{"id":2126,"date":"2005-12-07T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2005-12-07T15:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2126"},"modified":"2005-12-07T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2005-12-07T15:59:38","slug":"source-daily-show-to-run-piece-tonight-on-oreillys-misleading-war-on-xmas-clip-as-first-reported-by-brad-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2126","title":{"rendered":"SOURCE: &#8216;Daily Show&#8217; to Run Piece Tonight on O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Misleading &#8216;War on XMas&#8217; Clip as First Reported by BRAD BLOG&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002125.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/OReilly_ChristmasBullshit_120205.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Sources tell <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> that <i>The Daily Show<\/i> on Comedy Central will be running an item tonight on self-proclaimed satirical journalist Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s use of a year-old video clip to support his phony &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221; as originally <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002116.htm\">reported here<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Our report was <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/search\/200512060004\">picked up by MediaMatters.org<\/a> yesterday. We had reported on O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s use of the clip in his &#8220;Talking Points Memo&#8221; segment on Fox &#8220;News'&#8221; <i>The O&#8217;Reilly Factor<\/i> program last Friday and Media Matters added that O&#8217;Reilly had <i>also<\/i> run the same clip by <i>Daily Show<\/i> &#8220;correspondent&#8221; Samantha Bee audio-only on his <i>Radio Factor<\/i> show earlier that day where he misleadingly introduced it as &#8220;what happenened there last night&#8221; on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002116.htm\">BRAD BLOG&#8217;s original report<\/a> has the video and discusses O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s phony use of the clip to shore up momentum in his imaginery &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221;. The video clip clearly shows a calendar for <u>2004<\/u> behind Bee who is also currently very pregnant &#8212; which she wasn&#8217;t in the clip. As well, Media Matters confirmed our report that the segment had <i>not<\/i> been played on <i>The Daily Show<\/i> at any time during the previous week contrary to O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s assertion.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> <i>The Daily<\/i> did, in fact, run a piece on this as we predicted. A very funny one. The clip is now <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002128.htm\">available right here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">Please help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/xclick\/business=TheBradBlog@cville.com&#038;item_name=Help+Support+The+BRAD+BLOG&#038;item_number=123456\" target=\"paypal\">support The BRAD BLOG<\/a>! Unlike FOX and O&#8217;Reilly, we&#8217;re just one guy and a few tireless volunteers helping out when they can. Your donations mean the world!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources tell The BRAD BLOG that The Daily Show on Comedy Central will be running an item tonight on self-proclaimed satirical journalist Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s use of a year-old video clip to support his phony &#8220;War on Christmas&#8221; as originally reported here on Sunday. Our report was picked up by MediaMatters.org yesterday. We had reported on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}