7.28.2006

In The GOPs Must Be Crazy - Part 2 Department

Bill O'Reilly is almost as grandly delusional as Ann Coulter. And yet, both of them only laugh at their "devoted fans" and sell them more nonsense; these chumps have NO idea that these two get rich just goofing on them.

From Media Matters:

Less than one week after falsely claiming that The New York Times' editorial writers are "sitting ... out" the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah because the paper fears alienating its purported liberal Jewish base, Bill O'Reilly appeared to modify his theory during the July 24 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show. As Media Matters for America noted, the Times had already written three editorials on the subject when O'Reilly made his original claim on July 19. On the July 24 Radio Factor, O'Reilly modified his claim, stating that the Times was "basically sitting ... out" [emphasis added] the issue. Apparently to support his claim, O'Reilly read a portion of a July 18 Times editorial, which he deemed "just garbage." Yet during the same day's edition of The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, O'Reilly repeated his false claim from the previous week, again asserting that The New York Times was "absolutely sitting [the conflict] out editorially." In fact, the Times has now published four editorials on the current conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

While interviewing Media Research Center president L. Brent Bozell III, O'Reilly stated: "The New York Times is sitting this [conflict] out, absolutely sitting it out editorially. And I believe it's because they don't want to alienate their liberal Jewish base here in New York City. Am I wrong?" In fact, the Times has now run four different editorials on the subject, published on July 13, 15, 18, and 21. In its latest editorial, the Times urged a cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel, a U.N.-backed peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, and the disarming of Hezbollah.