O'Reilly Unleashes Fox Lawyers in Attempt to Sink Critic's Career (Mike Stark)

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O'Reilly unleashes Fox lawyers in attempt to sink critic's career
Nick Juliano

Host tries to get aggressive liberal blogger booted from law school
For Bill O'Reilly, ambushing your political enemies with a video camera is just fine, as long as the camera is pointed in the opposite direction.

Blogger Mike Stark has a history of haranguing O'Reilly during his call-in radio show, and he once visited the Fox host's house to mock him over sexual harassment allegations. And now Stark, 39, has become the target of a network executive working on behalf of the combative Fox News pundit. Fox VP Dianne Brandi has written to the dean of the Univeristy of Virginia's law school, where Stark is in his second year, urging an investigation of his conduct.

Stark told RAW STORY his dean has shown him a copy of the letter but would not allow it to be distributed to others. The letter accuses Stark of violating the university's codes of conduct, and it warns that he would have trouble passing the fitness review required for admission to the bar.

The showdown began with Stark's calls to O'Reilly's radio show -- "telling the truth when he didn't want to talk about the truth," as Stark characterizes it -- and escalated to a videotaped confrontation in O'Reilly's driveway.

Brandi claimed the visit amounted to harassment, but Stark said he sees it as a reasonable response after O'Reilly sent a producer to the home of Jet Blue CEO David Neeleman when the airline sponsored this summer's YearlyKos conference of progressive bloggers and activists.

O'Reilly made YearlyKos one of his favorite targets in August, when he smeared the conference's namesake blog, Daily Kos, with a few offensive comments dredged from the thousands posted by readers every day. Stark accosted O'Reilly at his Manhasset, NY, home and implored him to "stop lying" about the blog. He also distributed copies of a 3-year-old sexual harassment lawsuit filed against O'Reilly to his neighbors and displayed signs branding the host a pervert -- actions some say cross ethical boundaries.

"Nobody's going to convince me that what I did is wrong," Stark said in a recent interview.

O'Reilly is no stranger to ambushing his political enemies and shoving cameras in their faces. Just two weeks ago, an "O'Reilly Factor" producer showed up at a public book signing to ask former "View" co-host Rosie O'Donnell about her speculating that 9/11 was an inside job.

In Stark's eyes, his actions are no different than those authorized by the Fox host, especially the Jet Blue visit.

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[Bluzmann57]

1. And once again, BillO shows his true colors

He sure can dish it out but he can't take it. In my book, that makes him a big sissy. So if any O'Reilly people are reading this, FUCK YOU AND FUCK YOUR IDOL! Sorry if this isn't real eloquent, but after all, I'm just one of the "folks" Billo talks about. Except I dislike him. A lot.

[acmavm]

2. Bill O'Reilly is the poster boy for the repubic party. Soft, flabby,

white, unscrupulous, amoral, conniving, a sexual predator, and a liar.

[NoodleyAppendage]

3. Mike Stark has BALLS. We need more Mike Starks in this world. Good for him.

Stark is brave when other liberals choose to look away and allow the Repuke machine to spew their hate and propaganda without consequence.

Personal hero of the month = Mike Stark.

J

[Shlomo Yehudim]

4. O'Reilly Is Pathetic

I hope his case is thrown out.

[gratuitous]

5. Poor Billo

He likes his targets weak and defenseless, and some people just don't know that they're supposed to roll over for him. Since Billo's position at Fox is unassailable, perhaps it's time to write to his show's sponsors and ask them how they like their products being associated with such a bully and tyrant? It's just possible that if Fox takes a financial hit in the shorts, they might reconsider who is worth keeping on the air and who should be let go . . .

[TheUniverse]

6. Bill O'reilly is allowed to ambush you in your house.

But don't you dare ambush him in his house. Bill O'reilly needs his private loofah time...

[Stephanie]

7. that's falafel time

chickpea

[zbdent]

9. You know, if he's not doing anything illegal or immoral, then

he shouldn't have a problem with surveillance of his home ...

[zbdent]

8. Repukes hate lawyers ...

until they have to use them to gang up on the little guys when they don't want to soil themselves in a fair fight ...