Some of you know that Ruppert Murdoch's NY Post published Keith Olbermann's address. I won't be doing that here. But...
It is summertime... and time for some more BillO fun.
Listen - I know not all of you are down with this. Even Keith Olbermann gave me second worst person in the world for this stunt last year. That said, as far as I am concerned, O'Reilly's body of work can best be described as grossly corpulent - sagging with deceit and swollen with dishonor. The man is the closest thing we have to a modern-day Goebbels and his acidy bile corrodes the entire body politic. From what I understand, Barack Obama will make an appearance on BillO's show sometime before the election. As the political season heats up, we can be quite certain that BillO will surely engage in the most depraved smears of every progressive within reach of his icky (sticky?) loofah. I know many of you would rather mock BillO from afar, but that's never been my style. I'm not one to remain behind my keyboard.
So... Flip for more details. We're taking a bus or two (or three... or four???) to Billo's house.
Through the years, BillO has told Jews they have to go back to Israel if they don't like Christmas being forced down their throats. He's expressed surprise that when African-Americans ate at a restaurant, they acted just like him... they weren't asking the mother-fuckers where their motherfucking iced tea was. He's said there are no homeless vets in America. He suggested that the victim of child sex-abuse enjoyed it. And his criticism of the progressive netroots has been unrelenting.
So this summer,there will be another confrontation. BillO lives on Long Island. I plan on chartering at least one bus - hopefully more - from New York City. We'll visit Bill with vets and Jews and African-Americans and peacefully set forth our grievances. We'll ask for an apology and suggest ways in which BillO might improve his behavior in the future.
Of course, if none of that works, we'll have bullhorns. We'll chant "Hey motherfucker, where's my iced-tea?" We'll set up a tent city for the homeless vets on BillO's lawn. We'll bring a Rabbi with us to help us celebrate Judaism. Hell, we may even bring some falafel with us.
If you are down for the adventure, email me at stark.m@gmail.com.
Oh - almost forgot. I started blogging talk radio calls over at Democrats.com. I'll be organizing another call-in corps so that we can all try to let BillO know we're coming over... His radio show runs from 12-2 Mon-Thurs (he takes Fridays off now), the call-in number is 877 966 7746. You remember what happened last time we did something like that, right?
Update [2008-6-9 16:23:1 by Mike Stark]: Two things. First, see this.
CLEVELAND - Folks on Humphrey Hill Drive were still waking up on the icy Saturday morning the shark hunters came to town. They rounded the suburban traffic circle in a pair of rented school buses after a half-hour ride from far more modest neighborhoods, rumbling to a stop at the Garmone family's driveway. Forty-two caffeinated Clevelanders piled out, their leaders carrying bullhorns.
Their quarry, Mike Garmone — a regional vice president at Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender — didn't answer his door. So they deployed, ringing bells at the big homes with three-car garages, handing out accusatory fliers and lambasting Garmone and his company's loans. Before departing, they left their calling card — thousands of 2 1/2-inch plastic sharks flung across Garmone's frozen flower beds, up into the gutters, littering the doorstep.
The commotion was the work of an in-your-face activist group called the East Side Organizing Project, with a paid staff then of just two, mobilized to battle Cleveland's mortgage "loan sharks." Years before the rest of the country was rocked by the fallout from aggressive lending, their neighborhoods were already home to the nation's highest concentration of foreclosures — and they were fed up.
The point is that activism works.
Second thing: (and I wish I had made this part of the original post...) Ruppert Murdoch called Zucker over at NBC to beg him not to blow up the video from the last visit. We are in their heads. For the first time, I'm sure, our contretemps made it to Murdoch's desk. ACTIVISM WORKED DAMMIT!
Now the thing is, O'Reilly's said all of those things before, but he's never been forced to take ownership of them in one fell swoop. By piddling out the irresponsible punditry over the course of months, he's been able to get away with it. By forcing the media to look at MAckris, the comments about Jews, blacks, child sex abuse victims... By putting the whole pile of shit on one plate... well, we can then start asking why people continue to go on his fucking show.
I don't expect y'all to agree with every tactic I take in my activism. Activism isn't supposed to make you feel comfortable. If you yawn at my work, I'm failing. So I'm not going to piss and moan about the "you strike me as a disturbed person" comments I'm seeing posted below. I just ask that you keep your words decent and only post in good faith.
