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07-16-2004, 07:19 PM
Who is Bill O'ReillyA journalist for more than 25 years, Bill O'Reilly has now risen to the top of his profession. "The O'Reilly Factor" on the Fox News Channel continues to dominate the television news ratings. The program has been the highest rated cable news show for more than 100 consecutive weeks. It is now also seen in dozens of foreign countries.
What kinds of things does he say? Some people accuse FOX News of fabrications. Does Bill O'Reilly fabricate?
mediamatters.org/items/200405020006
FOX's O'Reilly fabricated evidence of success of purported boycott of French imports
Host Bill O'Reilly threatened Canada with a boycott like the one he advocated against France, then cited a phony statistic about the success of the French boycott. The threat came during O'Reilly's April 27 debate with Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick about Canada's harboring of two deserters from the U.S. military who have fled to Canada. From FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor:
Link to O'Reilly's April 27 debate...
O'REILLY: Now if the [Canadian] government -- if your government harbors these two deserter [sic], doesn't send them back ... there will be a boycott of your country which will hurt your country enormously. France is now feeling that sting.
MALLICK: I don't think for a moment such a boycott would take place because we are your biggest trading partners.
O'REILLY: No, it will take place, madam. In France ...
MALLICK: I don't think that your French boycott has done too well ...
O'REILLY: ...they've lost billions of dollars in France according to "The Paris Business Review."
MALLICK: I think that's nonsense.
Media Matters for America found no evidence of a publication named "The Paris Business Review." A Google.com search revealed no mentions of "Paris Business Review," "Revue des Affaires de Paris," or any similar French name. A LexisNexis search for "Paris," "France," or "French" within five words of "business review" produced no relevant results. There is a journal called "European Business Review," which is published in England; however, over the past two years, "European Business Review" has not mentioned an American boycott of France.
Furthermore, contrary to O'Reilly's claim that France has lost "billions of dollars" due to an American boycott, American imports from France have actually increased since international tensions with France began in the months prior to the start of the war in Iraq in March 2003. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in February 2004, the United States imported $2.26 billion in French goods and services, up from $2.18 billion in February 2002.
Two days later, on the April 29 episode of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly plugged a poll on his personal website, BillOReilly.com: "A new BillOReilly.com poll asks you the question will you boycott Canadian goods and services if that country does not return two American deserters who are being glorified by some of the Canadian media?'"
Bill O'Reilly, also the author of:
http://www.billoreilly.com/images/product/books/reg/40105reg10015.jpg
Synopsis:
Following the huge success of his TV show and his first #1 New York Times Bestseller, Bill is back with his second book: "The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America". As on his TV and Radio programs, Bill uses his literary 'air time' to champion his version of traditional American values including "truth, common sense, and decency". Topics that get the O'Reilly treatment in this excellent book range from the death penalty to taxes and personalities discussed (and often interviewed) range from John McCain to Susan Sarandon. As always, Bill's mission is to help focus on the truth behind current societal fashion and to uncover the truth amidst the constant "spinning" of the media.
Interesting. He stands up for the truth. Here's another comment."All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why," says Bill. In The No Spin Zone he excerpts past interviews with various memorable opponents, including: (chop)
Let's see Bill's reaction to NPR:
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99596,00.html
BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
O'REILLY: I came on to this program to talk about Who's Looking Out for You? And what you've done is thrown every kind of defamation you can in my face. Did you do this to Al Franken? Did you? Did you challenge him on what he said?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We had a different interview.
O'REILLY: Yes. A different interview. Okay. Fine, fresh air? Is this what "fresh air" is? I'll get a transcript of this interview --you want me--of the Al Franken interview. You want me to do that, and compare the two?
TERRY GROSS, HOST, FRESH AIR: You're welcome to.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And compared it, too? All right, why don't you tell your listeners right now? Were you as tough on Al Franken as you are on me? No. You weren't.
GROSS: No, I wasn't.
O'REILLY: Okay. Why?
GROSS: Well, Al Franken had written a book of political satire.
O'REILLY: Oh, he was satire now, was it? All right, calling people liars and distorting their faces on the book cover. That's satire now, is it? And my book, Who's Looking Out for You? is designed to help people to show them how they have to know how to read people in the society to succeed. Yet you're easy on Franken and you challenge me. This is NPR.
Okay? I think we all know what this is. I think we all know where you're going with this. Don't we?
GROSS: Well, you could say...
O'REILLY: Yes, don't we?
GROSS: You can think whatever you want to.
O'REILLY: I am. I mean, I'm evaluating this interview very closely. Obviously you are. Now we've spent now, all right, 50 minutes of me being -- defending defamation against me in every possible way, while you gave Al Franken a complete pass on his defamatory book. And if you think that's fair, Terry, then you need to get in another business. I'll tell you that right now. And I'll tell your listeners, if you have the courage to put this on the air, this is basically an unfair interview designed to try to trap me into saying something that Harpers magazine can use. And you know it. And you should be ashamed of yourself. And that is the end of this interview.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'REILLY: All right, the problem here is not that interview. I should have known better. But it's that I paid for it. And so did you.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (search), which funds NPR, gets a billion dollars a year in taxpayer money. Why is the government allowing a far-left outfit like NPR, which is obviously biased, to operate on taxpayer money?
Joining us now from Capitol Hill is Congressman Cliff Stearns, a Republican from Florida who sits on a committee that oversees NPR.
You know, I just have one question for you, Congressman. How much longer do I have to pay for this outfit which is so blatantly unfair, and uses it's power to, you know, advance left-wing and defamatory causes? What do I have to pay for this?
REP. CLIFF STEARNS (R), FLORIDA: Well, I think you and the American taxpayers don't have to pay for it much longer. We have Discovery Channel, we have the American Movie Classics. We have the Animal Planet. We have the History Channel. All of these stations do not get huge amounts of subsidy from the federal government.
So the question for taxpayers and the elected officials have to say why do we have to fund NPR, particularly in light of, for example, the interview you did.
O'REILLY: Yes.
STEARNS: You saw the whole...
O'REILLY: I mean, we can send you the transcripts of the whole interview. How would you categorize it?
STEARNS: Well, I think -- she calls it "fresh air." It's probably "biased air" in this case, because frankly, for her to say that the interview with you was a lot tougher than with Al Franken because it was his -- his book was a political satire was not fair because she should have been just as tough with him as she was with you.
O'REILLY: Absolutely. I mean anybody -- but look, again, I should have known better. It was my fault for even bothering.
STEARNS: Well, no, there's a history here with this public broadcasting. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting gave out their donor list to many -- all these Democrat organizations in 1999.
We had a hearing in the Commerce Committee when they asked for this additional funding. And we point-blank asked them, why are you giving you're your donor list, when you're not for profit. You're funded by taxpayers. It's totally incorrect.
They apologized. They said it would stop. But I want to tell you, Bill, we have a GAO [Government Accounting Office] audit of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in which NPR is a part of.
And the point of this GAO audit, which is coming out next year, is defined out how they operate, whether they need this money. Because they have a lot of logo. They have a lot of things they sell. They might not in any subsidy, just like the history channel.
So this report will come out next week - next year. And frankly, a lot of us are hoping we can sort of tailor down the funding for NPR.
O'REILLY: Yes, it's an outrage. And I mean, look, the other way to do it is we invited NPR executives on. Of course, they're hiding under their desks, because they know this is blatantly wrong. It's awful.
But it's not just against me. It's done again and again and again. And I think, Congressman, it'd be fair.
In this age of massive deficits for the federal government, when a lot of the country just is appalled by their conduct at NPR, that you guys got to take aggressive action and say look, either you run the network responsibly, ore you're not getting a nickel. Period.
STEARNS: And that's what they do with all kinds of organizations...
O'REILLY: Right.
STEARNS: ...that received taxpayers' money. So we should certainly deal with NPR.
And as you pointed out, they sort of have a liberal bias here, which they continue to show.
O'REILLY: Sort of?
STEARNS: Not just in their everyday...
O'REILLY: Right.
STEARNS: ...interviews with you. But you even hear like the NPR story today on Schwarzenegger winning. I mean, you could not listen to that without feeling that they were still supporting a Gray Davis...
O'REILLY: Of course.
STEARNS: ...and they're still reporting the lieutenant governor, Bustamante.
O'REILLY: Well, Congressman look, keep an eye on them, please. And Congress has got to do something about it. It's just unfair to the American taxpayer.
And we will say again that we tried to get NPR's point of view, but they're hiding. And if you would like to see that interview in its entirety, punch up www.billoreilly.com and we have it there for you.
Congressman, we appreciate your time very much.
STEARNS: All right, sure, Bill.
O'REILLY: Thank you.
STEARNS: Sure, Bill.
In your opinions, does "Bill O'Reilly" really stand up for "the hard questions" or does he run from conflict, except when he's asking the questions.
Fox News, Fair and Balanced. Truthful too! God Bless America!
What kinds of things does he say? Some people accuse FOX News of fabrications. Does Bill O'Reilly fabricate?
mediamatters.org/items/200405020006
FOX's O'Reilly fabricated evidence of success of purported boycott of French imports
Host Bill O'Reilly threatened Canada with a boycott like the one he advocated against France, then cited a phony statistic about the success of the French boycott. The threat came during O'Reilly's April 27 debate with Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Heather Mallick about Canada's harboring of two deserters from the U.S. military who have fled to Canada. From FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor:
Link to O'Reilly's April 27 debate...
O'REILLY: Now if the [Canadian] government -- if your government harbors these two deserter [sic], doesn't send them back ... there will be a boycott of your country which will hurt your country enormously. France is now feeling that sting.
MALLICK: I don't think for a moment such a boycott would take place because we are your biggest trading partners.
O'REILLY: No, it will take place, madam. In France ...
MALLICK: I don't think that your French boycott has done too well ...
O'REILLY: ...they've lost billions of dollars in France according to "The Paris Business Review."
MALLICK: I think that's nonsense.
Media Matters for America found no evidence of a publication named "The Paris Business Review." A Google.com search revealed no mentions of "Paris Business Review," "Revue des Affaires de Paris," or any similar French name. A LexisNexis search for "Paris," "France," or "French" within five words of "business review" produced no relevant results. There is a journal called "European Business Review," which is published in England; however, over the past two years, "European Business Review" has not mentioned an American boycott of France.
Furthermore, contrary to O'Reilly's claim that France has lost "billions of dollars" due to an American boycott, American imports from France have actually increased since international tensions with France began in the months prior to the start of the war in Iraq in March 2003. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in February 2004, the United States imported $2.26 billion in French goods and services, up from $2.18 billion in February 2002.
Two days later, on the April 29 episode of The O'Reilly Factor, O'Reilly plugged a poll on his personal website, BillOReilly.com: "A new BillOReilly.com poll asks you the question will you boycott Canadian goods and services if that country does not return two American deserters who are being glorified by some of the Canadian media?'"
Bill O'Reilly, also the author of:
http://www.billoreilly.com/images/product/books/reg/40105reg10015.jpg
Synopsis:
Following the huge success of his TV show and his first #1 New York Times Bestseller, Bill is back with his second book: "The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America". As on his TV and Radio programs, Bill uses his literary 'air time' to champion his version of traditional American values including "truth, common sense, and decency". Topics that get the O'Reilly treatment in this excellent book range from the death penalty to taxes and personalities discussed (and often interviewed) range from John McCain to Susan Sarandon. As always, Bill's mission is to help focus on the truth behind current societal fashion and to uncover the truth amidst the constant "spinning" of the media.
Interesting. He stands up for the truth. Here's another comment."All I ask is for powerful people to respond honestly to the questions, and if they can't, explain why," says Bill. In The No Spin Zone he excerpts past interviews with various memorable opponents, including: (chop)
Let's see Bill's reaction to NPR:
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,99596,00.html
BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
O'REILLY: I came on to this program to talk about Who's Looking Out for You? And what you've done is thrown every kind of defamation you can in my face. Did you do this to Al Franken? Did you? Did you challenge him on what he said?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We had a different interview.
O'REILLY: Yes. A different interview. Okay. Fine, fresh air? Is this what "fresh air" is? I'll get a transcript of this interview --you want me--of the Al Franken interview. You want me to do that, and compare the two?
TERRY GROSS, HOST, FRESH AIR: You're welcome to.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And compared it, too? All right, why don't you tell your listeners right now? Were you as tough on Al Franken as you are on me? No. You weren't.
GROSS: No, I wasn't.
O'REILLY: Okay. Why?
GROSS: Well, Al Franken had written a book of political satire.
O'REILLY: Oh, he was satire now, was it? All right, calling people liars and distorting their faces on the book cover. That's satire now, is it? And my book, Who's Looking Out for You? is designed to help people to show them how they have to know how to read people in the society to succeed. Yet you're easy on Franken and you challenge me. This is NPR.
Okay? I think we all know what this is. I think we all know where you're going with this. Don't we?
GROSS: Well, you could say...
O'REILLY: Yes, don't we?
GROSS: You can think whatever you want to.
O'REILLY: I am. I mean, I'm evaluating this interview very closely. Obviously you are. Now we've spent now, all right, 50 minutes of me being -- defending defamation against me in every possible way, while you gave Al Franken a complete pass on his defamatory book. And if you think that's fair, Terry, then you need to get in another business. I'll tell you that right now. And I'll tell your listeners, if you have the courage to put this on the air, this is basically an unfair interview designed to try to trap me into saying something that Harpers magazine can use. And you know it. And you should be ashamed of yourself. And that is the end of this interview.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'REILLY: All right, the problem here is not that interview. I should have known better. But it's that I paid for it. And so did you.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (search), which funds NPR, gets a billion dollars a year in taxpayer money. Why is the government allowing a far-left outfit like NPR, which is obviously biased, to operate on taxpayer money?
Joining us now from Capitol Hill is Congressman Cliff Stearns, a Republican from Florida who sits on a committee that oversees NPR.
You know, I just have one question for you, Congressman. How much longer do I have to pay for this outfit which is so blatantly unfair, and uses it's power to, you know, advance left-wing and defamatory causes? What do I have to pay for this?
REP. CLIFF STEARNS (R), FLORIDA: Well, I think you and the American taxpayers don't have to pay for it much longer. We have Discovery Channel, we have the American Movie Classics. We have the Animal Planet. We have the History Channel. All of these stations do not get huge amounts of subsidy from the federal government.
So the question for taxpayers and the elected officials have to say why do we have to fund NPR, particularly in light of, for example, the interview you did.
O'REILLY: Yes.
STEARNS: You saw the whole...
O'REILLY: I mean, we can send you the transcripts of the whole interview. How would you categorize it?
STEARNS: Well, I think -- she calls it "fresh air." It's probably "biased air" in this case, because frankly, for her to say that the interview with you was a lot tougher than with Al Franken because it was his -- his book was a political satire was not fair because she should have been just as tough with him as she was with you.
O'REILLY: Absolutely. I mean anybody -- but look, again, I should have known better. It was my fault for even bothering.
STEARNS: Well, no, there's a history here with this public broadcasting. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting gave out their donor list to many -- all these Democrat organizations in 1999.
We had a hearing in the Commerce Committee when they asked for this additional funding. And we point-blank asked them, why are you giving you're your donor list, when you're not for profit. You're funded by taxpayers. It's totally incorrect.
They apologized. They said it would stop. But I want to tell you, Bill, we have a GAO [Government Accounting Office] audit of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in which NPR is a part of.
And the point of this GAO audit, which is coming out next year, is defined out how they operate, whether they need this money. Because they have a lot of logo. They have a lot of things they sell. They might not in any subsidy, just like the history channel.
So this report will come out next week - next year. And frankly, a lot of us are hoping we can sort of tailor down the funding for NPR.
O'REILLY: Yes, it's an outrage. And I mean, look, the other way to do it is we invited NPR executives on. Of course, they're hiding under their desks, because they know this is blatantly wrong. It's awful.
But it's not just against me. It's done again and again and again. And I think, Congressman, it'd be fair.
In this age of massive deficits for the federal government, when a lot of the country just is appalled by their conduct at NPR, that you guys got to take aggressive action and say look, either you run the network responsibly, ore you're not getting a nickel. Period.
STEARNS: And that's what they do with all kinds of organizations...
O'REILLY: Right.
STEARNS: ...that received taxpayers' money. So we should certainly deal with NPR.
And as you pointed out, they sort of have a liberal bias here, which they continue to show.
O'REILLY: Sort of?
STEARNS: Not just in their everyday...
O'REILLY: Right.
STEARNS: ...interviews with you. But you even hear like the NPR story today on Schwarzenegger winning. I mean, you could not listen to that without feeling that they were still supporting a Gray Davis...
O'REILLY: Of course.
STEARNS: ...and they're still reporting the lieutenant governor, Bustamante.
O'REILLY: Well, Congressman look, keep an eye on them, please. And Congress has got to do something about it. It's just unfair to the American taxpayer.
And we will say again that we tried to get NPR's point of view, but they're hiding. And if you would like to see that interview in its entirety, punch up www.billoreilly.com and we have it there for you.
Congressman, we appreciate your time very much.
STEARNS: All right, sure, Bill.
O'REILLY: Thank you.
STEARNS: Sure, Bill.
In your opinions, does "Bill O'Reilly" really stand up for "the hard questions" or does he run from conflict, except when he's asking the questions.
Fox News, Fair and Balanced. Truthful too! God Bless America!