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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsO’Reilly’s trouble deepens: A Kennedy tall tale that could unravel Fox News’ bully - By Joan Walsh
His Kennedy assassination lie is proven by a recording of O'Reilly himself. Why Fox's strategy may suddenly changeJOAN WALSH
Writers and advocates on the left have long catalogued the exaggerations, meltdowns and many stumbles of Foxs Bill OReilly, to show that the guy who runs the No-Spin Zone is frequently unfair and relentlessly unbalanced. But now OReilly has a different sort of watchdog in CNN media reporter Brian Stelter, host of Reliable Sources and Stelter is attracting more company.
Oh sure, the Fox bully dismisses Stelter along with his critics at Mother Jones, Media Matters and for that matter Salon as just another left winger out to get him. But that charge wont stick. The bright, earnest, hardworking former New York Times reporter isnt known for his ideological crusading; he goes after MSNBC, not just Fox. But when Stelter finds an important story, he digs in.
The CNN host just spent his second straight Sunday on the OReilly mess, this time advancing the story about what has become the most damning and incontestable charge against the Fox host: that he lied about personally hearing the suicide of a mysterious friend of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, in Palm Beach, FL back in 1977, just as congressional investigators were closing in on the source. OReilly told the lie in his book Killing Kennedy as well as on the air at Fox.
In his book, OReilly wrote of tracking George De Mohrenschildt, whod lived in Minsk and became friends with Oswald and his wife Marina in Dallas, after they returned from a stay in the Russian city. Kennedy assassination researchers believe De Mohrenschildt was a CIA asset, and hes implicated in of a lot of theories about the real motive for Kennedys murder. OReilly doesnt dig into that story, but he tells a dramatic tale of his search for the Oswald associate:
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misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Lying criminal enterprise
duhneece
(4,119 posts)Please, God, let David Corn and all the REAL journalists explore Rush's trip to a sex tourist site, full of desperate folks, with Rush taking Viagra...then explore everything Rush has said, done. Take him out (with truth, not bullets)!
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)TerrapinFlyer
(277 posts)Don't ever stop until he is off the air!
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)calimary
(81,556 posts)Glad you're here! YES. Don't let up, anybody! Whittle him down! Bit by bit!
But I wouldn't confine it to him. I want limbaugh off the air, too.
Kingofalldems
(38,500 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)chervilant
(8,267 posts)Billo is done.
abakan
(1,819 posts)CanonRay
(14,125 posts)and he makes money for Fox, so that's that. Sad but true.
jalan48
(13,905 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,499 posts)Fox even has a Court of Appeals case that says they can lie because they are "Entertainment", not news. They misstate almost every story to some degree to give their propaganda the right slant.
This situation can only be cured by the FCC stepping in and busting up the six media conglomerates and going back to the old requirement of a set amount of time per day airing the "news," not entertainment!
Not holding my breath on that one since the corporations like to spout propaganda instead of the truth!
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)Maybe after the "revolution." Not holding my breath either.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)BTW: Bill's attack dog Jessie (When did you stop beating your wife?) Waters should lose his press credentials too.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)where the guests were identified as being from ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, etc.... and "Fox." Not "Fox News," just "Fox" (Shep Smith (?) was complaining about it). So maybe we are closing in on re-branding them. Maybe next time they can just label them "Fox Entertainment."
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)malaise
(269,237 posts)Fugg that LIAR
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)yesphan
(1,588 posts)However, Minsk is not in Russia.
JHB
(37,163 posts)Still the "Rooskies" that deep in the Cold War. It's not as if it had much independence from Moscow.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Nothing will happen to O'Liely; in fact, I suspect the loons will circle the wagons around him.
Faux News doesn't play by the same rules that they insist on imposing on the rest of the MSM.
nikto
(3,284 posts)That's the world we live in.
I have no delusions that O'Reilly will pay any real price for this.
Kingofalldems
(38,500 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)Kablooie
(18,645 posts)He's not a news reporter, he's a news opinion commentator so inaccuracies really aren't of much importance.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)The same way that the people who liked Rush didn't care he was a drug addict.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Hilarious.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,246 posts)probably go through the roof. That's the benefit of being a huge liar, you can lie and/or bully your way out of anything.
Cha
(297,887 posts)be his own petard? Roflmao!
Tarheel
Tarheel_Dem
(31,246 posts)Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)It would be so sweet to see O'Reilly fired.
randr
(12,418 posts)Over at Faux lying is a virtue.
He will get some sort of accommodation and wear it like a military ribbon.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)O'Reilly's been lying for decades, they hired him just for this reason. They knew he had no morals and no qualms about lying right on the air.
It's a goddamn requirement at Fox.
I remember seeing Shepard Smith in N.O. during Katrina, while the studio hacks were sitting there blaming liberals and attacking "looters" just the black ones) Smith was yelling at them on the air something to the effect of "How can you do this? This isn't a Fox news partisan story, this isn't about right or left, there are dead Americans floating by me and you want to sit there and make it a political issue"?
It seas the only time I ever saw a Fox News reporter tell the actual truth, I actually thought he would get fired over it...
Cha
(297,887 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)"Dude. Get some therapy."
certainot
(9,090 posts)streaming site i use once in a while. i gues one NEWS isn't enough anymore
certainot
(9,090 posts)maybe to bolster the conclusion that it was a suicide?
i wonder how long oreilly's been used as a patsy by .... well....
SHRED
(28,136 posts)He fits right in.
Nothing will come of it.
Cha
(297,887 posts)might want to shine the light on cnn)!
Mahalo DV.. The "Lies" go waaay back.. of course they do.. BO'R has been getting away with it for a loooooooooooong time.
yuiyoshida
(41,868 posts)On the Moon with Neil Armstrong, and would still keep his job. Fox News doesn't care about Liars.. they already fought that battle and won. They are under no obligation to tell the truth what so ever.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Which should be a bigger story than O'Reilly's lies about his reportage by proxy.