Earlier in the week 7 Afghan children were killed by an American air strike, NBC reported this story and Bill O'Reilly got visibly upset because he believes reporting on "bang bang" stories "helps the terrorists."
This video comes from Crooksandliars.com, Olbermann and Huffington take a look at Bill O'Reilly's "Serious Reporting."
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Just a couple related videos I would like to share. No matter what Olbermann says there is nothing wrong with reporting the dangers of bears.
Also Olbermann mentioned the O'Reilly's historical misinformation about the Malmedy Massacre. Here is the video footage of that O'Reilly gaffe (a New Low at the time)... Malmedy isn't even included in the list of worst O'Reilly moments.
Reader Comments ( Page 2 of 23)
16. The armchair "special forces" who are so gung ho about fighting terrorism worldwide and sitting comfortably with an "acceptable" number of dead bodies, need to ask why we didn't invade Saudi Arabia?
They need to think outside the box formed by Mr. Bush(awol draft evader) and his "dual citizenship" Neocon civilian advisors who never spent a day in the military.
Andy at 11:18AM on Jun 22nd 2007
17. no he does not i know liberals hate him because he makes sense and has high ratings while cnn cspan and msnbc are lossing ratings we need to hear the other side of each story nty nbc cbs abc c span msnbc cnn and all the other outlets do not cover the stories as most americans want o reilly fills a void
dave at 11:21AM on Jun 22nd 2007
18. Dear Steve,If you think for one minute THE USA is not being invaded daily by terriest walking across our borders ,you are not in touch with reality.You would not recognise an invasion,or that our president is helping them.
Billie at 11:32AM on Jun 22nd 2007
19. post #4 and 5 miss the point of even o'reilly's debate---the coverage of the war.....o'reilly and murdoch's paper regularly ignore the deaths of our soldiers...if i or you lose your loved one to an insurgent bombing,check out the post or o'reilly and see what paris hilton is up to,how anna nicole's duaghter is doing---o'reilly and hannity are the most anti-soldier,pro-war,sycophants around---david
david at 11:29AM on Jun 22nd 2007
20. KEITH OLBERMAN AND HUFFINGTON, IF COTTON WERE BRAINS THESE TO FRUIT LOOPS WOULDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TO MAKE A TAMPON FOR A FLEA. THESE ARE TWO OF THE MOST REPULSIVE, NO TALENT WHACKO'S ON THIS PLANET. OLBERMAN WORKS FOR MSNBC WHICH HAS THE LOWEST RATING OF ALL CABLE NEWS.THERE WERE PUNKS LIKE HIM IN HIGH SCHOOL AND WE JUST SLAPPED THEM. THEY ARE SO IRRELEVENT TO CABLE NEW BUT WHERE ELSE CAN THEY PUT THEM? I KNOW,PUT THEM IN THE WHITE HOUSE CLEANING THE TOILETS AND KISSING BUSH'S RING. WHAT A COUPLE IF BRAIN DEAD LIBERALS. THEY BOTH NEED TO GET A LIFE AND A REAL JOB.
MICHAEL WALSH at 11:41AM on Jun 22nd 2007
21. THIS IS TO BILLIES POST, PLEASE BILLIE GO BACK AND GET YOUR GED. TAKE FOUR YEARS OF SPELLING THEN RE-WRITE THE POST YOU JUST PUT ON THIS BLOG. MY GOD WOMEN GET A CLUE.
MICHAEL WALSH at 11:45AM on Jun 22nd 2007
22. Dear Billie
Thank you for your response. I am sorry that you think that I am not in touch with reality, however your post is dramatically overstating the truth. Probably out of the fear mongering that the administration has used to awaken its base of followers. I will assume that you are talking about immigration in your post. Its not the subject for this disscussion. These postings are about Bill-O and the media. However, I will say that the immigration problem seems to be the most misunderstood subject out there. I watch Dobbs and other reporter's discussions and find little truth in them. Hopefully, the same fear mongering and racial hatred will not be a part of that subject.
Steve Seivers at 11:45AM on Jun 22nd 2007
23. Michael Walsh
Please don't shout.
Please spell correctly.
Please don't call people names, especially those people that seem to know something about the subject at hand.
I think your time might be spent more wisely by listening to those that you don't agree with and then thinking of valid reasons of your disagreement. Calling people names without good reason is what we are objecting to re: Bill-0. The only way out of these problems is to listen and think. As far as the media goes, it is thier job to give us the evidence that we need for rational thought.
Steve Seivers at 11:52AM on Jun 22nd 2007
24. The far left are clearly the ones that are missing the point here. How can it be a "New Low" for Bill O' when his rating beat those of MSNBC, Headline News, CNN, COMBINED with left over ratings. The guy crushes them. It's just too bad you guys don't realize that you are on the WRONG side of history and trying to silence Bill or ask him to "retire" because his view doesnt sync with the main stream media that you find on all those other channels is just obsurd. I thought you guys were suppose to be the people of "Multi opinions", "Understanding", "different views", "Sensitivity"? Evidentally that is just a bunch of lines and jargon on your part to get the sympathetic to join your cause. Other wise you would embrace Bill for being in the vast minority in his field. Why arent you then? Oh thats right because he is CRUSHING all your favorites.
Furthermore if you can't see the difference between reporting the death of children a country we are at war with vs reporting the death of our soldiers then you are far far beyond help. This is war people. People die. Fact of war. If you cant understand that what can any of us do to help you? The thing is when you are more concerned about the enemies deaths then you are our own then there is resonable grounds for you to consider moving to Iraq. Would you stop hoping your football team would win the game because someone on the other side accidentally was injured and got a concussion? Would you stand on the sideline and show how the poor people on the other team were getting hurt and the game should be stopped? This is war. Look up the definition and then stop sympathizing with the enemy before its too late for all of us! You can bring up any cause you want. If the media showed EVERY single kid that was killed any cause no matter how good of one it was would get horrible pressure put on it to stop. Also I find it HORRIBLY ironic that the people who don't want us OCCUPYING Iraq have no problem with our OWN borders not being protected and us being "OCCUPIED" by 12 million Mexicans illegally and a reported 54 million others chomping at the bit with Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid trying to pave the road for them to come right in.
No Name at 12:24PM on Jun 22nd 2007
25. They need to think outside the box formed by Mr. Bush(awol draft evader) and his "dual citizenship" Neocon civilian advisors who never spent a day in the military.
Andy at 11:18AM on Jun 22nd 2007
Talk about bring up the level of the debate. awol I assume is AWOL or Absent Without Leave: actually unless you believe the NG report later labeled Rathergate, this was not true. (Clinton never served either, in any capacity, bet you still love him though), and NEOcon civi advisors; the founding fathers set up out military to have civilian oversight.
Scott at 12:08PM on Jun 22nd 2007
26. How would we ever know the true story when all we get is the media version?
fatjack265 at 12:15PM on Jun 22nd 2007
27. when the news is used to make a political point it is no longer news it is propaganda!
wellp at 12:31PM on Jun 25th 2007
28. al qaeda is a terrorist organization not a religious one!! why not report that!!
wellp at 2:37PM on Jun 22nd 2007
29. good for bill!!
wellp at 2:36PM on Jun 22nd 2007
30. It's incredibly sad and ironic that one of the only reporters giving it to us straight is someone who reports IRONICALLY. With Vietnam they had Cronkite. With Iraq, we have Colbert.
Meghan at 12:36PM on Jun 22nd 2007