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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 03:51 PM Jan 2015

Bill O'Riley performs Frankenstein test: fire BAD, wine GOOD, bread GOOD, Socialist suing Fox BAD.



During an interview Tuesday with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, (Paris Mayor Anne) Hidalgo announced she plans to sue Fox News after the network "insulted" the image of the city with a bogus report on non-Muslim "no-go zones." Over the weekend, the network apologized four times for several unsubstantiated claims made on the air, but Hidalgo insisted that the city will "have to go to court in order to have these words removed."

O'Reilly hit back Tuesday night, calling the threat of legal action "ridiculous" and an "attention-getter," and took time to remind viewers that Hidalgo belongs to the Socialist Party.

"I didn’t have anything to do with this, but I will point out that the mayor is a socialist, that Fox News isn’t even seen in France, because they block it there,” he said. "So this is just an attention-getter, another playing to the left, that’s what this is. Suit’s going nowhere. It’s ridiculous.”

When commentator Bernie Goldberg pushed back, stating that "if any news organization has to apologize as many times as Fox has over this one issue, something is wrong,” O'Reilly attempted to shift the blame to Steven Emerson, the Fox News guest who made the initial "no-go zones" remark about Birmingham, England.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/21/bill-oreilly-paris-blasts-mayors-plan-to-sue-fox-news_n_6515658.html
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Bill O'Riley performs Frankenstein test: fire BAD, wine GOOD, bread GOOD, Socialist suing Fox BAD. (Original Post) Miles Archer Jan 2015 OP
France blocks Fox? merrily Jan 2015 #1
Nnnnn--no. rogerashton Jan 2015 #3
Are you telling me O'Reilly lied? merrily Jan 2015 #4
I'm shocked, shocked ... rogerashton Jan 2015 #6
Vive la France! shenmue Jan 2015 #2
Pate! merrily Jan 2015 #7
And the right wing love affair with France flames out just as quickly as it began. tanyev Jan 2015 #5
Poor li'l things bruise easily. merrily Jan 2015 #8

merrily

(45,251 posts)
4. Are you telling me O'Reilly lied?
Wed Jan 21, 2015, 06:00 PM
Jan 2015
"I didn’t have anything to do with this, but I will point out that the mayor is a socialist, that Fox News isn’t even seen in France, because they block it there,” he said. "So this is just an attention-getter, another playing to the left, that’s what this is. Suit’s going nowhere. It’s ridiculous.”
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