O'Reilly ousted as keynote speaker by National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

[Submariner]

HUH!

I very very rarely bother writing about my displeasure about something I find maddening, but O'Reilly pushed me over the top. I sent the Center an email with the link to "thesmokinggun.com" story about falafel Bill's sex perversion. He's toast.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris1.html

I'm happy to have been part of bringing him down a few notches. I hope he is seething mad and has a stroke.

The Center for Missing and Exploited Children statement on the subject said in its entirety:

In response to the numerous e-mails and inquiries we have received, we are providing the following update regarding the Collier County, Florida branch fundraising dinner scheduled for March 9, 2007 in Naples, Florida. Bill O'Reilly, host of The O'Reilly Factor, will not be a speaker at the dinner. The dinner will be held as scheduled. John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted, will be the keynote speaker.

We would like to thank everyone for their comments and e-mails.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200702120007

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Good for you

[tabasco]

2. That organization needs to look at who made the decision

to have such a divisive right-wing extremist speak at their function.

Bad decision for an organization that is (at least overtly) non-political.

[Monkeyman]

3. This is as it should be. Lets hope he never speaks again

[melissinha]

4. John Walsh seems more appropriate anyway

don't know anything about him..... just my two cents

[AlCzervik]

6. yes and O'Reilly is never an appropriate choice imo.

[melissinha]

8. you got that right

They should have asked Patty Wetterling, of course she probably does that circuit anyway, I wonder what her opinion of this whole debacle was....

[AlCzervik]

9. smacks forhead! I didn't even think of her, she would have been an excellent

choice and she is someone that doesn't really get any spotlight.

[PreacherCasey]

5. Alright! That's what I'm talking about. A little action by a group of

concerned individuals got something done. Glad to have been a part of it.

[Dracos]

7. Oh hell yes

this is great news :kick:

[ellenfl]

10. i just have to ask . . . was he mark foley's replacement? eom

[seabeyond]

11. HHHA. kinda like the campaigns he has against so many, like the french

pay back is a bitch.... and it didnt result in higher record sales.

[EFerrari]

12. Submariner, I want to officially hand you the keys to San Francisco.

(Don't ask me how I got 'em though, lol.)

:applause::applause::applause:

:hi:

[KG]

13. who the hell in that organization thought o'rielly was a appropriate choice

for keynote speaker? oy!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

14. I guess the loofahs and falafel weren't enough of a red flag.

:shrug: MKJ

[pamela]

15. I sent one, too.

I'm not one to send a lot of emails, either, but I sent them one about two weeks ago. I talked about the Hornbeck case but I also mentioned his sexual harassment case. I said that I thought it would be disgraceful for them to have him as a speaker.

I'm thrilled that they canceled him. I can't believe they would invite a sexual predator to speak in the first place. What were they thinking?