ill O'Reilly
The O'Reilly Factor
FOX News Channel
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036

Dear Mr. O'Reilly:

In May of this year, I asked that you allow me to come on The O'Reilly
Factor to discuss your attacks on philanthropist George Soros. Your
producer denied my request, saying you were no longer discussing the
topic. Yet in subsequent weeks, you continued to discuss Mr. Soros on
your radio and television programs. Despite my offer to discuss Soros,
you still did not invite me on -- even complaining during your June 1
Radio Factor, "I mean, we really can't get anybody in here [to defend
Soros] that's not a raving, raving Far-Left person, and why we would
want to do that, I don't know."

In recent months, you have repeatedly attacked me and my organization,
Media Matters for America:

On the June 28 O'Reilly Factor, you referred to Media Matters as a
"Far Left website";
On the August 5 Radio Factor, you likened Media Matters to Mao Zedong;
On the August 5 O'Reilly Factor, you claimed your critics are
"hiding"; in response, I reiterated my willingness to appear on your
television show;
During your August 7 debate with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
on CNBC, you compared Media Matters to the Ku Klux Klan and Fidel
Castro;
On August 13, Media Matters noted your recent attacks on us, and
wondered how long it would be before you compared us to Nazi
propagandist Joseph Goebbels. It took less than a month: On the
September 14 Radio Factor, you referred to comments I made as "Joseph
Goebbels Nazi stuff";
On the December 9 Radio Factor, you called Media Matters "the most
vile, despicable human beings in the country";
On the December 14 Radio Factor, you called Media Matters "sneaky";
accused us of "tak[ing] things out of context"; called us a "Far Left,
deceitful, disgusting website"; and called us "character assassins"
and "despicable weasels."

As you can see, Mr. O'Reilly, you have repeatedly and personally
attacked me, Media Matters for America, and my fine staff, calling us
"vile," "despicable," and "weasels," and comparing us to the Ku Klux
Klan, Castro, Mao, and the Nazis. And you have refused my repeated
requests to appear on your broadcast.

You once offered your viewers your definition of the word "coward." On
the January 5, 2004, O'Reilly Factor, you declared: "If you attack
someone publicly, as these men did to me, you have an obligation to
face the person you are smearing. If you don't, you are a coward."

Well, Mr. O'Reilly, you have attacked me publicly on numerous
occasions, and you refuse to face me. You, sir, are a coward -- by
your own definition of the term. You are "hiding under your desk" (to
paraphrase your August 26, 2003, claim about a "coward" who declined
to appear on your show) rather than allowing me on your program to
discuss your insults. You are "gutless," to borrow the phrase you used
on January 10, 2003, and February 8, 2001, to describe people who
would not appear on your program. I attach additional examples of your
pejorative descriptions of those who decline invitations to appear on
your broadcast.

Your frequent complaint that your words are taken out of context
appears to have spurred your recent assault on my organization. While
reasonable people can disagree about conclusions we, or you, have
drawn about your comments, you are simply wrong to say that we took
you out of context. I remain willing and eager to appear on either
your television or radio program to discuss your contention that my
organization has taken your comments out of context.

Should you continue to refuse this offer, it is only reasonable that
the American people will conclude that you are not only -- as you
would put it -- a "coward," but a hypocrite as well.

Sincerely,

David Brock
President and CEO
Media Matters for America

http://mediamatters.org/



On 18 Dec 2004 14:10:44 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:

On Sat 18 Dec 2004 12:11:50a, "Ross"
wrote in message
roups.com:

The problem with this is Bill O'Reilly is an inveterate
liar, the worst hypocrite to hit the airwaves in a
geneartion, and a total and complete coward. This is
proven.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200412160011

If you believe anything he or Ann Coulter says, you are
mentally deficient.
Enough said.

Have a nice day



Would you agree that those who rely upon and place faith in
blatantly biased websites like mediamatters.org are not
equally (to borrow your phrase) "mentally deficient"?

-=jd=-