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For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
Well, well, well.
Chris Matthews may
have beat out Bill O'Reilly for being the first media whore installed into
the BuzzFlash
Media Putz Hall of Shame, but the gasbag, lusting loofah man, Bill
O'Reilly was
just a step behind.
Since there are nearly as many Media Putzes as there are GOP
Hypocrites,
we are trying to select weekly winners for their most recent acts of media
prostitution.
This week, we chose John Christman's nomination of O'Reilly for trying to intimidate
a high school student who had done his homework on Bill's intimidating hypocrisy.
It all has to do with one of those demagogic distorted FOX faux stories, like
its hype last winter that there is a conspiracy to do away with Christmas.
This nomination had to do with a talk on sex and drugs at a Colorado high
school that O'Reilly has glommed onto like a rabid dog.
First let's go to the videotape,
please. Watch
the whole sequence, including the last comment by the second student, who
is the one who nails O'Reilly right between the eyes. (The first student
up is an O'Reilly acolyte.)
This is what nominator Christman had to say about the O'Reilly slap down:
"Bill
O'Reilly allowed himself to be out-argued by a high school student over
whether or not the content of an assembly at the high school was appropriate.
"O'Reilly had stated that one of the presenters had said that
he would be willing to take Ecstasy with students when in fact he was
speaking about
psychological tests that had been conducted using that drug and linking
them to testing that had been done with LSD many years ago. When the student
used
actual quotes from the official transcript of the speaker's comments,
Bill called him a 'pinhead' and tried to shout him down.
"The student, Jesse Lange, remained calm and responded with facts. He
then called O'Reilly a hypocrite for comments he made in one of his books.
Bill
then turned to his other guest, another student from the same high school
to end the segment. Bill O'Reilly clearly deserves to be named as Media Putz
of the Week due to his inability to tame a high school student."
If you've watched the tape by now, you'll see that O'Reilly wouldn't even
let Lange read O'Reilly's own hypocritical quote from his book
of "advice" for
young people. Anything for a buck, we suppose.
Bill O'Reilly, you are indeed a trendsetting Media Putz -- and more than
merit being named the second recipient of this dubious BuzzFlash distinction.
Like a high-dollar hooker, you really know how to fake it.
Every edition of the "Factor," you remind us how easy
it is to separate journalism from the truth.
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