Rick Sanchez Rips Bill O'Reilly For Lying About CNN And Murdered Army Recruiter (VIDEO) (UPDATED)

***UPDATED June 6*** Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was forced to apologize to CNN after anchor Rick Sanchez slammed O'Reilly for claiming that CNN didn't cover the murder of Army recruiter William Long at all during the day, instead waiting until Anderson Cooper's late night show to give it coverage. O'Reilly issued his apology to the news network after saying some "snide and surly guy on CNN" (Sanchez) pointed out that they had covered the story far more extensively than O'Reilly implied. (Video clip courtesy of Media Matters)

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CNN's Rick Sanchez slammed Bill O'Reilly Friday afternoon for his claim that CNN didn't cover the murder of Army recruiter William Long until Anderson Cooper's featured the story on "AC360."

"CNN is supposed to be the news channel," O'Reilly said to Editor & Publisher's Joe Strupp. "CNN says we don't do opinion, we do news. Only Anderson Cooper at 10:00 covered this story. Nobody else! All day long it wasn't news to cover an army recruiter gunned down in Arkansas?"

Sanchez then proceeded to play a "Daily Show"-like montage of clips of CNN anchors and reporters discussing the story all day.

"Let's see, that was Kyra Phillips, Tony Harris, Heidi Collins, Lou Dobbs, certainly you saw myself, you just saw David Mattingly there, Wolf Blitzer, we saw Kiran Chetry, we saw Erica Hill — that's nobody?" Sanchez asked.

"Let's add this up together now," Sanchez said. "We led with the story when it broke. We led with it again the next day. We analyzed the terrorism angle with experts and called former FBI agents to take us through it. And as a network, we covered the story umpteen times throughout the days, throughout all hours of those days. But Bill O'Reilly says he only saw it once. And since he only saw it once, well then that must be the truth. It doesn't matter what really happened. It doesn't matter what the record shows. All that matters is what Bill thinks he saw. We called Fox today, by the way. No response yet."

Sanchez ended with a comment on O'Reilly calling CNN the "news channel."

"O'Reilly did get one thing right," he said. "We here at CNN do say we're in the business of doing news. You know why? Because we are. And while we are far from perfect, we do check our facts before we say things. And if we get it wrong, we say so. And that is called reporting."

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Comments

[LADY2CNTX]

Bill O knew that was a 'lie' when he said that. Fox is below telling the the truth.

Go Rick Sanchez . . . you can give him his HEAD back now.

[ProfessorDuh]

Bill O'Reilly's constant war against his bete noire of "secular progressives" would indicate that he is a sectarian reactionary, a philosophical position that has nothing to recommend it. But in fact O'Reilly has no real philosophy.
He's just a cheap carnival barker yelling himself red in the face in order to shake down uneducated and vulnerable f00ls.
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[MainSpark]

"He's just a cheap carnival barker yelling himself red in the face in order to shake down uneducated and vulnerable f00ls."

Professor? You nailed it.

[Deborah Noble]

Viva Rick Sanchez!!

[Cintimcmomma]

Go Rick Go! That's why I watch you and CNN and any other "fair and balanced" news channel except FOX News. Great job of setting the records straight.

[SeeCompany]

And this is the first time A. Hole O' Reilly has lied? Every time this man opens his mouth on Fixed News.....y­ou decide....­..

[frankath]

Fox "News" does seem to be committed to make the viewers "angry and delusional", as one previous poster said here. Surely there are real journalists over there, who are driven nuts by the lack of fact-checking and that continuous blending of opinion and reporting at Fox, which started, and continues to stir, that particular stew. Try to expalin that most of what they are hearing is merely opinion, and the regular Fox viewer will have a hissy fit! Ask for proof, and they point to Hanitty or O'Reilly, who are self-admitted editorial, NOT reporting, personalities!

[BobSacomano]

F*** IT!! WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!!

[davkaman]

O"Reilly is pathetic, but the real story is how this reflects on his employer, Fox News which, when not taking its viewers to the nadir of shamelessness, takes them to its abyss.

[exhiliration]

I see what FOX news is trying to do. That Silly man named bill said "on monday we would see how CNN covered the private long story and make a comparison" that means they are trying to get CNN to banter with them. CNN should not take the bait. Its like The Maury show asking oprah to compare the quality of her shows to theirs, or MTV asking NPR to compare each other's media substance. NO NO NO. CNN must not fall for it. FOX news is trash and even their graphics look third rate. CNN should not get into this. leave it at the RICK Sanchez defence. and leave that obnoxious man named Bill O reily to continue to Rave for flux news.

[solarian]

bill how do you like your slap down

[873450]

Bill O didn’t spin alone.

http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/guns-gays-and-abortion/?ref=opinion

NY Times columnist David Brooks:
"Liberal media outlets play up the murder of the abortion doctor by a pro-life extremist. Conservative outlets play up the murder of the Army recruiter by a Muslim extremist.­"

Right wing hacks couldn’t defend years of rhetoric inciting lone-wolf religious fanatics to kill Dr. Tiller. Even worse, they were slammed for calling the murder victim a murderer and his murderer a hero.

For several days the message of hate espoused by conservative pundits was subjected to intense condemnation and they needed to distract our attention away from the issue. So, just like their scheme to spin the Cheney torture debate into an attack against Nancy Pelosi, they conjured up a cynical propaganda campaign falsely accusing the “liberal” media of treason for refusing to cover the murder of a U.S. military recruiter by a religious fanatic.

Apparently Rush, Karl and Newt sent a talking points memo to their media lap dogs.

[WIKANDER]

O'Reilly persists speaking his dishonesty in such an inflammatory way. Though behind MSNBC Keith Olbermann in the ratings, he still keeps spewing his wrath while showing no respect to most of his guests if they dare to challenge him. Poor soul!

[Haitiana4Obama]

SEEEEEEEEE­EEERVED!!!­!

I adore Rick Sanchez even more after this!

[ArticleFriendly]

Bile O'Reilly and the truth are not friends. But then, fox network's job is to spread the gop's mis-information and keep the right winger's angry and delusional­....

[DCSuburb]

Bill O'Reilly's Spin Zone