O’Reilly Sponsor Watch: UPS Draws the Line at Stalking
Some good news. In the aftermath of Bill O’Reilly sending his goons out to stalk and confront Think Progress blogger Amanda Turkel, UPS has officially withdrawn as a sponsor of his show.
Here’s the official UPS release:
Thank you for sending an e-mail expressing concern about UPS advertising during the Bill O’Reilly show on FOX News. We do consider such comments as we review ad placement decisions which involve a variety of news, entertainment and sports programming. At this time, we have no plans to continue advertising during this show.
There are plenty more advertisers to convince. A Ford spokesman released a strong statement blasting O’Reilly, but so far, they remain as a sponsor. In case you’re wondering what all of the fuss is about, Bill O’Reilly has hired a bunch of roving producers to go out and harass anyone who dares to challenge Loofa Boy’s preeminence. It’s really sick. Here is a list of O’Reilly’s targets. The Beast Who Slumbers would love hear David Anderson and the other inhabitants of Wingnuttia try to justify what he’s done.
Check the Think Progress link above and find out to whom you can write and how to do it. The ground really is shifting, time to keep up the momentum. Someone has finally kicked sand back in the bully’s face. Time to put him down for the count.
UPDATE: Chrysler has stated that it has no further plans to advertise on Billo’s show. Of course, it’s possible that this decision is b/c Chrysler has no plans to advertise anywhere, but still…
O’Reilly…ugh…what can I say about him? He’s a disgusting pig that wouldn’t know an intellectually consist position if it hit him in the head. I never thought I’d say this, but he seems almost sane compared to Beck or Hannity.
It’s FoxNoise, what else can you expect? Certainly not any of the decorum or civility that they keep accusing us of not having.
But then, this is an entire network that is wrapped around the idea that their viewers are victimized or scared to death about multiple things and preferably both at once.
The Loofah deliveries will be picked up by Fed Ex.
There goes Bulo using my name in vain. I am disappointed that I didn’t make the evil board. I’ll have to try harder next year. 🙂
Bill can speak for himself. Go to his web site. The last time I checked I wasn’t getting a check from him.
Be rather careful about this. I don’t know ThinkProgress from an iPod, but some of the “harassment campaign” incidents mentioned sound like they could be legitimate attempts to have questions answered. Granted, given O’Reilly’s schtick, he’s not really into asking questions in the first place. But something tells me that DL would be the first to urge an aggressive reporter to “confront” Thurman Adams in Leg Hall about some outrage or another if that was the only way to get an answer.
Is it ‘stalking’ when some nutty thug-hugging judge is tracked down and asked a question?
Just who was behind the ‘bully boy’ tactics against the family of some AIG executives?
Imagine if there was a demonstration in front of the home of Franklin D. Raines. How much leftist indignation would there be?
I have often thought Rush could get a thump on the head if his sponsors were told people would not buy products from companies supporting Rush and the other rabble rousers.
Don’t mind me: My kids didn’t eat green grapes for years due to Ceasar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.
I believe boycotting works. And it’s so non-violent.
Anon, you make a good point, but there’s a difference between confronting Thurman Adams in the place where his brand of governance goes on and finding out where a person lives, following her on vacation and jumping out of a car when she’s trying to live the private part of her life.
As Amanda Terkel, the latest to be ambushed by O’Reilly’s henchmen, pointed out, O’Reilly never called her and never invited her on to his show to talk about whatever it was that got him all worked up. Before resorting to an ambush, every legitimate avenue should be pursued.
It’s frustrating as hell for me to call Harris McDowell’s office 5 times a week trying to find out where he stands on an issue, but I hesitate to call him at home even though he publishes his home number for that very reason. I think some things should remain off limits. (Although the one time I did call his house, I left a message that has yet to be returned. I made that call on July 3 of last year.) O’Reilly’s an ass and there’s really no other way to put it.
Thank you, Another Mike, for explaining to the purposefully dense the difference between asking a question and stalking someone. I didn’t realize that this had to be explained.
And to respond to the equally-dense, aka Art Downs, if the people picketing the houses of AIG had TV shows and sponsors, it would certainly be within bounds to try to get their advertisers to drop the show.
Even if O’Reilly’s brand of stalking is still defined as ‘free speech’, TV ain’t free. He needs advertisers to enable him. ‘Bulo believes that advertisers who continue to enable him in his Adventures in Stalking should be called out and, if they persist in enabling him, boycotted.
“… and finding out where a person lives, following her on vacation and jumping out of a car when she’s trying to live the private part of her life.”
Has no one here ever read “All The President’s Men”? Or watched the Redford-Hoffman movie? The parts where they visit people at their homes, repeatedly calling them or visiting them in the evenings, trying to get small bits of information out of them? THAT was how they got crucial pieces of information to expose Watergate.
Sometimes reporting means you have to be extremely persistent. I don’t see asking Senator Schumer a question while he’s at the Capitol as stalking, but the ThinkProgress people have lumped it all in together.
NOT that I am comparing O’Reilly to Woodward and Bernstein, because I know some of you idiots out there will read this as such. I’m simply saying one person’s stalking is another person’s investigative reporting.
Right. Because ambushing and stalking a blogger with a camera, someone whose only alleged offense was to offend O’Reilly, is akin to investigative journalism of high crimes and misdemeanors.
There are so many from which to choose, but The Beast Who Slumbers nominates this for “Dumbest Post of the Week”. And, there are so many from which to choose, but El Somnambulo nominates ‘crap’ as the lamest, if most accurate, ‘handle’ of the week.
What Art Downs doesn’t understand is that Franklin Raines is a liberal hero only in the land of Wingnuttia. Liberals don’t love Fanny and Freddie — we just know bullshit when we see and smell it (in my case, it was years of watching the Wing T offense, which was predicated on misdirection).
On the other hand, this is why my liberal self is pro-2nd amendment. Jesse Watters comes down my block, he’s going to be leaving with a couple of perforations to spare. Muggers can have my money; I save the ammo for right-wing assholes.
To repeat, because La Wrestler apparently couldn’t read to the end of the post: “NOT that I am comparing O’Reilly to Woodward and Bernstein, because I know some of you idiots out there will read this as such.”
‘Bulo read your ‘post’ in its entirety. Your disclaimer notwithstanding, that is exactly what you did, and that’s one of many logical fallacies in your argument, if you could call it an ‘argument’.
‘Bulo can’t figure out whether it’s Protack or Burris wallowing in their own filth. His guess is Protack b/c his handle lacks any creativity whatsoever.
‘Bulo maligns crap unfairly. Just think of all you can do with it! Cowpie bingo games … fertilizer … inmates can use it as a tool of protest … It’s really a very creative medium.
And monkeys can throw it. Now THAT’s creativity!
There is no journalism, investigative or otherwise, on Loofah Boy’s show.