here they are the minute that happens to a conservative funder and they act as though the mccarthy convention has been rejuvenated. frank van der sloot is somebody that has spent a decade really engaged in campaigns of intimidation and bullying against people that are defenseless and ordinary citizens that say negatively about him get threatening lawyer letters. people are petrified about writing about him. the minute somebody wants to look at your believes, agenda, he turns himself into this victim. it s really amazing to watch. glen greenwald. thank you for your reporting on this. i know you and i have talked about what it s like to get the lawyer back splash when ever you mention his name.
which you put on the record. we asked mr. van der sloot about his involvement in that anti-gay billboard in idaho, and he just this year gave us this statement. he said quote, i m a strong supporter of the argument that gay and lesbian people should have the same rights as all other americans. my arguments against the documentary was not against the film itself but its audience. i don t believe that sexual concepts should be introduced to students. most americans would agree it should not be shown to little kids. again, fox news has bothered to let the details around this thing get in the way of the good story here, right? a good scandal about the president having some kind of enemies list. after a wall street journal
directly? it did right away. the first day we had phone calls and customers that wanted to cancel. they wanted to cancel because you re a lousy guy. they said that i hated gay people and i was anti-gay. anybody who was buying your products that were gay said i m not buying it. they smeared you. they slimed you. they made that up out of whole cloth. why would they say this untrue thing about you? it s not really a rhetorical question. that s a question with an answer which mr. o reilly had in his fingertips in the form of transcripts from his own tv show. mr. van der sloot appeared on the o reilly factor in august of 1999 to talk about his public campaign against the gay. he just helped finance these
that were not news but which fox news hyped for its audience until they became the most important story even as nobody else watching any source of non-right wing news had any idea what they were talking about. that is happening again. they are trying to take us on a new national trip like they have done before, but the new one is accusing prosecute obama of terrorism. they say he s a political terrorist, and not just saying this on sometimes wacky fox news website but saying this on the primetime programming. this is frank van der sloot. he s a finance co-share for the mitt romney campaign. he s one of the gazillionare
if you look at the 2008 presidential election, almost every single one of the people associated with candidate obama was put under all kinds of microscopes. not people closely associated with him but even remotely associated with him. fox news led the way in those investigations of private citizens. bill o reilly has doze exposes. here they are the minute that happens to a conservative funder and they act as though the mccarthy convention has been rejuvenated. frank van der sloot is somebody that has spent a decade really engaged in campaigns of intimidation and bullying against people that are defenseless and ordinary citizens that say negatively