ACCOUNTABILITY CORNER
Is Bill O’Reilly always wrong about The Times? Let’s check the Accountability Corner, which reviews the records of media prognosticators and other wannabe prophets, rewarding the right-minded and punishing the wrong.
-- Michael Soller
“Editorial nonsense is now standard issue at the L.A. Times under left-wing bomb-thrower Michael Kinsley.”
-- O’Reilly,
May 17
“Kinsley is a pinhead.”
-- O’Reilly,
May 4
“Kinsley and other left-wing bomb-throwers persuaded millions of Americans to vote for Bush.”
-- O’Reilly,
Nov. 8, 2004
A June 19 Accountability Corner looked back at predictions about the Michael Jackson trial, including two statements by O’Reilly. Last year, he said:
“You’re not going to get Jackson off by saying the mother was a loony.”
After the verdict, he said:
“The mother, as we know now, was Michael Jackson’s best defense.”
Responding to seeing those two quotes, O’Reilly said:
“And then you can take things out of context, like the L.A. Times did. Mr. Soller, the Accountability Corner! He’s just a dishonest jerk.”
-- O’Reilly,
June 20
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