Over/Spun Presents:
The Lies of Bill O'Reilly
Cataloging Bill O'Reilly's lies since 2004.
Below is the collection of Over/Spun media related to Bill O'Reilly's dishonesty:
Bill O'Reilly is a registered
Republican.
During the lead up to the Iraq war, the hairy-knuckled one defended the
Bush administration nightly on his television show, even going as far
as insulting Hans Blix personally because he was in charge of the UN
inspections. Inspections which had not found any evidence of
stockpiles or weapons programs. Now we know that these weapons programs
and massive stockpiles never existed, but no apology for Mr. Blix
appears to be forthcoming.
O'Reilly said he would apologize
to the American people and never trust the Bush administration again if
it turned out the stockpiles of WMD didn't exist- we, the American
people, are still waiting for that apology.
UPDATE- O'Reilly has
apologized according to this
news report. It took
329 days.
Bill hasn't carried through with his statement that he would never
believe the Bush administration again, because he's buying into the
President's spin and pointing the finger at the CIA instead of where it
really belongs- The White House.
Bill has recently started calling his
nemesis Al Franken "Stuart Smalley." This obvious bit of desperation
may be a result of the announcement that Al is getting in to the radio
business. Shortly after Franken and O'Reilly met at the book show Bill
threatened to shoot Al "between his head:"
"In the
Old West, and I would have loved to have been in the Old
West, Al and I, we would have had a little shootout. We would have gone
out on Willshire Avenue, six shooters. Now he's a much smaller target
than I am, about 4'11, but he's wider and it would have been, you know,
Clint Eastwood time, you know, I would have the cheroot, the serape,
and I had my squint, and I would have put a bullet right between his
head."
-Bill O'Reilly Radio Show, June 2, 2003
Sorry Mr. O'Reilly, "The Folks" aren't buying it.