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STALKING AMANDA TERKEL.

I think Amanda Terkel has said most of what needs to be said about Bill O'Reilly's producers stalking and then ambushing her while she was in Virginia on a weekend trip. What's most obscene is that O'Reilly posits these events as journalistic "confrontations" as though there was some value to springing on someone and pelting them with aggressive questions rather than just picking up the phone and asking them in a civilized manner. It's not as though these moments provide any kind of insight or valuable information, rather they're meant to intimidate the subject of the confrontation for something they've said--in this case, Terkel questioning O'Reilly's dubious statements on rape victims suggesting that they're somehow responsible for being raped. What makes it even more distasteful is that, as Steve Benen points out, O'Reilly seems to think that such behavior is unacceptable when celebrities are the subject -- which is to say that if someone did the same thing to him, it would be totally out of line, because, you know, he's famous.

-- A. Serwer



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I seen them talking to this chick on oreilly wow what a dipshit hahahahaaahahaha

Maybe Amanda shouldn't make comments that she obviously can't backup. I think it's great that Bill catches these people off guard so they can't conjure up some senseless defense!


" i seen them" thats funny..cant even speak proper english and you are calling someone else a "dipshit" You are the dipshit. As far as Amanda is concerned she is a total cunt and I dont use that word often but in her case it fits

Amanda, It was so obvious in your remarks about O'reilly that you didn't have a clue about what you were commenting on, I almost felt sorry for you, but you deserved to be ambushed since you hide behind your little blogger's laptop and ambush people without having the facts. Hearsay will burn your ass everytime so I would suggest that the next time you feel the need to get the poison pen out, do some research and don't rely on some idiot feeding you full of left wing bullshit.
Get ready, the fun is just starting and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it! Tell Mr. Soros thanks for me.

She is a terrorist lovin' communist little pig. And as long as we allow Soros's minnions to run rough shod over us should we be surprised by anything they say?

18 U.S.C. § 2261A Interstate Stalking (1996; 2000)
§ 2261A(1) makes it a federal crime, punishable from five years to life in prison, to travel across state, tribal or international lines to stalk another person. The defendant must have the intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate the victim, or to place the victim, a family member, or a spouse or intimate partner of the victim, in fear of death or serious bodily injury.

Oreilly's original comments, that Amanda linked to and contrasted with the fact of his speaking at the organization's event:

"O'REILLY: So anyway, these two girls come in from the suburbs and they get bombed, and their car is towed because they're moronic girls and, you know, they don't have a car. So they're standing there in the middle of the night with no car. And then they separate because they're drunk. They separate, which you never do. All right.

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.

And the thug takes her over to New Jersey in the cab and kills her and rapes her and does all these terrible things to her. And the thug is so stupid, he uses her cell phone, and the cops trace it back to him and they -- and they arrest him and charge him with murder. He had a prostitute girlfriend with him, and she's charged as an accessory to murder. But Jennifer Moore is in the ground. She's dead."

Oreilly made those comments on national radio shortly after the girl's body was found in a dumpster.

In 2004, Oreilly settled out of court a sexual harassment suit, after tapes were revealed of his conduct.

He's now pretending this female blogger was targeting the anti-rape group, which she in fact never mentioned, and having his employees stalk her. Check the legal definition above!

This goes beyond liberal vs conservative. You guys need to pick another hero. Real men don't act like this towards women.

Edit> "never mentioned" to "never criticized"

To the poster who called Amanda a cunt, please let me correct you. Amanda is a Zipperhead Cunt. Important distinction.

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