{"id":7205,"date":"2009-06-04T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T20:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2009-06-06T19:47:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T02:47:11","slug":"oreilly-now-out-and-out-lying-about-his-tiller-the-killer-coverage-inflammatory-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7205","title":{"rendered":"O’Reilly Now Out-and-Out Lying About His ‘Tiller the Killer’ Coverage, Inflammatory Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, he’s just lying. On his TV show, and<\/i> in his newspaper column. We understand why Fox “News” is willing to let him say any irresponsible thing he wants, but what of the newspapers who run his syndicated garbage? Do they have no responsibility to do any fact<\/i> checking? How about his column’s syndicator, Creators Syndicate<\/a>? Do they have any responsibility to fact check their authors’ work before they send it out to be published in hundreds of papers around the country?<\/p>\n

O’Reilly is now claiming<\/a> he only “reported” that far-right anti-choice groups referred to Dr. George Tiller, the assassinated KS physician<\/a>, as “Tiller the Baby Killer,” not that he did so himself. That’s what he reported, as we noted on Monday, in subtly back-pedaling his previous inflammatory rhetoric<\/a> on his first show back after the murder.<\/p>\n

In fact, O’Reilly himself<\/i> used that term, over and over again, to describe Tiller. Media Matters offers the documented, video-taped facts<\/i> which, as usual, aren’t even close to O’Reilly’s blatant Spin, which is now also being perpetuated by this nation’s newspapers. Here are the facts<\/i>…<\/p>\n

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In his June 3 column<\/a> about the murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, Bill O’Reilly again falsely claimed that he had only “reported” anti-abortion groups referring to Tiller as “Tiller the baby killer.” In fact, O’Reilly himself has repeatedly referred to Tiller that way.<\/p>\n

O’Reilly wrote that “far-left loons … immediately blamed me and Fox News for inciting Tiller’s killer. Even though I reported on the doctor honestly, the loons asserted that my analysis of him was ‘hateful.’ ” O’Reilly continued: “Chief of among the complaints was the doctor’s nickname, ‘Tiller the baby killer.’ Some pro-lifers branded him with that, and I reported it. So did hundreds of other news sources.” However, O’Reilly has not only “reported” on the term’s usage by “pro-lifers,” but he has adopted it himself, repeatedly referring to Tiller as “the baby killer” on his Fox News show:<\/p>\n