. . . O'Reilly: Now, Powerline, do you go after everybody, or do you just look at liberals, or are you trying to promote a conservative agenda? What exactly are you trying to do?
Mirengoff: Well, we're conservative, and most, we do a lot of opining - hopefully opining, not bloviating, [a]long conservative lines. And when we report facts, we link to our facts, so the reader can go and check our sources and see whether we've gotten it right. And if we make a mistake, and it does happen, blogs do operate very fast, we make a mistake we get the correction...
O'Reilly: But say you got a tip that said Tom Delay was doing something wrong or a conservative politician, anybody. Would you pursue that, or would you just dump it in the wastebasket?
Mirengoff: No, if we had solid information we would go with that. We were highly, no one read us, it was years ago and no one was reading us at the time, but we were highly critical of Trent Lott, when that story broke with respect to Senator Thurmond and his comment. So, you know, we are conservative, but we don't shield anybody.
O'Reilly: OK. Alright. So you say that you're in business to get the truth out to the folks. That's what your businesses do.
Mirengoff: Yes, and to present conservative opinions.
O'Reilly: Opinion. Alright. Now some of these other smear websites on the left, I mean all they do is follow people around and tape them and try to, you know, get little things that they say and take them out of context. So if you say a joke they present it as serious. Do you do that as well? Do you try to denigrate the other side?
Mirengoff: No. We try to treat the other side with respect.
O'Reilly: Nothing more to say on that? You don't use defamatory tactics, you don't go after anybody and try to destroy them because you disagree with them?
Mirengoff: No. . . .
O'Reilly: Alright. So you didn't bad mouth Rather, you didn't a history of his "Ratherisms" or try to make him look like some kind of ideological fool?
Mirengoff: No, not at, later on, we linked to some, his history became relevant when he continued denying, denying the story, we linked to some people who did that. But the far focus was on the story not on Dan Rather.
O'Reilly: OK. Now Powerline has become very successful and it's you and a couple of other lawyers running it. Correct?
Mirengoff: Correct.
O'Reilly: Now George Soros on the left, has bought his way into a number of these websites and uses them to obviously try to hurt people with whom he disagrees. You have silent funding from right wingers?
Mirengoff: No. We don't get a penny from anybody. We, our goal is to say what we think and we don't want to be constrained, we don't want to bought and paid for, or doing anyone's bidding.
O'Reilly: So no, no Melanskafe[sp?] or any of these guys kick you money and...
Mirengoff: No, no absolutely not. Not a penny. We have a little advertising revenue now, but that's it.
O'Reilly: So you're basically above-board? Conservative, but not looking to destroy anybody.
Mirengoff: No. We're not out to destroy anybody. We try to be about ideas and we call them as we see them and because we're not funded we have the freedom to that.
O'Reilly: Alright Mr. Mirengoff. And Mary Mapes is absolutely welcome anytime to come on this program to say whatever she wants to say. We appreciate your taking your time.
Mirengoff: Thank you.
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