Inflammatory headline much?

AP:

Liberals Pressure Fox News Advertisers

Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network.

MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.

The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.

At least 5,000 people nationwide have signed up to compile logs on who is running commercials on Fox, Gilliam said. The groups want to first concentrate on businesses running local ads, as opposed to national commercials.

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The groups seem particularly angry at Fox's Bill O'Reilly, who has done critical reports on left-wing bloggers. On July 16, O'Reilly said the DailyKos.com Web site is ''hate of the worst order,'' and sent a reporter to question JetBlue Airways Corp. CEO Dave Barger about the airline's sponsorship of a gathering run by DailyKos.

He'll never ride on JetBlue again, O'Reilly said.

Fox said JetBlue has since asked that its name be removed from the DailyKos.com Web site.

MoveOn.org is campaigning against Fox because it says the network characterizes itself as a fair news network when it consistently favors a conservative point of view, said Adam Green, the organization's spokesman.

Those damn liberals, trying to squash free speech rights. Liberal liberal liberal liberal liberal liberal liberal liberal liberal.

I wish I could find that old Mark Alan Stamaty cartoon that showed George Herbert Walker Buxh jumping up and down and screaming "Killer negroes (sic) are coming to get you! Liberals want to take all your money! Read my lips! Read my lips!"

The article gets everything about the Jet Blue Yearly Kos sponsorship wrong, but it succeeds smashingly in getting the "Liberals against free speech" meme right on target -- as if this was something that Bill O'Reilly didn't start.

But you know what I hate most about this? That this whole fracas has forced me to go to bat to defend the Great Orange Satan. Now THAT just pisses me off.