Yesterday on the radio factor O'Reilly had some right winger on from Illinois to talk about corruption in Illinois. The guy told Billy they were all democrats and of course he agreed.
Then last night O'Reilly talked about corruption and Rod Blagojevich during the tv show. O'Reilly said every Illinois Governor who went to jail was a Democrat. This is a flat out lie, and a total fraud by Bill O'Reilly. A simple google search will show it's a lie, yet O'Reilly repeated the lie a second time on the tv show.
Here are the facts: Since 1929 six Illinois Governors have been indicted or convicted of corruption, three were Republicans and two were Democrats. Blagojevich can not be counted yet because he is not in jail, has not been indicted, and has not been convicted. In fact, the one Illinois Governor who did go to jail recently was George H. Ryan, and he is a REPUBLICAN.
The most corrupt Governor of Illinois was George H. Ryan, he was the Republican Governor from 1999 until 2003. Investigations into widespread corruption during his administration led to his retirement from politics in 2003 and federal corruption convictions in 2006. Ryan entered federal prison on November 7, 2007, to begin serving a sentence of six and a half years.
I set up a web page with the rest of the details:
http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/illinoislies.htm