The Factor Lied Again

Guest David Kline set up. Thanks to Atrios: "Last night I appeared on the conservative TV talk show The O'Reilly Factor, ostensibly to talk about pol
By John Amato — October 4, 2005

Guest David Kline set up. Thanks to Atrios:

"Last night I appeared on the conservative TV talk show The O'Reilly Factor, ostensibly to talk about political blogs and the impact they are having on the American political process. Or so I was told by the two producers for the show who spent over an hour pre-interviewing me. Unbeknownst to me, however, the show turned out to be a total set-up job in which host Bill O'Reilly and guest Jed Babbin spent the entire time attacking the web site Media Matters for having posted commentary in the past critical of them both...read on"

This will be pretty hard to spin Bill, but I'm sure you'll come up with something. Maybe: "we told him up front, but he's also taking money from George Soros." Something like that.

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