Mother Jones: "Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem"

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Thursday February 19, 2015 · 3:56 PM PST

2015/02/19 · 15:56

Bill O'Reilly an even bigger liar than Brian Williams? As Bart Simpson might say, the ironing is delicious:

After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter while covering the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly went on a tear. On his television show, the top-rated cable news anchor declared that the American press isn't "half as responsible as the men who forged the nation." He bemoaned the supposed culture of deception within the liberal media, and he proclaimed that the Williams controversy should prompt questioning of other "distortions" by left-leaning outlets. Yet for years, O'Reilly has recounted dramatic stories about his own war reporting that don't withstand scrutiny—even claiming he acted heroically in a war zone that he apparently never set foot in.

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Saturday July 21, 2012 · 5:26 AM PDT

2012/07/21 · 05:26

It's being reliably reported that Alexander Cockburn, longtime columnist at The Nation (and, before that, The Village Voice) and Counterpunch, has died.

Here's what Counterpunch colleague Jeffrey St. Clair has to say:

Our friend and comrade Alexander Cockburn died last night in Germany, after a fierce two-year long battle against cancer. His daughter Daisy was at his bedside.
Alex kept his illness a tightly guarded secret. Only a handful of us knew how terribly sick he truly was. He didn’t want the disease to define him. He didn’t want his friends and readers to shower him with sympathy. He didn’t want to blog his own death as Christopher Hitchens had done. Alex wanted to keep living his life right to the end. He wanted to live on his terms. And he wanted to continue writing through it all, just as his brilliant father, the novelist and journalist Claud Cockburn had done. And so he did. His body was deteriorating, but his prose remained as sharp, lucid and deadly as ever.

(...)

Alex lived a huge life and he lived it his way. He hated compromise in politics and he didn’t tolerate it in his own life. Alex was my pal, my mentor, my comrade. We joked, gossiped, argued and worked together nearly every day for the last twenty years. He leaves a huge void in our lives. But he taught at least two generations how to think, how to look at the world, how to live a life of resistance. So, the struggle continues and we’re going to remain engaged. He wouldn’t have it any other way.

I met Mr. Cockburn at an anniversary event for The Nation in Syracuse in 1991 and found him to be a generous, quick-witted figure. How ironic he should pass away so quickly after the death of his frenemy, Christopher Hitchens. He will be missed.

THIS IS GETTING RIDICULOUS -- NYTimes: UK Police Investigating NOTW Hacking...Hacked by NOTW

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Monday July 11, 2011 · 4:20 PM PDT

2011/07/11 · 16:20

In tomorrow's New York Times...

Shortly after Scotland Yard began its initial criminal inquiry of phone hacking by The News of the World in 2006, five senior police investigators discovered that their own mobile phone messages had been targeted by the tabloid and had most likely been listened to.

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Tuesday February 15, 2011 · 1:15 PM PST

2011/02/15 · 13:15

Just got this off Twitter:

http://mediaite.com/...

According to the CBS statement, Logan “was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a 60 Minutes story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration.” Logan was separated from the CBS crew and security team and attacked:

"She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering."

Obviously a very sad and tragic part of the overall Egypt story of the last few weeks, and a reminder of the great peril journalists often find themselves in. My prayers are with Lara and her loved ones.

EDIT: Several of the responses here criticized my use of quote marks around "sexual assault" in the headline -- it was merely to directly quote what the initial report said happened to Logan, and in NO way was meant ironically or to diminish what happened. I have removed the quote marks from the headline, and I apologize to anybody who was truly offended.

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Flagrant Error in Palin's CSU Speech -- Location of Eureka College

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Sunday June 27, 2010 · 8:10 AM PDT

2010/06/27 · 08:10

Forgive me if this part of Sarah Palin's weekend speech has already been diaried, but I felt I had to comment on it:

Near the beginning of Palin's address at Cal State Stanislaus (approximately 10:16 in this clip) Palin describes California as "Reagan country" to enthusiastic cheers from the audience. She then says:

"Perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlaced to the Golden State."

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Tuesday August 11, 2009 · 3:31 AM PDT

2009/08/11 · 03:31

The NY Times now reporting that Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver has died at age 88.

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Monday January 19, 2009 · 4:41 PM PST

2009/01/19 · 16:41

Amazing history we're experiencing, huh?

At this moment, a salute to those people who should have lived to see January 20, 2009.

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Saturday September 20, 2008 · 10:42 AM PDT

2008/09/20 · 10:42

The past week's news about the economy reminded me of a Wall St. Journal op-ed I came across in March, where WSJ senior economic writer Stephen Moore described his encounter with college students who were -- for some unfathomable reason -- skeptical about the nation's economy.

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Wednesday September 05, 2007 · 6:15 PM PDT

2007/09/05 · 18:15

From the latest Salon.com, Sidney Blumenthal confirms what we've all known these last five years:

On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.

Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.

Dr. Laura's paratrooper son had "lurid Web page"

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Sunday May 20, 2007 · 8:03 AM PDT

2007/05/20 · 08:03

UPDATE: Title of diary amended to avoid implication of criminal charge...

Here's the nitty-gritty about Deryk Schlessinger's Internet escapades:

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 5:44 PM PST

2006/12/06 · 17:44

Bill Bennett's meditations on Iraq Study Group

From National Review Online (h/t James Woclott's blog)

Smug, Arrogant, Insufferable [Bill Bennett]

I’ve now read the report, and I can’t add much beyond what Andy McCarthy and Rich Lowry have written about its contents and internal contradictions. For a report to identify the outside agitators (which happen to also be the worst terrorist-sponsoring states in the world — Iran & Syria) as "provid[ing] arms, financial support, and training for Shiite militias within Iraq," i.e., fomenting war, and then say we should negotiate and offer incentives to those countries is simply too much to bear. Insult is added to injury with the absurdity that Iran and Syria then become members of something called the Iraq Support Group. Committeeism simply got out of control here. (...)

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Saturday December 02, 2006 · 7:38 AM PST

2006/12/02 · 07:38

Hoo-boy. From Thursday's radio show:

LIMBAUGH: My cat -- here's how you can get fooled. My cat comes to me when she wants to be fed. I have learned this. I accept it for what it is. Many people in my position would think my cat's coming to me because she loves me. Well, she likes me, and she is attached, but she comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life. But we put voices in their mouths.

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