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In reply to the discussion: Bwaaaaaaaaaaaah Fox News forced to backtrack again over Bill O'Reilly's reporting claims [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)26. Worst are O'Reilly's lies about JFK assassination.
O'Reilly claimed to have been the guy who knocked on George De Mohrenschildt's door, the day of his suicide. De Mohrenschildt was Oswald's CIA handler and also a friend of George Herbert Walker Bush.
What's really bad is this: Before he went to work for Rupert Murdoch's BFEE made man Roger Ailes, O'Reilly made clear the evidence he had examined in regards to Dallas made clear the case for conspiracy. After he went to work for FOX, O'Reilly STFU and went along.
Thus, Killing Kennedy is just the latest example of OReillys lucrative decision to sell out, even on a topic that once appeared to draw his honest interest. Many years ago OReilly was the host of a syndicated program called Inside Edition that drew on his past acquaintance with Gaeton Fonzi, the late, great field investigator for both the Church Committee and the HSCA. Fonzi supplied OReilly with many interesting stories about the Kennedy case in the early 1990s when Oliver Stones film was creating a new furor about the case. The stories all pointed toward a conspiracy, and some still exist on YouTube today.
But then, OReilly was hired by longtime Republican operative Roger Ailes to work for Rupert Murdochs Fox network. According to author Russ Baker, OReilly wanted to continue his investigative pieces on the JFK case at Fox, but these ambitions were quashed by Ailes, who had cut his teeth in politics as a media consultant for Kennedys archrival, Richard Nixon.
So today, OReillys work on the Kennedy case is contrary to what he did before. He even suggests the chief motive for his sell-out on page 313. He dedicates the book to his boss, Roger Ailes, whom he obsequiously calls a brilliant, fearless warrior.
-- James DiEugenio, a great DUer
But then, OReilly was hired by longtime Republican operative Roger Ailes to work for Rupert Murdochs Fox network. According to author Russ Baker, OReilly wanted to continue his investigative pieces on the JFK case at Fox, but these ambitions were quashed by Ailes, who had cut his teeth in politics as a media consultant for Kennedys archrival, Richard Nixon.
So today, OReillys work on the Kennedy case is contrary to what he did before. He even suggests the chief motive for his sell-out on page 313. He dedicates the book to his boss, Roger Ailes, whom he obsequiously calls a brilliant, fearless warrior.
-- James DiEugenio, a great DUer
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