O'Reilly falsely asserted Media Matters added to the audio clip

[Flabbergasted]

....of his controversial comments after posting initial item...


Well Done Media Matters.


http://mediamatters.org/items/200710010002?f=i_related

O'Reilly falsely asserted Media Matters added to the audio clip of his controversial comments after posting initial item

On the September 28 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, during a discussion with conservative blogger La Shawn Barber about his controversial comments following his visit to Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem, Bill O'Reilly falsely asserted that Media Matters for America made additions to the audio clip of his remarks after posting the item. Responding to Barber's statement that "to credit Media Matters a little bit, they posted enough of your audio that you could even listen to their clips and understand what you were saying," O'Reilly claimed that Media Matters added content to the audio clip of his September 19 comments after a September 26 appearance by Media Matters Senior Fellow Paul Waldman on NBC's Today. O'Reilly told Barber, "hey only did that after ... they were busted, and after they were on the defensive, and after Matt Lauer took the guy apart on the Today show." O'Reilly added: "Lauer slaughtered the Media Matters guy. ... Killed him. And then, they say, 'Oh, we better put up a little bit more.' " In fact, Media Matters added no additional audio of O'Reilly's original discussion about Sylvia's after the first item highlighting his remarks posted on September 21 -- five days before Waldman's appearance on Today.

Transcript follows....

[Gabi Hayes]

1. is there video of Lauer slaughtering the media matters person?

I'd love to see that

[Flabbergasted]

4. here

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6299182092450648030&q=Matt+Lauer+Media+Matters&total=3&start=0&num=50&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

[Atman]

5. Bad link

I thought there was supposed to be a clip showing Matt Lauer eviscerating the Media Matters guy or something. Your clip just showed an average, run-of-the-mill Today show report. Biased, ill-informed and rushed so as to allow time for the Holiday Cupcakes segment. If anything was eviscerated it was Joe Watkins' reputation as an honest man.

Oh, wait...he never had that reputation in the first place. Never mind.

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[Beaverhausen]

6. thanks for that link. Now we see that Lauer is clueless as well

how anyone can hear what O'Reilly said and NOT think it is racist is beyond me.

[Webster Green]

2. Even with audio and video evidence against them, they still deny..

These right wing radio and tee-vee liars are completely delusional.

:rofl:

[Gabi Hayes]

3. David Shuster pretty much let all the lies they've been spinning just sit there.

he made no mention of Limbaugh's website falsifications, etc., how what he and his supporters are demonstrably lies, as you've mentioned

he could have done a little googling, and really set up the rest of the media to go after that stinky Hindenburg

[ljm2002]

7. Unfortunately they are not delusional...

...they know that to lie and muddy the waters works, even if the actual clips show them doing what they say they did not do.

Because they will show their edited clips (if they show anything), and they will claim that they are being taken out of context, and they will keep pressing it, and the average Joes and Janes out there who do not follow these antics in detail will come to the conclusion that it's a pissing contest and won't know or really care that much who's right.

And so they win.

They have thoroughly corrupted the dialog in this country and personally I think it is beyond redemption. I had hoped that the 2006 elections showed the tide was beginning to turn -- but the Democrats have dropped the ball big time, and the opportunity is lost.

Sigh.