Mother Jones Concerned For Bureau Chief’s Safety After Bill O’Reilly threatens him

[liberal N proud]

Mother Jones Concerned For Bureau Chief’s Safety After Bill O’Reilly Calls For Him To Be In “Kill Zone”

The editors in chief at Mother Jones this morning sent this email/letter to Fox News Channel’s primetime star Bill O’Reilly and one of the network’s communications execs, saying it is concerned for its Washington bureau chief’s safety after O’Reilly called for him to be “in the kill zone.”

Mother Jones writer David Corn yesterday responded to Bill O’Reilly’s comments on the magazine’s piece about O’Reilly’s claims regarding his work for CBS News covering the Falklands war, saying “A discerning reader of Deadline can easily see that Bill O’Reilly is hiding behind name-calling, rather than dealing with the substance of the matter,” and that Mother Jones sent O’Reilly a long list of detailed questions about his comments regarding his experience as a war reporter. ” He and Fox News declined to respond. Instead, O’Reilly hurls invective, seemingly to distract,” Corn told Deadline.

“It’s a total hit piece,” Bill O’Reilly told Deadline about the report Corn wrote in Mother Jones about O’Reilly’s claims in re his coverage of Falklands war. In the post, Corn said some of O’Reilly’s stories “don’t withstand scrutiny — even claiming he acted heroically in a war zone that he apparently never set foot in.”

O’Reilly blasted the piece to other news outlets as well, and is continuing to do so today — during which he has been quoted by at least one outlet, TV Newser, as saying he expected those reporters with whom he spoke to “verify what I’m saying, because it’s easily verifiable, then I expect David Corn to be in the kill zone.”

http://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/mother-jones-concerned-for-bureau-chief%e2%80%99s-safety-after-bill-o%e2%80%99reilly-calls-for-him-to-be-in-%e2%80%9ckill-zone%e2%80%9d/ar-BBhNw61

[Octafish]

1. Bullies and Fascism.

Fascists are professional Bullies.

[sharp_stick]

2. I wouldn't be too afraid

all that steaming load of manure will do is sic little Jesse Watters on him with a GoPro stuck to his fuckin' fivehead (seriously, have you ever seen the distance between this assholes eyes and hairline?).

I would love to see someone lure that prick onto private property while the video is running and then proceed to protect that private property from the trespasser with a tire iron.

[CanonRay]

3. O'Reilly is all hot air

all bluster...all hat and no cattle.

[catnhatnh]

4. O Reilly sounds like the

fake Seal and secret squirrel you find in every second rate watering hole in America. Down the end of the bar, practicing his ginned up impression of a thousand meter stare into the bar-back mirror and spinning war stories for just a drink apiece. He's the one who's been there and done that in more war zones than a white supremacist has teeth and has the denim jacket with the bleeding skulls and mismatched military rank and valor medal patches to prove it. Most are CIA and ex-POWs and for the price of a shot of Jack you too, can enter his world...he got there early and he'll be staying late unless a real veteran hears him and causes him to slither off...

There he is Ladies and Gentlemen-Bill O'Reilly-Liar, thief of valor, and drunk.

[Stuart G]

5. Bill O..real jerk indeed. .. but this threat making...not wise

But then again, no one ever claimed Bill O. was wise. Actually very very stupid

[Scuba]

6. Stochastic terrorism.

[Vinca]

7. I wouldn't pooh pooh this threat.

There are enough crazies caressing their guns while watching O'Reilly that anything is possible. We aren't dealing with normal people here.

[liberal N proud]

9. Exactly

[OneGrassRoot]

10. No, we shouldn't, and I know from experience.

You may recall that Wishadoo and I were among those targeted by Glenn Beck as being part of the fascist/communist/socialist/Nazi conspiracy ruining the USA when he had his TV show at Fox. This was in 2010. One show, not an ongoing thing.

Still, his crazier followers stalked me online for months. I even got threatening phone calls.

Not to be taken lightly at all.

[Telcontar]

8. Wait, what? O'Reilly says he was in the Falklands?

This I gotta see. Anyone have a link?