June 3  2003  Tuesday

Warning, very slanted story:

POLITICAL THRILLA
New York Post, NY - Jun 2, 2003

June 2, 2003 -- TEMPERS flared over the weekend in a face- to-face, TV showdown between Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly and political humorist Al Franken. ...  

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While I was doing research on the Al Franken v. Bill O'Reilly verbal bout, I found only a handful of stories.  The top cable TV talk host from the "fair and balanced" FoxNews  screams SHUT UP at a book forum to an author discussing his book and there are only a few stories?

Well, I compiled some of the verbal exchange between the two.  I couldn't find a complete transcript.  But click here for video clip from BookTv.org . It's about an hour and 1/2 show -- the Franken-O'Reilly verbal fisticuffs is about midway through the clip.

Franken explained his accusations in his new book, Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them — A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right of Bill O'Reilly, who was also on the panel to discuss his upcoming release, Who's Looking Out for You Now? (September 2003) about his statements in the past that his previous employer Inside Edition, a TV news magazine, had won the prestigious Peabody Award.

Franken said he looked into the claims that the show had won such an award and found no record of it. O'Reilly later told him he had misspoke and it was a Polk Award that was given to the show, not a Peabody.

Franken: "Don’t you think it’s odd you got it wrong about a journalism award?”

O'Reilly: "This guy accuses me of being a liar, ladies and gentlemen, on national television," O'Reilly said. "He's vicious, and that's with a capital V, a person who's blinded by ideology.

"All he's got in six and a half years is that I misspoke, that I labeled a Polk Award a Peabody."

Franken tried to interrupt but was immediately stopped.

O'Reilly: "Shut up! You had your 35 minutes. Shut up,"  "We're supposed to be on here for 15 minutes and this idiot goes 35."

Franken : "This isn't your show Bill,"

Moderator Pat Schroeder:  "I think I need a whistle and a striped shirt here," she said, laughing. "I’m not meant to be a referee."
 

Later on O'Reilly bolted from the stage before the event concluded.

Bill O'Reilly is from the school of I can dish it out but I can't take it.

Below are a few news links to lives O'Reilly has attempted to ruin through his thug journalism. I wonder if the professor has grounds to sue O'Reilly?

 KU Sexuality Class Professor Speaks Out
KMBC, MO - 6-3-03

...Especially hurtful, Dailey said, was O'Reilly's suggestion that he was a pedophile.
"That was particularly disturbing," Dailey said. "Not only was that a gross distortion of the content covered in that particular class -- it was a conscious manipulation of the language for mean-spirited purposes. There's no way anyone can defend themselves against something like that."

Ludacris To Get Revenge On Bill O'Reilly With Upcoming LP
MTV - May 28, 2003

... The Atlanta MC promised to return some of the fire and ire at controversial and conservative political pundit Bill O'Reilly on his fourth album, Chicken & Beer ...

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Powell was under pressure to use shaky intelligence on Iraq: report

WASHINGTON (AFP) -

Colin Powell demonstrating

how much he lied about Iraq's WMD

...According to the report, the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit." ...

 http://www.moderateindependent.com/

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