O’Reilly and His O’Garbage Factor Need a Fact-Check: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly last week claimed that no one at the network ever told viewers they could go to jail if they bought health care insurance. However, Media Matters proved O’Reilly wrong.

Media Matters’ Burns: Fox News made “deliberate decision” to “lie to their viewers” about health care “to scare them” [ READ MORE ]

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LIAR O’Reilly Needs A Fact-Check

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MediaMatters: Responding to criticism from Media Matters about his claim that “[n]obody” on Fox News advanced the false claim that under the health care legislation individuals could go to jail for failing to purchase insurance, Bill O’Reilly claimed that when “jail time” had been “on the table,” Fox had reported on it, but no one on Fox made the claim after that provision was supposedly removed. In fact, the health care bill Fox had been reporting on also did not have “jail time” as a penalty for not having health insurance. [ READ MORE ]

Typically, Republicans LIE, then twist the lie further, — then deny having made it while at the same time making a new outrageous claims. They did the same thing with the incidents involving the democratic members of the House who were called names and spat on as they walked through the tea party protesters on their way to a vote on Health Care Reform.

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O’Reilly uses old jail-time falsehood to defend his comments to Coburn

Contradicting O’Reilly, Cavuto acknowledges Fox pushed health care jail-time falsehood

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