Title: Goodbye Bill O’Reilly, you won’t be missed Source:
The Anti-Media URL Source:http://theantimedia.org/goodbye-bill-oreilly/ Published:Feb 22, 2015 Author:Nick Bernabe Post Date:2015-02-22 12:01:21 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:5868 Comments:24
(ANTIMEDIA) Goodnight Bill, your long and tyrannical reign at the head of the corporate propaganda machine is coming to an ugly end. Your career is over.
For years you tortured us with your opinions, bigotry, anger, rudeness, downright idiocy and overall assholedom — but it seems like your big mouth has landed you in hot water this time — and I’m really enjoying watching you burn. It’s truly sad that it took this long for people to take your bullshit for what it is, but rest assured the end is near.
Those not familiar with you, Bill O’Reilly, you poor excuse for a journalist and human being — let’s see if we can briefly paint a picture for them.
According to Mother Jones, you have been lying about some stories you’ve been telling the public for years, very much in the same way your peer Brian Williams did.
Since the initial story about your lies went viral, Bill, things got a lot worse for you — our kind propagandist. Another former colleague of yours has stepped forward, reinforcing Mother Jones’ accusations, making it even harder for you to get out from under this unwanted attention. That must’ve hurt a lot.
So you lie, Bill O’Reilly, just like Brian Williams and the majority of other actors who read news scripts do. But you are also a sex offender who hasn’t been arrested yet, we can’t forget about that. From The Anti-Media,
“On October 13, 2004 O’Reilly was sued in a sexual harassment lawsuit for $60,000,000 by his former producer named Andrea Mackris. Mackris was an employee of Fox from 2000, with lawsuit documents showing O’Reilly’s rabid sexual harassment began in May 2002 and continued until September 2004. Mackris filed a wild document full of O’Reilly’s exploits. The fallout was immense, with O’Reilly counter-suing Mackris for extortion before finally settling the lawsuit for an untold amount of money that is generally believed to have been in the millions of dollars.” Read the full in-depth report here.
You’re also an asshole.
And a war monger.
You believe in the War On Drugs and you’re an active drug warrior.
Calling you a raging prick would be an understatement.
So you see, it’s not just that you are full of shit, Bill, you’re also a dangerous propagandist that influences the minds of old (the median age of people who watch The O’Reilly Factor is 72 years old) Republicans everywhere. You should be rotting in a prison cell for your treatment of women and the countless lives lost thanks to your war propaganda.
I’m hoping that this is the last we see of you on Television or anywhere else. You should face the same fate as Brian Williams — who you yourself derided for lying to the public. Goodbye Bill O’Reilly, you won’t be missed. And even if you are not fired, everyone — even your own brainwashed elderly viewers — will forever know that you are a liar.
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The Fox News host still hasn't gotten back to us, but here's his monologue—factchecked.
—By David Corn Fri Feb. 20, 2015 8:02 PM EST
On Thursday, Mother Jones published an article by Daniel Schulman and me documenting how Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has mischaracterized his wartime reporting experience. It noted that he has repeatedly stated that during his short stint as a CBS correspondent in the 1980s, he was in the "war zone" during the Falklands war between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982. He once claimed he had heroically rescued his cameraman in "a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands," while being chased by army soldiers. Yet no American journalist reached the war zone in the Falkland Islands during this conflict. O'Reilly and his colleagues covered the war from Buenos Aires, which was 1,200 miles from the fighting.
O'Reilly responded to the story by launching a slew of personal invective. He did not respond to the details of the story. Instead, he called me a "liar," a "left-wing assassin," and a "despicable guttersnipe." He said that I deserve "to be in the kill zone." (You can read one of my responses here.) And in his show-opening "Talking Points memo" monologue on Friday evening, he continued the name-calling.
In a way, it's impossible to win a debate with O'Reilly because he is not bound by reality. In response to the article, he told Fox News' media reporter, Howard Kurtz, "Nobody was on the Falklands and I never said I was on the island, ever." Yet our article included video of O'Reilly saying in 2013, "I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, where my photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us." Note the words "war zone" and "in the Falklands."
These Are the Questions Bill O'Reilly Won't Answer
Why won't the Fox News host address the evidence he mischaracterized his wartime reporting experience?
—By David Corn Fri Feb. 20, 2015 12:01 PM EST
On Thursday, Mother Jones published an article by Daniel Schulman and me that documented how Fox News host Bill O'Reilly has mischaracterized his wartime reporting experience. Most notably, he has more than once said that during his short stint as a CBS correspondent in the 1980s, he was in the "war zone" during the Falklands war between the United Kingdom and Argentina in 1982. He even once told the story of heroically rescuing his cameraman in this "war zone" while being chased by army soldiers. Yet according to O'Reilly's former CBS colleagues in Argentina and other journalists there during the war, no American journalist reached the war zone in the Falkland Islands and other territories iin the southern Atlantic Ocean during this conflict. O'Reilly and his colleagues covered the war from Buenos Aires, which was 1200 miles from the fighting.
Mother Jones sent O'Reilly and Fox News a detailed list of questions at 8:30 am on Thursday. We asked for a response by 3:00 pm. We then called Dana Klinghoffer, a spokeswoman for the network, several times to make sure the questions were received and to determine if O'Reilly and Fox would respond. She never took the call or returned the message. Shortly before 3:00 pm, we sent an email containing the questions to Bill Shine, a top exec at Fox News, saying that if O'Reilly and Fox needed more time, we would try to accommodate them. He, too, never responded. At 5:26 p.m., we posted the article.
Immediately afterward, O'Reilly granted interviews to multiple reporters. He resorted to name-calling, saying I was a "liar," a "left-wing assassin,"and a "despicable guttersnipe." He said that I deserve "to be in the kill zone." (You can read one of my responses here.) It was clear that O'Reilly had no interest in answering the actual questions about his wartime reporting claims.
Here, for the record, are the questions we sent to Fox. (We included links to his past assertions to make it easy for O'Reilly to review what he said.) Will he answer these questions?
