Poor Bill O; Pathological Lying Has to Hurt

As you've no doubt heard, either through folks talking about the Radar Magazine article yesteday or Bill O'Reilly's interview with Barbara (bah-bwa) Walters on 20/20 tonight, Bill's claiming that he's on an al Qaeda death list per information he was given directly by the FBI.

Except the FBI - several agents and supervisors - says that just isn't the case. That they know of no death lists for the media let alone specific TV hosts. That they never went to O'Reilly and told him this.

Hell, even a spokeswoman for Faux seemed to imply this was a goofy thing for him to say. I'm sure that it's just coincidence O'Reilly came up with this silly story when he has a new book out and it's not going to the top of the charts (and probably shouldn't).

Personally, my favorite take on this is one shared by Keith Olbermann Thursday night: that if this story has any truth to it, this is because O'Reilly IS on an al Qaeda list, but not to kill him, instead expecting him to help their cause.