Mark Cuban: 'Bill O'Reilly is My New Best Friend'

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Mark Cuban: 'Bill O'Reilly is My New Best Friend'
Dallas Mavericks Owner, Media Mogul, Blogger is 'Very Grateful' for Fox News Anchor's Attacks on His Production Company's New Brian DePalma Film, 'Redacted'...

-- Blogged by Brad Friedman, from BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas...

Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, several television networks and, in fact, a blogger, is "very grateful" to Bill O'Reilly, the Fox "News" media personality who has been attacking -- and even threatening -- him mercilessly, of late.

I'm sitting in at Cuban's closing Keynote address at BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Vegas (I have been at the conference to speak on political blogging on a number of different panels) and I just asked him, during the Q&A, whether he finds O'Reilly's attacks "to be a net plus or net minus" for his various business interests and enterprises.

After first replying that O'Reilly's attacks didn't much matter, and that they had very little effect either way, I followed up to ask specifically about Brian DePalma's upcoming film, Redacted, which Cuban's network, HDNet is releasing shortly.

"When it comes to a specific project like Redacted," Cuban responded, "which is a small movie, it's grown bigger and bigger by the day. So I'm very grateful to him."

"Bill O'Reilly is my new best friend," he added, to laughter from the crowd which was made up of bloggers and industry-related folks of all political stripes...

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playing a dangerous game with a very justifiably angry populace.

Here's chickenhawk O'LOOFAH receiving the VFW Errect Loofah Award

I don't know if he is a Democrat or not but I have a lot of respect for some of the things that he has done. He has a sense of civic responsibility and he acts on it. If he every runs for office I'll support him any way I can.

Gave hope to geezers everywhere!!

He also has money, and doesn't seem to be MEAN because of it. That's points in his favor as well.

And I live about 1,500 miles from Dallas.
He didn't even publicize it.

I'm waiting for O'Reilly to crack. His paranoia about the straw man 'far left' he's dreamt up will soon completely consume him, and relegate him to a lunatic asylum for the rest of his days.

One of his mottos for creating buzz around a product he's trying to sell is that, with the obvious exceptions, any publicity is good publicity. The way he sees it, faux news provided some great free advertising -- and he knows full well that controversy sells.

As an added bonus: who knows how many of bill-o's koolaid drinkin' sheep will be curious enough about the movie and go see it and actually be enlightened...I know, I know, dream on.

Anyway, a hearty :thumbsup: to faux news! Way to go!

Okay, he hasn't been the same since he started confusing his loofah with a falafel, but that's another story.

:rofl: