O'Reilly Pushes Bogus ISIS Link To Chattanooga Shooting

Fox "news" and wingnut Pamela Geller almost immediately tried tying the Chattanooga shooter to ISIS this Thursday, facts be damned, which should surprise no one, since anytime there's someone with a Muslim name involved in a shooting, they're going to ramp the fearmongering up to eleven.

And as Media Matters reported, they also had to start walking those claims back and did just that on Bret Baier's show, which airs a couple of hours before Bill O'Reilly comes on.

That didn't stop Bill-O from making it the subject of his Talking Points Memo at the start of the show, and even though he admitted there might be problems with the story and he did not know if the ISIS ties were true, he was going to use it as an excuse to attack President Obama anyway and to try to scare the hell out of the geriatric crowd that watches his show and unfortunately actually takes him seriously.

Midway through the show, Catherine Herridge reappeared and admitted that "there are now some questions about the time stamp on one of the ISIS tweets earlier today." When O'Reilly pressed her on how she learned about the tweet, she said, "I first saw it this afternoon, it was part of the social media that was circulating."

At the end of the Factor, Special Report anchor Bret Baier clarified the timing of the tweet, saying that "all indications now are that it came out after the attack." When O'Reilly asked if that meant the ISIS tweet story was "a bogus situation," Baier replied, "yeah."

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/oreilly-pushes-bogus-isis-link-chattanooga

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Unscrupulous, unconscionable and just plain wicked. Gotta get that geriatric brigade who hang on his every word worked up into a froth of fear.

Odious excuse for a news commentator.