Stalking is Illegal, Pinhead

Today, I recieved an email in my Facebook inbox that the creator of the Facebook group that was petitioning for the uninviting of the rape vitim blaming Bill O'Reilly for a rape victim support group was ending.  Why?  Well, as Keith Olbermann reported last night, Bill...er...the producer he sheepishly sent, stalked a critical "far-left blogger" as she was on vacation.

She, Amanda Terkel of thinkprogress.org, says she left her home traveling two hours to her vacation destination in Virginia.  Terkel rightly complained that no one from Fox News attempted to speak with her before the ambush.  O'Reilly has previously claimed he would never send fox news stalkers unless someone declined to comment or be interviewed.

O'Reilly thinks MSNBC, where she appeared, pressured Terkel to write the entry.

Tim Kaine, the Governor of Virginia, should notify Fox News that the state does not tolerate harassment or stalking.  Terkel could have pressed charges in the state and caused Murdoch and O'Reilly a great deal of trouble.  The last thing Murdoch needs right now is more evidence his waiver to have multiple networks and newspapers in a single city should be revoked.

Bill O'Reilly has freedom of the press, and with it power, but he does not have the power to intimidate bloggers for quoting him...O'Reilly (who previously knocked mediamatters.com) seems to hate nothing more than people quoting him.

And by the way, that's all Terkel did.  She quoted something O'Reilly said that was offensive, placed the blame for a rape-murder with the victim and condescendingly refered to her as "that".

"Now Moore, Jennifer Moore, 18, on her way to college. She was 5-foot-2, 105 pounds, wearing a miniskirt and a halter top with a bare midriff. Now, again, there you go. So every predator in the world is gonna pick that up at two in the morning.She’s walking by herself on the West Side Highway, and she gets picked up by a thug. All right. Now she’s out of her mind, drunk."

-The Radio Factor, April 3rd, 2006