O'Reilly lie of the week as reported by Keith Olberman

[stray cat]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6935771/

The Super Bowl program and Bill O‘Reilly.  The “Fact or Fiction” host and noted loofah user wrote the so-called end piece of the score card sold at yesterday‘s little game.  He waxed poetic about the inspiration that his own football career at Maris College in New York provided observing that he once punted a ball backwards.  But that, quoting here, “I won the national punting title for my division as a senior.”  O‘Reilly concludes that, “I guess you could say the end zone was the beginning of the no-spin zone.”

But Mr. O‘Reilly has done a little spinning of his own here.  Others might call it resume padding.  The football office at Maris told me today that football was not a varsity sport there until 1978.  Seven years after O‘Reilly graduated.  When he played, it was a so-called club sport where players paid all their own expenses and schedules and most importantly, statistical record keeping were haphazard. 

So when he says he was the top punter in his division in the country in 1970, it does not mean what it sounds like.  He was not in the NCAA division one or two or the smaller college NAIA Division I or Division II.  O‘Reilly in Marist played in something called the National Club Football Association.  So writing in the Super Bowl program that you won the punting championship in your division would be like me writing in one of my articles in one of the World Series programs that I led the nation‘s high school baseball players in on-base percentage in 1973. 

I did, too.  My on-base percentage that season was 1,000.  I came to bat once and got hit in the back side with a pitch. 

[beyurslf]

1. Hey I played soccer in high school as a defender and only shot twice at

the goal. I scored both times. Does this mean I had the highest career high scoring percentage in my high school years?

I better start bragging to my brother (who was voted MVP twice).

[stray cat]

3. Why aren't you playing professional soccer with that record?

[EST]

2. Heehee. O'liely strikes again.

Really think any FUX addict will check up?

[CrispyQ]

4. He's such a liar.

I can't believe my mother loves him. I guess he might be a tad better than her previous master, Rush, but they both make me want to retch.

I just finished Al Franken's "Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." Wow! I would love to send her that book! But then she would just say, "Spin, spin, spin," the only comment I ever get from her when I point out some lie or exaggeration she picks up from faux news & her masters.

[crispini]

5. KO's bringing the funny.

:loveya:

[simcha_6]

6. Have they no shame?

I can't imagine telling such blatant lies. How does O'Liely recouncile that, the master of the No Spin Zone? It's incomprehensible to me.

[stray cat]

7. Welcome to DU.

[EST]

8. Irreconcilable to anyone who hasn't drunk the koolaid. n/t

[simcha_6]

9. Significa...?

What does that mean?

[yardwork]

10. "Drinking the koolaid" is a DU reference to those who blindly follow W

It's a reference to the followers of Jim Jones, who drank the poisoned kool-aid he gave them in Guyana. They all died.

Here on DU, we feel that people who believe the White House lies no matter what facts stare them in the face "drank the kool-aid." They are incapable of seeing the truth.

Welcome to DU! I think you will enjoy it here!

[EST]

11. Thanks for batting cleanup.

I was over on the Illinois forum and not paying attention.

[EST]

12. Ya, mucho welcome!

We were wondering when you'd show up.