James Cannon Boyce

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A former advertising and marketing executive and winner of over 50 advertising awards for excellence, including one Clio, James was an unpaid Senior Advisor on John Kerry's 2004 Presidential Campaign. Since then, he was been blogger, activist, Democratic Strategist on MSNBC and FOX News and founder of Common Sense NMS.

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Salon.com
JANUARY 31, 2011 9:38AM

Bobby Shriver Vs. Bill O’Reilly. Not. A. Fair. Fight.

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Earlier last week, Bill O'Reilly had great fun attacking The Global Fund on his show, grabbing onto the sensational headlines about corruption in Africa. He brought out some so-called expert from The Heritage Foundation on his show except the expert didn't really understand The Global Fund, what had actually happened and didn't really understand what he was talking about other than to scream massive corruption; that this corruption was bad and even though he didn't blame it on Obama being born in Kenya, he probably wishes he had remembered that core talking point of our fine conservative brethren at the Heritage Institute - an organization initially funded by the Coors family and Richard Mellon Scaife.

O'Reilly, not surprisingly, was not really interested in pointing out that the "corruption" in the story was a result of The Global Fund internal audit team rooting it out and then going public with it and telling the world we're spending billions in Africa and we checked our spend and here are the problems we are identified; less than half of one percent of the total aid sent to Africa from The Global Fund.

But what's the fun of that Mr No Spin Zone said? Let's make this about celebrities, Bono pictures of course, and corruption and waste of money. So he even tried to compare The Global Fund to Haiti? He lost me on that one.

Well, on Friday night, my friend and partner-in-crime, Bobby Shriver went on O'Reilly's show and let's just say, Bill O'Reilly proved that punching a punch bag is a lot easier when the bag doesn't punch back. Bobby not only held his own but he set the record straight, telling O'Reilly how there are now six and a half million people in Africa alive today versus only 40,000 a decade ago because of the work of The Global Fund and others getting life-saving antitretroviral drugs in the hands of those battling HIV/AIDS.

This fact-based argument left O'Reilly to muddle that well, that's a pretty impressive number - and well...

Bobby even brought some amazing before and after pictures of people who lives have been saved; it was a powerful moment and one that left even O'Reilly I dare say, not quite speechless but definitely sure that this Shriver guy was not the pushover he had hoped he would be.

For me, it answered the question should Democrats and Progressives and smart people go on FOX NEWS? Absolutely. Because bring some wit, intelligence and great pictures, you can make it a great appearance, just like Bobby did.

Score one for the good guys and click here to see the video.

 

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