Every morning, I sit with a coffee and read the news. I also check up on the liberal "blogs" -- I know I should diversify my sources but so should everybody else. Like most lefties, I spend a lot of time gawking at the crazy things coming out of the mouths of our leaders, and often out of the mouths of our journalists and media.
Last month, I posted the Bill O'Reilly/Letterman interview. In that same vein, I'm posting a clip from "Countdown" that I saw via Crooks and Liars - probably my favorite left-wing site, if only because I don't have a television and at least this way I get some highlights.
I think it is important to spread around this type of thing, if only because regular viewers (not just of O'Reilly, but of any program) need to see how the facts are sometimes just flat out wrong. Lots of people look to O'Reilly for the truth, or for the "fair and balanced" facts, but this clip proves that to be a dangerous idea.
Keith Olbermann disrobes O'Reilly in a way that I really hope is simply not debatable: O'Reilly was wrong, never excused himself, repeated his error, and then changed the words of his transcript after the fact. This type of thing just cannot go unexplained - or unremarked - on a major news channel. Watch the clip - Olbermann at his best. (Quicktime required)
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