O'Reilly touted unscientific Internet poll to claim "the majority of [University of Oregon] students agree" school president should be fired

SUMMARY: Bill O'Reilly touted an unscientific Internet poll to claim that "the majority of the students on the University of Oregon campus agree with" O'Reilly's opinion that university president Dave Frohnmayer should be fired over his reaction to a student-run newspaper's publication of controversial cartoon images of Jesus. But the poll O'Reilly touted as a "miracle" is actually an unscientific poll on the website of the university's campus newspaper, the Oregon Daily Emerald. The poll clearly notes: "This Daily Emerald poll is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole."

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