O’Reilly Lied about having trouble booking guests for last night's show

[CatWoman]

Yesterday morning, right-wing Powerline blogger John Hinderaker (”Hindrocket”) told readers that his partner Paul Mirengoff would be appearing on last night’s O’Reilly segment about bloggers:

Paul will be interviewed on the O’Reilly Factor tonight. It should be a fun conversation, and I’d encourage our readers to tune in.

But later in the day, Paul posted an update, saying that O’Reilly had chosen to go with someone else:

I won’t be appearing on the Factor after all. They’ve decided to take the segment in a different direction.

Which begs the question: If O’Reilly was actually turning guests away, why did he try to smear Media Matters by claiming he had trouble booking anyone for the segment?

These people are so vicious and they — the media is so corrupt in taking their uncorroborated…defamation that most people won’t run for office, sir. They won’t do television and radio commentary. We had to book this segment — I couldn’t get people to come on and say what you guys are saying, because they were afraid that Media Matters would go after them. They — I couldn’t — I had people turn down this segment — a bunch of them. ‘What are you, crazy? I’m going to criticize these assassins? They’ll come after me.’ That’s a chilling effect.

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/10/05/oreilly-powerline/

[MrModerate]

1. O'Reilly lied about something?

Now there's a shocker.

[CatWoman]

5. preview of his next book

[crispini]

6. Yes, and water is wet!

Pretty amazing eh? :P

[400Years]

2. If his lips are moving, he's telling a lie. n/t

[meegbear]

7. BHAW-HAHAHAHA!!

Good one. And ... :party: WELCOME ABOARD!! :party:

[400Years]

10. thanks

[newyawker99]

11. Hi 400Years!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dogfacedboy]

13. If his lips are moving,

there is crap running down his chin.

[knowbody0]

3. he looked into the camera

with a threatening glare and said "i do not fear these people, i LOATHE them"

[More Than A Feeling]

4. Even if he was having trouble, so what?

If he loses his show, so what?

[Cell Whitman]

8. O'Reily intentionally lies, it's his job. Check this out

If you have seen this you know why FOX accepts its role as a propaganda network. They are open about it.

No one who does this should be on TV. But this is what FOX is all about propaganda 24/7.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/1410214&mode=thread&tid=25

[Ganja Ninja]

9. He's having trouble because he's become so ridiculous that ...

people see it as a waste of time. Why would a Democrat or any liberal want to go on his show and have their mic cut off in the middle of trying to make their point? For that matter why bother with any FOX News program?

[Johonny]

12. Who cares?

Who watches this guy. People who think like him and need someone to back up their beliefs, or people that are empty inside and need someone to fill their thoughts for them. If this isn't you chances are there's no reason to watch.