Some Thoughts For Your Morning

- Fox and conservative talk radio are going to be so much fun today. After it was announcedearly this morning that Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Price, you can be sure that people on the right are going to have their collective knickers in a twist. In a few months I'm sure Glenn Beck will have a scathing expose where an undercover pimp and prostitute have infiltrated the Nobel Commitee to get some dirt on them.

- Isn't it interesting and utterly ironic that Michelle Bachman would claim that she has stalkers from certain news networks while doing an interview with Bill O'Reilly. After all, his lap-dog Jesse Waters is more than willing to do his master's bidding and even follow someone across state lines in order to ambush them. And it's not just Fox"News" that practices and condones this. Michelle Malkin is well known to stalk families with whom she disagrees.

- In another episode in Fox"News" continuing efforts to conjure up anything against Obama's "czars" Karl Rove is now claiming that Kevin Jennings actively supported NAMBLA. Sean Hannity has been on this kick for a while, even claiming that he covered up a statutory rape many years ago when he was a school counselor. The later and the former have been fully debunked by various people, but it should be pointed out that Both Hannity and Rove have not-so-bright pasts of their own. Most notably, Sean Hannity was overtly sympathetic to neo-Nazi Hal Turner and offered him a platform regularly on his radio program.

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More from Think Progress

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly employs producers charged with the specific mission of ambushing and harassing those who have said critical things about him. O’Reilly has not only stalked and accosted ThinkProgress deputy editor Amanda Terkel, but he has also targeted at least 40 other individuals in much the same way.

But How Did They Find Her?

Amanda Terkel, blogger for Think Progress, was ambushed after she wrote about O'Reilly's comments directed toward a rape victim and his being offered to keynote a fundraiser for the foundation.

* as an interesting sidenote, you'll notice that for an additional $75 you could have your picture taken with O'Reilly and get your book signed. pathetic *

Amanda then became the latest victim of O'Reilly's selective, moral outrage and he sent his mouth-agape stalker - Jesse Waters - to ambush her while she was on vacation. But, the story doesn't end there:

Watters and his camera man accosted me at approximately 3:45 p.m. on Saturday, March 21, in Winchester, VA, which is a two-hour drive from Washington, DC. My friend and I were in this small town for a short weekend vacation and had told no one about where we were going. I can only infer that the two men staked out my apartment and then followed me for two hours. Looking back, my friend and I remember seeing their tan SUV following us for much of the trip.

The question I want to know is how did they find out where she lived?

It's a given that O'Reilly is quite frightened of a woman with an opinion that is unafraid to voice it. But when you use your "connections" to find out where a person lives and stalk them out of state in order to somehow prove that you are powerful, then perhaps the validity of your program and your career should be questioned.

David Neiwert @ crooksandliars reminds us that this isn't the first time that O'Reilly had made offensive comments about a victim and was asked to speak at a fundraiser that highlighted the plight of those victims:

No doubt O'Reilly is still reeling from the embarrassment of a previous case where his grotesquely insensitive remarks came back to haunt him: namely, the Shawn Hornbeck incident, in which O'Reilly first suggested that a boy who had been kept a captive of a child molester for years had somehow "wanted it." As it happened, he was scheduled to speak before a conference for the families of missing kids. The ensuing uproar didn't subside until his appearance was cancelled.