21 replies on “This time it’s personal.”

  1. Stark is dead right about O’Reilly, but his actually going to New York was definitely ill-advised. That being said, what kind of stuck up little prick actually tries to destroy the career of his detractors? It just drives home the point that O’Reilly is delusional, paranoid and vindictive. It also drives home the point that Stark has really hit a nerve with these people.

  2. Waldo, I predict I speak for most in the progressive blogosphere when I ask you to keep us up to date on this important story. And please let us know if there is anything we can do to support Mike. O’Reilly with the help of his smitten little FORMER Delegate John Welch exploded on Virginia Beach and it wasn’t pretty. O’Lielly even had his camera crews stalking our mayor to her home. In Virginia, we don’t put up with this crap. Thanks.

  4. Some of the things Mike Stark did sounds entirely reasonable, and I really don’t like the way Fox is going about this, but it seems like the Fox lawyers may have a point about criminal harassment as regards posting signs in O’Reilly’s neighborhood and distributing packets about the alleged sexual harassment to his neighbors, not to mention showing up at O’Reilly’s house. I’m not legal expert, so I can’t say with any certainty, but it seems within the realm of possibility.

    It’s unfortunate that people want to respond to O’Reilly’s douchebaggery in-kind. It just ends up making both sides look bad.

  5. Mike Stark offered Allen the chance to transform the election. Had Allen cooly replied that the question was uncalled for, turned on his heel and calmly walked away, he would have won. Even though Webb had nothing to do with Stark, Webb and Stark would have looked like jerks and Allen would have looked like the gentleman.

    As it was the response of Allen’s goons simply reinforced the existing narrative.

    I don’t understand why U VA would listen to faux noise, makes me glad I didn’t go there.

  6. It’s not alleged. It’s been settled. There is tape. Bill O’Reilly sexually harrassed a former employee. He can hand out whatever he wants to his neighbors as long as he’s not breaking the canvassing rules of the community.

    O’Reilly uses bully tactics on his television show. Someone pushes back and he becomes indignant? It’s about time.

  8. I’m sorry, but Stark is nuts. This over-the-top “look at me!” method of trying to get a point across hurts him and any attempted message more than it could possibly hurt his target. It’s irrational and uncalled for and I think it’s legitimate grounds for questioning whether or not he is fit to be a laywer in the Commonwealth.

  9. Stark is unconventional, and I am of the opinion that confronting O’Reilly at his home was unwise, I do know him personally, and he is definitely not nuts.

  10. what kind of stuck up little prick actually tries to destroy the career of his detractors?

    You describe Stark better than I could’ve hoped to.

  11. Looks like Mr. Stark has pulled down his leftwingnut blog. Being a dick 24/7 has come back to bite him in the ass, and it looks like he’s running scared. Payback’s a bitch, Mike.

  12. Nice try, Publius, but last I checked, Stark wasn’t an uber-popular megalomaniac who was picking on a kindly old talk show host. It would be like me suing the bug that hit my windshield last week.

  13. I can’t imagine it will have an actual impact on his character review by the Board of Examiners, but it sure as hell adds some extra time and trouble that it shouldn’t. I’m a lukewarm fan of Stark, but he shouldn’t have to deal with shit like this.

    And don’t worry, Publius, the Hall of Fame of Ridiculously Personal Internet Inspired Retribution is firmly held by your ideological fellow travelers.

  14. It’s always a little surprising to me when I see people suggest that my activism extreme.

    Of course it is.

    People are comfortable in their nice little boxes; boxes with well defined edges and corners… Effective activism has to stretch those boxes a bit…

    So I’m not surprised that there are plenty of people that find my efforts disconcerting, obnoxious or otherwise offensive.

    But I am surprised that y’all don’t get that I’ve been effective if you’re feeling that way.

    Anyway, great clip on WCAV tonight – here’s the link:
    http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/11724426.html

  15. I can’t wait for Stark to become a lawyer. I want to hire him. I’m fed up with limp-wristed lawyer boys who puff themselves up while America endures illegal “signing statements”, illegal surveillance, illegal jailings and suspension of Habeas Corpus. The “law” loses value with every Scooter Libby, or Morgan Griffith that pops out of law school.

    We have a legislature full of “fit lawyers” and they continue to negotiate with criminals in the Whitehouse, or diss the citizens of Virginia with $3000 traffic “fees” that they will then defend on your behalf (I’m talking about you Delegate Albo).

    If the “law” was doing it’s job, that philandering sodomite Roger Ailes wouldn’t be running a public media outlet as the propaganda wing of the Republican Party, and Bill O’Reilly would be censored for fraudulently and maliciously threatening people with the “Fox Security”. Guys like Stark could stay at home, raise his babies, get his education, and the government would do its job. As is, when times get tough, the tough turn pro. Mike Stark is just doing what the rest of us are either afraid to do, or are paid too much to make trouble. Thanks Mike!

  16. Is there anybody that comments here that is as (a) clear-thinking and (b )wonderfully entertaining in his writing style as Bubby? Ladies and gentlemen, I submit that there is not.

  18. Publius, does he get his point across? Is that the point of language? Are the blog comments a graded essay? If not, then what the hell do you care?

  19. Is Roberto Gonzales “fit to be a lawyer”? Or does making a disaster of the Department of Justice, perjury, and approving violation of the Geneva Convention treaty not rise to the severity of say, lying about a blow job?

  20. Cool your jets there, Dan. Mr. Landers posited a question; I answered him. Feel free to cast your own vote in response. What’s with you self-described “progressives” and always trying to silence opposing views? Not coincidentally, that’s what Stark does in his spare time — desperately tries to silence those he disagrees with.

    The only “point” I see is a poorly written tirade and a cheerleader coming in afterwards essentially saying, “Yay team! We can talk tough, too! We’re not really a bunch of wimps after all!”

    But you go right ahead and claim that if a conservative had written something similarly at an 8th level, and included “limp-wristed” in attacking his political opponents, Harry would’ve praised it. Good luck keeping a straight face while you do that.

  21. Pointing out the ridiculousness of a viewpoint isn’t silencing anything. Of course, if the speaker then realizes how stupid he sounds, and decides to shut up . . . well, that’s on him.

    But since we’re generalizing, what’s with the inability of self-styled “conservatives” to participate in any conversation without twisting beyond all reason the words of everyone else? Is playing the victim the ultimate goal in all of it, these days?

    (Also, if you’re going to be a grammar ass, you might want to be sure that your own posts are practically perfect in every way, Mary.)

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