--- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > > wrote: > > <snip> > > > Several years ago I saw a CSPAN event where both Bill O'Reilly > and > > > Franken were both speaking. Franken in his speech gave his > > > evidence why he called O'Reilly a "liar" in his book. The main > > > one he concentrated on was that O'Reilly claimed on his show that > > > he won a Peabody Award. > > > > > > In actuality, O'Reilly never won a Peabody Award. But he did > win > > > another award that started with a "P". > > > > Actually O'Reilly said "we" won the Peabody, not "I" > > won the Peabody. But that would have been a lie even > > about the Polk Award; Inside Edition won the Polk for > > reporting it did after O'Reilly had left the show. > > > > And it was so, so obvious > > > that when O'Reilly said it one day on his broadcast that he mixed > > > up his words and Peabody came out instead of the correct one. > > > > Becomes considerably less "obvious" when you know > > that he also said it in a speech in February 2001 > > and repeated it numerous times on his shows, in at > > least one case repeating it over and over on a single > > show during one interview. > > > > And then denied ever having said it when Al Franken > > first pointed it out (this was before the C-SPAN > > event). He did later correct himself on the air > > after the C-SPAN incident got a lot of publicity. > > > > Franken had O'Reilly dead to rights. > > > > Assuming you're right (and I don't think you are, but let's assume > it for a moment) and that's the worst that O'Franken can come up > with considering that O'Reilly has, literally, thousands of hours of > broadcasting under his belt, then that's not that too terrible. > > Again, I'm no fan of O'Reilly but I can understand why you're a fan > of Franken's: like you, he likes to call people liars. >
The Peabody thing was YOUR example. I have no idea what else if anything was said about O'Reilly, but talk about raising a straman... To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
