Crooks&Liars will put up video of Olbermann smackdown of O'Reilly

spooky3

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:21 PM
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Crooks&Liars will put up video of Olbermann smackdown of O'Reilly

Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 08:22 PM by spooky3

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/06/01.html#a8537

They already have a partial transcript up.

Olbermann: The bodies at Malmedy were not found until a month later. There were 84 of them, all, American soldiers. More than half showed gunshot wounds to their heads. Six had received fatal **blows** to the head. Nine were found with their arms still raised **above** their heads.

The fact that O'Reilly got these horrible facts completely backwards -- twice -- offended even his own usually compliant viewers. From his program **Wednesday** night...Wrong answer.

When you're **that** wrong -- when you're defending Nazi War Criminals and pinning their crimes on Americans, and you get **caught** doing so -- **twice** -- you're supposed to say 'I'm sorry, I was wrong'... and then you should shut up for a long time. Instead, Fox **washed** its transcript of O'Reilly's remarks Tuesday -- its website claims O'Reilly said "In **Normandy**..." when in fact he said "In **Malmedy**..."

The rewriting of past reporting -- worthy of Orwell -- has now carried over into such on-line transcription services as Burrell's and Factiva. Whatever did or did not happen **later**, in supposed or actual retribution... the victims at Malmedy, were **Americans**, gunned down while surrendering -- by **Nazis** in 1944 -- and again, Tuesday Night and Wednesday Night -- by a false patriot who would rather be loud than right.

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tulip

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:22 PM
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1. it was awesome

Kuodos Keith!

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WestHoustonDem

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:25 PM
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2. That was freaking amazing!

I happened to be showing some visitors Countdown for the first time and the were amazed!

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ayeshahaqqiqa

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:27 PM
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3. CanOFun has it up now!

Edited on Thu Jun-01-06 08:28 PM by ayeshahaqqiqa

http://www.canofun.com/cof/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=16111

Thanks, liveoaktx!

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NanceGreggs

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:53 PM
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5. I'm in Toronto, and we don't get KO here ...

... so a million tanks for putting up the link.

WOW!!!!!!!!!

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Bucky

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Thu Jun-01-06 08:50 PM
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4. It was here first on DU. I'm sure Olbermann has people reading DU

Too too often stuff we bring up here ends up there. I think it's great that at least some newsies are looking at what ordinary people are thinking and saying before deciding what's "news".

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spooky3

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Thu Jun-01-06 09:08 PM
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7. good catch, Bucky--I searched and found this

it was posted May 30--plenty of time for Keith to investigate:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1317997

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Cell Whitman

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Thu Jun-01-06 09:01 PM
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6. O'reilly did this last year too

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/10/04.html#a5221

In his debate last night with Wesley Clark, Bill said this to prove his point:

Clark: And let me explain something. You go all the way up the chain of command --

O'Reilly: General! You need to look at the Malmedy massacre in World War Two, and the 82nd Airborne who did it!
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from C&L:

That is a flat out lie. (thanks to (Mccarthy.vg ) It was the Nazi soldiers that committed the massacre on US troops and not the 82nd Airborn on the Germans. Bill you just used false information to defame our own troops. How could you sink to a low like that just to try and prove a point in a debate. It took two minutes to discover your falsehood. I think you owe an apology to our military and every veteran who fought in WWII. How you could mix up an atrocity like that is beyond me and worst yet paint our own soldiers as being the perpetrators of one of the worst war crimes in WWII. Did you just pull it out of your---?

Course FR knows who is fault here....It's all Wes Clark's fault. :7

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1640952/posts

Poster:

It was, of course, precisely the opposite, but the learned Mr. O'Reilly seemed not to know that, nor did General Clark correct him. How dumb are we getting? Doesn't O'Reilly claim to have once taught history?

To: blau993
Now you know how he got his job as a pundit: Too dumb to be a publik skool teesher.
To: blau993
His once and future boss, Hillary Clinton, does not allow her minions to tell the truth if it might portray the U.S. in a favourable light. Wes is nothing more than a bookmark these days, waiting for his appointment to Secretary of Neutering for the American military. By POTUS Geena Davis...

11 posted on 05/31/2006 7:54:18 AM PDT by ishabibble

To: CentralMass
I remember that exchange quite well. Sorry, but Clark neither corrected or questioned El Bill on the assertion that US forces had murdered SS men at Malmedy. It was one of the most shocking moments of the interview.
17 posted on 05/31/2006 6:55:52 PM PDT by blau993

Of course generla Wes had alreadty corrected O'reilly in 2004

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spooky3

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Thu Jun-01-06 09:09 PM
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8. Keith made that point very clear.

Check out the video on CanoFun. It is excellent.

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Berry Cool

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Thu Jun-01-06 09:21 PM
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9. I guess Wes has learned his lesson now.

Loofah Boy is an exceptionally dull student of history...you have to keep pounding the correct facts into his head over and over again in hopes that maybe, someday, they will stick.

Then again, maybe he really would rather just believe his lies.

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SunDrop23

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Thu Jun-01-06 09:23 PM
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10. Bill "I was in combat but with a pen" O'Lielly...what a tool.

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