Fox Harassment Spreads: College Professor Stalked

Think Progress:

This morning, Fox and Friends praised producer Griff Jenkins for stalking and ambushing Columbia University professor Alan Brinkley to grill him on portions of his book Jenkins found objectionable. Jenkins -- who perfected his harassment tactics as a minion of harassment expert Bill O'Reilly -- appeared on Fox and Friends to defend his "worthy cause" of ambushing unwitting writers who write things he disagrees with:

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[pfc1369]

You Decide:

Professor Alan Brinkley of Columbia..­..Or,

The Nerd from Central Casting?

[merger]

Free press at work.

[sophistwatch]

The stalking bit is over the top, but it is good for our appreciation of free speech to have BillO and Beck types spewing nonsense.

If used properly FOX is a good way to get rid of stress. When you get up tight just turn on FOX and start screaming, yelling and throwing sh*t at the TV. It's a cheap source of good cardio. Come on. How many times have you caught yourself having a full on creaming match with BillO, Beck, the Beltway Boys or FOX and Friends, and there isn't another soul in the house?

In short I think FOX is a good punching bag. Use it for what it is.

[AgeofReason]

Actually it reads, "Liberal bias IN books." Just a typo in my first post.

[AgeofReason]

Look at the banner on the picture of the FoxNews screen. "Liberal bias is books." When is Fox going to admit that all real information has a liberal bias. Oh, wait. Fox has a "conservative" bias--they don't deal with real information.

[alnc]

THIS IS NOT JOURNALISM!!! This is some kind of imtimidation tatic posing as a gimic to make a point and there needs to be some kind of STANDARDS placed about the news gathering community to attack or to police themselves and RENEGADE outlets like the disgusting Muchdoch empire of darkeness!!!!!

[TruEngineHearing]

Plan: 1- get the police involved immediately, 2- go under the radar and undo Jenkins personal life. 3- go have a beer

[Madmac]

I can turn a fox stalker into prison companion in less than 5 minutes…

1. Compliment him about how their mother/gir­lfriend/wi­fe did a special trick for you last evening in front of stalkers’ camera crew.
2. Keep needling said fox stalker about the proclivities of said partner while stalker/bully keeps asking questions about “topic” they came to stalk you about.
3. Watch stalker lose his cool and either threaten or attack you on camera.
4. Call Police and have fox assaulter arrested for assault and or battery.
5. Wave bye bye to the soon to be Prison Companion

[dutchman]

One day this practice is going to collide violently with the NRA's push to allow concealed weapons.

[Melissa]

I think it was Dan Rather or Mike Wallace that used to do this all the time on 60 minutes.

[dutchman]

Push for concealed weapons?

[swo68]

"Fox Harassment Spreads"

Spreads? He's been doing this for years. This isn't new. It's as ridiculous as people just discovering Rush.

[mikesw]

Fox is concerned about "inaccurate material" being published????

April Fool's, right?

[lmvd3]

I think we should all buy a copy of this guy's book, to see what facts in the book are scaring Fox so much that they're trying to discredit his stellar reputation as a scholar.

[DA12]

I don't understand why people don't mace these lunatics and be done with it. Don't talk about your textbook, hit them with your textbook.

[lisakaz2]

I like it! I currently walk with a cane. I could easily imagine using it to trip some looosar producer.

[swo68]

I LOVE the gotcha stalkings when the people have it coming. But I agree... the "victims" need to be a little more proactive.

[noamjunior]

given O'Lie-ly's sorry sexual past, wouldn't put a mic from fox news next to my mouth unless it had a rubber on it

[dutchman]

A NEW rubber....­.

[dadw5boys]

145 WHEN ? WHERE ?

Charities ????????