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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (839335)	2/25/2015 11:52:21 PM
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Without getting into sentence-by-sentence analysis here, which wastes my time and serves no purpose, I'll just reiterate that O'Reilly's story is an example of someone perhaps stretching his resume a little, while Williams just outright lied. And O'Reillly is not a news reporter. This would be more like if Jon Stewart or Ed Schultz slightly overstated their respective histories; while Williams was like Walter Cronkite overstating his. Not sure if you can see the difference, but I do. Williams has only his credibility to sell. O'Reilly is selling his opinion and interview skills and people aren't looking to his particular credibility for anything. Most importantly, I don't think O'Reilly grossly exaggerated his situation. Calling a post-war riot in B.A. an "Active War Zone" is an exaggeration. Some would say a lie but I think it was a fairly minor resume padding incident. So, we can each have opinions about that. Here's the thing. I really became aware of the media attacks on O'Reilly through Facebook, as I have a couple of facebook friends who are former newsmen, and the celebration when the David Corn story came out was palpable. From that point forward, there was no proportionality. Williams was off the scope, it was all about O'Reilly -- a totally predictable outcome. The only question was who the victim would be. Because the liberal media, when it comes down to it, doesn't want to cover the liberal media's mistakes. But they do love covering Fox News' mistakes because they feel Fox is a propaganda organization. Which it isn't. But they do believe that, because they are, after all, the LIBERAL media. Okay. so that's it for me. At least as far as responding to your post.