o'liely lies about barbara boxer!!

[flyarm]

hope this is not a dupe...but we need to all email o'liely and tell him to stop his dang lying about our barbara!!

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

snip:

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).

Yet, as Media Matters for America noted, O'Reilly declared on the January 19 edition of FOX News' The O'Reilly Factor that "Boxer ... went over the line by saying to Dr. Rice, 'Hey, you know, you put the troops in the background for your ideological loyalty to Bush.' That's what she said." And on his radio show earlier that day, O'Reilly opined that "to say that Condoleezza Rice doesn't have respect for the troops -- 'overwhelmed the respect for the troops' -- cheap shot all day long."

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?

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Grilled rice...It's what's for dinner!

Come on now, didn't we all expect the right to come after Boxer? He misquoted her, and he won't correct himself because it wasn't a mistake. he did it on purpose.

[Goldeneye]

2. You're refering to this guy right?

Is there a list for all the lies o'liely has told?

[Sydnie]

3. Al Franken did a long segment about this today

with guest Keith Olbermann. They talked about this (Al played the tapes of the phone calls and the lies) and about O'Reily's "Superbowl program lie" too. Even the sheep that listen to his show are beginning to call him on his lies.

I liked listening to Franken today. First time in a long time. It was good stuff.

[Peter Frank]

4. His "no spin zone" is real...

Spin is where you skew the facts. O'reily has no need for facts whatsoever.

[Pam-Moby]

5. Maybe the crap he is spreading is starting

to stain his hands at last. The Faux News channel lives on lies and twisted facts. They should change their whole program logo to the Tasmanian spin zone. UNFAIR AND UNBALANCED!!!

[Peter Frank]

6. Yeah well...

...you know O'reily is proud to bring you stories you won't hear anywhere else ;)