President Obama calls out Bill O’Reilly and Fox News for promoting conspiracy theories
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/02/president_obama_calls_out_bill_oreilly_and_fox_news_for_promoting_conspiracy_theories/Sunday, Feb 2, 2014 05:55 PM EST
President Obama calls out Bill O’Reilly and Fox News for promoting conspiracy theories
In his much-hyped pre-Super Bowl interview with the president, Bill O'Reilly asks about...the IRS
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When it came to Benghazi, O’Reilly asked the president whether he was told, in the moments following 2012?s attack on the U.S. mission in Libya, that it was an act of terror.
Obama noted that in his first official comments following the attack, he referred to it as an act of terror. (If this sounds familiar, it’s because it is; this is the same argument the president had with Mitt Romney during the second presidential debate of the 2012 election.)
“Your detractors believe that you did not tell the world it was a terror attack because your campaign didn’t want that out,” O’Reilly continued. “That’s what they believe.”
“And they believe it because folks like you are telling them that,” Obama quickly responded, with evident frustration.
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The president then noted that the only reason people were still talking about these conspiracy theories is because Fox News and its employees (like Bill O’Reilly) keep bringing them up.
“These kinds of things keep on surfacing in part because you and your TV station will promote them,” Obama said.
“But don’t you feel there are unanswered questions?” O’Reilly continued to push.
Obama then began to explain what actually happened at the IRS, but O’Reilly wasn’t interested.
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For the millions of Americans enjoying nachos and totally confused by what they just saw on tv re the IRS, read this http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/the-fake-story-about-the-irs-commissioner-and-the-white-house/276399/ …
11:46 AM - 2 Feb 2014
The Fake Story About the IRS Commissioner and the White House
White House records show Douglas Shulman signed in for 11 visits, not 157, between 2009 and 2012.
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Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
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O'Reilly accuses Pres. Obama of hiding Benghazi due to election. POTUS: "They believe that because folks like you are telling them that."
11:41 AM - 2 Feb 2014
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Nerdy Wonka @NerdyWonka
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President Obama knows how to do shade. He didn't call Fox a news station. Noooo, he called it a "TV station."
Thank you sir for the laughs.
12:13 PM - 2 Feb 2014
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Obama FTW 
kiss my Liberal nut-sack; Bengazi that , you obnoxious loud mouth horse-head lookin bastard, you
