I wonder if BoR will calculate the portion of his salary paid by that particular ad, and donate the money to a charity of somekind.

If he’s smart, he’ll use any funds aquired that way to buy more body armor for the troops in the field who will surely be in more danger when Redacted opens internationally.

That might win him back some of the credibility points he lost with me because of his poor performance regarding The Stache.

I bet he’ll rant and rave and accuse all the accusers (the people questioning why the ad was shown) of being pinheads for questioning it/him in the first place.

It seems like this man seldom apologizes.

“No loyal American should support an enterprise that incites hatred against America.”

Allahpundit on November 18, 2007 at 3:08 PM

I wonder if BoR will calculate the portion of his salary paid by that particular ad, and donate the money to a charity of somekind.

If he’s smart, he’ll use any funds aquired that way to buy more body armor for the troops in the field who will surely be in more danger when Redacted opens internationally.

That might win him back some of the credibility points he lost with me because of his poor performance regarding The Stache.

Someone wrote in to O’Reilly about other cable news networks advertising on Fox and he read the letter. His explaination in short was that Fox will take their money.

AprilOrit on November 18, 2007 at 3:51 PM
That’s been going on since MSNBC went on the air. I have no problems with that. This is just business and is more embarassing to MSNBC (CNN also ran ads, hidden in car commercials).

progressoverpeace on November 18, 2007 at 3:59 PM

The letter Bill received and read on air was about CNN, not MSNBC actually.

comment was deleted…. screw him.

I asked my Time-Warner rep why I saw a CNN commercial on Fox news. He told me that the local people get to run what ever the want in their allocated time.

30 sec commercials can be as low as 6 bucks, at weird hours and on low rated shows.

In fact it may be commendable that Fox reflects a free speech philosophy by allowing the ad to run, despite how contrary the opinion is. They already give Geraldo air time, don’t they?

It seems too cut and dry (and too easy) to blame Bill before the facts are presented, no matter what the opinion or what it seems. Come’ on, we even have someone citing Olberman as if he matters.

I just don’t see a blunder on Bill’s part unless he himself, or his producers have total control over ad sales and content, right?

So why would they choose a Redacted ad to run during his show? Did Cuban pay double the rate or something?

The political Right in this nation has the money but does not use it to fund and promote popular media products to a traditionally-minded audience to any significant degree. Period.

There are literally thousands of traditionally-minded American multimillionaires and quite a few billionaires with similar mindsets. Yet I can count on one hand the number of those who have money invested in popular entertainment.

You’re never going to affect change until MONEY IS SPENT.

Liberals understand this–apparently conservatives don’t.

Someone wrote in to O’Reilly about other cable news networks advertising on Fox and he read the letter. His explaination in short was that Fox will take their money.

AprilOrit on November 18, 2007 at 3:51 PM

That’s been going on since MSNBC went on the air. I have no problems with that. This is just business and is more embarassing to MSNBC (CNN also ran ads, hidden in car commercials).

Regarding Redated ads, my brother told me Olbermann rubbed it into O’Reilly’s face last week on air. My brother thinks Bill O’Reilly is beyond ridiculous, and believes this is just another O’Reilly blunder to prove his already proven case.

I agree that it’s an O’Reilly blunder, though that doesn’t make Cuban or the movie any less anti-American.

O’Reilly’s producers allegedly bought the ads, whether Bill knew or not, who knows.

If Bill didn’t know what the ads were on his show, then I think that is pretty lame. It’s not as if the list is so huge.

It’s kind of stupid though, really when you think of the ranting and raving he went through over Mark Cuban.

Yep. I wouldn’t have any problems with O’Reilly being mad about it and saying that it would never happen again, but his defense is more than a little contrived. It’s not that big of a deal, to me, but just a shame.

2) Wouldn’t you think there might be some contractual obligation on the part of the network (and its employees) with its sponsors/advertisers at the very least NOT TO BOYCOTT their featured products.

Regarding Redated ads, my brother told me Olbermann rubbed it into O’Reilly’s face last week on air. My brother thinks Bill O’Reilly is beyond ridiculous, and believes this is just another O’Reilly blunder to prove his already proven case.

O’Reilly stated, very plainly, that this movie will cause Americans to die. He cannot take that position and then accept ads for the movie. It just doesn’t fly.

O’Reilly’s producers allegedly bought the ads, whether Bill knew or not, who knows.

It’s kind of stupid though, really when you think of the ranting and raving he went through over Mark Cuban.

Agrippa2k on November 18, 2007 at 3:18 PM

Thanks for the heads up. I will take the fam see that movie on opening day.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/persepolis/main.html

Nope. Mark Cuban, the film’s producer, claims he bought the ad from Fox itself with specific instructions to air it during the Factor, an obvious ploy to embarrass O’Reilly. And darned if Fox didn’t let him. Cuban thinks O’Reilly probably knew the ad would air but I’m guessing he didn’t. Either way, looks bad.

I assumed that the second I saw it, because I’ve only seen it air during the Factor. I think it was on again during the 11pm airing as well.

I emailed O’Reilly to ask if we ought to boycott his show until he throws his weight around at Fox to get the ad pulled.

Agrippa2k on November 18, 2007 at 3:18 PM

Hmm I’ll have to look at this again, the trailer I saw there was too small to make out the subtitles. And I see the following at the IMDB of the movie:

Sean Penn … (voice: English version)

infidel4life on November 18, 2007 at 3:20 PM

I think it’s the most likely too. I mean I dont picture a cackling Mark Cuban against a glowing red background tossing a sack of 30 pieces of silver to a shamed Fox advertising exec.

It was probably just “Place this on the Factor” which wouldnt seem an odd request given the shows ratings.

But I guess we’ll find out.

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