Comments on: Video: O’Reilly smears Hot Air

By: Ed Driscoll » PJM Political: What Sort Of Man Still Reads Playboy?

Ed Driscoll » PJM Political: What Sort Of Man Still Reads Playboy? — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 08:44:33 +0000

[...] Green asks James Lileks the above question, and I ask Ed Morrissey of Hot Air.com about watching his site smeared by master-of-the-Internet Bill O’Reilly last Wednesday, then its boss attacked (along with nine [...]

By: Pajamas Media » PJM Political 6/6/09: What Sort Of Man Still Reads Playboy?

Pajamas Media » PJM Political 6/6/09: What Sort Of Man Still Reads Playboy? — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:32:19 +0000

[...] Morrissey of Hot Air.com, on watching his site smeared by master-of-the-Internet Bill O’Reilly last Wednesday, then its boss attacked (along with [...]

By: PoliGazette » Fundamentalism and Terrorism

PoliGazette » Fundamentalism and Terrorism — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:09:32 +0000

[...] Context Share and [...]

By: Kralizec

Kralizec — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:50:16 +0000

Update (Ed): ….

Ed, get Allah to show you how to create new posts.

By: gocatholic

gocatholic — Sun, 31 May 2009 20:11:24 +0000

Gee, does this mean I can tell all my friends I’m a blogger at HotAir??

O’Reilly should offer a clarification, definitely.

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:56:43 +0000

Geochelone on May 31, 2009 at 12:18 AM

You left off mis-ruled.

This waddles, quacks and swims like a duck. Horrors! its a DUCK!

By: long_cat

long_cat — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:11:26 +0000

A river runs through it.

By: Geochelone

Geochelone — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:18:07 +0000

Sotomayor is not a racist. She misspoke and accidentally joined La Raza not knowing that it meant “The Race”.

She misspoke
She misread
She misheard.

Monkey speak not evil, see no evil, hear no evil.

By: herdgadfly

herdgadfly — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:23:11 +0000

Before we find Bill O’Reilly guilty of being illogical and intolerant, we need to take on Charles at LGF who blows away registered users simply because they question the “science” of Darwin’s Evolution Theory. I got banned for asking why he did this to loyal readers. I have not returned to the site nor will I ever do so.

By: Is Bill O’Reilly a prima donna? « The Daley Gator

Is Bill O’Reilly a prima donna? « The Daley Gator — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:16:53 +0000

[...] Recenty, O’Reilly made an ass of himself by slurring Michelle Malkin’s blog Hot Air. Bloggers called the bloviator out, and, apparently, he is too small a man to just apologize and [...]

By: Don’t pick a fight with the blogs | Hoystory

Don’t pick a fight with the blogs | Hoystory — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:49:13 +0000

[...] I wasn’t watching early this week when O’Reilly went full stupid by slandering Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air blog. O’Reilly bashed the popular conservative blog not for something one of the staffers wrote, [...]

By: Bold Fresh Piece of Hypocrisy « Calvin Freiburger Online

Bold Fresh Piece of Hypocrisy « Calvin Freiburger Online — Sat, 30 May 2009 21:21:41 +0000

[...] Rush Limbaugh—or so he says. As part of his never-ending centrist-populist shtick, during a recent segment he lectured the conservative blogosphere for incivility toward Barack Obama and Judge Sonia [...]

By: NoDonkey

NoDonkey — Sat, 30 May 2009 02:12:06 +0000

Lessee, does “two-bit Malcolm X wannabe” and the “Obama-Mugabe” regime count as slurs.

Cause I’ll fess up to using both.

And if the little leprechaun doesn’t like it, he can bark up some other tree. At least I don’t get on national TV and shriek at people for an hour at a time.

By: mark24609

mark24609 — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:24:39 +0000

I just posted my analysis on the subject

http://mark24609.blogspot.com/2009/05/bill-oreillys-war-of-words.html

Mark

By: Nightly Ramble: The Crossing Edition | BitsBlog

Nightly Ramble: The Crossing Edition | BitsBlog — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:07:00 +0000

[...] O’Reilly: Yessir, Billy Bob, I did see that ‘apology’ last night to the Hot Air folks. It doesn’t cut it. Ya know, eventually and for their sake, I hope sooner than later, Fox is [...]

By: Cybergeezer

Cybergeezer — Fri, 29 May 2009 20:06:44 +0000

O'Reilly's the Joe Biden of Fox News!

By: SarahW

SarahW — Fri, 29 May 2009 17:44:26 +0000

Either own it or change it.

But to complain because it’s pointed out makes no sense to me.

AnninCA on May 29, 2009 at 12:19 PM

Own what? Why should the proprietors of Hot Air blog “own” comments as if they were Hot Air blog posts, as O’Reilly described the random comment he put up? You’ve got a lot to learn if you think the two are in anyway equivalent.

The content of comments belong to the author, just as the contents of blog posts belong to the authors. The content of the comment was described as it it were something the blog pundits endorse.

Look up section 230 of the Communications Decency act if you are under the misapprehension that comments on opinion pieces become the opinion of the author of the opinion piece.

By: AnninCA

AnninCA — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:21:55 +0000

By the way, there’s simple software that uses word filters.

It’s not that hard to put comments into pending.

By: AnninCA

AnninCA — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:19:33 +0000

I personally think Hot Air is over-reacting. A lot of posters do make similar comments here.

That’s indefensible.

Either own it or change it.

But to complain because it’s pointed out makes no sense to me.

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:55:57 +0000

Oh by the way, his actual birth name is on his real birth certificate, wherever that is. There may be more than one reason he wont show the original…

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:53:39 +0000

‘Hussein’ even though that is his real name

Thats just it. Hussein is not his real name. Neither is Barry Soetoro. He’s probably had three names and may even have had a fourth.

Barak Hussein Obama is a completely artificed, read that FAKE, appellation, created for political purposes. Its a disgraceful JOKE. Since it is fake I feel no compunction using his fake middle name to refer to a fake person. A suit empty except for the malicious intent to destroy our country.

By: Jaibones

Jaibones — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:43:27 +0000

No one else has said, but here goes; Megyn Kelly gets the TV crown for beauty and brains. I don’t play for the other team (not that there’s anything wrong with that), but she is gorgeous.

Laura in Maryland on May 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM

There can be little doubt that you are correct, although for my taste Martha MaCallum is a doll, too. Oh, hell, they all are…it’s kind of scary. The Boss is a stunner, too.

I just found it hard to believe that this red-haired dolly is in the video and we’re talking about pompous, arrogant, populust nitwit O’Reilly. Sad.

By: Eric Berlin » Blog Archive » Wading into the swamp

Eric Berlin » Blog Archive » Wading into the swamp — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:46:38 +0000

[...] Air is undoubtedly a right-wing Web site, and occasionally they can become quite feverish. But bloggers who jumped on this story are correct to call O’Reilly assertion a smear: The editors on that Web site may disagree [...]

By: Mr Purple

Mr Purple — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:44:11 +0000

I fail to see how using actual comments from Hot Air is ‘smearing’ HA.

…then again I think Biden’s cocaine snorting daughter and Zero’s failure to meet the eligibility requirements to be President are actually, like newsworthy.

That’s just me though. I’m sure most Americans realize the BOR/HA spat is a MUCH more important topic to discuss.

By: tbear44

tbear44 — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:47:30 +0000

Maybe BOR will quote me tomorrow. Ooh boy, can’t wait

Keep it pithy!