Bill O'Reilly // Current

It's the Media, Stupid!

This was a video I made to contrast the coverage Fox News gave the 2009 Tea Party... more

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Glenn Beck Cries All the Way to the Bank

~y2009m11d16-Glenn-Beck-Cries-All-the-Way-to-the-Bank While Glenn Beck’s... more

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Obama's right. It's time to stop taking the network's skewed news seriously.

Take a look at Fox's own Web story on the episode. It begins by quoting a Fox News senior vice president named Michael Clemente, who says: "It's astounding the White House cannot distinguish between news and opinion programming. It seems self-serving on their part." Then it quotes David Gergen, the gravelly voice of Washington's conventional wisdom, who says the attack diminishes President Obama and works to Fox's benefit. Then we hear from Tony Blankley, Newt Gingrich's former press secretary and a frequent Fox contributor, who agrees that criticizing Fox makes no sense: "Fox has an audience of not just conservatives. They've got liberals and moderates who watch too." Then a White House correspondent for Politico echoes the claim that the controversy will boost Fox's ratings. Then comes an old quote from Fox anchor Chris Wallace, who calls Obama's team "the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington." Then the story's anonymous author cites a joke Obama made at the White House Correspondents Dinner as evidence "that Fox News has gotten under his skin." Finally, the piece cites a Pew study that suggested that while Fox was equally negative about John McCain and Obama during the last six weeks of the 2008 campaign, CNN was more negative about McCain.

Let's do a quick study of our own. Five people are quoted in this article. Two of them work for Fox. All of them assert that administration officials are either wrong in substance or politically foolish to criticize the network. No one is cited supporting Dunn's criticisms or saying that it could make sense, morally or politically, for Obama to challenge the network's power. It's a textbook example of a biased news story.

If you were watching Fox News Channel, you saw the familiar roster of platinum pundettes and anchor androids reciting the same sound bites: criticizing Fox was Obama's version of Nixon's enemies list, the rest of the news media are in Obama's corner, Obama should get back to governing, Fox opinion shows are different from its news shows, it's always dumb to go after the press. On The O'Reilly Factor on Oct. 13, the evanescent Alan Colmes, the network's weak, battered house liberal, mumbled semi-agreement while "Doctor" Monica Crowley and Bill O'Reilly lit up the scoreboard with the familiar talking points.

Any news organization that took its responsibilities seriously would take pains to cover presidential criticism fairly. It would regard doing so as itself a test of integrity and take pains not to load the dice in its own favor. At any other network, accusation of bias might even lead to some soul-searching and behavioral adjustment. At Fox, by contrast, complaints of unfairness prompt only hoots of derision and demands for "evidence" and "proof," which when presented is brushed off and ignored.Take a look at Fox's own Web story on the episode. It begins by quoting a Fox News... more

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Why Liberals Kill

The left may be pressuring President Obama to exit Afghanistan. But their... more

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Something is Wrong in America

Something is wrong in America and in a government of, by and for the people, we're the... more

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Atheist Richard Dawkins on The O'Reilly Factor (Video)

Atheist Richard Dawkins, appearing on The O'Reilly Factor, gave a good showing, while... more

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Bill O'Reilly debates Atheist Richard Dawkins

Should teachers turn to creationism to explain the gaps in evolution? Bill O'Reilly... more

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Fox News Correction: False Claims About Kevin Jennings

Fox News ended up having to issue an "online correction of the false claims the outlet... more

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Obama's Hit List

The Globe cites sources close to the Obama administration. “Obama is getting... more

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Bill O'Reilly Backs Public Option

Bombastic Fox News host Bill O'Reilly made a rather notable policy pronouncement on... more

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Bill O’Reilly under ratings pressure from Glenn Beck says I'll be Beck!

“The O’Reilly Factor” has long been hailed as “the most watched cable news... more

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Bill Maher Calls Bill O'Reilly A Doody Face

(Gasp!) Such language! Bill Maher went on the "Tonight Show" to welcome Conan to... more

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Bill O'Reilly Takes Stewart to the Woodshed

Bill points out a few of the misrepresentations John Stewart made.

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Bill O gets Clowned - Again!

Bill O the clown, forced to deal with his own words - as usual got bitch slapped by... more

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Who killed George Tiller?

Liberals are criticizing conservative talk show host Bill O'Reilly for his harsh comments about Dr. George Tiller, who was shot to death while attending church on May 31, 2009, in Wichita, Kan.

Their argument is that O'Reilly repeatedly named Tiller as a late-term abortion provider and called him a "baby killer." That publicity contributed to Tiller's death, they say. Antiabortion activist Scott Roeder, 51, has been charged with Tiller's murder.

To be clear, we haven't found anyone saying that Roeder watched O'Reilly's show or was influenced by him directly. And we aren't attempting to check any claims or suggestions that O'Reilly's words incited violence.

O'Reilly responded to his critics in an opinion article posted on BillOReilly.com and in the conservative journal Human Events . He began by saying that Tiller "did not deserve his fate" and was "an American citizen entitled to protection."

"No matter what you think about abortion, it is a sad day for the country when vigilantism takes a life," O'Reilly wrote.

O'Reilly said that liberal groups were targeting him unfairly.

"Even though I reported on the doctor honestly, the loons asserted that my analysis of him was 'hateful,'" O'Reilly wrote. "Chief of among the complaints was the doctor's nickname, 'Tiller the baby killer.' Some prolifers branded him with that, and I reported it. So did hundreds of other news sources."

O'Reilly went on to criticize media outlets for glorifying Tiller in order to silence those who oppose abortion, especially late-term abortion.

We wanted to see what O'Reilly had said about Tiller, to see if O'Reilly was indeed being criticized for his reporting on other groups' characterization of Tiller as he said.

We searched transcripts of The O'Reilly Factor , his show that appears on the Fox News Channel.

We found at least 42 instances of O'Reilly mentioning Tiller by name, going back to 2005. In 24 instances, we found that O'Reilly referred to Tiller specifically as a "baby killer."Liberals are criticizing conservative talk show host Bill O'Reilly for his harsh... more