O'Reilly Declares Himself Vindicated over Accusations of Fabrications Because of Ratings.

[Stuart G]

Crooks and Liars

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/o-reilly-declares-himself-vindicated-over

3/25/15...8:28 pm..
posted by ..News Hound Ellen...at Crooks and Liars
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Bill O’Reilly visited The Late Show with David Letterman last night where he argued that “folks decided” he was not guilty of any of the many fabrications he has been accused of – because his ratings went up. But have they stayed up?

Letterman asked O’Reilly if there’s a similarity between his situation and Brian Williams (currently on suspension from NBC News because he was caught exaggerating his Iraq war experiences).

“Only if I did something that wasn’t true,” O’Reilly said. “What I said was accurate.”

He continued, “We had a controversy, and we put forth what my side was, and they put forth what their side was, and folks decided. And it worked out OK for me. I got even more viewers …20% up.”

“Twenty percent up, when people thought you were making stuff up?” Letterman questioned.

“But they didn’t think that because I hit it immediately hard,” O’Reilly claimed, “and I said, ‘Look, this is the facts, this is what happened.’”

In reality, O’Reilly has not settled the controversy. He responded to some degree (without answering many of the questions) to allegations about his coverage of the Falklands war. His response to having claimed to see nuns murdered during the civil war in El Salavador was especially flimsy and he was even criticized by the orders of the victims. His claims about a JFK assassination figure seem conclusively disproven, and O’Reilly refused to respond to the contentions of six of his former news colleagues that an attack by protesters during the Los Angeles riots was vastly overstated.

[DetlefK]

1. Sooo, if his ratings go down, truth becomes lie?

[Stuart G]

2. He is really very very good at one thing only....telling lies...

over and over again...then, the followers believe...ain't the first time, and it won't be the last...

[Fred Sanders]

3. Fox and cons suffer from "Brain Envy" . Too stupid to understand much at all, and envious of the

liberal brains that mock them constantly, so they let Fox set up RW tall brainiacs like Cruz and O'Reilly types - to get back at those smarty pants liberal "better than us" types.

Liberals are just smarter than cons, that liberals actually value education, sometimes just for for the sake of learning, is the give away - they should just get used to it.

[Stuart G]

4. I agree with you Fred...

"Too stupid to understand much at all".......
Because if anyone did any research at all...or knew how to do research, that "anyone" would not believe O'Reilly.."Anyone" could not believe, because the truth proves that a liar.... that assumes..."too stupid" understands what "truth" is..

[Gothmog]

5. Lying is okay so long as you have good ratings

[frylock]

6. ratings go up, ratings go down..

you can't explain that.

[Stuart G]

7. I believe his ratings will go down..

Yes, he has his believers, but some I think have been turned away with all this. Yes, he got a boost from this crap and the tale of his lies or as he said his "version of the truth." In the long run, I believe this will hurt some, not much, but after the so called "boost", I think there will be a small decline in the overall number that have been watching. Maybe five percent...at least I hope that is what happens..

[frylock]

11. I think the ratings boost was from people tuning in hoping to see a meltdown

[sakabatou]

8. Argumentum ad populum

[Stuart G]

9. I had never really heard of "Argumentum ad populum"

Had to look it up, then I knew I had heard of it before, in English, not that other language..
That term is a logical fallacy ...it is defined as............................

..... Argumentum ad populum (literally, "an argument to the people&quot is the logical fallacy that just because something is popular, it is therefore true ...

[sakabatou]

12. And that's what the idiot is trying to use.

[hifiguy]

10. Isn't most of his target demographic,

how do I put this delicately, umm, dead?

[JHB]

13. Of course, Bill would declare himself vindicated no matter what happened