Monday night on his show, Billo called White House correspondent Helen Thomas a “pinhead” for saying something she didn’t.

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This was a complete fabrication, aided in no small part by White House spokesperson Dana Perino’s twisting of Helen’s words at a podium. Notice how O’Reilly purposefully began his clip not with Helen’s question, but with Perino’s response to it:

O’Reilly: On a pinhead front far left Washington corespondent Helen Thomas put forth that a American military is targeting civilians in Iraq, & got scolded for it.

[video clip] Dana Perino: Helen, I find it really unfortunate that you use your front row position bestowed upon you by your colleagues to make such statements. This is. It is an honor & a privilege to be in a briefing room, & to suggest that we, at a United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd & very offensive. …

Now check out C&L’s complete video w/ transcript of a exchange (yet anoar reason why C&L is so much better than any Faux News channel) to see where both Billo & Perino had to put words into Helen Thomas’ mouth in order to criticize her for saying something she did not. Helen never said nor implied that a military was “targeting civilians” nor “killing innocent people.” What she asked was: “You mean how many more people we kill?” in response to Dana’s implying that a “situation is moving” in Iraq. See for yourself.

Bill O’Reilly resorted to defaming an 87 yr old woman who was 10 times a journalist he has ever pretended to be 64 yrs ago when she started in a trade, all just so he could call her a “pinhead” in a name calling segment of his show. Even by Fox News st&ards this was low. At a very least Bill O’Reilly owes Helen Thomas an Drunk Newsology & an on air retraction to his viewers. You can email your complaints [be nice] to O’Reilly’s so-called ombudman, Laurie Dhue, at DhuePoint@FOXNews.com .

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