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Vyan Donating Member (990 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 02:46 PM
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Smear War - O'Reilly vs Media Matters

It's Bill O'Reilly vs David Brock of Media Matters -- to the death.

O'Reilly has apparently decided to launch a "counter-smear" campaign against anti-Right wing website Media Matters. He mentioned them numerous times but over the last two days the rhetoric has gotten especially heated.

In response to Media Matters exploding the Bill Bennet comment controversy - O'Reilly and others have continually defended Bennet's "aborting all black babies to reduce crime" comments and accused Media Matters of misquoting, taking him out of context and smearing him. However, a clear and objective reading of Media Matters original report on the subject did in fact include all of his comment, including where he stated that doing such a thing...

Bennett conceded that aborting all African-American babies "would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," then added again, "but the crime rate would go down."


But that isn't enough O'Reilly has gone much further than the Bennett Battle - and Media Matters has matched him blow for blow.

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shenmue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 03:21 PM
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1. Truth itself...
is a defense against libel. If the very silly man tries to take them to court, he'll lose faster than he did in the case over Al Franken's book.

All MM has to do is play clips of everything Bill says, and that pretty much writes the dismissal for them.

If B. just keeps the fight in public, he still embarrasses the heck out of himself, as his ratings die and MM gains support. Not tough to do.
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LaPera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-05 03:22 PM
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2. Media Matters is a great site and needs some help...
Edited on Thu Oct-27-05 03:23 PM by LaPera
http://mediamatters.org/items/200510270001

Donate if you can and if you love seeing these right-wing media assholes exposed for the liars they are!!!

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