On the September 26 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly claimed that “if we make a mistake ... we will retract, and we will apologize, and we will put it up.”

Media Matters for America has identified and corrected hundreds of O'Reilly's falsehoods, made both on his radio show and on Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor -- the vast majority of which he has yet to retract. Rather than correct his own falsehoods, O'Reilly lashes out at those who expose them or simply denies that he erred.

From the September 26 broadcast of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:

O'REILLY: Well, that's what's happening. That's why people are not taking these newspapers. That's why, because they're not trustworthy. You know, if we make a mistake here on The Factor, and E.D., God knows, makes them every single day --

E.D. HILL (co-host): [laughing]

O'REILLY: -- we will retract, and we will apologize, and we will put it up.

HILL: Mea culpa, mea culpa.

O'REILLY: Everybody makes mistakes. Everybody makes them. And you know, but when you get into the ideological fringe, which is what The New York Times is -- they are on a jihad to turn America into a secular progressive nation. That's what they want to do. And we here at Fox stand in their way.

O'Reilly was Media Matters for America's 2004 Misinformer of the Year.