Like Tom DeLay, Bill O’Reilly remains one of America’s foremost hypocrites. Over the last two weeks, Bill O’Reilly led a witchhunt after DailyKos and now he appears to be broadening his efforts to demonize all liberal bloggers.
O’Reilly suggests that what liberal bloggers are doing is blackmailing politicians by banding together and telling politicians that to receive bloggers’ support, a politician must advance a particular point of view on a particular issue.
Bloggers threatening — you know, what people don’t understand is that these Internet bloggers give messages to these candidates: “If you don’t do what we tell you to do, we will trash you and try to interfere with your fundraising.”
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…I think it’s a danger to have blackmailers, which is what these bloggers are, active in the political process. [source: media matters]
Whether it’s paid lobbyists, grassroots organizations, the Religious Right and even individual voters, each and every one of them conditions its support for a politician on how well that person is representing them. This isn’t blackmail, Bill. It IS the democratic process.
Frankly to suggest otherwise frightens me. Perhaps we should let politicians or windbag Fox News pundits tell us the issues that are important and which ones are not. Maybe the government should be in charge?
I can see why he feels the need to lash out at all of us. No one loves a hypocrite more than a blogger and he’s one of the biggest.