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, if only for more exposure.http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/20/veterans-group-demands-fox-news-bill-oreilly-air.html
Veterans Group Demands That Fox News Take Bill OReilly Off The Air
By: Jason Easley
Friday, February, 20th, 2015, 8:56 pm
A leading veterans group is calling on Fox News to take Bill OReilly off the air after it was uncovered that Fox News host lied about his history as a war correspondent.
In a statement, Jon Soltz, chairman of VoteVets.org, said, NBC acted completely appropriately in taking Brian Williams off the air and looking into claims hes made over the years. Fox News has to do the same thing. The issue, for me, isnt that Fox has been caught off guard and didnt realize OReilly was telling possibly false tales. That I can accept. Its what do they do about it now? That will tell us a lot about how seriously they take their news organization.
The mainstream media, except for Foxs cable news competition, have largely treated the OReilly/Corn story as a case of he said/he said. The media is giving Bill OReilly an open platform that he is using to smear Mother Jones and David Corn. What OReilly is also doing is distracting from his own statements.
The 400,000 member organization VoteVets has it right. It is a matter of consistent treatment. The media is happily willing to overlook the fact that OReillys story makes no sense. OReillys has made up his own definition of a combat zone. Bill-Os claim that he saw combat is similar to a journalist claiming that they were at Ground Zero on 9/11 while they were in Atlanta.
The odds of Fox News taking OReilly off the air are zero. The reason for this confidence is that Fox News isnt a real news organization. Fox doesnt care about their credibility because they dont have any.
What is most troubling is the medias willingness to overlook OReillys lie. By standing with their ratings cash cow, Fox News has shown that it isnt just OReilly who should be taken off the air. Its also their whole sham news network.
GP6971
(31,228 posts)Entertainment network????
El Shaman
(583 posts)(entertainment you know-'fiction'.
spanone
(135,915 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Unless rocking back and forth in your basement, afraid that the black President is coming to take your guns, counts as being a war correspondent.
babylonsister
(171,104 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)CNN - new buddy of ISIS propaganda....Fox are punters in comparison...
Meanwhile Italians react to the fearmongering on Twitter by mocking the media.......
Beartracks
(12,822 posts)sheshe2
(83,986 posts)farce
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Kingofalldems
(38,500 posts)babylonsister
(171,104 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)babylonsister
(171,104 posts)A lot of us have FB accounts. Or we could ask the great guys who run DU to make a venomous, perfect meme that floats all over FB. Their memes are a force!
jwirr
(39,215 posts)We on DU used to be very good at this type of things.
Cha
(297,888 posts)UTUSN
(70,771 posts)ut oh
(903 posts)Is Faux does have credibility in certain circles. and faux doesn't care how much their correspondents lie. It's what keeps them in business.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)So, why would they care what some honest veterans want?
marym625
(17,997 posts)I hope they are able to do it. He's such a horrible human being
Takket
(21,657 posts)Faux News will talk about brian Williams all day because it fits their narrative about the liberal "America and troop hating" media you will be exposed to if you turn their network off. but being held accountable is only for liberals, not conservatives! silly vets!
O'Reilly could crap on an American flag on camera and Faux would still treat him like the last line of defense protecting us from the Commie Obama
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Guys, I think this question has already been answered.
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)different equation
(69 posts)mopinko
(70,282 posts)that is one online petition i would be willing to take the junk mail consequences for.
niyad
(113,701 posts)RB TexLa
(17,003 posts)Williams or O'Reilly on the air.
appalachiablue
(41,184 posts)Stuart G
(38,454 posts)appalachiablue
(41,184 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)a wantaby.
turbinetree
(24,737 posts)to John Soltz's and his group to hold this right wing hypocrite accountable------greed is not good and the supporters of this man (O'Reilly and the hypocrites trying to divert this lie just shows who these people really support and its not transparency) for the cash cow he represents just shows they have no conscience----its about the moola
Stainless
(718 posts)Always has been, always will be a lying POS.
demigoddess
(6,645 posts)wishing them luck too.
HomerRamone
(1,112 posts)34th Avenue
(19 posts)But the suicide was in Florida. He was in Dallas at the time.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)Still fun to watch.
samsingh
(17,602 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)samsingh
(17,602 posts)RoverSuswade
(641 posts)samsingh
(17,602 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)1982... has he been saying this since 1982?? Billo Lies vs Brian Misremembering I can't go on a witch hunt on misremembering. but if this was a lie from a get go he's in worse trouble than Brian. "fucking thing sucks"