Bill O'Reilly lies about the ACLU... again

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O'Reilly...

The ACLU is "part of the anti-Christian cabal in America that sees the Christian majority as oppressors. These people know they can never impose their secular agenda on this country while Judeo-Christian philosophy dominates the philosophical arena."
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,121644,00.html
Date: June 3rd, 2004

O'Really?!? But what about...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia also said in a statement: "If the park rules allow people to wade and swim in the river, then they must allow baptisms in the river."
Source: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2605278
Date: June 2nd, 2004

And...

The ACLU of Virginia immediately informed Pyle that he had a constitutional right to conduct baptisms in the park and threatened to challenge in federal court the Park Authority’s ban on religious activities.
Source: http://www.aclu.org/ReligiousLiberty/ReligiousLiberty.cfm?ID=15897&c=141
Date: June 3rd, 2004

So... a day after the ACLU threatens to sue over a "constitutional right to conduct baptisms in the park," O'Reilly claims that the ACLU seeks to "impose their secular agenda on this country" by "diminishing any Christian display in public."

Dear Bill: Why do you purposefully make it so easy to catch you lying? Shame on you... spinning in a no-spin zone!

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1. Watching him lie is like seeing a master at work

He told a caller that the ACLU tried to get Las Cruces, NM to change its name, and when the caller (an admitted ACLU member)said he didn't think that was true O'Reilly got in a huff saying he's right and he'd prove it.

A few moments later he read the story, including that the people who sued the city were a group that "sometimes works with the ACLU" not the ACLU itself.

No correction was made, of course.

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2. But a "master" wouldn't be so easily caught!

It's like he doesn't even make an effort to lie convincingly. He's so easy to un-spin, you really have to question the mental capacity of those who take him at his word.

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[anti_shrub]

3. He's a master in the sense of convincing people.

I mean, he said one thing to the caller and another in the story, and acts like there was no difference.

The fact that no one mentioned the inaccuracy speaks volumes.