79 - Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience, Part I: Iraq / Bush Health Care Plan Is A Typical Right-Wing Scam

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🗓️ 2 February 2007

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Today we're going to start a series entitled "Lying Or Just Plain Ignorant? Bill O'Reilly Misleads His Audience." Part I will be about Iraq. Included will be, some effective responses when you hear misinformation like that disseminated by O'Reilly.Did you know, for example, that 72% of US troops in Iraq said last February they should be withdrawn within one year, whether or not the mission is

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 79 of Blasterite.
0:24.2	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRatical.com.
0:27.7	Today we're going to start a series entitled Lying or Just Plain Ignorant, Bill O'Reilly
0:37.0	misleads his audience.
0:39.2	Part 1 today will be about Iraq.
0:41.9	Included will be some effective responses for when you hear misinformation like that disseminated
0:47.4	by O'Reilly.
0:48.8	Also, Bush's new healthcare proposal will be put under the Blasterite microscope and
0:54.2	come out much the worse for the wear.
0:56.7	Oh, let's get right into it.
0:59.3	My sources for this first segment are Newsweek Magazine, the website of the University of
1:05.0	Maryland School of Public Policy, soggby.com, and TheWashingtonPost.com.
1:12.1	Long time listeners may recall that we've already shown how Bill O'Reilly is not above
1:17.2	blatantly mistating facts about the Iraq War, as long as it puts the Bush administration
1:22.5	and its policies in a better light.
1:25.4	Many podcasts ago, we discussed how on his November 7th, 2005 radio show O'Reilly
1:32.0	advanced the bizarre theory that if Jacques Shirok had stepped up and looked Saddam in
1:37.1	the eye and said, either let those UN inspectors do their job on Federer, I'm going with
1:41.0	the USA and Britain, Saddam would have blinked, wouldn't have been in Iraq War.
1:45.6	This Iraq War is on Shirok.
1:47.6	It's on right on his head.
1:50.0	That's where it is.
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