School says O'Reilly fabricated dress code story

[Newsjock]

http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10778

E-mail sent to parents in the Plano, TX school district

Dear Plano ISD eNews Subscribers:

On Friday, December 9, on the Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," with Bill O'Reilly and guest Jim Pinkerton, Fox 4 News analyst, it was falsely reported in a segment entitled "More Victories for Christmas" that ...

... "In Plano, Texas, a school told students they couldn't wear red and green because they are Christmas colors."......

Due to the number of e-mails, inquiries and phone calls to Plano ISD regarding students "wearing red and green," Superintendent of schools Dr. Doug Otto is e-mailing this communication to eNews subscribers (and has posted this message on the PISD website) to assure the school community that this rumor is false.

"The school district does not restrict students or staff from wearing certain color clothes during holiday times or any other school days," noted Dr. Otto, who said that the school district's attorney has requested that Mr. O'Reilly retract the statement.

[LostinVA]

1. Why, he would never lie, this great patriotic American

WTF is wrong with you??? Don't you love Christmas? Do you hate the troops, too???

[GRLMGC]

2. hahahaahah

O'Reilly is going to blow a gasket. "How dare these people question my honesty? I never lie. They're lying". Bwaahahahahaha

[Kolesar]

3. "The big head" is going to be Olbermann's"worst person in the world" again

just watch

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. Probably.

KO rules :D :D

[spooky3]

25. The Big Head won last night--this was only one of his lies.

[Kolesar]

29. Good morning!

Did he win, place, or show?

[spooky3]

42. WON, of course. No one else has a chance :-).

[stepnw1f]

4. Something Needs to Happen to FOX

Giving a point of view is one thing, but straight out lying another. The damage this propaganda outfit has done is unforgivable.

[MnFats]

9. Like TASS or PRAVDA (old Soviet news outfits)...

FOX should simply be called "The official government news agency."
many tinhorn dictatorships still have these. FOX should just drop the mask and forget the "journalism" front. They're ridiculous.

[Supersedeas]

40. the Party News Network

[TX-RAT]

13. Not just Fox

Something needs to happen to any news source that lies or knowingly reports a non-truth.

Tell the truth or shut the doors.

[Submariner]

19. Foxnews has got to be a lost cause

What other network could or would have a sex pervert as the star attraction to news? None, if they have an ounce of integrity.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

26. but they don't sell or promote integrity- they are bush supporters.

I do not recall the last time I flipped that channel on. I DO recall that it lasted about 5 seconds.
I see that if you count audiences fairly, CNN still beats Faux

[doublethink]

14. I quote you .......

"Giving a point of view is one thing, but straight out lying another" Now THAT should be the Faux slogan, instead of this fair and balanced bullshit, it would be the most honest thing they ever did! :)

[WernhamHogg]

27. The thing that is really sad

IMO, the thing that is REALLY sad is if Fox "News" started every one of their programs with the standard disclaimer that you see at the end of movies ("...any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidence...") 35% of the population would STILL believe every one of the lies that they spout on that channel.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

5. O'Reilly lie?

I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED, I tell ya!

:sarcasm:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. The funny thing also is that this area (the school district mentioned) is

as fundie and RW as it gets for an upper middle class suburb.

But I'm sure that O'Reilly's humble, contrite, correction of his "error" will be broadcast at the top of his show any day now.

[GrumpyGreg]

17. O'Reilly contrite? Thanks for the laugh,I needed it.

[yellowcanine]

30. Well he is a con and he is trite so I guess maybe he is contrite

[walldude]

8. Hell there is a whole list of Billy's Holiday lies

at Media Matters. And a long list it is :D

http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/billoreilly

edit-The guy creates a "War On Christmas" then makes shit up to perpetuate the lie. Dork.

[Canuckistanian]

10. Why does he do this? Brain damage?

Does he think nobody is going to check out his lies? That the actual people invovled won't protest?

The man has lost it, seriously. I hope the lawyer's letter gives him a cold hard smack in the face.

[Initech]

11. I'm suddenly reminded of the scene in Airplane...

Where the shit literally hits the fan.

As much as I hate O'Reilly, it's good to see that people are finally questioning his actions!

[sasquatch]

12. Why don't they sue O'Reilly for slander?

That's what I would do.

[Warpy]

15. The worm won't issue a retraction, either

His purpose is to whip all those fundy Calvinists into a self righteous freanzy and increase his ratings, not to tell the truth or to make corrections when he's caught in a real whopper.

I understand the school district is now suing because fielding the phone calls from fundy nutcases all over the country has run into serious money.

Maybe when that bastard gets socked in the wallet enough times, he'll tone it down..... Nah.

[Hello_Kitty]

18. Why is he on the air still after sexually harassing a subordinate?

Not only was he disgusting in those calls, he THREATENED her!! At my company, he'd have been fired. Unbelievable.

[Meldread]

16. Can the school sue him for libel/slander?

Oh, please. Oh please. Oh please say yes.

[shenmue]

20. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!

He is so busted!

:rofl:

I'm serious, anybody ever tested him to see if he has a personality disorder of some sort? Paranoia, flights of fancy--it may depend somewhat on how much of a script he has to work from, becaues of F*x, but if he writes his own material, then it's even more serious.

:tv: :tinfoilhat:

[johnnie]

21. The shithead probably got that in one of those stupid emails

He is probably also waiting for the attorney of some rich guy in Cairo to get his millions of dollars that was left to him. :eyes:

[WearyOne]

22. is that the O'Reilly who wanted Al Qaeda to bomb San Francisco ?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

23. Bill you Shying Litheel!!

How can any sane person put one bit of stock in the words of such a pathological liar?

Next: The Paris Business Journal is formed* just to make the last HUGE LIE true.








*In Paris, Texas. Where else.

[11 Bravo]

24. Hell, O'Reilly will claim that the school district backed down ..

and he is responsible for it. Asshat.

[hippywife]

28. There ya go!

You've expressed exactly what will probably happen.

[drm604]

33. But he'll do it in a way that's literally true but disingenuous.

Something like: "I've been contacted by the school board and they now say that they will not be banning the wearing of Christmas colors."

[Miss Chybil]

31. "Kids not Allowed to Utter Words with 'X' in Them"

"School children across the country have been forbidden to used words containing the letter 'X' for fear of offending non-Christians at Yuletide. As you know, the letter 'X' has been used to abbreviate the word Christmas, i.e. X-Mas. School board superintendent Wally Wallibahbah has declared no student may use the letter 'X' while on government property, either orally, or in writing. 'We do not want to make non-Christians feel uncomfortable and so we feel this is the best policy,' Wallibahbah said. Now, all school districts across this Christian nation have followed suit.

Who's next, WalMart? Will Extra Savings become Etra Savings? Folks, you know convicted criminals, bankrupt families, atheists, agnogstics and overzealous Puritans founded this country with one thing in mind, CHRISTMAS! Our founding fathers crossed freezing oceans, sat down to dinner on the last Thursday in November with Indians and ate with their hands, no less, in order that we would be able to experience the joy of dragging dead trees into our homes, of driving ourselves deep into debt in order to buy the latest whatzamajigger, and propping up our low t.v. ratings with superficial rants about nothing. It's important we preserve these traditions in order to honor the people who died before us - for example, during the witch trials and hence. It's like the war on Iraq, People. We must continue to honor the people we have sent to their deaths there, by sending more. It's tradition and it's important to our national integrity. We are Christians, people. Get used to it! You don't like it? Leave! Go back to your flea-infested sandpiles and take your ragtops with you. We will burn you at the stake. We will drown you. We will torture you until you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as your kind and loving Savior. We will hang you by the neck. We will inject you with poisons. We will electrify your reproductive parts until you accept the Prince of Peace and learn the words to Noel. This is America and we won't stand for this anymore. It's X-Mas, darn-it! It's X-Mas!"

Bill O'Leilly

[holdensphonies]

32. O'Really?

another lie?

[Lefty48197]

34. Does Bill O'Reilly even have 'fact checkers'?

"Dr. Otto said that our attorney 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.

"
'It would be our hope that you would engage in fair and balanced reporting of this nationally recognized school district in the future,' PISD's attorney wrote to Mr. O'Reilly."

[atommom]

36. Why would he need those, when he doesn't use facts?

It would be like a fish riding a bicycle, or Shrub listening to experts.

:shrug:

[quiet.american]

38. Lol. n/t

[DougieZero]

35. I live in saginaw township

he smeared my city with a lie... i sent my clip to media matters and they posted it,

[Rosco T.]

37. Calling Mr. Olbermann... paging Keith Olbermann...

Your order of O'Lilely toast is ready to be served!

[Lex]

39. Yes. I hope Al Franken mentions it too

although Al's in Iraq this week.

[seabeyond]

41. another thread oreilly saying changed song in christmas pag.

from silent night and taking out all reference of christmas. it was a pageant on little christmas tree? and ended with a wish you a merry christmas song. wrong again oreilly. make sure olderman know about both