Center for American Progress’ Terkel Hounded by O’Reilly

in Blogs Mediacrity by Adam Peck — March 23, 2009 at 12:50 pm | 0 comments

Late Update 10:49p: Sure enough, Bill O’Reilly aired his vitriolic segment on Think Progress and Amanda Terkel. Take a gander.

Update 6:33p: Fox News has released a preview for tonight’s episode of The O’Reilly Factor, and it looks like Amanda Terkel’s segment will air tonight. As much as it may pain you, watch tonight and see what they report. We will try and get hold of Amanda later this week for her comment, and THEN you can decide.

Amanda Terkel, a blogger for Think Progress (which is a project of the Center for American Progress just like us), has been the latest victim of Bill O’Reilly’s thug producers.

Terkel wrote on the blog about the Alexa Foundation’s curious decision to invite O’Reilly to speak at a fundraiser last week. The Alexa Foundation is a support organization for rape victims, while O’Reilly has gone so far as to suggest that women who dress a particular way or consume too much alcohol should expect to be raped.

Apparently Terkel was ambushed by notorious sleazebag Jesse Watters, who has gone after other notable O’Reilly critics like Keith Olbermann,  Newsday editor John Mancini, and The New Yorker’s Hendrick Hertzberg:

Read her account of how the interview went down.

Keep an eye out for the segment this week (see update above) on the O’Reilly factor, and note what they choose to air. We’ll be trying to get an interview with Terkel in the coming days.