{"id":1405,"date":"2010-04-17T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1405"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:08:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:08:06","slug":"fox-news-lying-then-or-lying-now-or-lying-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1405","title":{"rendered":"Fox News &#8211; Lying Then, or Lying Now, or Lying Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/erv\/\">erv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly of Fox News attacking Senator Coburn for dis&#8217;ing Fox News.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/video\/video_2324.html?1271360625\" width=\"465\" height=\"395\" noresize=\"noresize\" frameborder=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" style=\"border:0px;overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Of course O&#8217;Reilly attempted some spin control right away, notice the very carefully worded denial and the carefully edited sound bites.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/video\/video_2329.html?1271437692\" width=\"465\" height=\"395\" noresize=\"noresize\" frameborder=\"0\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" style=\"border:0px;overflow: hidden;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/16\/bill-oreilly-defends-lie_n_540672.html\">Huffington Post<\/a> describes it:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ohhh, I get it! Very clever, Bill. I guess you win. Except for just a few things: <\/p>\n<p>1) In the original exchange on Tuesday night with Senator Coburn (the full, unedited version of which you can watch here), O&#8217;Reilly didn&#8217;t say &#8220;We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you&#8217;re going to jail if you don&#8217;t buy health insurance&#8230; during the time that the final Obamacare bill was being debated. Nobody&#8217;s ever said it&#8230; during the time that the final Obamacare bill was being debated.&#8221; No, what O&#8217;Reilly said was: &#8220;We researched to find out if anybody on Fox News had ever said you&#8217;re going to jail if you don&#8217;t buy health insurance. Nobody&#8217;s ever said it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2) While most of the clips in our highlight reel were indeed from the fall of 2009, two of them &#8212; Rush Limbaugh speaking on &#8220;Fox &#038; Friends&#8221;, and Bill Hemmer on &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; &#8212; were from February and March of 2010, the time referred to by O&#8217;Reilly as &#8220;the final bill debate.&#8221; So even if we ignore point 1, O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s still wrong.<\/p>\n<p>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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Give it up guys,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From erv Bill O&#8217;Reilly of Fox News attacking Senator Coburn for dis&#8217;ing Fox News. Of course O&#8217;Reilly attempted some spin control right away, notice the very carefully worded denial and the carefully edited sound bites. As Huffington Post describes it: &#8220;Ohhh, I get it! Very clever, Bill. I guess you win. Except for just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}