I love the Bill O’Reilly defense from the Heritage foundation lady, Bill O’Reilly says he didn’t lie. And there you have it.
Matt Taibbi wraps it up well. Bill O’Reilly is not a journalist, he is a bloviating egomaniacal a whole whose job it is to tell old bigots what they want to hear. Average age of viewers of Bill O’Reilly is 72, four years older than the Fox News general audience. He does for TV what Rush Limbaugh does for AM radio. Making a wholes feel good about themselves. Almost as much money in that as religion.
Which gives me pause in blaming Brian Williams for his embellishments. Brian Williams is not a journalist either, he is a celebrity news reader. I suppose the difference in all this is NBC has credibility to hold on to while Fox News has no credibility at all. Their very existence is based on the incredulous lie that they are FAIR AND BALANCED. An inside joke.