As many of you may already know,
Bill O'Reilly last week announced that because San Francisco had voted to keep military recruiters out of their children's high schools,
Al Queda should come attack them, and when they do, Bill will watch, smile, and demand that the rest of the US let it happen.
Obviously, this is the O'Reilly equivalent to Bill Maher's "You can call the terrorists many things, but 'coward' is not one of them" moment. Only, this was worse.
Maher was simply pointing out the definition of a word - O'Reilly is calling for the destruction of an American city at the hands of terrorists because he disagrees with their politics. And it can not stand.
So here's your call to action for today, to help put Bill O'Reilly's career in the ground once and for all.
CALL TO ACTION #1: PHONE O'REILLY'S SHOW!
It's really simple - just call 1-877-9-NO-SPIN any time today between noon EST and 2PM (the beginning of each hour is the easiest time to get on) - tell them you're an O'Reilly fan so they'll let you on the air, and when they do - POUND HIM! And if they kick you off, call back!
I'll even make it worth your while - get on O'Reilly's show today and post a paraphrased transcript of your call that includes the words "terrorist sympathizer", and I'll send you $1 via Paypal, and encourage everyone else here to do the same. $1 is a small price to pay to hear someone get on O'Reilly's radio program and call him an Al Queda member - so who's with me?
Remember the key phrase - "Bill O'Reilly is a terrorist sympthizer" - let's pound that meme into the ground. We've already made it so that when you go to Google and type in "Terrorist sympathizer" and hit 'I feel lucky', Google sends you to O'Reilly's website - let's push that meme into the mainstream.
CALL TO ACTION #2: SEND EMAILS TO O'REILLY'S ADVERTISERS
Here are the email addresses you'll need to use to convey your outrage:
tom.bryant@tempurpedic.com
bob@insure.com
kellyd@emigrant.com
david.rubinger@equifax.com
brian@lifequotes.com
bthoms@insure.com
emigrantdirect@emigrant.com
marketing@tempurpedic.com
rrt@wagged.com (Microsoft, sponsor of the O'Reilly Factor's Talking Points segment - thanks to theotherrealworld for that info)
If you prefer, email O'Reilly's affiliate stations instead (or as well as) and tell them you're disgusted they would allow a terrorist sympathizer on the air:
shane_coppola@westwoodone.com
paul_gregrey@westwoodone.com
david_hillman@westwoodone.com
barobinson@cbs.com
rbmcguire@cbs.com
chrismason@clearchannel.com
bobagnew@clearchannel.com
knewnews@clearchannel.com
Prefer to make phone calls? Try these:
insure.com 1-800-324-6370
Blanchard 1-800-880-4653
I'[ll make sure that there's more advertisers to call tomorrow, so pound these ones today. Even one or two of them will make a difference. Take a few minutes out of your morning, craft a nice letter, and send it to them all.
(props to A Patriot's awesome earlier diary in which he compiled this info)
Make your emails/phone calls short, courteous, but show you are completely disgusted and cannot believe this company would continue to be aligned with a terrorist sympathizer. Why, it's unAmerican!
CALL TO ACTION #3: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Let's pound the heck out of five newspapers and get some LTE's published. Today's list will be the newsmakers - smaller papers often follow the lead of the big boys, so let's start big:
letters@nytimes.com (or fax (212)556-3622)
letters@washpost.com
letters@suntimes.com
letters@latimes.com
editpage@seattlepi.com
Remember the LTE format:
Keep it short and to the point - one or two paragraphs tops.
Include your name, address and phone number so they can get permission to use the letter and be sure you're real.
And keep 'em curse-free.
CALL TO ACTION #4: APPROPRIATE HIS ENEMIES LIST
O'Reilly has warned he's going to put together an enemies list, which will include the names of people like us who are part of the 'orchestrated' effort against him. Okay, fine. But just because he has a list doesn't mean we can't use it for our own means.
So here's what I propose: When O'Reilly releases his enemies list, we each send $1 to every blogmaster, writer, or blogger on that list. Let's make it profitable to be an O'Reilly enemy. Let's make it so that, every time he adds a name to his list, that name gets rewarded!
It's like a telethon for free speech, and rather than be hurt in any way by O'Reilly's blacklist, these people would receive donations to continue their good work!
Media Matters, the Smoking Gun, dKos - you know they'll all be on the list, so let's make it worth their while.
CALL TO ACTION #5: CONTINUE THE GOOGLE-BOMB!
For those that don't know, if you get a large number of people to put links to a website using a set phrase, Google will make that website the place to go whenever someone used that phrase for an 'I feel lucky' search.
People did this earlier in Bush's Presidency, pointing links to the White House's Bush bio with the phrase 'miserable failure'. And now, if you search for 'terrorist sympathizer' and hit 'I feel lucky' at Google, you get O'Reilly's website.
But let's take it further. Let's get any search of "Bill O'Reilly" to point to Media Matters, a website he truly despises, which gets a whole lot of his lies on tape. Here's how you do it.
Whenever you type Bill O'Reilly's name, do it like this:
< a href="http://www.mediamatters.org">Bill O'Reilly< /a>
(be sure to lose the spaces after the <, which I only put in there so you could see the code).
If we do that every single time we mention his name, on blogs, websites, messageboards, signatures, emails, and comments here, it won't take long for a Bill O'Reilly search on any major search engine to take you directly to the website that exposes him as a liar and a fraud.
That's the daily call to action, people. Choose one, or choose them all. The more we put into these actions, the sooner he'll be run out of a job.
Bill O'Reilly is a Terrorist sympathizer.
Repeat it, repeat it, repeat it.