February 21, 2015

MOTHER JONES Strikes Back: Bill O'Reilly Responds. We Annotate.

TALKING POINTS MEMO
2-20-15
http://nation.foxnews.com/2015/02/20/bill-oreillys-talking-points-memo-22015-airing-tonight-8pm-et

The Fox News host still hasn't gotten back to us, but here's his monologue—factchecked.

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly ... thanks for watching us tonight ... more proof the American media is corrupt. That is the subject of this evening's Talking Points memo. This man ... 56-year-old David Corn ... who works for the far left magazine ... Mother Jones ... smeared me, your humble correspondent, yesterday ... saying I had fabricated some war reporting. Mother Jones ... which has low circulation ... considered by many the bottom rung of journalism in America. however ... in this Internet age ... the defamation they put forth ... gets exposure. and so I have to deal with this garbage tonight. I’m sorry.

Mother Jones did give O'Reilly a chance to "deal with this" earlier. Before posting the article, we sent him and Fox News a detailed list of questions and asked for comments and clarifications. They chose not to respond at all.

basically David Corn ... a liar ... says that I exaggerated situations in the Falklands War ... and Salvadoran War.

The article did not use the word "exaggerate." It noted that there were contradictions between his accounts and the factual record.

Here's the truth ... everything I’ve said about my reportorial career ... everything ... is true.

See above.

33-years ago in June ... Argentina surrendered to Great Britain ... ending the Falklands War. I was covering the conflict from Argentina and Uruguay for CBS News.

In his own 2001 book, The No Spin Zone, O'Reilly says he arrived in Buenos Aires just before the war ended.

After learning of the surrender ... angry mobs in Buenos Aires ... stormed the presidential palace ... the Casa Rosada ... trying to overthrow the government of General Leopoldo Galtieri.

News accounts, including the CBS News report, noted that a crowd numbering in the thousands had gathered to hear the president, but people grew angry after learning Galtieri would not speak, with many denouncing him and his junta as traitors for surrendering to the Brits. Media accounts do not describe the scene as a mob storming the palace, but angry protesters who set fires, broke store windows, and jostled reporters.

I was there on the street ... with my camera crews.

In a 2009 interview, O'Reilly claimed other CBS journalists were too fearful to cover this event: "I was out there pretty much by myself because the other CBS news correspondents were hiding in the hotel." Yet veteran CBS News reporter Bob Schieffer, who was then the lead correspondent in Buenos Aires says, "We were all out with our camera crews that day to cover the protest. I'd been out there with a crew too."

The violence was horrific. ... as Argentine soldiers ... fired into the crowd ... who were responding with violent acts of their own. My video of the combat ... led the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather that evening. and later on ... I filed a report ... that ran nationwide. That's what happened.

In tonight's account, O'Reilly doesn't say—as he has previously said—that Argentine troops gunned down civilians and many were killed. So is he standing by those prior assertions? He does still refer to the protest as "combat."

I never said I was on the Falkland Islands... as Corn purports ... I said I covered the Falklands War ... which I did.

See above. O'Reilly said on his own show in 2013, "I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands." In his 2001 book, he wrote, "I've reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands." The "active war zone" in the Falklands war was 1,200 miles from Buenos Aires, far out in the Atlantic ocean.

Now ... in what I consider to be a miracle ... I found this CBS internal memo from 33 years ago ... praising my coverage that day. The cable was sent to the CBS bureau chief in Buenos Aires ... by the news desk here in New York City: "Doyle, O'Reilly didn't have the time last night but would like to say many thanks for the riot piece last night. WCBS-TV and WCAU-TV both took the entire piece, instead of stripping it for pix. They called to say thanks for a fine piece.” "Thanks again. Your piece made the late feed, a winner last night."

No one has suggested O'Reilly did not cover the protest or that the footage he obtained was not valuable for CBS News.

Want more? ... here it is: Shortly after my crew and I ... escaped grave danger on the streets of Buenos Aires ... I wrote to CBS News boss Ed Joyce ... praising the crew’s bravery. I have the letter: "The crews were great … the riot had been very bad, we were gassed, shot at, and I had the best vantage point in which to report the story."

No one has suggested that O'Reilly and his crew did not perform well while covering a protest that turned ugly.

So we have rock solid proof ... that David Corn ... smeared me ... and some websites that picked up his defamation ... did as well.

Actually, no.

Now ... I had to spend hours last night ... on the phone with various reporters ... and crawling around my basement covered with dust to find documents from 33 years ago. Again, it was a miracle I found them. all because an irresponsible ... guttersnipe ... a far left zealot ... who has attacked Fox News many times before ... spit this stuff out on the net. and you know what? ... nothing is going to happen to David Corn.

O'Reilly neglected to mention that during one of those interviews he said, "I expect David Corn to be in the kill zone. Where he deserves to be." In an email to Fox News executives, Mother Jones' editors in chief asked O'Reilly to renounce this remark and apologize for responding in a violent tone. So far he has not done so.


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/david-corn-response-oreilly-falklands

February 21, 2015

"Fool me once... shame on you. Fool me... I won't get fooled again."

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush-weighs-iraq-and-netanyahu-speech



“It is quite possible that mistakes were made,” Henry Kissinger explaining U.S. support for Latin American dictatorships, 2002

“We did not achieve what we wished, and serious mistakes were made in trying to do so,” President Reagan explaining the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987

“So, if there was a mistake made, in trying to move them along a more civilized path by having contacts as we did, fine,” - President George H.W. Bush explaining his support for Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war, 1990

“She had said only that if mistakes were made, they would be corrected,” aides to Condoleeza Rice explaining away her apparently telling German leader Angele Merkel that the U.S. had kidnapped a German citizen on accident, 2005

“The biggest mistake that's happened so far,” George W. Bush on the Abu Ghraib scandal, 2006

“Mistakes were made,” Alberto Gonzalez explaining the politicized firing of U.S. attorneys, 2007


Links and more:
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/jeb-bush-joins-cast-cowardly-politicians-use-mistakes-were-made-best-hits-list

February 21, 2015

The people who believe Obama's Muslim.....

.....are the same people who believed Dick Cheney was Christian.

https://twitter.com/JohnFugelsang/status/569138713407713280

AMEN AMEN AMEN

February 21, 2015

O'Reilly Defends His Time "Under Fire in The FOX-Hole"

BONK!

February 21, 2015

Bill Maher: 'Jeb not only a heavy user of marijuana-on at least 1 occasion he was a dealer as well'

“The first time I really got stoned was in Jeb’s room,” Tibbetts said. “He had a portable stereo with removable speakers. He put on Steppenwolf for me.” As the rock group’s signature song, “Magic Carpet Ride,’’ blared from the speakers, Tibbetts said he smoked hash with Bush.

He said he once bought hashish from Bush but stressed, in a follow-up e-mail, “Please bear in mind that I was seeking the hash. It wasn’t as if he was a dealer, though he did suggest I take up cigarettes so that I could hold my hits better, after that first joint.”


http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/02/01/tumultuous-four-years-phillips-academy-helped-shape-jeb-bush/q6ccyHNOtP1n6kqDokMBfK/story.html

VIDEO & MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/21/1365870/-Bill-Maher-calls-out-Jeb-Bush-for-marijuana-hypocrisy-past-user-that-sold-it-at-least-once

February 20, 2015

Cocaine-snorting Oscar statue removed from Hollywood Boulevard

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2962119/Life-size-cocaine-snorting-Oscar-statue-removed-site-Academy-Awards.html?ito=social-twitter_dailymailceleb

February 20, 2015

Dead for 48 minutes, Catholic Priest claims God is female

Dead for 48 minutes, Catholic Priest claims God is female

Feb 19, 2015 at 2:13pm



A Catholic priest from Massachussetts was officially dead for more than 48 minutes before medics were able to miraculously re-start his heart has revealed a shocking revelation that will change everything you once believed.

The 71-year-old cleric Father John Micheal O’neal claims he went to heaven and met God, which he describes as a warm and comforting motherly figure.

Father John Micheal O’neal was rushed to the hospital on January 29 after a major heart attack, but was declared clinically dead soon after his arrival.

With the aid of a high-tech machine called LUCAS 2, that kept the blood flowing to his brain, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital managed to unblock vital arteries and return his heart to a normal rhythm.


http://starrfmonline.com/1.2002887

February 20, 2015

Speechless......

VIDEO HERE: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=411737725670739&fref=nf



This is the touching moment that dozens of strangers embraced a blindfolded Muslim man who has been wrongly labelled a terrorist.

More than 20 people wrapped their arms around Mustafa Mawla as he stood on the streets of Toronto, Canada, and asked for hugs.

He had two signs at his feet reading, 'I am a Muslim.I am labelled as a terrorist,' and 'I trust you. Do you trust me? Give me a hug.'

The social experiment, filmed by Time Vision, aimed to eliminate the stereotypes surrounding Muslims.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2949149/Group-asks-passers-hug-blindfolded-Muslim-terrorist-bid-fight-Islamophobia.html#ixzz3SJskaV6w
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2949149/Group-asks--hug-blindfolded-Muslim-terrorist-bid-fight-Islamophobia.html



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2949149/Group-asks-passers-hug-blindfolded-Muslim-terrorist-bid-fight-Islamophobia.html

February 20, 2015

Good Time To Re-Read Senator Al Franken's: O'Reilly's lies in 'Liars: The Lying Liars Who Tell Them'

Heck, SENATOR Franken wrote an entire chapter about O'Reilly's lies in 'Liars: The Lying Liars Who Tell Them.'

"Actually God asked me to write this book, because he was so pissed off at Bush who claimed, whose friends claimed, he had been chosen by God. And God said, 'No, he hadn't. He was just chosen by Clarence Thomas,'" said Franken at a book convention, where he was promoting his book "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-franken-and-the-lying-liars/


http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lies-and-the-lying-liars-who-tell-them-al-franken/1100624904?ean=9780452285217

February 20, 2015

Obama loves this country-BUT-he tempers his view with nod toward the uglier parts of our history

The Past Perfect
It’s absurd to question Obama’s patriotism. But Rudy Giuliani is right that
Obama isn’t like his predecessors.
By Jamelle Bouie


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...... Compared with the visions of his predecessors, his is less triumphant and informed by a kind of civic humility. “I believe in American exceptionalism,” he told Roger Cohen of the New York Times while still just a candidate, but not one based on “our military prowess or our economic dominance.” Instead, he said, “our exceptionalism must be based on our Constitution, our principles, our values, and our ideals. We are at our best when we are speaking in a voice that captures the aspirations of people across the globe.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/opinion/10cohen.html?gwh=5E699017F5570A8928F006C64191D406&gwt=pay&assetType=opinion

As president he echoed this during a now-famous (perhaps infamous) 2009 news conference in Strasbourg, France, where he elaborated on his sense of exceptionalism:
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=85959#axzz1tdE2dfXh

“I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.” Every nation has a sense of its unique place in the world. Even still, Obama said, there are things especially exceptional to the United States. “I think that we have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality that, though imperfect, are exceptional.”

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....... there is absolutely nothing he has said or done to make anyone question his patriotism or his love of America. As a president from black America, Obama carries this with him, and it comes through in his sometimes less-than-effusive vision of national greatness. He loves this country, but he also tempers his view with a nod toward the uglier parts of our history.

This isn’t the exceptionalism of the Republican Party or much of the national mainstream, and it can alienate Americans not used to a more critical eye—it’s why Mitt Romney chose “Believe in America” for his 2012 election slogan. But it is as authentically American as any other. And while Obama is far from a perfect president, I’m at least glad he’s here to give it a greater voice.


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/rudy_giuliani_says_barack_obama_doesn_t_love_america_that_s_absurd_but_the.html