It’s an entire segment devoted to Brian Williams as an example of how the “left wing enterprise” of mass media lies to “deceive their viewers and readers to advance a political agenda”.
He concludes with:
*"We put together an honest broadcast and we take great pains to present you with information that can be verified.
All Americans who love their country should think about what happened to Brian Williams … to think about other news agencies that are distorting the facts.
We all should open that proverbial “Network” window and say, “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore!” *
If you can’t find hypocrisy from just the above statement alone and the fact that he has demonstrably done the very same thing, then I don’t know how to convince you.
They are labelled thusly* every hour of every day of every year by someone or another. Seems to have done him little harm so far. Would you like to make a wager as to whether this little kurflufle will significantly affect him going forward?
I remember Al Franken went into great detail about some of O’Reilly’s “lies”.
Some were really weird, like whether or not Bill O’Reilly grew up in Levittown. The one I remember was O’Reilly bragging about winning a Pulitzer when it was actually a Polk.
Franken was a polemicist so I’d take most of what he says with a grain of salt.
As he says himself, he’s paid to be biased, so he probably won’t be hurting from this in the long run.
He’s had three nights of BW segments with guests that totally shamed BW. O’Reilly toned in with a bit of reason. That’s how he works on many issues on Fox. He’s their prime time entertainer and they don’t want him to project too much wing nuttiness. He usually leaves it up to his guest to spout the far right crazy, and he steps in with a tone of reason. If Fox didn’t tone it down during prime time a bit, they’d come off as complete wing nut loons. But even on his show, the far right message gets pounded home clearly.
Well the way I remember it, O’Reilly was bragging about two Peabody Awards “We” won when he hosted Inside Edition, which was a tabloid TV show during the early 1990s. Sure, they won a single Polk award. Or rather the reporters Matt Meagher and Tim Peek did. In 1996. After O’Reilly had left.
Another CBS correspondent calls Buenos Aires an “expense account zone.” Nobody has any evidence or can recall anything about any network photographer being injured.
I agree. I don’t see this as going after BW. I’m no ORielly fan but I also agree that given his current gig, his history of exaggerating and at least one outright lie I know of, I don’t think it’s all that relevant. I will be entertained by his conservative fans coming to his defense.
I can’t seem to find a good synopsis of what BO is actually supposed to have lied about. Someplace I saw that he claimed he dragged an injured photographer out of the line of fire during the Falklands War, but he can’t possibly have said anything that stupid.
Here is the quote, but there might be some other context missing. Essentially, he said he was “in the Falklands” when he was actually only in Buenos Aires. He referred to being in the “war zone” when it was a supposed riot in the capital when the surrender was announced.
As I said in the other thread, one of his biggest lies is referring to himself as a “humble” correspondent. The guy is one of the biggest, self-promoting blow-hards on the face of the earth!