posted February 24, 2015 12:28 PM            

Maybe thats what OReilly meant...his crew getting injured was mentioned (in passing) in a report on the Falklands. So they were on the same footage as a Combat Zone..the closest he ever got.

He is only getting a bit of his own medicine. Is Brian Williams part of the left? Thanks for the info.

Keep on using that tar and feathers, jwhop. And equating testosterone with integrity. Rotflmao

posted February 24, 2015 02:33 PM            

David Corn got a hell of a lot more than he bargained for. Not only that but NBC News and CBS News back O'Reilly up...not the leftist loon Corn.

Yeah, I can see O'Reilly going after so called journalists...who are in reality, leftist political activists who lie about him. I know leftists are used to getting away with lying about people they hate. When NBC News and CBS News back O'Reilly up on what he said, it's time to throw in the towel and admit you F-ed Up!

posted February 25, 2015 12:32 PM            

As I have tried to say , Bill exaggerating a little about the "war zone" he was in is not the point. He lies and pushes lies all day long. As do others. For him to deny this specific slip is ludicrous he'd have been better off admitting it but instead he has jumped into a can of worms. But hopefully ALL the worms will spill out now

Right now It is serving as a great publicity stunt for him. But as Limbaugh is finding out, jinning up hate has a built in shelflife. Those who think it's manly to threaten reporters are actually in the minority in the adult world.

posted February 26, 2015 09:39 AM            

CBS News and NBC News back O'Reilly up. Neither of these 2 networks are O'Reilly fans. Both of these network news organizations are considerably left of center though they're not 100 light years to the left of Karl Marx...as you and the rest of the leftist loons wish they were. For you, there's MSNBC and CNN...at least for a little while longer until they go off the air from lack of viewers.

hahaha, Jon Stewart? Really? You want to inject the head of the fake comedy news into this discussion? No one gives a rat's ass what Stewart thinks...except for the low information, no information leftist loon set.
Perhaps you haven't heard. Stewart is leaving the Lying News Show.

Fake News is the only news leftists embrace and now, the leader of the Fake News set is setting sail and sailing off into the sunset.
Bon voyage and good riddance. Even Puffington Post understands Jon Stewart presents fake news to his brain cell starved audience.

Jon Stewart Leaving His Fake News Desk Is A Loss To Real News
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/jon-stewart-journalism-real-news-leaving-daily-show_n_6658320.html

posted February 27, 2015 08:38 AM            

The simple answer is:

posted February 27, 2015 08:48 AM            

February 27, 2015
Conservatives and 'Gaffes'
Bruce Walker

Scott Walker has recently, according to the cognoscenti of leftism, committed a couple of “gaffes.” A snarky British journalist asked Walker if he believed in evolution. Walker could have answered by saying that Sir Fred Hoyle, who was director of the Cambridge Institute of Astrophysics, believed that evolution by natural selection was not only unlikely, but virtually impossible, and noting that Hoyle, whose discovery of the process for the formation of heavy elements in stars was essential to any theory of carbon-based life, was an agnostic.

Walker was also asked by a journalist at the National Governors Association if he thought Obama was a Christian. Walker said that he had never talked with Obama about his faith, and so he could not answer the question. He could have answered that only God knows if what we profess is what we believe, but that Obama has certainly professed to be a Christian – and noted that it was Obama himself who in 2008 mocked people bitterly clinging to religion.

How do Walker’s “gaffes” compare with the gaffes of leftists? Obama said that his grandfather in the American Army helped liberate Auschwitz, but anyone with the sparest knowledge of modern history knows that the Red Army, not the American Army, liberated Auschwitz. His dopey Vice President Biden said that in 1929, when the stock market crashed, FDR got on television and told Americans to be calm. FDR, of course, became president in 1933, and television was not available to Americans in 1929 anyway.

Howard Dean, when he was the Democrat frontrunner in 2004, said that the key to Iran was getting the “Soviet Union” involved, forgetting, we must suppose, that the Soviet Union had not been around for fifteen years. John Kerry, the nominee that year, famously recalled Christmas in Cambodia in December 1968, hearing President Nixon. None of his swift boat mates recall ever being in Cambodia, and Nixon, of course, was not president in December 1968.

Hillary claimed to have been under fire in Bosnia, which was not true. Her husband’s slow-witted vice president claimed to have invented the internet, which was not true. John Edwards, Kerry’s vice presidential nominee, made a number of statements about his relationship with his mistress that were all untrue.

How do these leftist gaffes compare with Walker’s imagined gaffes? Walker was speaking honestly to the American people, and these leftists were all either making things up or simply lying. Honesty and candor, of course, are to leftists what crucifixes are to vampires. We are so accustomed anymore to hearing leftists lie in long gushing streams that when a conservative answers honestly, as we are wont to do, it strikes leftists as a gaffe. The story that lingers after becomes that a gaffe was dropped, even when the notional gaffe was speaking truthfully and plainly.

What then should conservative candidates do? One response is to meander, to equivocate, and to shuffle. This works, perhaps, although we can do better. Recall that last time a leftist flack in the media got really taken down a peg – and before America? CNN national correspondent John King, in the South Carolina Republican primary debate, asked Newt Gingrich about an interview with his ex-wife. Gingrich hammered back directly at King and received a huge ovation from the crowds.

Gingrich made King, and his employer, CNN, the subject – which, of course, was absolutely honest. The purpose of the question was to “Gotcha!” a conservative. King would never have asked John Kerry about his ex-wife and her cowering fear of Kerry or asked Hillary about Juanita Broaddrick, who credibly accused Bill Clinton of brutal rape. Gingrich made King and the leftist establishment media the question.

Conservatives ought to respond to phony questions from leftist journalists like this:

Well, that’s an odd question, but it helps explain why Gallup reports trust in the media at an all-time low, and why Americans think that the media is too liberal. It helps us understand why Pew shows a strong plurality of Americans thinking that the media is biased and dishonest and focuses on trivial things. Questions like that also help us see why more and more people have simply stopped listening to the establishment leftist media. What you asked me is not the sort of question you would ever have asked Hillary or any other Democrat. Once your news organization shows some guts in questioning liberals, then conservatives like me will take all your questions seriously.

posted February 27, 2015 02:13 PM            

It has always been True of some reporters that Drama Sells. Since Fox made a religion of it many have lowered their standards for sure. I'm not praising them either.

posted March 02, 2015 08:00 AM            

Canaries are not very formidable birds, but they have their uses. For instance, coal miners learned over a century ago that when canaries gag and drop dead at the bottom of the cage, it’s a sign that maybe there’s something wrong with the air in the mine.

MSNBC is not a very formidable network, but its wheezing is similarly instructive. MSNBC’s slogan is “Lean Forward,” which has a robust sound to it. But it turns out the phrase is a more apt descriptor of how the Peacock Network’s mini-me is poised to teeter off its perch and plunge beak-first into the droppings-stained pages of the fading New Republic below.

It is suffering “cataclysmic ratings declines” (in Politico’s words) from already mediocre ratings to begin with. The hope had been that Ronan Farrow, the Prius-dashboard saint of Brooklyn hipsters and the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen (or Frank Sinatra), would, like David Hasselhoff in “Baywatch,” leap into the waters and save the drowning network. It turned out that Farrow’s flotation device was a messenger bag full of bricks. His show has been canceled, as has Joy Reid’s daily show. Other MSNBC stars are being followed around by the Grim Reaper. Al Sharpton, a race-baiting tax cheat with blood on his hands, is slated to be moved out of his 6 p.m. slot, presumably so he can spend more time with his wayward teleprompter.

MSNBC had thought it could mimic Fox News’ success from the left. The problem is that it never understood what Fox News is. MSNBC’s execs saw it through the prism of their own ideological bias and so ended up offering a left-wing caricature of a caricature. Contrary to myth, Fox (where I am a contributor) is in fact an actual news network, albeit with prime-time opinion shows. Meanwhile, a study by Pew found that MSNBC was 85 percent opinion.

The more salient point is that there’s such a small appetite for that opinion. As Josh Kraushaar of the National Journal recently observed, Barack Obama has successfully moved his party to the left but has failed utterly to bring the rest of the country with him. In 2012, James Stimson, arguably America’s leading expert on U.S. public opinion, found that the country was more conservative than at any time since 1952.

This might seem counterintuitive given that Obama was re-elected that year, but there’s an obvious explanation. Obama has a singular skill: getting Barack Obama elected. In all of the elections since 2008, he has shown a remarkable inability to get anyone else elected or to move public opinion in his favor. (Obamacare, for instance, remains stubbornly unpopular.) Measured in terms of statehouses, state legislatures, and House and Senate seats, the GOP is stronger today than any point since the 1920s. If you still think Obama has generous coattails, ask Rahm Emanuel for a second opinion.

The president is unbowed, of course. He’s unilaterally using — and abusing — the powers of his office to legalize illegal immigration, throw a wet blanket on cheap energy and turn the Internet into a government-regulated utility. He has the support of his dwindling party and the equally dwindling mainstream media. But even here his policy agenda is as threadbare as his cultural legacy. A majority of Americans believe race relations have gotten worse since he was elected.

Meanwhile, the cultural left has disengaged from mainstream political arguments, preferring instead the comforts of identity-politics argy-bargy. You judge political movements not by their manifestos but by where they put their passion. And on the left these days, the only things that arouse passion are arguments about race and gender.

For instance, the feminist agitprop drama “The Vagina Monologues” is now under fire from the left because it is not inclusive of men who believe they are women. Patricia Arquette was criticized from the right for her Oscar acceptance rant about women’s wage equality, but the criticism paled in comparison to the bile from the left, which flayed her for leaving out the plight of the transgendered and other members of the Coalition of the Oppressed.

Such critiques may seem like a cutting-edge fight for the future among the protagonists, but looked at from the political center, it suggests political exhaustion. At least old-fashioned Marxists talked about the economy.

posted March 05, 2015 09:00 AM            

So, the peeps have weighed in on David Corn's lies over at Mother Jones. O'Reilly's ratings have been badly hurt!

Well, that was the intent of leftist loons. But that's not the way it happened on planet earth.

Bill O'Reilly's Fox Ratings Soar After Media Pelting
Thursday, 05 Mar 2015 08:29 AM
Melissa Clyne

Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly is enjoying a ratings surge since Mother Jones and other news outlets have accused him of exaggerating his experiences covering the Falklands War in Argentina in the 1980s and other major news events.

Deadline.com reports that "The O’Reilly Factor" on Tuesday night scored its biggest audience of 2015 — 3.3 million viewers. The figure represents an increase of 166 percent for the same night a year earlier.

Since Mother Jones' first story slamming O’Reilly for alleged discrepancies about his level of involvement in the Falklands, El Salvador and the Los Angeles riots, "The O’Reilly Factor" has seen a jump in viewers, according to Deadline.com, which reports that in the first full week following the first Mother Jones story — headlined Bill O’Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem — O’Reilly’s show saw a 25 percent increase.

"O’Reilly’s ratings appears to be inversely related to the pelting he’s undergone about claims he made regarding his involvement covering major news events in the past," according to Deadline.com.

"The O’Reilly Factor" trumped every other cable news show on March 3, according to Mediaite, which reports that the prime-time show "was far and away the highest rated show of the night across all of cable news."

In comparison, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, both of whom compete with O’Reilly in the 8 p.m. time slot, had 530,000 and 767,000 viewers, respectively.

O’Reilly has skewered those who have questioned the veracity of his claims, saying to viewers that he never claimed to have reported from a war zone in the Falkland Islands, but that he covered protests of the conflict in Buenos Aires, according to a recent New York Times story.

He also told viewers that he never claimed to have witnessed the murders of four American nuns during a civil war in El Salvador.

"While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence that were never broadcast, including depictions of nuns who were murdered," O'Reilly said. "The mention of the nuns on my program came the day of the Newtown massacre [on Dec. 14, 2012]. The segment was about evil and how hard it is for folks to comprehend it.

posted March 05, 2015 07:24 PM            

Nor was he outside when a friend of L H Oswalds shot himself, or in a "combat zone" protecting the cameramen he exposed to danger. Or were the waterhosed marchers in the south in the 60s war victims too?

posted March 05, 2015 11:51 PM            

So you say but the gaffe and scandal ridden Hillary is really the one on the way out. demoscats are hyperventilating over Hillary's latest scandal...and possible criminal misconduct.

Even Liberals can't stand listening to or watching the far left loons on radio or television.

posted March 09, 2015 10:43 PM            

On the other hand, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and MSNBC are purveyors of gossip, innuendo, rumor, supposition and outright lies. That makes them popular with the leftist loon set who don't give a rat's ass about the truth.

New poll out today AND Fox News is still the most trusted news network and the most watched cable news network.

posted March 21, 2015 09:03 PM            

There are plenty of reasons that explain Fox News’ ratings dominance over the past decade and a half, but a new poll from Quinnipiac University sheds light on at least one major factor: trust. When voters were asked “Whose news coverage do you trust the most?” Fox News beat out all other television news organizations – on network and cable. Here’s a look at the results (the numbers on the X axis are percentages; "don't know" responses are not shown):

posted April 02, 2015 07:43 AM            

Talk about a tale of two cable news networks. With its 53rd consecutive quarter total audience win, Fox News Channel saw a 10% primetime rise among adults 25-54 in first-quarter 2015 over last year. In fact, with 321,000 on average among the 25-54s in primetime, Fox News thrashed rivals CNN (187,000) and MSNBC (132,000) with more news demo viewers than the other two combined, according to Nielsen.

Contrast that to the fate of the NBC Universal-owned MSNBC, which not only saw a 39% drop in the demo compared to Q1 2014 but its worst quarterly result in the category since Q2 2005. If that almost decade-old result wasn’t enough of a blow, and rising CNN’s fourth consecutive win over MSNBC in prime didn’t cut deep enough, take a look at the gutting the cabler newser’s nighttime offerings are suffering.

posted April 04, 2015 02:54 PM            

Their ratings were boosted this spring by the non believers who went to see O Reilly punt and bluster when he was accused of "embellishing" his deeds of derring do. And though he denied and augmented his lies he changed his "friendly" dismissal of Williams and just recently came out in favour of re-instating the frankly more honest man (who copped to his faults, something O Reilly seems incapable of.

posted April 04, 2015 08:43 PM            

Fox News is the most watched Cable News Network in America.

Fox News is the most trusted news network in America.

Yeah, it was just a peaceful demonstration O'Reilly was covering. Right! Check!

This is the story run in the NY Times about the riots. Note the date! Mother Jones is just full of crap and so are the rest of the leftist loons who are attempting to offset the lying of Brian Williams.

THOUSANDS IN BUENOS AIRES ASSAIL JUNTA FOR SURRENDERING TO BRITAIN
By RICHARD J. MEISLIN, Special to the New York Times
Published: June 16, 1982

BUENOS AIRES, June 15— Policemen firing tear gas tonight dispersed thousands of angry Argentines who had massed in front of the presidential palace to condemn the Government for surrendering to the British on the Falkland Islands.

Hundreds of Argentines began to gather early this morning. The crowd grew to several thousand tonight after an announcement that President Leopoldo Galtieri would speak from the balcony of the Casa Rosada, the presidential palace, which overlooks the Plaza de Mayo.

General Galtieri, appearing on national television instead of on the balcony of the palace, said there ''will be no security or definitive peace'' if Britain ''proceeds to restore colonial rule'' on the islands, which are known here as the Malvinas.

As the crowd chanted increasingly bitter invective at the Government before the speech - reflecting the sorrow, anger and disbelief of the public here over the loss - the police in riot gear moved in, firing tear-gas canisters and roaring through the Plaza de Mayo on motorcycles.

Hundreds fled to the side streets, shouting obscenities at the police as acrid gas filled the air. Others ripped down wooden street signs and set them afire in the plaza. Fires appeared in several nearby intersections as demonstrators threw wastebaskets into them and then set them ablaze to slow the police. Chants of 'Argentina! Argentina!'

Chants of ''Argentina! Argentina!'' and the whine of police sirens echoed off the buildings of the business district as police trucks moved in. One large gray van pulled into an intersection a block from the plaza, and policemen emerged, seizing anyone they could. One policeman pulled a pistol, firing five shots over the heads of fleeing demonstrators.

The leaders of 10 political parties, in a statement tonight, denounced the police action as ''brutal repression'' and a ''flagrant violation of the public faith.''

Officials gave no arrest figures, but they appeared to number in the dozens. Several demonstrators were reported to have been injured, along with at least two reporters.

Local news agencies said three buses had been set ablaze by demonstrators and another one fired upon. The display of national outrage was of a type seldom seen since the military took power in 1976. The demonstration had remained peaceful for most of the day. Argentines sang their national hymn over and over, beginning in sorrowful tones but waving their fists angrily as they reached its closing refrain: ''We will live crowned with glory, ''Or we swear with glory we will die, ''We swear with glory we will die, ''We swear with glory we will die.''

It was as if they believed the strains of patriotism were the most painful sounds they could inflict on the military junta the morning after Argentina's surrender to the British in its failed battle to take control of the Falklands.

Some of them vowed that the fight for the islands was not over. Some demanded guns to finish the job the Government had not been able to do.

There were harsher words directed at the palace at well - chants that lose their angry rhyme and rhythm when translated from Spanish to English, and some bolder epithets dealing with the ancestry of the junta, which brought gasps from onlookers.

''The boys who died will not be sold out by the chiefs,'' one group chanted as it marched around the plaza. ''Que se vaya, que se vaya'' - ''Go away, go away'' - the demonstrators sang tauntingly at the flag-draped windows of the palace.

''Treason! Treason!'' they chanted. ''The military dictatorship is going to end!'' they sang as they grew bolder. The police occasionally walked through the plaza, shoulder to shoulder, in an effort to disperse the crowd. But as soon as it was broken up in one area, it regrouped in another.

At one point this morning, policemen with rubber truncheons dispersed the crowd, and some demonstrators were reportedly arrested. But they were quickly replaced by others.

The Under Secretary of the Interior, Col. Bernardo Menendez, appeared at the plaza a few minutes after the arrests, telling some of the demonstrators that ''we must have faith and feel more united than ever.'' But if those present were united, it seemed to be mostly in anger.

There were young people and old, businessmen in jackets and ties, men and women in working clothes and students in ski jackets and blue jeans. They repeatedly joined to chant, then broke into small groups to discuss what had happened and who was to blame.

If there was one word heard more than any other, it was ''mentira'' - the Spanish word for ''lie.'' ''We were lied to by the United States, we were lied to by the junta, we were lied to by the United Nations,'' one man said bitterly.

There was, as well, continuing disbelief that the Argentine forces could have been outmaneuvered by a force from thousands of miles away - particularly after weeks of statements by the Argentine Government that its forces were secure in defending the islands.

''We were not fighting Britain -against Britain we would have won,'' said one well-dressed woman with a tattered little blue-andwhite Argentine flag on her lapel. ''We were fighting the friends of Britain.''

A man nearby waved his fist angrily at the palace. ''There are the friends of Britain,'' he retorted. This brought additional questions of whether the Argentine Government had done all it could. ''Why did they lie to us?'' asked a longish-haired young man in a tan leather jacket. ''Why didn't they ask for help from the other Latin American countries?''

The loss spurred a new round of criticism of the military dictatorship from the leaders of the nation's political movements. A leader of the Peronists, Mario Campora, said that the junta had assembled ''a heavy chain of failures'' since taking power and that ''to all this has now been added the burden of the military failure of the attempt to recover the Malvinas.''

posted May 18, 2015 04:42 PM            

Unlike the America hatefests at CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBS which are, at best..."so called news networks".

Fox News Network:
The most watched cable news network in America!