Barbara Boxer’s PAC for a Change is holding an online vote to decide what Democratic candidates for House to help out with fundraising. Last month Barb sent out a fundraising e-mail to the PAC for a Change list and raised $68,000 for Senator Bill Nelson of Florida (challenged by the nasty, nasty Katherine Harris).
We all know Bill O’Reilly and his friends at Fox News have done more to promote the harmful republican agenda than any other supposedly-mainstream news outlet. Yesterday, Media Matters released video clips documenting O’Reilly’s new intimidation tactic: his “smear patrol.” He has a list of the members of the media who his listeners and viewers should boycott and harass (including their contact information) on his web site, and he add to it whenever he gets smeared. From the article:
During the April 24 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly launched a “campaign to hold the smear merchants accountable,” because “some media people” allegedly “have been using personal attacks and smears to try to marginalize people with whom they disagree.” O’Reilly declared that “the committed left-wing media hates Fox News, along with me … because we provide a balance to the overwhelming secular presence in the media.” O’Reilly cited the Dayton Daily News and the Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York, as examples of newspapers that have recently “smeared” him, and added that he has posted “contact numbers” on his website for “[t]he villains at” the Post-Standard — publisher Stephen Rogers and editorial writer Mark Libbon, who O’Reilly called “unprofessional” and “incompetent.” Concluding, O’Reilly stated: “Any media person who uses smear tactics in any way … will be featured on The Factor and inducted into the billoreilly.com ‘hall of shame.’ … [B]eginning today, the smear stops here.”
This is definitely a work in progress (pun intended), but Alec and I wanted to get this up as quickly as possible. This is the first installment of a hopefully-regular podcast about Iowa politics. This week, we talk about travelin’ Tom, Republican tax proposals, Fallon and Blouin visits (with audio), and more! Check it out and subscribe!
Note: I’m still working the RSS feed out, so until then, you’ll just have to listen or download from here.
