Bill O’Reilly Takes on JetBlue’s Sponsorship of Daily Kos Convention

http://newsbusters.org/ ^ | July 16, 2007 | Noel Sheppard

[lowbridge]

Bill O’Reilly Takes on JetBlue’s Sponsorship of Daily Kos Convention

Posted by Noel Sheppard on July 16, 2007 - 17:35.

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:

Talking Points Memo & Top Story

JetBlue and the radical left

Why would JetBlue sponsor a hateful far-left website? We'll discuss it.

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!”  

[saganite]

So let me get this straight. Jet Blue, an airline operating out of NYC, sponsors an organization which maintains the war on terror is a fraud and supports surrender in the face of terrorism? OK. Got it.

[dragonblustar]

I bet Kos is crapping in his diapers cause when Bill gets on a subject, he doesn’t like to let go.

[trumandogz]

But come on dude, Jet Blue has Direct TV on all flights and leather seats.

[dynachrome]

I’ve never flown Jet Blue (not in my area). I certainly won’t use them now.

[trumandogz]

BoR’s work will only serve to generate hits on Daily Kos.

[BatGuano]

George Soros is a major stockholder in JetBlue...why does this item not surprise me?

[BatGuano]

George Soros is a major stockholder in JetBlue...why does this item not surprise me?

[Fred Hayek]

I thought Jet Blue was owned mostly by George Soros

[I see my hands]

Contact JB

[JRochelle]

The CEO of JetBlue goes to the same church as Glenn Beck. I’ve heard him on Glenn’s show.

[I still care]

LOL. I always thought that might be the reason it was named JetBLUE.

I always used it, it has direct TV and a good price, and I fly between two main hubs. I think I’ll look around next time.

[stockstrader]

Any company, like JetBlue, which has George Soros as a major stockholder will NEVER get a penny of mine!!!

[I still care]

PS, I belong to their frequent flyer club, and if they are sponsering Kos, I’ll definitely write and let them know.

Frankly, it’s stupid for any major corporation to sponsor political stuff. It’s like going to half your patrons and saying, “Hey! I hate you!”

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

But come on dude, Jet Blue has Direct TV on all flights and leather seats.

That's the least they could do for eight hour waits at the tarmac.

[dynachrome]

I emailed Mr. Beck with the info.

[PeterFinn]

The email just went to my employees: Jet Blue flights will no longer be reimbursible.

[tcrlaf]

REALLY?

Then you won’t be doing much spending, will you?

This is just the FIRST of 23 pages of Soros holdings:
IBN ICICI Bank... 1 None Banks 750,000 27,563 1.11% +10769.6%
SPY SPY 5 None others 290,500 41,251 1.66% New
ADM Archer-Daniels 3 None Food & Beverage 858,500 31,507 1.27% New
LVLT Level 3 Co... 3 1 Fixed Line Telecom 4,745,793 28,949 1.17% New
WY Weyerhaeuser 2 None Basic Resources 328,900 24,582 0.99% New
CX Cemex SA d... 4 None Construction & Materials 686,500 22,483 0.91% New
XLF XLF 2 None others 562,000 20,024 0.81% New
ESRX Express Sc... 2 None Health Care Equipment & Services 374,400 15,111 0.61% New
PSS Payless Shoes 2 None Retail 326,650 10,845 0.44% New
EQIX Equinix In... 2 None Industrial Goods & Services 119,546 10,237 0.41% New
KR Kroger Co. 3 None Retail 347,900 9,828 0.4% New
AMCC Applied Mi... 1 None Technology Hardware & Equipment 2,540,020 9,271 0.37% New
BIG BIG LOTS I... 1 1 Retail 281,500 8,805 0.35% New
PDLI Protein De... 2 None Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology 252,500 5,479 0.22% New
DK DELEK US H... 1 None others 285,657 5,465 0.22% New
BBY Best Buy C... 2 None Retail 110,878 5,402 0.22% New
PMCS PMC-Sierra... 1 None Technology Hardware & Equipment 627,044 4,396 0.18% New
MXIM Maxim Inte... 3 None Technology Hardware & Equipment 133,665 3,930 0.16% New
RTN/WS RAYTHEON C... 1 None others 222,428 3,859 0.16% New
SPF Standard P... 3 1 Personal & Household Goods 184,300 3,846 0.15%

[BallyBill]

I think they can sponsor whoever they please and anyone can boycott them.

[sono]

You left out HAL. Michael Moore also apparently has a position in HAL.