FOX Attacks! Blog – O’Reilly Muzzles His “Ombudsman”

O’Reilly Muzzles His “Ombudsman” — After FOX ATTACKS! Decency Launches

Posted on November 9th, 2007 by DJK

So two months ago, O’Reilly chose Laurie Dhue to be his viewers’ ombudsman:

Next Thursday we'll begin a new feature on "The Factor" called "The Dhue Point." We've appointed FOX News anchor Laurie Dhue to be your ombudsman.

That means if you have a question, comment, beef or any other musing about "The Factor," you can write to Laurie, and she may well take up your cause.

…Laurie will pick the "Dhue Point" missives, and she promises to be tough on me.

Yesterday, we released our video FOX ATTACKS! Decency, which chronicles FOX’s (and especially BOR’s) moralizing about the decline and over-sexualization of American culture, all while showing as much of the over-sexualization the censors might allow. The video opens with a late gift we received from the Factor — a segment from the Dhue Point where a viewer asked why BOR continually shows explicitly sexual footage while espousing family values. It was the perfect opening to a video about FOX’s (and BOR’s) hypocrisy when it comes to sex. We couldn’t have asked for more (so big props to you, viewer Mary Diaz from Ft. Myers, FL!).

FOX ATTACKS! Decency has been an unprecedented runaway success for Brave New Films, receiving over 400,000 views in less than two days. Last night, BOR and Dhue said this:

DHUE: We here at the Dhue Point obviously want to make this segment as highly effective as possible. So, what do my peeps need to ask you in the Dhue Point?

O'REILLY: First of all, there's a couple of things going on with "The Dhue Point" everybody should know, because we depend on your questions to Laurie. No. 1, there are pinheads who want you to try to embarrass me. Those people come from the far-left precincts. Ignore them.

DHUE: Yeah. I'm getting an awful lot of email saying I'm too easy on you.

O'REILLY: It's all coming — it's all coming from the haters on the far left. Just throw it in the garbage. But the regular folks who really enjoy this program, what we want you to ask Laurie is why we do things, why we do them. All right? Or "we didn't really like that."

So the day after a question from the Dhue Point was used to publicly humiliate BOR and paint him as a hypocrite and creepy perv, BOR goes on the air to muzzle Dhue Point and claim that questions that “try to embarrass” BOR must come from “far-left precincts” and will be ignored. Maybe like the way Mary Diaz’s question has ended up embarrassing him.

Just seems like an awful big coincidence…

Please email your thoughts, opinions, and criticisms of the O’Reilly Factor to:

dhuepoint@foxnews.com

PS To all you O’Reilly fans who live in “far-left precincts”: SUCK IT! Your choice of location has doomed you, just like it has doomed the people of San Francisco, Boulder, and France! BOR will not shine his countenance upon you!

h/t DailyKos

dhrk

-And I notice O'Reilly never brings up the subject of having a draft --so everyone
has to serve.

Doesn't want to upset all the fat-asses
in his audience. Surely.

ccggE

Opinion burlesque.

Jen

To Tony, who said Fox was the only news outlet that addresses REAL AMERICAN VALUES: Huh? Just what does that mean to you? To me, it means upholding the American Constitution above all else, which is not only a great document, but includes many wonderful things :), such as a Bill of Rights and that funny little clause about war that says only Congress is authorized to decide whether we should go or not. Real American values do not mean the Executive branch is the only branch of government of power; last time I remembered, we were supposed to have three equal branches--you know, with checks and balances?

I do agree with you on one point however, that no specialized group deserves special treatment over another. IMHO, we (citizens) are all Americans and deserve equal protection. Because of entrenched policies, however, what we have right now are special rights particularly for that peculiar institution: the large corporation. It is the disappearing middle class and working classes that have been rowing their behinds off for years while a few elites sit back with their greedy mitts in the water!

Jen

Seems to me BO'R only picked an "ombudsman" in the first place to pretend to be addressing complaints...hmmm, not...but he makes it very clear in the beginning that any negative letters are all from those left-wing "loonies." He probably picked someone like Dhue because a) He'd have another attractive (maybe in some people's opinions, not mine) young woman to hit on and b) seriously folks, did anyone really think one of his fellow "anchors" (and I use the term with jest) was going to cross the ALMIGHTY BO'RE?

I don't watch FOX News on TV; if I flip by it by mistake while surfing channels, seeing anymore than a few seconds of it raises my blood pressure. Usually I see the stuff they do through the Web.

Oh, and for all you Neanderthals who post comments lauding the tarty image portrayed of women on this So-called news outlet, there are plenty of other ways to get your fill; if you can't afford the pay porn channels there's always basic channels like Spike, F/X or E! Or better yet, get a girlfriend. :) Not me though :), I'm happily married, to a man who respects women. Plus I'm sure even if I were single I'm not quite your type. I picture a doe-eyed "blonde in a bottle" who blinks a lot, but doesn't do or say much else (yes, I'm sure most of you are surprised, as you probably all stereotyped me as a man-hating Feminazi--as that other fake newsperson--Rush Limbaugh loves to say, most of you guys are probably familiar with him, right? He's probably one of the other corporate pimps in "man of the people" clothing who's so dear to your ilk).

I think this and other similar websites should keep on keepin' on...However, it still amazes me to no end that so many people staunchly defend this channel to the death. I guess it's hard to try to change a closed mind sometimes...

Tony

This is the worst cut-n-paste reporting I have ever seen. None of this is true about Fox News. I know - I've watched it for 6 years. You're a bunch of communists, left-wing loons, anti-American jackasses. I am no Neo-Con, but this is the only news outlet that addresses REAL AMERICAN VALUES, and not just the viewpoint of a small group of clowns obsessed with changing the US because of their cultural, racial, sexual or religious insecurities.

Jack

We here in San Francisco are proud that BOR wants us to SUCK IT (I mean who doesn't really) but frankly he's just not our type.

GregoryWonderwheel

Like everything FOX they are even lying about what an "ombudsman's" role is when O'Reilly gives her orders who to respond to and what to respond to. It is clear O'Reilly is takeing control of his "ombudsman" thus violating the first rule: that an ombudsman must have total independence to decide what to respond to and how.

freespeeeech

Fox promotes smut but Clear channel promotes pedaphilia. Checkout my post at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSm4ySIQYxI

or go to youtube account: arnulfozamora

It documents how the FCC decided to look the other way when I caught Clear channel repeatedly promoting pedaphilia!

Jon Gale

Why does BOR get to screen the questions when he will not offer the same to his guests

thedailyphosdex

How do we know those "far-left precincts" which Ms. Dhue was warned about aren't resident to substantial numbers of the poor, undereducated or otherwise easily-influenced?