Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] O'Reilly on Foley affair

[Phillip Kelchen <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 21:42, Mike Miller wrote:
> Why would it have to be "a joke?"  It looks more like a manipulative lie
> than a joke.  What I want to know is this -- when O'Reilly was talking
> about Foley, was he clearly stating that Foley is a Republican?  If the
> graphic and O'Reilly were agreeing, that's a bigger problem.

I didn't see the show. I think that everybody is making a huge deal about a 
typo.

> I don't get that -- what was the "conspiracy among news agencies?"  Do you
> mean within a single news agency?  The CBS document thing was just a lame
> mistake and those people did not seek to deceive us -- in fact, it has
> been noted many times that everything claimed in the fake documents was
> true.  However, Mark Foley is not a Democrat, so that was, in a way, a
> much more serious mistake than Rather's presentation of the fake
> documents.

If intentionally forging documents is "a lame mistake" then why are we even 
discussing a typo as it's likely some production staffer's mis-type on the 
keyboard and not a concerted effort to try to pass off something fake as real 
as CBS did. (And why would CBS need to make the fake document if the 
information in it was 100% genuine? Making a fake means that you need proof 
of what you are saying- if the people who claim that the things in it were 
true, why not get them on the air instead? Much less risk of a backlash if 
you get found out, as CBS learned the hard way.)

If you can produce an actual, unaltered, unspliced, un-dubbed-over recording 
of Bill O'Reilly saying that Mark Foley was a Democrat and not a Republican, 
then I'll believe your theory. Otherwise I'll continue to assume that it is 
an honest error as I have seen Fox News (Fox and Friends in the morning) say 
that he is a Republican. 

Phillip

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