Fox News – Lying Then, or Lying Now, or Lying Then and Now

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Bill O’Reilly of Fox News attacking Senator Coburn for dis’ing Fox News.

Of course O’Reilly attempted some spin control right away, notice the very carefully worded denial and the carefully edited sound bites.

As Huffington Post describes it:

“Ohhh, I get it! Very clever, Bill. I guess you win. Except for just a few things:

1) In the original exchange on Tuesday night with Senator Coburn (the full, unedited version of which you can watch here), O’Reilly didn’t say “We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you’re going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance… during the time that the final Obamacare bill was being debated. Nobody’s ever said it… during the time that the final Obamacare bill was being debated.” No, what O’Reilly said was: “We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you’re going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance. Nobody’s ever said it.”

2) While most of the clips in our highlight reel were indeed from the fall of 2009, two of them — Rush Limbaugh speaking on “Fox & Friends”, and Bill Hemmer on “America’s Newsroom” — were from February and March of 2010, the time referred to by O’Reilly as “the final bill debate.” So even if we ignore point 1, O’Reilly’s still wrong.

3) Of course, the original claim put forward by Fox News all those times back in the fall of 2009 was itself a lie. Factcheck.org debunked it back in November.”

Give it up guys,

8 thoughts on “Fox News – Lying Then, or Lying Now, or Lying Then and Now

  1. DrillerAA09

    This is the very reason I don’t like the news personailities from either side of the fence. I had no use for Al Franken when he was doing commentary and I have no use for O’Reilly or Limbaugh now. Everyone twists the story to fit thier own point of view.

  2. Martha Z

    Don’t get me started. I am at the point that if I walk into a friends home and find Fox on, I’ll walk out. Loosing friends beats having a stroke!

  3. Baloney

    Make fun of FOX all you want but the door swings both ways. I don’t see responsible journalism anywhere these days. I, for one, am more likely to watch FOX than the other stations.

  4. Martha Z

    Those who think there is no source for responsible journalism should turn off the tv and turn on NPR. They do try to be fair, check their facts and give a voice to both sides. I suspect that most of them have a liberal personal view but try not to let it get in the way.

  5. EcoRover

    O’Reilly & the rest of the Faux News gang loves lying by implication or omission, and by “interviewing” guests who will tell the lies they want us to hear.

    Strange political times we live in.

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