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Friday, April 27, 2007

Bill O'Reilly's whining again??


Conservative attack dog Michelle Malkin targets Bill Moyers

Another day, another rant for Bill O'Reilly.
This week's it's Bill Moyers who's in his radar. O'Reilly's hopping mad because, in his latest PBS special, Moyers uses video from O'Reilly's show that O'Reilly says was taken out of context and "misrepresented" him.
So just out of curiosity, we went over to the Fox News site and watched the 4/24 and 4/26 Talking Points. What O'Reilly is harping about as misrepresentations by Moyers are hardly that. He didn't play the whole quote, O'Reilly says. But really, O'Reilly's ticked that he didn't get as much air time on Moyers' show as he would have liked. The two quotes O'Reilly complains about were accurately quoted. What was left out was hardly substantive qualifying material. Example: Moyers used "You will be spotlighted." What was left out, "We don't want to demonize anyone, but ...", which really is contradictory. The point is O'Reilly said he was spotlighting people in an effort to demonize them, as he usually does. He similarly said he would call people "bad Americans" who deserved it. O'Reilly complained that what was left out was that he said it was his Constitutional right to do so and that opponents could call him a "bad American." Again, Moyers got to the meat of the quote. O'Reilly was hardly misquoted.
Then there's the part about Moyers not coming on "The Factor." (Notice, it's never referred to as "the show," but always "The Factor." It's called branding strategy to make sure you, the lowly viewer, doesn't forget the show's name.) O'Reilly wanted control of the interview. Moyers said no. Why should Moyers agree to let O'Reilly do it as O'Reilly wants? As usual, again, it's all about O'Reilly.)
We also found it interesting that O'Reilly used the term "radical left propagandist," among others, to characterize Moyers.
So you call yourself credible, O'Reilly? You have no credibility whatsoever, expect among your adoring fans who can't see through your bull. Not all of us are so blind.
And one other off-topic note: Is Fox News.com obsessed with Rosie O'Donnell or what? Good grief, she's all over their website. I'm sure she just loves the publicity.

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