts who monitors this site will grab that post as proof that the msm is part of a liberal cabal
If I was a reporter who used "alot" I'd want to be anonymous, too.
waiting patently for my 7th frist in a row........tick, tick, tick.....
How bad do I feel? Well, Mush Mouth Malkin can cry me a river and drown in it.
How's that?
How about policing the orally, a man who sexually harassed someone working for him leaving dirty messages for her and then paying her 10 million big ones to make her not tell the story.
is like nails on a chalkboard.
malkin will never apologize, because she
would have to move her lips and we know
when that happens the drapes sway and she
trips on them.
Fun to watch them eating their own. Kinda like whoever it was on Fox News complaining about "ambush journalism"....
'And if Malkin wants an apology she should start by apologizing to all of us first."
RIGHT ON AMATO!!
The truth
They'll adjust their corporate profit scheme to the left, because that's where the country is going.
Dear douches on the right, I don't care for the fact that Ms. Sotomayor is hispanic, she is qualified to be a Supreme Justice based on her records and moral values. The entire Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were written based on the fact that the rights of the people were being infringed upon so it rested upon these man to write rules to make things right and fair. If it were not to the empathy of these man, there would be no rights for free speech, protections against unwarranted seisures, due process, and so on. And if there were not for the empathy of men following events in history, there would not be the end of slavery, the civil rights movement either. So spare me from the attacks against Sotomayor. I'm not defending her because she is hispanic, I'm defending her because she is qualified.
Had Alberto Gonzalez possessed the moral values and qualities this nation was founded upon, we would have supported him. Instead, he is a disgraceful, immoral, intellectually bankrupt, lying evil piece of garbage. Do you understand the difference? Perharps if the writers of our constitution were men who did not live under the pressure and immoral conditions imposed by the British crown at the time, we would not have such constitution. Do you honestly believe that we would have supported Justice Antonin Scalia if he was hispanic? He is the very antithesis of everything decent and right.
Also, please avoid the theater, no crying spouses or family members in the background during confirmation hearings. What a disgrace that was.
How do you like them apples?
Sharks have feeding frenzies, right? Little blood in the water, they go apesh*t and start ripping each other to pieces. AFAIAC, the Right Wing Authoritarians have always had that tendency within them. This is just proof.
..they shoot horses don't they?
Conservative not understanding anything until it happens to them personally.
http://crooksandliars.com/node/28168
should look at some of the knuckle-draggers posting on Pajamasmedia.
Malkin and Oreily are jokes to began with
O'Lielly is absolutely right that the Reslugs are nasty on their hateful blogs and also that they are the worst bigots on earth.
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