O'Reilly rebuffed two callers' attempts to correct his misquotation of Box

[rodeodance]

http://mediamatters.org/items/printable/200502010001

O'Reilly rebuffed two callers' attempts to correct his misquotation of Boxer

Despite multiple attempts to correct him, FOX News host Bill O'Reilly has continued to misquote a statement Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) made in questioning Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during Rice's recent confirmation hearings. O'Reilly claims that Boxer questioned Rice's "respect for the troops"; in fact, Boxer questioned Rice's "respect for the truth" (emphasis added) after citing specific statements by Rice that Boxer claimed were untrue or inconsistent.

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," as the clip of Boxer's remark and the transcript of those remarks demonstrate (and as the Associated Press, The Washington Post, Reuters, and The New York Times all reported, among others)..........

Since then, two different callers to O'Reilly's radio show have tried to correct his misquotation, but O'Reilly has dismissed both. The first attempted correction came on the January 20 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:

O'REILLY: I don't have any problem with Boxer grilling Rice. But when she says to Rice, "You allowed your loyalty to the President to override your concern for the troops" -- that's over the line. Don't you see that?

CALLER: Did she say "for the troops" or "for the truth"?

O'REILLY: No, "for the troops."

[RobertSeattle]

1. When's O'Reilly going to Crack?

I give him 6 months.

[Skittles]

5. I sense a breakdown too

he is not over the falafel incident

[kcass1954]

6. Anything we could do to speed up the process? eom

[RobertSeattle]

7. We should all email him

Tell Him we at the DemocraticUnderground.com just LOVE EVYERTHING he does - that'll mess him up.

[salin]

13. Thought that when - on air - with spittle flying he yelled:

"Shut up, shut up, shut up!"

I don't think its a breakdown - unless the breaking down process can last two years...

[Gman]

2. Reminds me of a real live Ms. Emily Latilla.

For you youngsters, Ms. Emily Latilla (played by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live) was occassionally a guest commentator on "Weekend Update" and would go off about some statement or term she misunderstood. At the height of her rant Chevy Chase would point out what the misunderstood term or phrase really was and after a short pause, Radner would reply, "Oh, never mind!"

O'Really is coming across like a real idiot on this one.

[Catch22Dem]

4. Oh my gawd

I remember that! You're so right!

[theresistance]

3. What an absolute wanker

The O'Really? Factor strikes again

[Azathoth]

8. Watching O'Reilly is like watching a nascar race in a sleet storm

Although people ostensibly go to see the race, deep down they're waiting for someone to crash and burn. The primary allure of O'Reilly's show is the ever-present chance of him having an on-air psychotic break/meltdown.

[rodeodance]

9. maybe the word "truth" just is not in his hearing capacity?

[rodeodance]

10. here is his email address

[e-mail]

[Catfight]

11. The guy picks one person a week to hate and judge, why is this

format for idiocy entertaining for people? Life was so much more fun in the Clinton era, people actually revered intelligent conversations and education. Now it's all about opinion and speculation, no fact based reality, just hallucination and distortions of rigid thinking spun as something good. The beginning of the 21st Century is looking bleak. These pundits are morally bankrupt and now we are seeing, unethical. Tune them out.

[tom_paine]

12. The Julius Streicher of the Busheviks

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Streicher.html

Of course, due to the expansion of media between Nazi Germany and Imperial Amerika, there is room for SO MANY Streichers in the Bushevik Propganada Infrastructure.

[kris10ep]

14. O'Reilly owes this man a dinner....

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/columnists.nsf/sylvesterbrownjr/story/12B4952BAC062EBA86256F960037B084?OpenDocument&Headline=It\'s+no+spin%3A+O\'Reilly+admits+that+I+was+right