Tuesday, February 21, 2006
One Way Ticket to Darfur
This is a laugh and a half...
It seems the king of gimmicks and ridicule just got a great big good one thrown right back in his face.
E&P reports:
NEW YORK In a postscript to his regular New York Times column on Tuesday, Nicholas Kristof reveals that he has raised almost three-quarters of a million dollars from readers to send Fox News host Bill O'Reilly to troubled Darfur.
Kristof, embroiled in a public feud with O'Reilly, launched a pledge drive recently with this end in mind, and reports today that he has been "deluged by 6,675 pledges, averaging a bit more than $100." The grand total comes to $727,568, "so Mr. O'Reilly will be able to fly first class with the very best satellite phones and fill his water bottles with San Pelegrino."
O'Reilly has called Kristof's pledge drive "simply a gimmick, a ploy, to bring my name to his passion."
posted by voxpopgirl |
2/21/2006
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