Stewart Fact Checks O'Reilly's False Claim About Guantanamo

[JABBS]

One would think, after umpteen times of being caught as fact-challenged, Fox News Channel blowhard Bill O'Reilly would learn to stick with the truth.

Not so, as viewers of the June 13 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show With Jon Stewart learned.

O'Reilly on Monday ranted on the divide between the Bush Administration and its critics on treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba -- he implies such critics are all "liberals," which other conservatives acknowledge isn't true.

O'Reilly suggested the Bush Administration considers those at Guantanamo "prisoners of war." Stewart and the Daily Show gang knew better.

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To read the transcript, go to JABBS.

[unpossibles]

1. I'm not sure I can wrap my brain around...

..."Bill O'Reilly" "Fox News Channel" and "truth" being in the same sentence.

[JABBS]

2. LOL

It's just too easy ... you'd think these guys would figure it out.

[gratuitous]

3. Well as soon as it stops being so lucrative

In his last years, Morton Downey Jr. actually achieved a modicum of gravitas. But during the 1980s, his loudmouth antics paid too well for nuance, understanding and informed commentary. Much more profitable to rant, fact-free. Same goes for O'Reilly. Once Blotchy Bill contracts whatever cancer is going to end his time on earth, he'll suddenly go all reflective on us, pretending he's retrieved some of his lost humanity.

But thanks for keeping an eye on this loathesome little man for the rest of us.

[JABBS]

4. the difference is

that we now have the Internet, and anyone who can do a google search can fact check these blowhards easily. O'Reilly and Limbaugh have transcripts. If Hannity, Levin and Savage were to make their radio transcripts widely available, we could have a cottage industry of exposing distortions and half-truths.