O'Reilly: Documentary Outfoxed "was a dishonest piece of trash"
Bill O'Reilly called Robert Greenwald's 2004 documentary, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, "a dishonest piece of trash."
Responding to a viewer's email on the March 1 broadcast of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly called Robert Greenwald's 2004 documentary, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (Robert Greenwald Productions Inc.), "a dishonest piece of trash." The Factor viewer wrote in his email that "after watching the movie 'Outfoxed,' I had a low opinion of you [O'Reilly]. But now that I've actually watched the Factor, I believe you are just what the world needs." O'Reilly also complained that "the guy [Greenwald] who made it, [is] now working for Court TV, if you can believe it." Greenwald is working in conjunction with Court TV and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to produce The ACLU Freedom Files, a series of 10 half-hour episodes that intend to show "how civil liberties affect all of us, every day."
As Media Matters for America has noted, O'Reilly has previously attacked the producers of Outfoxed. For instance, on the August 25, 2005, broadcast of the Factor, O'Reilly lumped together as "extremists" those "who think that documentary Outfoxed tells the truth" about Fox News with those who "admire the philosophy of the Third Reich." The producers of Outfoxed responded to O'Reilly's claims with this video. And on August 7, 2004, O'Reilly denied a charge made in the documentary that his network has a pro-Republican bias by falsely claiming, "We put more liberals on the air than conservatives."
From the March 1 broadcast of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: And Eden Manns, Sydney, Australia: "Mr. O'Reilly, after watching the movie 'Outfoxed,' I had a low opinion of you. But now that I've actually watched the Factor, I believe you are just what the world needs."
You know, that film was a dishonest piece of trash, sir, and the guy who made it -- now working for Court TV, if you can believe it.
Bill just can't repeat himself enough until it sinks in to our left-wing bush-hating smear-site whacko heads....
Documenting a Pundit telling lies is equal to the dishonesty being exposed.
I have yet to hear O'Reilly go into any specifics as to what makes 'Outfoxed' such a "dishonest piece of trash". He never cites anything specific, he never tells us exactly what Robert Greenwald lied about in his film.
The same thing can be said about 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. Last I heard, Bill watched the first 10 minutes of it, walked out, and declared the entire movie to be a dishonest smear job. I'm not a huge fan of the film myself, but at least I sat through the whole thing before making up my mind.
Everyone has their opinions about both of these films, but if you haven't seen them, don't give baseless critiques of them. But if you are a Bush/Fox loyalist who has seen them, get to the point. Don't just give us the same old mantra: "A dishonest, far-left, secular, progressive, personal-attacking Bush hater made this movie!"
Ok. A new form of the word 'dispute'. LOL
...Bill believes that the truth is "trash" after all, because Outfoxed simply documented the propaganda and methods used by that GOP machine called Fox News.
Bill's world Truth=Trash.
You imply that who we work for and what we do defines us. Greenwald is now working for Court TV, so he must be inferior to you. So since you work for the glorious Fox Network, excuse me as I genuflect, that makes you better than, say someone who works mostly for PBS like Ken Burns or Bill Moyers, or even William F. Buckley. I really think that that time you spent in imaginary combat has effected your brain.
Now that O'Reilly has called this "a dishonest piece of trash," I think I'll actually make an effort to watch it. If it gets under O'Reilly's skin it must have something going for it.
Dude. It's awesome.
A real eye-opener. And everything in the movie is corroborated, which is naturally why it pisses Bill off so much.
www.newsbusters.org very ocassionally lets a liberal give a comment and then they are not allowed anymore. They insult more than oreilly. Its sad but these posters represent so many americans ignorant of what is really going on in the world.
If there is anyone who knows trash its Bill O'Lielly. He needs to go no further than to do a run through of his own video tapes of that thing he calls a show. Talk about trash. I have not seen "Outfoxed" so I can't comment on it. But knowing O'Lielly association with the truth, I have no reason to suspect that his comments on it are in any way valid. When he suggests that Faux News puts on more liberals than conservatives, I presume two things. 1. He is not talking about his show on Faux. 2. He has overdone it with the koolaid.
Out Foxed is worth a rental. It's a very low budget production, but well its good. That said my low opinion of BO came from watching the Factor. I had already stopped watching Fox when Out Foxed came out. In a very short time I realized that Fox existed essentially to pump out Republican propaganda and after BO started bragging about his ratings and using that that to assert that the majority of Americans agreed with him, I stopped watching. Most of the people I knew only watched Fox for laughs. I don't no anyone who watches is now, although on occassion my daughter will tune in to see how they are spinning a specific hot political topic or one of Bush's many many screw ups.
...that Bill O'Reilly is Rupert Murdoch's poodle.
he has the nerve to trash Cindy Sheehan as the tool of Move On, and to attack George Soros in general. He is such a lap dog to Rupert Murdoch, it's really sad.
You can get Outfoxed at Netflix, and watch the preview, here:
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I'm putting Outfoxed in my Netflix Queue and moving it to the top.
The video "Outfoxed" is worth watching and forming your own conclusions. One of the things I liked was it's attempt to use emperical data to demonstrate how uninformed (or misinformed) FOX viewers are on the basic premises and underlying policy assumptions of the most newsworthy events of our times. O'Reilly's conclusiory "dishonest peiece of trash" analysis without citing any specfic information to support his conclusion is typical of how they present their arguments and pass them off as journalism. Notice that he also shouted down the other panalist and dismissed him as "not knowing what you're talking about". Also a conclusion not backed up with any objective information or data. The real tragedy with O'Reillyand FOX is that they mascrade as objective, ethical journalists rather than presenting their spin for what it is: right wing opinion. People like my aged, poverty-striken, bed=ridden mother watch this rubbish every day and all day. They actually become convinced of the spin that these people put on events. On the weekend before the commencement of the Iraq war, my mother couldn't be convinced that Saddam wasn't complicit in 9/11. She believes, without ever seeing his movie, that Michael Moore is a demagaue who manfacturers evidence to slander Bush. She believes that Clinton is immoral and dishonest and that Bush has restored honor and integrity to the White House. I have a friend who is my age and also has a mother who is home all day watching FOX and has a comprable world-view . It really is an attack on competent, ethical journalism with a win at any cost mentality. It poses a very difficult problem when major, mainstream new organizations seek to spin news and shape public opinion rather than report the information citizens need to develop informed opioions.
Sometimes I thing they are. I can recall one instance for example, where he read out the same letter on two different occasions about one month apart. He seems uses them for his own moral support. I could be wrong. But I fail to see how anyone can watch 'Outfoxed' and then 'The O'Reilly Factor' and believe that O'Reilly is "what the world needs". I mean get real. The film could not have been most simplistic in its approach. When I first saw 'Outfoxed' I didn't believe it. I couldn't believe such a network existed. So I started watching Fox News and was blown away. As an Australian I apologise for dumping Murdoch on the world. We know not what we do.
The world is a big place, and you can find anyone to agree with you. That doesnt mean that a large group of people are doing so. All shows edit their letters, but O'Reilly does it so blatantly. The letter may have been two pages of things the viewer disagrees with O'Reilly on. The last sentence was a "kissup" and that is what O'Reilly shows. I have done this with letters to Chris Matthews. I will point out three things he said wrong on his show, and then thank him for his time, and tell him how much I enjoyed his NIXON/KENNEDY book. I would be outraged if only the last two sentences were televised.
If you haven't seen Outfoxed, I recommend you got to Blockbuster's or another outlet and rent it. It is very good. I hope Greenwald puts together another updated version soon. It can start by taking material ieas from MMFA's tracking of Fox.
EVERYBODY TELL BILL TO BE SPECIFIC ABOUT THE FILM. HE WANTS OTHERS TO BE SPECIFIC INTHEIR COMPLAINTS ABOUT HIM.
"Outfoxed" was a good piece of journalism but I would encourage everyone to watch it for themselves and form your own conclusions. What I especially liked about the piece (and was not shown on your video clip) was the use of empirical data to demonstrate how FOX viewers are the most uninformed (or misinformed) people about the most basic underlying assumptions and policy premises of the most newsworthy events of our times. I encourage people to watch and form their own opinions. Notice that FOX and O'Reilly just dismiss the piece as a "dishonest piece of trash" without providing any specific reasons for their opinion. Notice that when the other panalist attempts to speak O'Reilly calls him a "puppet" and says "you don't know what your talking about." Another conclusion without anything specific to support itself. This is the standard operating procedure of FOX and O'Reilly.
Ive seen outfoxed an it left me wanting more. It was decent, but nothing to rave about.
A documentary by a canadian news channel CBC, did a much better job exposing Oreilly, Fox News, Coulter and the rest.
And are we to expect that Oreilly would LIKE "Outfoxed"? Of course not.
As a border kid, I loved CBC growing up. I'd be very interested in their version of Outfoxed.