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Jet Blue Airlines is sponsoring a Daily Kos convention

Posted on 07/16/2007 5:06:40 PM PDT by kcvl

Per Fox News O'Reilly Factor


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: boycott; hatespeech; liberal; sorosowned
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1 posted on 07/16/2007 5:06:42 PM PDT by kcvl
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Here’s what Daily Kos writer mcjoan has to say about it: Daily Kos: O’Reilly’s Big Scoop.

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. Speaking of which, I wonder how many more leads O’Reilly’s gotten on his big story of last week, the national threat of lesbian gangs?

This is a curious gambit by Fox. Do they really want to get into a corporate sponsor fight? Seems dangerous territory to tread for them. Because if they want to have that fight, we can have that fight.

Per: Little Green Footballs

http://tinyurl.com/yrdg4t


2 posted on 07/16/2007 5:14:15 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl

I’ve never been to KOS. Is it as bad as O’Rielly says? I mean, you could come to FR and cherry pick a few items and claim we are monsters...heck, it’s already been done.


3 posted on 07/16/2007 5:14:43 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy (Can I cast the second stone?)
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Its not as bad as DU or Huffington,
but its whacked out lefties for sure...


4 posted on 07/16/2007 5:16:48 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()...temporarily out of service ....()
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Yes, it is dreadful. Fabrications, lies and slander.

Check out the ad where they put the pitcture of the little girl and say that if we get out of Iraq, we could pay for her insurance and all the rest. Pure emotions and no reason - economic or otherwise.


5 posted on 07/16/2007 5:19:12 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

You decide:

http://www.dailykos.com/section/Diary


6 posted on 07/16/2007 5:22:11 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

KOS is the most dispicable place I have seen in Internet politics. They showed pictures of burned Anerican bodies hanging from the bridges in Falujah and celebrated their deaths. It is the single most revolting thing I have ever seen in my life, and frankly anyone that sponsors their event will never get my business - ever.


7 posted on 07/16/2007 5:26:11 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

It is horrid. These are the worst of the worst, and it would be hard to cherry pick since the hatred is so thick. Freepers aren’t anywhere near to what Kos or Huffington is, because of the place they come from. Those that are vile are not really Freepers, I suspect. They are masquerading as right wingers. The worst I’ve experienced is mean spirited sarcasm.


8 posted on 07/16/2007 5:31:24 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: kcvl
Good!

Another reason to boycot Jet Blue.

9 posted on 07/16/2007 5:32:15 PM PDT by norton
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To: kcvl

I’ll never use Jet Blue!


10 posted on 07/16/2007 5:32:32 PM PDT by oneamericanvoice (Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
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To: norton

JetBlue’s response (via e-mail):

JetBlue is pleased to sponsor the YearlyKos Convention. This is the largest gathering of bloggers and online communicators, a community of growing importance to any company. By sponsoring the convention, JetBlue does not endorse the diversity of personal views represented at the gathering. Our sponsorship simply makes it easier to get people to Chicago for the event.... Simply put, it’s none of our business why you travel - we just want you to choose JetBlue for our friendly service and comfy seats, and we want you to talk about your experience.

******

Would Jet Blue sponsor a convention for David Duke or the KKK and claim the same thing?


11 posted on 07/16/2007 5:41:45 PM PDT by kcvl
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From the Dailykos site

“Bill O’Reilly has issued a Fatwa...”

That say’s it all.

12 posted on 07/16/2007 5:44:34 PM PDT by angelsonmyside
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To: ilgipper

You got it.


13 posted on 07/16/2007 5:46:00 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: kcvl

Why don’t we get Jet Blue to sponsor a Free Republic Convention? That would be “Fair and Balanced”! ;^)


14 posted on 07/16/2007 5:47:33 PM PDT by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense? Don't you wish everybody did?)
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To: oneamericanvoice

Another ‘sponsor’ of the loony left’s ‘convention’ of moonbats aka Daily Kos.

‘Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films is a co-sponsor. Greenwald directed the documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism.’

Which turned out the be a complete lie done ala the Michael Moore film model.


15 posted on 07/16/2007 5:47:39 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

It is as bad. I don’t go there often and they have cleaned up their act some. (As much as a liberal can) I don’t fly Jetblue because of its very public problems in the past. I fly too much to deal with the drama they have been experiencing no matter how low their rates are. My opinion has been for some time that companies do themselves a disservice by funding events and questionable groups. There is no reason for companies like Kraft to fund the Gay Games for example. It is stupid.

The same goes for Ford and others that seem not to understand who the majority of their customers are and it isn’t even about that. The real issue is that it is a bad marketing decision to do anything that will drive away existing loyal customers and lock out potential customers. Any publicity is not good publicity. A smart company wants to appeal to the widest possible profitable customer base. It doesn’t jettison the core customer base so it can marginalize itself as the Hillary Clinton of corporations.

The good thing to come out of this is now all radical lefties will fly Jetblue so I don’t have to hear them going on and on about Global warming and Al Gore.


16 posted on 07/16/2007 5:48:42 PM PDT by Maelstorm (When ideas are considered equal regardless of content, then arriving at truth becomes an accident.)
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To: dmw

Fat chance. That’s the point.

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Other YearlyKos Netroots Convention sponsors:

Democracy for America, MoveOn.org, VoteVets.org, YP4 Action, SEIU, Progressive States Network, Teamsters, Progressive book club, NGP software, People for the American Way, Mother Jones, National Education Association, Mochila, Issue dynamics, Change to Win, Locamoda, Center for America Progress, Living Liberally, Huffpost, Speedmatters, Bravenewfilms, Center for Independent Media, AFL-CIO, Advomatic, 2checkout.com, American Federation of Teachers, Campaign for America’s Future, Infoworld Studios Inc, LocaModo


17 posted on 07/16/2007 5:50:41 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy

Contact: Jet Blue

http://www.jetblue.com/help/contactus/help_contact_problems.aspx

1-800-JETBLUE (538-2583) (in the US)


18 posted on 07/16/2007 5:52:11 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Half Vast Conspiracy
I don’t know how bad O’Reilly painted it but it is quite common to see anti-Semitic and anti-military stuff posted there quite often. MarKOS, a former soldier and founder of Daily Kos) is being forced to clean up his act but one questions his sincerity.
19 posted on 07/16/2007 5:53:14 PM PDT by indcons (Please contribute to FreeRepublic; what would we do without this forum?)
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To: kcvl

“Fat chance. That’s the point.”

Exactly.


20 posted on 07/16/2007 5:53:40 PM PDT by dmw (Aren't you glad you use common sense? Don't you wish everybody did?)
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