Posted on 08/11/2007 1:46:22 PM PDT by kristinn
The Honorable Harold Ford, Jr.
Chairman
Democratic Leadership Council
600 Pennsylvania Ave., SE, Suite 400
Washington, D.C. 20003
Dear Rep. Ford,
I appeared with you on the O’Reilly Factor on July 31, 2007, in my capacity as spokesman for FreeRepublic.com to discuss politics on the Internet. The host, Bill O’Reilly, falsely accused FreeRepublic.com of having the following comments on its site: "Homosexuals are dogs," "I hate blacks," "Hillary Clinton should be assassinated," and "A stray bullet should kill her."
To be blunt, those comments were made up by the O’Reilly Factor.
The O’Reilly Factor was not able to provide documentation that those comments appeared on FreeRepublic.com. A request for an on air retraction and apology has been ignored.
Let me assure you that, contrary to how the O’Reilly Factor portrayed FreeRepublic.com to you and the viewing public, FreeRepublic.com is not a site where people feel comfortable posting a comment such as “I hate blacks.”
As I made clear on the broadcast, those alleged comments cited by Mr. O’Reilly would be in violation of our posting guidelines and would not be tolerated by our moderators.
It is unfortunate that the O’Reilly Factor stooped to making up comments to besmirch the reputation of FreeRepublic.com in order to appear ‘fair and balanced’ in its campaign against the Daily Kos. Being that the O’Reilly Factor has declined to correct the record, I am writing you personally so that any misconception you have of FreeRepublic.com is cleared up.
Sincerely,
Kristinn Taylor
Spokesman
FreeRepublic.com
A decent man from a very corrupt family.
An excellent response. I’m glad FR took the time to correct the record instead of letting it go. BOR truly is a bore and a boor.
If inappropriate user comments create a hate site, take a look at the comments on AOL.com’s news stories. There are some truly disturbed people posting there. I’ve reported the worst to the site administrators and have never seen the comments taken down. Of course AOL is still part of the MSM so they probably count on being shielded from bad publicity.
O’Reilly cut the person off by saying it doesn't reach anywhere near the level of KOS and refused to debate the point.
I got the idea that he is backing off the FR smearing without apologizing. Not good enough in my opinion though.
He needs to apologize and set the record straight.
That is my impression of him, too. I still won't vote for him, but that is because I don't agree with him politically.
One thing is for sure, you can't choose your family.
does o reilly have a site at which one may post? I hear he doesn’t even have mods.... hmmmmm....
Bill’s going to try and weasel out of it, since it’s the summer and he’s doing the long weekend kind of vacation (thankfully, Michelle Malkin is there, and boy is she getting good at it!) but sometime this is all going to come back and bite him in the patooty. If he had any sense left, he’d issue an apology and get it over with...but I won’t be standing on one foot waiting for it to happen.
I appreciate what you do, but I thought right after that broadcast that we received links to all the comments, and had shown they were on the site, but were taken out of context.
Since then I’ve been away, but I don’t see how the situation changed....
I’d really like to know what kind of dirt that Whorealdo and Oh’Really have on Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes that keeps those two POS losers of yellow journalism employed.
FNC really needs to rethink that theatrical lineup of presstitutes or it becomes nothing but a CNNPMSNBCCBSABCNPR fictional fiasco as well
Thanks for letting us know.
Great idea!
Great honest letter!
B T T T
With Rather out of the picture...someone has to. /snic
BTTT...
Wasn’t O’Reilly going to provide “proof” of his claims against FR? Whatever happened to that? And if said “proof” wasn’t provided by O’R, what has been done about it?
I saw that...was hoiping you would say...you are full
of it..prove it. Daily Kos is bad..but we are not the
Kos type...I blame the advisors on Fox...they should be in our corner, instead of the crap that OReilly put on
us...JK
You are a class act, kristinn.
O’Reilly`s running down of Free Republic wasn’t warranted. Real classless behavior.
He didn't stand up for his "friend" Dom Imus, so why should he defend FR?
Fox News is the house organ for the Teddy Kennedy wing of the Republican Party and O’Reilly is a charter member of the Bobby Kennedy fan club. If anyone wants to know what O’Reilly’s true politics are, then they need to dig up the comments O’Reilly has made about Bobby Kennedy, BOR worships Bobby. And O’Reilly’ s big ego like RFK’s personalizes everything, as this incident proves. O’Reilly is as every bit as reckless with the truth and twice as RUTHLESS.
Nice letter Kristinn, but you will never see the light of the Oh’Really show again. He is a liar and a fraud.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I have never been able to watch O’Reilly, nor have I been able to understand his appeal to others. I find him o’really irritating.
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