Bill O'Reilly Selectively Edits Joan Walsh Interview

[meegbear]

How do you know that you've made Bill O'Reilly feel like a chump? When he decides that he's going to re-run his interview with you, without you there to defend yourself, and then selectively edit the footage and ignore large swaths of actual fact-based information (as opposed to the largely non-fact-based "reporting" so prevalent to Fox News). Such is the case with Salon.com's Joan Walsh, who so thoroughly humiliated Billo on Friday that I'm sure he stewed over it all weekend and decided that he had to reassert his lost manhood by bringing on sycophantic Mary Katherine Ham and Juan Williams to reassure him that Billo was still da man.

Note Bill's disingenuous framing of the whole interview: it's all about how the crazed liberals have no regard for the rights of the unborn from being murdered for callous reasons. Never mind that his producers sandbagged Walsh by telling her that she was on to talk about right wing violence. Never mind that the procedure that Dr. Tiller performed was not only legal, but highly regulated, and exceptionally rare. The 60,000 casual late term abortions that Billo cites is pulled from his rather constipated posterior region and doesn't pass even the most basic math logic test (That would mean that Tiller performed 16 late term, casual, abortions every day, 7 days a week, for TEN YEARS). Never mind that Dr. Tiller was acquitted by a Kansas grand jury for not violating the law (after only deliberating for an hour) and that the principal expert cited by O'Reilly, Dr. Paul R. McHugh, has his own controversies that call his agenda to question (McHugh, a former member of Bush43's Council on Bioethics, is a Vatican witness called to dismiss claims of DID in victims of priest molestation and has publicly scorned transsexuals and called for the end of gender reassignment surgery).

Yet for Bill, it's all about the babies. These poor, non-existent, viable fetuses that are being thrown out by their mothers (no doubt liberals) and enabled by the insidious Dr. Tiller. Doesn't Joan Walsh understand how wrong it is to blame Bill O'Reilly for his inflammatory rhetoric over completely fabricated and untrue circumstances that may have resonated so much with someone with only a tenuous grasp on ethics that he may have actually taken an innocent man's life? How dare Walsh be so intolerant?

By the way, Walsh herself had a little fun on Twitter over Billo's antics:



http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/bill-oreilly-edits-joan-walsh-intervi

[Bozita]

1. OK, is anybody surprised?

[47of74]

6. No, not really

No, I'm not all that surprised considering that he swims along the bottom of the sewer.

[OneGrassRoot]

2. Has media matters or crooksandliars exposed others besides...

the Faux crowd doing this so blatantly, or is this filthy tactic employed only by Faux?

I know comedy shows do it -- and, granted, that is what primetime at Faux "News" is -- but does any other show professing to tell the truth lie so obviously?

KO and Rachel and Ed lean left, but I still haven't found evidence of them lying or distorting. Injecting their opinion, yes, but not distorting things.

[ProfessorPlum]

3. I wonder how Juan Williams gets the taste of O'Loofah's anus

out of his mouth.

I wonder why MCH is all tarted up.

I wonder why BO can't be honest for five seconds.

I wonder so many things . .

[damntexdem]

4. Hey, selectively editing an actual interview is as close to the truth and facts that O'Really gets.

Sandbagging, still losing, then selectively editing for broadcast without a defender -- that's as good as it gets with him. It's all further downhill from there.

[gratuitous]

5. Bill likes his adversaries to be inanimate

It's so much easier to argue with a piece of videotape or audiotape or a photograph. They don't change, they don't adjust to his bullying tactics, and they keep saying or showing whatever Billo wants them to say or show. Live persons? Not so much. I'm quite surprised that Billo actually had Joan Walsh on live, even if he extended the invitation to appear under false pretenses. He must have momentarily believed his own bullshit to permit a live adversary. He's clearly back on his game this week, and don't look for live guests again anytime soon, and Joan Walsh has probably become persona non grata. The producer who set up the segment is no doubt looking for other employment at this very moment.

[lpbk2713]

7. Probably something he learned from OxyRush.

That's the funniest thing about the Limbaugh Hatefest Show. It cracks me up every time. He takes a sound byte from whoever he wants to drag through the mud and it's usually waaay out of context to begin with. Then he cuts it off and starts to argue with the speaker as though they were right there in front of him. I'm sure it never occurs to his Shittoheads that they never got a chance to rebut or even finish what they were saying. OxyRush wouldn't want to let the cat out of the bag and to let his zombies to know the truth of the matter. This clown is just too funny for words.