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Bill O’rielly
Your Turn

Quote/Claim:"You don't come from any lower than I came from on an economic scale. [Source: Show transcript, reprinted in New York Observer]"

Fact:"O'Reilly actually grew up in Westbury, Long Island, a middle-class suburb a few miles from Levittown, according to his mother Angela, who still lives in the Levitt-built house Bill grew up in. His late father, William O'Reilly Sr., was a currency accountant with Caltex, an oil company; Angela 'Ann' O'Reilly was a homemaker who also worked as a physical therapist...Both [O'Reilly] children attended private school, and the family sent Bill to Marist College, a private college in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., as well as the University of London for a year, without financial aid. - Washington Post, 12/13/00"


Date: 9/17/2004
Quote/Claim:"I mean, you've got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night…you know the research on your program. [Source: Show transcript]"

Fact:"Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch 'The O'Reilly Factor,' according to Nielsen Media Research. - AP, 9/27/04"


Date: 5/8/2001
Quote/Claim:"[The United States gives] far and away more tax money to foreign countries than anyone…nobody else even comes close. [Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, by Al Franken]"

Fact:"By a narrow margin, the U.S. gives more money in raw dollars than any other nation, although for a decade before 2001 Japan gave more. As a percentage of Gross National Product, however, the U.S. ranks last among the world’s wealthier countries (at about 0.1%). Comments like O’Reilly’s may contribute to the widespread misconceptions of the majority of Americans, who believe, according to a poll conducted by the University of Maryland, that the U.S. spends an average of 24% of its annual budget on foreign aid. - Council on Foreign Relations, 2004; USA Today, 12/4/01"


Date: 5/24/2004
Quote/Claim:"A new Pew Research Study shows...the networks, as well as most major urban newspapers, rarely treat the president fairly. [Source: Show transcript]"

Fact:"Solid majorities of national print and TV journalists, as well as Internet journalists, say the media has not been critical enough in its coverage of the administration. - PEW study, 5/23/04"


Date: 5/19/2000

Quote/Claim:"We won Peabody Awards. We won… A program that wins a Peabody Award, the highest award in journalism, and you're going to denigrate it?” - In response to Arthur Neville’s assertion that Inside Edition, which O’Reilly anchored, was a tabloid show. [Source: TV transcript, reprinted partially in Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them]"

Fact:"Actually, [O’Reilly] has never won a Peabody. He explains he got it confused with the Polk Award which, incidentally, he also never received but which had been won by Inside Edition a year before he ever joined the show.” - Newsday, 3/8/01"


Date: 2/4/2003
Quote/Claim:"First of all, I never do anything tacitly. I do things directly. I simply said I wasn't going to drink Pepsi while that guy was on their payroll. No boycott was ever mentioned by me. [Show transcript, partially reprinted in Slate]"

Fact:"I'm calling for all Americans to say, Hey, Pepsi, I'm not drinking your stuff. You want to hang around with Ludacris, you do that, I'm not hanging around with you. - O'Reilly Factor, 8/27/02"


Date: 10/21/2003
Quote/Claim:"No one has been able to prove [Fox News is conservative]. [Source: Show transcript, partially reprinted in Philadelphia Inquirer]"

Fact:"I say Fox leans a little right. - Bill O'Reilly, 2/11/03Solid majorities of both national and local journalists say there is an organization that they think is especially conservative - and for most the organization that comes to mind is Fox News Channel. Fully 69% of national journalists cited Fox News Channel as especially conservative in its coverage. - PEW Journalism Survey, 2004 On 10/30/03 a former Fox News employee, Charlie Reina, sent a letter to media watchdog site Romenesko citing the conservative hold Fox News keeps over its broadcasts. Each day, Reina stated, management sent the newsroom a memo containing direction on how to slant the day's news to agree with a single conservative agenda and toe the White House party line."



He is nothing but a Liar, Is he really looking out for you????
No He is looking out for himself.
Ann Coulter you are next!!!!


Chuckw