Bill O'Reilly lashed out at actress Ellen Barkin Thursday night after she criticized Fox News for its fundamental dishonesty, offering the mendacious denial that he never mentioned Barkin “on this broadcast,” but hoping nobody read his daily briefing* that dismissed Barkin's career.

In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Barkin criticized Fox News for its dishonesty, saying:

The blatant lying that passes itself off as journalism. I don't even need to get there to go mental. Can you imagine a legitimate newsperson -- Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw -- just lying on the news?

Barkin discussed those comments, and Fox News' reaction to them, during an appearance on HLN's The Joy Behar Show, saying that she was now “on Bill O'Reilly's radar.” Barkin and Behar went on to hypothesize what it would mean to be on O'Reilly's “radar,” with Barkin saying that she thought O'Reilly had called her “a washed-up has been, D-list celebrity.”

O'Reilly took issue with those comments, calling it a “flat out lie” and protesting: “I have never mentioned Ellen Barkin on this broadcast - ever. And I would never call her names.” O'Reilly demanded an apology.

But O'Reilly did call out Barkin in his daily briefing. After recounting her comments critical of Fox, O'Reilly's briefing mocked Barkin's career, stating:

In other news: Ellen Barkin is still alive! Ellen Barkin is still alive! There can now be a Johnny Handsome II!

Uh ... Clever, Bill.

We won't hold out hope for O'Reilly acknowledging what he has in fact said about Ellen Barkin.

*This post has been updated