Earth to O'Lielly, before you fondly remember your college football yrs...

[LynneSin]

...Make sure the college you went to actually HAD a football team when you attended.

Olbermann revealed O'Reilly's "resume padding" in Super Bowl program essay
http://mediamatters.org/items/200502080004

From the February 7 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann:

OLBERMANN: We segue now into our nightly roundup of celebrity and entertainment news, "Keeping Tabs." And it turns out the 2005 Super Bowl was not entirely scandal-free. This year's wasn't about the commercials, the halftime show or even the Philadelphia Eagles' pathetic clock management. It was about 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 Marist 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 Marist 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.

[maveric]

1. O'Reilly gets caught lying again!

Like the Peabody awards...
What a putz!

[KG]

2. gee, o'rielly told a lie? who'da thunk it?

:eyes:

[realisticphish]

3. what an idiot

god, how can anyone take loofaboy seriously


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Sandpiper]

4. Sort of like his "My Dad only made $35,000 a year" claim

What he didn't mention is that his dad was making $35,000 a in the 1970's, which was the equivalent of making about $125,000 a year in 2004.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. That must have been just before he "was in combat"

I guess.

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. Kind of sad, really.

O'Reilly must be a small, insecure man if he feels the need to go around spouting bogus shit like "I won a Peabody Award"; "I won a national punting title"; et cetera. How long before he tells us he won the Navy Cross, Silver Star and four Purple Hearts? You'd THINK he'd be able to afford a therapist.