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Can you actually quote Bill O'Reilly on something you believe he has been untruthful about?
Bill is a Libertarian and is Conservative on some issues, and Liberal on other issues. I personally don't always agree with his reasoning, but he tells the truth.
I would like actual quotes please, we already know what the Soros Lackeys are saying and those are not quotes.
Bill does not always support the President, but he speaks the truth.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
There isn't room to post all of the proven lies of Bill O'Reilly in this answer, but I provided a few, easy enough to find:
O'Reilly falsely claimed in his "Talking Points" that Boxer "authored the airport security bill, the one that shakes down grandma before she gets on the plane." O'Reilly also attacked Boxer for this bill on the radio:
O'REILLY: She sponsored a bill, the Aviation Security Act, where they shake you down to get on a plane. She likes that. "Let's shake everybody down. Let's get granny, turn her upside down and hold her by the ankles." She's big on that. So, she was the sponsor of that. Next time you go in and some pinhead grabs your crotch, thank Barbara Boxer for that. Okay?
In fact, Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, former Democratic senator from South Carolina, was the lead sponsor and putative author of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (S.1447[107]). Boxer was merely one of 30 cosponsors of the bill, a list that also includes Senators John Warner (R-VA), Sam Brownback (R-KS), and Ted Stevens (R-AK). Moreover, the law accomplished much more than simply tightening passenger screening procedures; it created the Transportation Security Administration, which put all airport screening in the hands of federal workers rather than private security contractors; fortified cockpit doors on airplanes; provided for federal marshals on flights; and upgraded baggage screening technology at airports. Moreover, the act won near-universal support. The act passed the Senate by a voice vote (that is, it was so uncontroversial that a roll call vote was deemed unnecessary) and passed the House 410-9.
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O'Reilly falsely claimed that Boxer and her supporters "don't want the Patriot Act ... even though yesterday we learned that, under the Patriot Act, they caught this guy in New York who was settin' up attacks all day long because they monitored his Internet, library correspondence with Al Qaeda." But Boxer voted for the Patriot Act, and a Media Matters for America search produced no evidence that Boxer has advocated repealing it. Rather, Boxer has introduced a bill, the Library and Bookseller Act (S.1158 [108]) that would repeal one element of the Patriot Act by forbidding FBI agents from obtaining court orders "for the sole purpose of searching for, or seizing from, a bookseller or library documentary materials that contain personally identifiable information concerning a patron," according to the Library of Congress summary of the bill.
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O'Reilly claimed without evidence that Boxer opposes holding detainees from Afghanistan at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and believes that suspected Al Qaeda members should be forced to provide U.S. authorities only their "name, rank, and serial number" in accordance with O'Reilly's interpretation of Geneva Convention protection granted to prisoners of war. There are no instances of Boxer expressing such views. Moreover, O'Reilly has a history of attacking critics of the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies by falsely claiming that they favor excessively lenient treatment of suspected terrorists.
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O'Reilly: …writes in his book, he tries to make me out as a liar...
Franken: "no, no, no, no that's..."
O’Reilly: Hey, shut up! You had your 35 minutes! Shut up!
Franken: This isn't your show, Bill.
Their very public battle was about a number of things, one of which was that O'Reilly had said he was an Independent. Franken showed that he'd actually registered Republican.
O'Reilly: He is a vicious, and that is with a capital 'V,' person.
What upset him more – that Franken called him a liar, or that he proved it?
Source(s): http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/23/60minute... http://mediamatters.org/items/200501250001 - Jack CLv 51 decade ago
On the January 3 2006 edition of CBS' Late Show with David Letterman, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly appeared as a guest and resurrected his false claim that a Wisconsin elementary school banned the singing of the Christmas hymn "Silent Night," erroneously attributing the school's changed lyrics to political correctness. In fact, the new lyrics were merely part of a 1988 Christmas play called The Little Tree's Christmas Gift.
Pew Research Center Media Study: This nationwide poll of 3,000 adults, conducted April 19-May 12, 2004, finds the audience for the Factor remain overwhelmingly conservative and Republican. Yet O'Reilly claims he has an equal number of conservatives and liberals who watch his show.
There are other lies, if you really want to know. In fact, there are entire web sites devoted to the lies of O'Reilly, if you have the courage to look at it.
But worse than O'Reilly's lies is his blatant ignorance, misquotes, and mis-statement of facts.
- lemmerLv 44 years ago
via his radio and tv shows' publicity, he's maximum deadly. As somebody else suggested, that's scary that persons believe something on the pretend information Channel, a channel finished of persons with close Republican ties from Roger Ailes to Brit Hume to the former anchor Tony Snow. to boot, he's a bully!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If you believe that as "truth", then you might be interested in this timeshare I've got off the coast of Jamaica. Along with some shares in PoorSucker.com....
Anyway, O'Reilly has claimed to have won a Peabody Award. He repeated this many times, until Al Franken made some calls and exposed the big lie. O'Reilly turned beet red, and later said he had always meant to say, "Polk Award". Just one of many examples. And a lot of it is spin.....and insinuating that not to go in stride with Bush's policies is to be anti-American. Maybe that goes over your head, but to critical thinkers it really sticks out.
Also -- he claimed that a school in Wisconsin had erased instances of "Christ" and "Jesus" from holiday music. The school administrators presented the materials which did NOT contain erased references, but Blathering Bill was on a roll, and he was NOT going to let truth -- or an apology -- hurt his ratings -- er, convictions. I see Jack C recalls this travesty pretty well, too.
ADDENDUM: Paul K, you rock! Not that Ms. Dakota is going to give you "Best Answer", but I would........
ADDENDUM: You also have to admit, that O'Reilly's defenders don't care if his statements are accurate or not. They just want someone loud to repeat their political ideaologies back at them. The more blustery liberal bashing he gets out, the better for those empty-headed saps.
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- 1 decade ago
Yes. He made references to a journal called the "Paris Economic Review" back in 2003. The context was a debate with why
Canada did not join the US in the Iraq war. He stated that
the consequences to Canada would be a big negative economic impact - that the imports/exports between US and Canada would take a significant dive. He quoted some aritcle in the "Paris Economic Review" to back him up.
3 years later, the import/export between US and Canada it at
its hightest. In fact every year it keeps growing.
However, the most significanct thing about O'Reilly's comment is that the "Paris Econmic Review" does NOT exist. Total lie. He did it simply to support his ideological view, period.
There are many such instances of this in O'Reilly's commentary and interviewing. The man lies just about as often as he tells the truth. Watch an interview between him and a young man who lost his father in the 9/11 attacks. The young man questioned the Iraq war and specifically Saddam's connection to the terrorists and the WMD factor. O'Reilly simply verbally attacks this young man. Questions his patriotism, his values, etc, and then asks him to get off his set - in the middle of the interview!! O'Reilly is just really not concerned for facts, truth, good debate, etc.
Sorry not Paris Economic Review but Paris Business Review as one of the remarks above points out.
- dstrLv 61 decade ago
Bill O'Reilly is host of The O'Reilly Factor on the FOX news channel. O'Reilly poses as an objective independent news analyst with a no-spin zone. In reality, he's a biased Republican with an all spin-zone.
Hosts like Bill O'Reilly give FOX news a clear right-wing bias. Read the information on this site, and you will find out the truth about Bill O'Reilly, FOX News, George W. Bush, The Republicans, and the Corporate media.
Pew Research Center Media Study: This nationwide poll of 3,000 adults, conducted April 19-May 12, 2004, finds the audience for the Factor remain overwhelmingly conservative and Republican. Yet O'Reilly claims he has an equal number of conservatives and liberals who watch his show.
In my world a tv news show with an audience that is overwhelmingly conservative means the show is conservative. It would be the same as Rush Limbaugh trying to claim his audience has an equal number of conservatives and liberals. We know that would be a lie, just as it is a lie from Bill O'Reilly.
Don't just take my word for it, read this Pew media study for the real truth about the Factor viewers and the cable news shows.
- 1 decade ago
During his "Talking Points Memo" on the January 19, 2005, edition of FOX News' The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly declared that "there's nothing wrong with grilling Condoleezza Rice about policy, but implying Dr. Rice is not sympathetic to the troops is way over the line." Later, he opined, "Boxer also went over the line by saying to Dr. Rice, 'Hey, you know, you put the troops in the background for your ideological loyalty to [President] Bush.' That's what she said." And on his radio show earlier that day, O'Reilly opined that "to say that Condoleezza Rice doesn't have respect for the troops -- 'overwhelmed the respect for the troops'-- cheap shot all day long."
But Boxer never mentioned Rice's "respect for the troops." Rather, Boxer told Rice that "I personally believe ... that your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth" (emphasis added), as the transcript shows (and as the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Reuters, and The New York Times all reported, among others).
Source(s): http://mediamatters.org/items/200501250001 - 1 decade ago
He continuously lies, and there are many resources that track his lies. here is my favorite:
from Wikipedia:
"O'Reilly claimed “they’ve lost billions of dollars in France” as a direct result of his boycott, referring to The Paris Business Review as his source"
There is no such think as "The Paris Business Review". He made up this source. On top of that:
"The CBC and Media Matters for America have stated that French imports to the US increased during the period of O'Reilly's boycott, citing U.S. Census Bureau figures."
So O'Reilly made up a source for "fact" that were the opposite of the truth.
- justgoodfolkLv 71 decade ago
Look he said American soldiers committed atrocities in Malmedy,Belgium while everyone knows and this is not a disputed historical fact that Americans were brutally slaughtered by Nazi's trying to liberate Europe.He not only made this mistake once but repeated it later to.
First link is a straight quote of O'Reilly disgracing the memory of American heroes!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
He tells the truth -- SOMETIMES
He claimed on his show that US Troops massacred German SS Troops during the Battle of the Bulge when the reverse was true.
Then when his error was pointed out, he lied by denying that he ever said it -- but people had it on videotape. He shamelessly edited the transcript of his show to take out the mistake.
O'Reilly stated: "In Malmédy, as you know, U.S. forces captured SS forces who had their hands in the air and they were unarmed and they shot them down."
PS It's amazing that despite numerous quotes provided and other well documented examples of O'Reilly lies, you insist that people provide quotes. I guess you can't handle the truth, which is that O'reilly lies and distorts as well as occasionally telling the truth.