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O'Reilly Lies

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From Romenesko (Poynter Online)
<blockquote>School lawyer scolds O'Reilly for airing false dress code story
Bill O'Reilly told his viewers last Friday that a Plano, Tex. school won't allow students to wear green and red "because they are Christmas colors." The Fox News personality's war-on-Christmas anedcote is wrong, says Plano's school superintendent. The school district has told parents via e-mail that a lawyer has "requested of Mr. O'Reilly that, in the future, he ask his fact checkers to do a more thorough job of confirming the facts before he airs them."</blockquote>
School District Statement
More on O'Reilly's Christmas campaign.
UPDATE: Dallas Morning News covers the controversy.

In other news, the AP reports that several fundamentalist mega churches have decided NOT to hold services on Christmas Day.

Columnist Laura Nachman reports O'Reilly is being dropped in Philadelphia come January to make way for Jay Severin. No word yet on whether O'Reilly is suggesting anybody bomb Independence Hall.
 
Ha ha ha .... I love it.

Maybe he found it in Gibson's book.

Between the two of them, there may be enough BS
for whatsisname on AAR to write a sequel to
"Lies and the Lying Liars."

And believe me, I'm no fan of the looney left!!!

> From Romenesko (Poynter Online)
> School lawyer scolds O'Reilly for airing false dress code
> story
> Bill O'Reilly told his viewers last Friday that a Plano,
> Tex. school won't allow students to wear green and red
> "because they are Christmas colors." The Fox News
> personality's war-on-Christmas anedcote is wrong, says
> Plano's school superintendent. The school district has told
> parents via e-mail that a lawyer has "requested of Mr.
> O'Reilly that, in the future, he ask his fact checkers to do
> a more thorough job of confirming the facts before he airs
> them."
> School District Statement
> More on O'Reilly's Christmas campaign.
> UPDATE: Dallas Morning News covers the controversy.
>
> In other news, the AP reports that several fundamentalist
> mega churches have decided NOT to hold services on Christmas
> Day.
>
> Columnist Laura Nachman reports O'Reilly is being dropped in
> Philadelphia come January to make way for Jay Severin. No
> word yet on whether O'Reilly is suggesting anybody bomb
> Independence Hall.
>
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> In other news, the AP reports that several fundamentalist
> mega churches have decided NOT to hold services on Christmas
> Day.

Not to defend the fundamentalists (my mom is a Pentecostal, and this semi-good Catholic boy has gotten into many arguments with her about the whole belief system), but it's common for many fundmentalist churches (like the Assembly of God) to hold Christmas Eve services to commemmorate the holiday, instead of the traditional Christmas day service. It's a bit tricky this year because Christmas is on a Sunday, but analogizing to the Catholics--we're having just the Christmas masses, not one for Christmas and one for the Sunday sabbath.

The story's gained legs because it's a bit odd at first glance, but it's nothing nefarious.

And for the record, I plan to attend Christmas Eve/Christmas midnight mass because it's always beautiful taht night.
 
Far be it from me to defend O'Reilly, who I can't stand. But calling erroneous information "lies" is a regrettable trend. To know if he lied, we'd have to know his intentions which would require a mindreader.<P ID="signature">______________
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Why is it that when a host whose opinions you disagree with gives out erroneous information it's a "lie", but when one with whose opinions you agree it's an "honest mistake"?
 
> Why is it that when a host whose opinions you disagree with
> gives out erroneous information it's a "lie", but when one
> with whose opinions you agree it's an "honest mistake"?

Bill O'Reilly is different.

With his extreme O'Reilly-centric views,
I think he'd have had Galileo burnt at the stake...
or issued the command to start the Spanish Inquisition himself.

But since he doesn't believe in capital punishment,
maybe he'd have merely opined them to death.

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