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

[jqcitizen]

The soon to be seated (finally) senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, said it years ago: O'Reilly is a liar.

Franken went on to prove it. Not that it matters a lot. Bill does a good job of that on a regular basis.

[Arvid0823]

Let us see what happens with OReillys ambush journalism, and his incitement of Operation Rescue and Scott Roeder --- incendiary remarks on some 28 separate shows --- unfortunately for OReilly, the tape does not disappear into the ether --- see Nixon, R.M. and Woods, Rosemary, and 19 1/2 minutes of tape

[newyorkjoe]

And that... is called "Rick Sanchez bitter that Anderson Cooper is CNN's Big Star."

[exhiliration]

Newjerkjoe,

Did you read the article??? was this about jealousy or misreporting. I guess you need to stay at fox, cos you reason like them. why are you being so misleading what do you gain from this. he was defending the whole of CNN. you arent useless, but you make me think you might be.

[BobSacomano]

what the..????

No, that.....i­s called Bill O'Reilly totally fabricating a story..bas­ically lying, attempting to make CNN fit into his twisted vision of every other network or show being "biased", and "Liberal". In other words he's a paranoid, jealous, hateful man.

[Knowledgeseeker]

this show me once again how stupid Bill O'Reilly is.

[Garybot]

Does anybody think O'Reilly could have made a mistake? He probably doesn't watch TV all day, and took someone's word for it.
I know the State-owned lib networks never have to worry about making a mistake, because they're too busy slathering all over Obama. When that's all you do, no lib is going worry about facts.

[LaLaverne]

bill o claims he makes no mistakes.

[KarmaTheDog]

Of course he made a mistake, he made a mistake because he's sloppy. But don't you think that if you're going to make an accusation that you would check to make sure your accusation is true. He wasn't just wrong, he was embarrassingly wrong.

[cdouglas]

Bill is a mouthpiece for Fox, so they are both responsible. The fact is he makes these kinds of "mistakes" on a daily basis. He (and Fox News) M.O. is to make stuff up, re-edit speeches to make them say something they did not, and harassing people. They count on their audience to believe them, which most of them do willingly because Fox News tell Conservatives what they want to hear whether it be true or not.

[ocheeky1]

When you're the host of a show, you have staff who comb the media with you, looking for stories.
I'm sure he was well aware of this. If not, he should get new staff. That's a huge 'reporting' error.
You're so called 'lib' networks, are not state owned!! Come on...
And sorry to rain on your parade, but CNN and Comedy Central even check their facts!
Fox correspondents are the ones who repeatedly throw out non fact-checked information.
I think you need a fact-check­er...

[dfuller]

You don't get it.

Libs keep calling BO a liar. They need something to back this up. mistake = deliberate lie.

[TuoulumneFlower]

You got it backwards: the deliberate lie is the mistake.

Sanchez said it - it's not that CNN didn't report it until 10 pm, it's that O'Reilly lives in a world where if he didn't see it until 10 pm, it didn't happen.

That's actually beyond a lie, it's downright delusional. And you trust his "reporting?"

[tom90069]

i love rick sanchez,
go get em !

[longnow]

There are too many in this country like the man who shot Long
way too many. These are the equivalent of the know-nothing
conservative/ libertarians on the right. Rush Limbaugh's audience
does not have a lock on ignorance. Our jails and streets are filled
with radical Muslim blacks and politically they are related to the
thugs who called themselves Black Panthers and they are
also the reason why so many intelligent people were
disgusted by what they see and saw on the so-called extreme left
and became neocons. I did not but who can blame them.

[whoknew42]

...so much for "Fair and Unbiased" reporting!!

[expired]

Never heard CNN, MSNBC or Fake noise refer to former President Bush as Mr. Bush?

[macjon]

.
Colbert in IRAQ while BOR appologizes.
HA Ha HA
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[flatus]

OReally(?) misguiding his listeners? I'm Shocked. What next? Hannity leaving out pertinent information?

[JeffPoster]

Why do you think Alan Colmes quit working with Sean Hannity? (I'd get fed up too as Fox News' token liberal...­I'm surprised he still works for Fox' radio division..­.and they let him interview progressives!)

[LaLaverne]

doesn't anybody get it? Bill O will never pay the price for his opinionated "reporting". Even his apology makes us Liberals look like whiners and gives all his undereducated viewers exactly what they're looking for. another reason not to see the truth.

i don't usually believe in censorship and I definitely believe in free speech, but what are we to do when someone is consistently spouting lies and inciting violence to a huge number of right wing crazies? FNC and Bill O need to be leashed.

[Garybot]

So what price do you think he should pay?

[i2ambler]

How about.. paying with his job? Isnt there a law somewhere about hate speech?? Free speech is great, but when it incites violence.. you should pay.

[MJinCanada]

I dunno -- what's a libel suit worth these days?

You know, Mary Tyler Moore won a lawsuit against a tabloid. Are there any lawyers out there willing to take on a class action suit against Fox for, oh, defaming the American people by making them look stupid to the rest of the known universe?

[Dan Cubert]

I'll be sure to check out the comparison piece. Now that is journalism.

[Peaceisnecessary]

John King is really digusting! He gets to spew his hate mongering of President Obama and any of his policies for 6 hours on Sunday. If that is not enough, he is now on the morning news show for around 10 minutes repeating the same vitriol. He is so disrespectful that he does not refer to our President as such and calls him Mr. Obama. CNN is just like FOX, but they think they are hiding their conservative side, but we can see right through them.

[LaLaverne]

NPR refers to the president as mr. obama. they've all done so and it has nothing to do with lack of respect, though i can see how it seems so.

[Haitiana4Obama]

John King has been reporting the news...
Where is he spewing hate against the President?

We need to be very careful that WE don't turn people off from the President and the huge agenda he has to get through congress by attacking people just because they do their jobs in a unbiased way.

[BigHeadTodd]

Well, in defense of Faux News, since the REACTIONARY party is out of power, they scrape and claw for "scandals" like someone's emphasis on the wrong syllable, using the words "socialism" and "Obama" in the same story as often as they can, and trumpeting the intelligence of their statesman Newt, Rush, Mitt, Rudy, Sarah.