Fair and balanced doesn’t float.<\/p>\n
A cruise featuring Fox News star Bill O’Reilly that had been shilled on the conservative pundit’s popular cable show has been cancelled due to a lack of interest. <\/p>\n
The week-long Caribbean cruise, themed “The Battle for American Values,” hoped to have 800 passengers on board, but it fell “well short” of its goal, according to The Thomas More Law Center, which was to get a share of the revenue. <\/p>\n
“Mr. O’Reilly, who has been a friend of our organization for a long time, wanted to go to bat for us, and a cruise sounded like a good idea at the time,” said Dan Costanzo, director of public relations for the conservative think tank. <\/p>\n
“Unfortunately, it didn’t work out the way we hoped,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The conservative Thomas More Law Center asked the organizing travel agency for more time to generate interest in the cruise. The agency agreed to the extension, but it didn’t help.<\/p>\n
And while O’Reilly is no doubt doubly disappointed — he won’t get the cash and he has to suffer the embarrassment — one of the few people who signed up for the cruise seems even more saddened by the cancellation.<\/p>\n
“I’m very, very disappointed,” said liberal political comedian Al Franken. “My wife and I had made it our vacation, and we really had been looking forward to the cruise and hearing Bill O’Reilly talk about the American values all while sailing the high seas.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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