Here’s a fascinating look at how O’Reilly molds (some would say spins) the facts to conform to his view- and when the facts don’t fit, he tosses them.

Prof. COLE: Well, so I’m impressed because he’s playing a balanced soundbite. Maybe all the things Al Franken said about him were not true. But suddenly he interrupts; he says, `We can’t use that. We’ve got to redo this.’ Two minutes of silence, he comes back re-records the whole segment verbatim, except when he gets to Kean, he doesn’t use the soundbite but instead paraphrases it to say that Kean had said that the 9-11 Commission has definitely found a connection between al-Qaeda…

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