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Foxy News: O'Reilly runs scantily clad b-roll of "alleged drug dealing gang leader"

February 26, 2010 8:52 pm ET

From the February 26 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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- by DAWUSS (February 26, 2010 9:02 pm ET)
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  She's hiking the Andes Trail
  
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- by dirtylittlereligion (February 26, 2010 9:02 pm ET)
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  WTF?
  
  Sex sells I guess.
  Anything to make his viewers drop the falafel and pay attention.
  
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- by dirtylittlereligion (February 26, 2010 9:02 pm ET)
  
  WTF?
  
  Sex sells I guess.
  Anything to make his viewers drop the falafel and pay attention.
  
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- by MagCynic (February 26, 2010 9:03 pm ET)
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  Has MSNBC or CNN never aired scantily clad people during their shows?
  
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  - by juliajayne1 (February 26, 2010 9:07 pm ET)
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    Go watch and find out.
    
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    - by MagCynic (February 26, 2010 9:13 pm ET)
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      It was a rhetorical question as I have and they did.
      
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      - by dirtylittlereligion (February 26, 2010 9:19 pm ET)
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        So what? I bemoan the "tabloid-ification" of the media at large. It's just Bill tries so hard to set himself up as "moral" and "right", you would think he would have a big problem with going along with the whole "sex sells" attitude.
        
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      - by juliajayne1 (February 26, 2010 9:20 pm ET)
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        And my answer was "rhetorical". Meaning quit wasting our time.
        
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      - by ForTheLoveOfEllipsis... (February 26, 2010 11:55 pm ET)
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        Link much, Glenn?...
        
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      - by New Frontier (February 27, 2010 9:12 am ET)
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        I have and they did
        ... and here's my links to show context: ________.
        
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        by MagCynic (February 27, 2010 12:21 pm ET)
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        I apologize for not having the resources to record every minute of MSNBC that I watch. Please forgive me. I guess that makes me a liar because I can't post a video clip of MSNBC showing scantily clad people (as if that couldn't possibly happen on their network that runs 24/7/365). My mistake.
        
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        by New Frontier (February 27, 2010 12:33 pm ET)
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        I guess that makes me a liar
        Relax. No, it just make you look like yet another wingnut who asserts something with nothing at all to back it up and then turns into an insufferable passive-aggressive, picked-upon victim ("I apologize, my mistake", etc.) when called on it.
        
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        by MagCynic (February 27, 2010 12:38 pm ET)
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        Well, no. What do you want me to say, then? You're basically telling me that there's no chance in hell that I've ever seen a girl in a bikini on an MSNBC program. Simply based on probability we shouldn't even doubt that. I shouldn't have to prove what I've seen with my own eyes AND that's statistically likely to happen.
        
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        by New Frontier (February 27, 2010 12:55 pm ET)
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        You're basically telling me that there's no chance in hell that I've ever seen a girl in a bikini on an MSNBC
        #1, it's not a "a girl in a bikini" here as you infer--it's a very scantily clad woman.
        
        #2, I very specifically said context --something you've chosen to (conveniently) ignore, a la Beck. The context is that this is a story about a serious crime, a gang leader. It doesn't require superfluous and gratuitous photos like what O'Reilly shows. That, one would think, would be obvious to most people.
        
        Got evidence of MSNBC running multiple, titillating pictures of a scantily-clad woman in this type of context? Then post it the f__k here. Otherwise, you're talking out your a$$.
        
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        by MagCynic (February 27, 2010 1:06 pm ET)
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        So Geraldo, O'Reilly, FNC, or whoever ran that footage and it had absolutely nothing to do with what they were talking about? It was just a random video clip some guy in the back put up as a background to their conversation?
        
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        by New Frontier (February 27, 2010 1:25 pm ET)
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        MagCynic to Control Room:
        
        Engage Straw Man cloaking device and commence Operation Obtuse!...
        
        It's no wonder you've been called a "waste of time".
        
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        by MagCynic (February 27, 2010 1:31 pm ET)
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        Attention: New Frontier
        
        You are losing the argument. Divert conversation with personal attacks. Danger. Do not continue original argument.
        
        By the way, they were talking about an "alleged drug dealing gang leader" were they not? Does this alleged gang leader have anything to do with the scantily clad girl they were showing you think?
        
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  - by MadRiver Jack (February 27, 2010 5:56 am ET)
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    Has MSNBC or CNN never aired scantily clad people during their shows?
    Have they? Can you provide a link? If you make the claim of equivalency, then you must provide the tools for your readers to make a side-by-side comparison. Absent that, you are just a spinmeister trying to weave words that compensate for his absence of substance.
    
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    - by MickD (February 27, 2010 11:07 am ET)
      
      As Maggie has been hired to do, it's easier to just say they do, rather than prove they do. Describes the whole Repub propaganda machine.
      
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      - by MagCynic (February 27, 2010 12:22 pm ET)
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        I'll just copy this from above:
        
        "I apologize for not having the resources to record every minute of MSNBC that I watch. Please forgive me. I guess that makes me a liar because I can't post a video clip of MSNBC showing scantily clad people (as if that couldn't possibly happen on their network that runs 24/7/365). My mistake. "
        
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- by juliajayne1 (February 26, 2010 9:06 pm ET)
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  These photos are the result of Geraldo's "research? What the hell kind of "research" was dude doing?
  
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- by alanjeffreys (February 26, 2010 9:52 pm ET)
  
  wow this is so sad::::
  
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- by gg (February 26, 2010 10:10 pm ET)
  
  Between the winter games, the winter weather and the health care summit, this is the news on O'Reilly?
  
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- by 4teepee (February 27, 2010 3:29 am ET)
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  Bill, the Colombian government is immersed in the drug trade.
  
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- by wunder (February 27, 2010 9:35 am ET)
  
  Check Mark Sanford's House
  
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- by Johaely (February 27, 2010 2:54 pm ET)
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