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still_one

(92,219 posts)
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 09:23 PM Apr 2017

SHUT UP!: Watch Bill OReilly lose it when Al Franken exposes him as a liar during vintage segment

Before he was a U.S. Senator, Al Franken was the author of Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, a satirical book that excoriated conservative media.

In 2003, he faced off with one of the subjects of his book, the infamous Bill O’Reilly, during a panel discussion at the author event BookExpo. O’Reilly and Franken both spoke on the panel, beginning with the Fox News host, who promised he doesn’t “call anybody a liar” and doesn’t lie himself—as evidenced by the fact that his show doesn’t retract things.

“If I’m going to be accused of being a liar, you better have something there,” O’Reilly said to Franken before the future senator spoke.

And speak he did. Franken delivered a brutal smackdown of O’Reilly, describing a time the Fox News host claimed he won a Peabody award (an objectively false statement), and, when called out for lying, claimed he’d never said it in the first place.

“Guy says about me a couple weeks ago, ‘O’Reilly said he won a Peabody award,” Franken recalled O’Reilly saying. “Never said it.”

“See this is why you don’t retract things, you just continuously lie,” Franken joked. “I could go on all day,” he later quipped.

“I know you could,” O’Reilly cooly replied. “You just about have.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/shut-up-watch-bill-oreilly-lose-it-when-al-franken-exposes-him-as-a-liar-during-vintage-segment/



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SHUT UP!: Watch Bill OReilly lose it when Al Franken exposes him as a liar during vintage segment (Original Post) still_one Apr 2017 OP
I ❤ Al! This is great! Sculpin Beauregard Apr 2017 #1
As some have said here, Al would be great if he was on the ticket in 2020 still_one Apr 2017 #3
Can watch this over and over malaise Apr 2017 #2
He plays o'reilly like a fiddle still_one Apr 2017 #4
Classic shenmue Apr 2017 #5
Franken's my guy. oasis Apr 2017 #6
and now.....it's Senator Al Franken.....and loser X faux noise talking head. a kennedy Apr 2017 #7
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ still_one Apr 2017 #9
Thank you for this.....have sent this far and wide to all my Al Franken fans a kennedy Apr 2017 #8
Al is Un-gas-lightable ThoughtCriminal Apr 2017 #10
So great.. Molly, Pat Schroeder ( my Congresswoman,) mountain grammy Apr 2017 #11
Loved watching how uncomfortable O'Reilly was there. Shameless, but momentarily shamed. JBoy Apr 2017 #12
Awesome Al amuse bouche Apr 2017 #13
That was thoroughly enjoyable Rorey Apr 2017 #14
I wish I were... 3catwoman3 Apr 2017 #15

a kennedy

(29,673 posts)
7. and now.....it's Senator Al Franken.....and loser X faux noise talking head.
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 10:43 PM
Apr 2017
Billo IS GONE. and Senator Al Franken is alive and carrying out his hero, Paul Wellstone's agenda.

a kennedy

(29,673 posts)
8. Thank you for this.....have sent this far and wide to all my Al Franken fans
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 10:46 PM
Apr 2017

and billo can suck my teet.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
10. Al is Un-gas-lightable
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 11:01 PM
Apr 2017

He makes it look easy, but it's not. Most of us are thrown off by such brazen lying, but he handles it with remarkable poise.

mountain grammy

(26,624 posts)
11. So great.. Molly, Pat Schroeder ( my Congresswoman,)
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 11:12 PM
Apr 2017

Oh how I miss them. And Al, love that man.

Who's the asshole?

JBoy

(8,021 posts)
12. Loved watching how uncomfortable O'Reilly was there. Shameless, but momentarily shamed.
Wed Apr 19, 2017, 11:56 PM
Apr 2017

Couldn't shout down Al or cut his mike. Fuck O'Reilly.

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