Does that "vested interest" include killing hundreds of thousands of civilians???
And as far as BILLO lying. There are thousands, indeed, books full of examples of his lying.
Here's just a few:"
O'Reilly: Speaking to a guest about going to court: "You have to put your hand on the Bible. So hopefully, you'll never be arrested; but if you are , and you have to testify, you're going to have to put that hand on the Bible there, doctor, or you're going to be held in contempt of court" (3/15/02)
According to the Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 603, a witness is required to declare that he or she "will testify truthfully, by oath or affirmation administered in a form calculated to awaken the witnesses conscience and impress the witness's mind with the duty to do so." A note to the rule specifically explains that a Bible isn't necessary to allow "flexibility" in order to apply to atheists, conscientious objectors, and others.
O'Reilly: On January 9, 2003 a guest suggested that the U.S. Government supplied Iraq with chemical and biological weapons after Rumsfeld visit to Iraq in 1983. O'Reilly was incensed: "That's been denied by every single federal official in the government....This is another nutty, crazy things that goes out on the Internet and you guys pick up and think is true."
From Newsweek: "The meeting between Rumsfeld and Saddam was consequential: for the next five years, until Iran finally capitulated, the United States backed Saddam’s armies with military intelligence, economic aid, and covert supplies of munitions. Over the protests of some Pentagon skeptics the Reagan administration began allowing the Iraqis to buy a wide variety of ‘dual use’ equipment and materials from American suppliers….Most unsettling, numerous shipments of ‘bacteria/ fungi/protozoa’ [were made] to the IAEC [Iraq Atomic Energy Commission]. According to former officials the bacteria cultures could be used to make biological weapons including anthrax." (9/23/02)
O'Reilly: We have a 300 million population base here and Sweden has 3 million (5/8/01).
Since we just hit the 300 million population landmark last month it is highly unlikely that we had 300 million in 2001. Further Sweden has a population that is just under 9 million.
O’Reilly: "If you think that I’m a conservative go ahead. I mean, our audience is, according to the Pew Research Center, 47 percent Democrat on The Factor. (4/26/03)
That’s almost the opposite of what the study said. The audience for The O’Reilly Factor is skewed a bit more to the right: 56 percent of viewers were conservative, while 5 percent identified themselves as liberal. The study did not identify the viewers by party affiliation as O’Reilly claimed.
O’Reilly: "I’ve had two number-one best sellers…Not one NPR invitation." (3/6/02)
O’Reilly was profiled on the NPR show On The Media in January 2001
O’Reilly: "I’ve never heard a right-wing person on NPR anywhere…You never hear a pro-life person on NPR. You never hear an anti-global warming person on NPR. They don’t get on there" (1/7/02).
Again not true: Conservatives appear regularly on NPR, both in commentary (e.g. The Weekly Standard’s David Brooks and the Heritage Foundation’s Joe Loconte) and as sources in news stories. Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a global warming skeptic appears regularly and the network quoted Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee 11 times in 2001.
O’Reilly: If you want to understand why President Clinton is so popular here in Southern California, look no further than The Los Angeles Times. L.A.s only major newspaper has reported not one word of the Juanita Broaddrick story. Not one word." (2/24/99)
The Times had run a story just four days earlier on 2/20/99.
O’Reilly: "I’ve got a transcript on what they do and a rundown of their whole lineup. And look, twenty-five years Saddam has been committing atrocities. all right. Al Jazeera didn’t report on them. They didn’t report on the mow-downs after the ‘91 war. They didn’t report on the gassing of the Kurds in the eighties."
The Al Jazeera network was founded in 1996.
I think that is enough. O’Reilly lies like a Dawg!
Thanks to the great little book, The O’Really Factor (2003) for all the information. Reading books is a good thing.
I carry it in my wallet right next to my concealed carry permit....