{"id":291,"date":"2006-12-05T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-05T22:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=291"},"modified":"2006-12-06T11:04:39","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T18:04:39","slug":"oreilly-wants-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"O’Reilly Wants An Apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Rather recently appeared on Bill Maher’s “Real Time”<\/em> and revealed the heretofore unthinkable notion that Fox News propagates perspectives from the Bush White House:<\/p>\n

“I think it’s fair to say, Bill, in fact I know it is, that FOX News operates in at least a somewhat different way than every other news organization that I know, that they have their “talking points,” in which somebody in the hierarchy, whether this is Roger Ailes who runs the place or not, we know that they get talking points from the White House. And they can say well, we don’t always take those talking points, but I think it’s pretty clear that they had wished the election had gone another way.”<\/span><\/p>\n

O’Reilly is now reacting typically aghast<\/a> that anyone could criticize his network or accuse it of bias. But he isn’t merely expressing umbrage. As is the pattern with his psychosis, he is escalating it to the level of jihad and associating it with the well known cloak of hatred that enshrouds all of his enemies:<\/p>\n

“As you may know, the far left in America is on a jihad to smear FOX News. They hate us for a variety of reasons…So day after day, the far left loons demean, defame, and attempt to damage the FOX News Channel.”<\/span><\/p>\n

He goes on to say that neither he, nor anyone he knows, nor anyone at Fox, has ever seen a White House Talking Point. He really didn’t have to look any further than Fox News Vice President, John Moody, to find the elusive memos<\/a>. And as for wishing the elections had gone another way, again Moody provides the evidence<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“The elections and Rumsfeld’s resignation were a major event but not the end of the world.”<\/span><\/p>\n

In an attempt to appear even handed, O’Reilly cites his past defense of Rather during the controversy over Bush’s National Guard service, wherein O’Reilly helps Rather out by proclaiming that…<\/p>\n

“…there’s no evidence Dan Rather fabricated anything. It was sloppy reporting that did him in.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s a defense? With friends like that, who needs enemas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Rather recently appeared on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” and revealed the heretofore unthinkable notion that Fox News propagates perspectives from the Bush White House: “I think it’s fair to say, Bill, in fact I know it is, that FOX News operates in at least a somewhat different way than every other news organization that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-4H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11355,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11355","url_meta":{"origin":291,"position":0},"title":"Wrong Again! 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