rssBill O’Reilly Bans the Press From His Values Voter Speech
Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 9:09 am
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When reporters walked up to the ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel to see Bill O’Reilly’s Friday night speech — he was receiving the “Media Courage Award” — we were told, to our surprise, that no members of the media would be allowed in. Word had leaked out that no non-Fox News cameras would be allowed in, but there had been no indication that no reporters could attend even if they left their recording equipment and notebooks outside.
I was one of about a dozen reporters who huddled outside the room for a few minutes immediately after the speech was supposed to start. Security guards, pictured after the jump, ushered us further and further away from the door–we could hear brief bits of O’Reilly’s speech when the doors would swing open. At around 7:10, we heard a loud clatter and the doors blasted open, as Mike Stark, a Huffington Post liberal blogger [UPDATE: An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that Stark, formerly employed by FireDogLake, still worked for that site], was hauled out by multiple security guards.
“I have a right to be here!” shouted Stark, as he was forced into the stairwell leading outside the hotel. Speaking the next morning, emcee Gil Mertz mocked Stark (not by name) as a “representative from don’tjudgemeasIjudgeyou.org.”
The blocked ballroom door.
The belated warning to the press, which was posted in the press room during the speech.
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Comment posted September 19, 2009 @ 2:51 pm
Bill O’Reilly is lying hypocritical coward?
Shocked I am!
And of course he deserved his “”"”Media Courage Award”"”".
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Comment posted September 19, 2009 @ 4:08 pm
How very odd. I thought Mr. O'Reilly was a reporter. Guess he isn't. What did he have to say that he did not want to see scrutinized?
Comment posted September 19, 2009 @ 4:40 pm
The recipient of the “Media Courage Award” bars the media from his acceptance speech?
Irony abounds.
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Comment posted September 20, 2009 @ 8:00 pm
Maybe he didn't want the press to get another record of him talking about the “White, male, christian power-structure” on tape.
Comment posted September 20, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
C'mon, people!
O'Reilly didn't want his words to be misconstrued, misquoted or totally twisted. You know, kinda the same thing HE does with REAL news.
Now that Faux has been caught fixing it's own “news”, Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly can now rest assured that what they hawk is construed as total bulldukey by America. Bye Bye, Glenn!! Hannity!! O'Reilly!!
Pingback posted September 22, 2009 @ 9:44 am
[...] Dave Weigel of the Washington Independent and Adele Stan of AlterNet report that the media were barred from the Media Courage award ceremony at the Values Voter summit this weekend. Only Fox News was allowed to film inside the auditorium where Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was being feted (or fetid, depending on your perspective). [...]
Comment posted August 15, 2010 @ 5:32 pm
Obama is a media darling for every channel except FOX…. why do so many people watch FOX… Try to look at things from other points of view every once in a while… (i.e. Bush wasn't dumb or evil… Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid want to play mommy and daddy to their 'children', the American public….)
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