Jul 31 2007
Fox News and Falafel Boy vs. Daily Kos
Bill O'Riley, America's favorite frothing-at-the-mouth rabid, paranoid, reality-impared, sexually harassing pervert, recently declared war on the Daily Kos blog. It's a long, fascinating story that shows just how powerful and influential citizen journalists have become.
Here's the short, incomplete version: O'Riley has been slagging Daily Kos on his show something fierce, because Kos had something to do with convincing Democratic presidential candidates to boycott any Fox sponsored debates. In retaliation, Fox managed to convince JetBlue, a sponsor of the upcoming YearlyKos convention, to pull out. In a tit for tat move, Kossacks convinced Lowe's Home Improvement to stop advertising on O'Riley's show, and they're going after local sponsors next.
And now that O'Riley has drummed up all sorts of free publicity for Daily Kos, they've declared today Falafel Day and are posting quotes and links related to the sexual harassment suit that was filed a few years ago by a former employee of Papa Bear.
I'm just lovin' it. I'm downright giddy. I predict O'Riley falls over dead of an aneurysm.
In other news, Oliver, a podcast listener from the UK who's vacationing here before going off to university, is crashing at our house tonight because he couldn't find a hotel. The kids are really, really excited to meet him.
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2 Responses to “Fox News and Falafel Boy vs. Daily Kos”
Hi Rich and familiy, thats really kind od you to put someone up who is a stranger! hows things been a bit quiet, you still busy at work? on a side issue what servers do you use at work? I am looking to upgrade our comapany server to win server or similar.
@Darren: Oli's not a stranger, we've been hanging out together regularly for the past few weeks. He just looks dangerous.
Our office's internal fileserver is Windows Server 2003, but our website is a Dell box running Red Hat. One of these days I'm going to replace it with Ubuntu or Debian. (I quite like apt-get.) I wouldn't use Windows on a publicly accessible machine. I feel much safer and comfortable with Linux.