“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you” -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Journalism AlterNet thoroughly investigates an opinion piece by Fox News's Bill O'Reilly about the YearlyKos conference:
"On Monday night, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly aired a segment full of misleading, inaccurate claims attacking the upcoming YearlyKos blogger convention, its namesake DailyKos, and one of the event's sponsors, JetBlue. In his "report," O'Reilly cherry-picked an extreme minority of reader comments and diaries from the hundreds of thousands on DailyKos, claiming them to be representative of the community website and the greater netroots movement that will be gathering in Chicago on Aug. 2-5, 2007, for the progressive convention. Calling the netroots "the radical left" and DailyKos "hatemongerers" like "the Ku Klux Klan" and "the Nazi Party," O'Reilly compared YearlyKos to "a David Duke convention," calling it "one of the worst examples of hatred America has to offer."
I'm so glad we don't have anything like him in the UK. Oh wait, sorry we do.

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