Bill O'Reilly: murder by number (detainee deaths)

By Grace Nearing of Scriptoids

(For the record: The word "murder" appears just once in the New York Times article, as part of a quoted statement. Here it is: "'Homicide is not synonymous with murder (a legal determination) and includes both criminal actions and excusable incidents (i.e., self-defense, law enforcement, combat),' according to an Army statement.")

Big doin's on The O'Reilly Factor. There's a "Factor Investigation" under way. This one is called "Murder Accusations Against U.S. Troops in Iraq & Afghanistan?"

You can tell it's bullshit because the title ends with a question mark. That question mark supposedly exonerates O'Reilly in perpetuity for the flagrantly deceptive practices to follow.



Ah, the game's afoot. The headline uses the word "homicide"; the Factor Investigation uses the term "murder." Can you see where this is going? Bill and his guests are going to have some fun with the terms "murder" and "homicide."

Oh, and they also play some incredibly clumsy games with numbers, because O'Reilly is obsessed with the number "26" here. Like a dogged tax accountant, he's determined to get that figure below a certain cutoff point. He won't be able to do it, but O'Reilly will not be denied his "victory."



Now this gets to be really funny in a perverse sort of way. O'Reilly thinks he's going to chip away at the number of possible homicides alleged in the NYT article, but by the end of the program he and his guests wind up increasing their estimated number of murders, and they don't do anything to discredit the "26" figure.

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