God deliver us in America from the evil of shock jocks on the TV airwaves fighting for originality and supremacy.
"These six things doth the LORD hate: yes, seven are an abomination unto Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood; a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief; a false witness that speaks lies, and he that sows discord among brethren" (Proverbs 6:16-19).
Bill O'Reilly claims he broke Senator Obama's Pastor Problems Story about Rev.
Wright.
3-19-08 -- In his 3-18-08 column at the conservative website newsmax.
com O'Reilly states: O'REILLY: "Likewise, the nightly network news programs have downplayed the situation.
On Friday, ABC News ignored it and NBC News gave it 20 seconds.
" "Had the 'O'Reilly Factor' not broken the story last Thursday night, it would have likely died which is exactly what the leftist media wants.
" What Bill fails to tell the American people is that ABC News reported the Rev.
Wright story on Thursday morning on Good Morning America.
MSNBC had been reporting Obama's Pastor Problems almost as much as FOX had been.
As for O'Reilly, he implied that ABC News had totally ignored the story, when in actuality it was ABC who released the story on Thursday morning.
O'Reilly inaccurately claims NBC only gave the Rev.
Wright story 20 seconds, which in actuality their cable news network MSNBC covered it nearly 24/7 for several days after its release on Thursday.
O'Reilly erroneously and inaccurately claimed he broke the story Thursday night.
The pertinence to this is when shock jocks like Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity call their news network "fair and balanced" (while their talk show programs ask guests a question and than proceed to bulldoze over them to look like the intellectual hero and "culture warrior" on a mission to save a misguided America), don't believe them for a minute.
They who lie about the originality of a news story and fight for supremacy among themselves on the very same network are swallowed up by their very own egos, thereby making them tainted and incapable of delivering "fair and balanced" news.
The true assessment and credit should go to the NY Times, who actually broke the Rev.
Wright story when they reported it on April 30, 2007.
The NY Times broke the story before ABC News did, a story which they had almost a year ago.
Sean Hannity also claims he broke the story.
The night before the Obama speech in Pennsylvania, Hannity said this to Karl Rove on Hannity & Colmes.
HANNITY: "We broke this story.
I know everyone's taking credit for it now.
Won't this put him in the category of being seen by the American people as your average politician, spinning like a top, and that this is done to save and salvage his campaign, and it's being done for political expediency.
" Ironically the big boys competing to be number one on the shock jock circuit with Fox News are the very same talk show hosts who are jeopardizing the Fox News claim to being "fair and balanced.
" I guess it's kind of like Jon Stewart reported on "The Daily Show" when CNN claimed to have the "best political team in news" and Fox shortly thereafter upped the self-exalting assertion saying Fox had "the best political team in news ever.
" Thankfully the American people are a bit more clever and are catching on to the trickery of sly as a fox fixed news and all its noise.