On the NPR interview:
When asked if he was sorry he sued Al Franken O'Reilly denied he had anything to do with the lawsuit against Al
Franken, when media reports said O'Reilly forced FOX to sue him.
He said he was thinking of filing a lawsuit against Al Franken, but decided against it. He said Franken defamed
him, yet all he did was point out the truth. And to this day O'Reilly has not proven anything he has written to be factually untrue. Al Franken exposed O'Reilly as a liar, and Bill calls that
defamation. franken has even begged him to prove one thing he said wrong, O'Reilly refused to do so.
When asked about the Glick interview where he told Glick to shut up and cut his mic off O'Reilly claimed he was
joking when he told him to shut up. Bill was not joking, he was mad as hell and he was dead serious. I watched
this interview two times and read the transcript many times. He claimed Glick went on his show and said
president Bush allowed 9-11 to happen on purpose. That is a lie, and Bill knows it.
Here is what Mr. Glick actually said, read it and see if you can find the part where he says Bush let 9-11 happen.
Nowhere in this interview does Glick say what O'Reilly says he did.
GLICK: Well, you say -- I remember earlier you said it was a moral equivalency, and it's actually a material
equivalency. And just to back up for a second about your surprise, I'm actually shocked that you're surprised. If
you think about it, our current president, who I feel and many feel is in this position illegitimately by neglecting
the voices of Afro- Americans in the Florida coup, which, actually, somebody got impeached for during the
Reconstruction period -- Our current president now inherited a legacy from his father and inherited a political
legacy that's responsible for training militarily, economically, and situating geopolitically the parties involved in the
alleged assassination and the murder of my father and countless of thousands of others. So I don't see why it's
surprising...
The full transcript is here:
http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/transcripts/oreillyglick.htm Bill claims everyone took it out of context and did not print the whole interview, wrong. I printed the whole
interview, as did a lot of other websites and medio outlets did. Bill claims he has never had to retract anything,
and that he has only told someone to shut up 5 times in 7 years. He also claims that when he tells people to shut
up, it's done in a joking way, wrong. If he does it in a joking way, how come the vein in his forehead almost pops
out of his head. I have seen all the interviews where he tells people to shut up, I have never once seen him do it
in a joking way.
O'Reilly claims he never said he won a peabody award at any time. He said he simply mislabeled a peabody a polk.
He said anyone who claims he said he won a peabody is an absolute liar.
OREILLY: "Guy says about me, couple of weeks ago, 'O'Reilly said he won
a Peabody Award.' Never said it. You can't find a transcript where I said it." (O'Reilly Factor, 3/13/01)
If you do a nexis search and put in "peabody" and "Inside Edition" you get 3 matches, all 3 were O'Reilly claiming
Inside Edition won a peabody.
1st match - August 30, 1999:
OREILLY: I anchored a program called Inside Edition, which has won a peabody award.
2nd match - May 8, 2000:
OREILLY: Well, all I've got to say to that is Inside Edition has won, I -- I believe two peabody awards, the
highest journalism award in the country.
3rd match - May 19, 2000:
NEVILLE: You hosted Inside Edition...
OREILLY: Correct
NEVILLE: Which is considered a tabloid show
OREILLY: By whom?
NEVILLE: By many people
OREILLY: Does that mean...
NEVILLE: And even you...
OREILLY: ...We throw the peabody awards back? ....We won peabody awards
Al Franken called O'Reilly and asked him if Inside Edition won a peabody, Bill said they won two peabodys. Franken
informed him they had not won any, he hung up and called Franken back 10 minutes later. Then O'Reilly admitted
Inside Edition never won a peabody, it was a polk. BTW, they won it a year after O'Reilly left the show, so he had
nothing to do with winning it. As you can see Bill clearly said "we" won peabody awards, with the clear implication
he also won a peabody award. All the time he denied even saying Inside Edition ever won a peabody award.
The above information was provided by Al Frankens book "Lies and the lying liars who tell them" a fair and
balanced look at the right.
Now here is a totally different source with the same information.
Source: The carpetbaggerreport.com
Starting almost five years ago, O'Reilly was on FNC bragging about his award-winning, syndicated tabloid
program.
"I anchored a program called Inside Edition, which has won a Peabody Award for investigative reporting," O'Reilly
said on August 30, 1999.
"Well, all I've got to say to that is Inside Edition has won, I believe, two Peabody awards, the highest journalism
award in the country," O'Reilly said on his Fox News program on May 8, 2000.
Two weeks later, when an antagonistic guest was needling O'Reilly for his tabloid past, O'Reilly relied on the
supposed multiple Peabody awards to demonstrate his journalistic credentials.
"We won Peabody Awards," O'Reilly said. "A program that wins a Peabody Award, the highest award in journalism,
and you're going to denigrate it?"
Surprise, surprise, O'Reilly was wrong -- on several levels. Inside Edition never won a Peabody Award. His
incessant claims that "we" won an award failed to mention that show was honored after his departure.
With the revelation that O'Reilly had gotten all of the relevant details wrong, he backpedaled, said he never
actually made the claim in the first place, and started a ridiculous parsing of the word "we."
On March 31, 2001, O'Reilly said on his Fox News show, "Guy says about me, couple of weeks ago, 'O'Reilly said
he won a Peabody Award.' Never said it. You can't find a transcript where I said it. There is no one on earth you
could bring in that would say I said it."
How sad. Anyone who could check the transcripts could find multiple instances in which he made the Peabody
boast. O'Reilly's apparent defense is that he never claimed to have personally won a Peabody, only insisting that
his show won the award. Therefore, he argues, his original (and repeated) claim was technically true, except the
part about getting the name of the award wrong.
For a guy who continues to bash Clinton for parsing the word "is," O'Reilly's defense is pretty pathetic.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/000565.html Timeline -
16 Jul 2002 - Fox News dispatches a letter to the proprietor of oreilly-sucks.com insisting that he immediately
remove all instances of O'Reilly's name from the site. The letter is scanned, posted to the site, and promptly
ignored.
30 Aug 1999 - On his television show The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly declares: "I anchored a program called Inside
Edition, which has won a Peabody Award for investigative reporting."
8 May 2000 - On his television show The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly declares: "All I've got to say is that Inside
Edition has won, I -- I believe, two Peabody Awards, the highest journalism award in the country."
19 May 2000 - On his television show The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly declares: "We won Peabody Awards... We
won Peabody Awards... A program that wins a Peabody Award, the highest award in journalism, and you're going
to denigrate it?"
Feb 2001 - Bill O'Reilly gives a speech claiming credit for Inside Edition winning a coveted Peabody award during
his tenure.
1 Mar 2001 - The Washington Post reports that Inside Edition never won the Peabody Award. Although, they did
win a Polk award, but more than a year after O'Reilly had left the show.
13 Mar 2001 - On his television show The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly declares: "Guy says about me, a couple of
weeks ago, 'O'Reilly said he won a Peabody Award.' Never said it. You can't find a transcript where I said it."
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/pundits/bill-oreilly/ I have proof O'Dummy is lying about opposing the death penalty.
When David Westerfield was convicted of killing that little girl, he ran shows daily foaming at the mouth demanding he be put to death.
Read this:
http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/deathpenalty.htm O'Dummy claims to be pro-environment, yet he never does any shows on the issue, he supports
whatever the corporations do, and they are the ones polluting the air and the water. Bush fired 220 enforcement
officers at the EPA due to budget cuts. It would take 100 years to inspect each workplace in America just one
time. Yet O'Dummy never says a word about any of this. When Bush fored the 220 enforcement officers,
O'Dummy never even reported it, yet it was a huge story on the internet.
He contradicts himself over and over and over in the NPR interview.....
He says his show isn't there to "affect or change policy" than he brags in the NEXT SENTENCE that his show
is the "most powerful in affecting change".
He gives bush 9 more months to find WMD's, when a few months ago he gave him until after the war, then 30 more days, then 3 more months, then the end of the year, now he is giving him 9 more months.
He says that he NEVER ATTACKS PEOPLE'S CREDIBILITY AND NEVER LIES!!!!
He said he accidently registered as a republican in 1996, when asked how that happened, he said he don't know and don't remember, he said it was an oversight. A couple years ago he said there was no box for independent so he checked republican, which story is correct Bill ? And he was claiming to be an independent for 4 years from 1996 to 2000, until he got busted by the Washington Post in 2000. The whole time he was a registered republican, yet somehow we are to believe he was a republican for 4 years and didn't know it, a guy who graduated harvard and has a masters degree don't know what party he is in ? I find that impossible to believe, does he think anyone buys his lame BS. Especially when he only switched his registration from republican to independent after the WP reported he was a republican in the 2000 article.
AND on O'Reilly's website is an
audio clip meant to prove he was railroaded. Ironically in the interview he sites the Jeremy Glick interview and
how Harper's magazine did a story and didn't give context and how awful that was and how you can do a 5
minute interview and someone can take a minute of it and twist it to say what they want.
Which is exactly what Bill does all the time, the hypocrisy is stunning.
Not to mention he still sticks to the story that Bush has never lied about anything, even though he has numerous documented lies. I even have a web page called Documented Bush lies, and I have e-mailed it to O'Reilly just to make sure he knows Bush is a liar.
http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/bushlieoreilly.htmO'Reilly was on Good Morning America on March 18 saying that he'd apologize to the nation if we don't find WMD in Iraq.
Here's the exact quote:
"Here's, here's the bottom line on this for every American and everybody in the world, nobody knows for sure, all right? We don't know what he has. We think he has 8,500 liters of anthrax. But let's see. But there's a doubt on both sides. And I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right? But I'm giving my government the benefit of the doubt," O'Reilly said.
O'Reilly added, "
has 8,500 liters of anthrax that he's not going to give up, even though the United Nations demanded that he do that, we are doing the right thing. If he doesn't have any weapons, then we are doing the wrong thing."
That's pretty clear, right? No WMD means an apology and eternal distrust of the Bush administration as far as O'Reilly is concerned. A WMD arsenal is the difference between a justified war and an unjustified war. Fair enough.
On the April 22 episode of his Fox News Channel program -- one month ago yesterday -- O'Reilly was interviewing Retired Army Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, a vocal supporter of Bush's plans for war. Just as he had said on Good Morning America, O'Reilly once again reiterated, "If weapons of mass destruction aren't found...I will have to apologize because I bought into it."
At the end of the April 22 segment with Maginnis, O'Reilly asked the retired Army official "when something is going to happen," to which Maginnis said, "within a month." he said on a scale of 1 to 10 will we find WMD's it is a 10, yet to this day (6 months later) Col. Maginnis has never been invited back on the show.
This led O'Reilly to conclude, "All right, a month from today, we'll do this story again, and then we have it on tape." But the Col. have never been seen since the April 22 show.
You know what this means -- it was O'Reilly's chance to keep his word and "do this story again" one month later. Would he apologize as he had promised? Would he disavow ever trusting Bush again?
No, but O'Reilly did bring the issue up on his program. He said, "The U.S. has captured enough scientists like Dr. Germ and Ms. Anthrax, or whomever, to get a picture of what Saddam Hussein had or didn't have. The Bush administration needs to begin explaining the situation." He added, "The American people must have honest, accurate intelligence in a world this dangerous. This is a vital issue that we hope will be candidly addressed by the president and soon." Now he is giving Bush 9 more months to find the WMD's.
For Fox News, this may be a strong condemnation of a fellow Republican, but you'll forgive me if I find it unsatisfactory. In March, O'Reilly didn't equivocate. If we can't find the WMD upon which the war was predicated, O'Reilly promised, "I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush Administration again." Just recently he urged the Bush White House to "begin explaining the situation" and urged the president to "candidly address" the problem. The pre-war promises obviously don't meet the post-war rhetoric.
Of course, there is no accountability. This isn't a legitimate news organization with professional standards, it's Fox News Channel. No one can call O'Reilly on his mistaken propaganda because he just turns off the microphones of his guests when they fight back.
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