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

[mediachic1021]

BillO delusional as always!

[sempronia]

Even Jon Stewart, whatever he thinks of Sanchez, would agree -- that was awesome.

[Knowledgeseeker]

we got to understand that FOX NEWS is entertainment not news. only stupid people think so.
Great job Rick Sanchez, now you need to invite O'Reilly on your show.

[SN365]

Kudos to Rick Sanchez for responding with facts to O'Reily's lies and distortions. I'm sure O'Reily will not show any sense of responsibility or shame, because that's how he earns his livelihood. People like Bill O'Reily, Limbaugh, Coulter, Hannity, Glenn Beck & their cohorts spew garbage on a daily basis and make millions of dollars. I just feel sorry for the gullible listeners, who believe everything these guys regurgitate.

[Lovelydaze]

Bill-O the Clown must of peed just a little when he saw the MASS amount of reporting CNN really did on the story.

Rick Sanchez OWNS Bill!

[YouCanKeepYourChange]

Bill O is without a doubt the best!!!!

[pinkindie]

The best at leaving his integrity at the door. Oh, wait, he was born without integrity.

[donethridge]

Olbermann has O'Rilley pegged from the start. No credibility.

[CynAnne]

But he IS one of the best at se.xually harrassing his employees, pinkindie! OhReally paid million$ rather than have the skeezy, kin.ky, bordering-­on-pervert­ed things he was saying and doing to Ms. Mackris brought to the public eye. For those as of yet unfamiliar with exactly HOW nasty OhReally really, REALLY was, let me illustrate, directly from the court filing: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1013043mackris16.html ...now, let our resident tro//s explain THAT away - we'll all be waiting patiently.­.! ;) ...

[sd619guy]

Even though you see for your eyes that Bill O is a liar you STILL think he's the best??
SAD.

[Arrecho]

I think you meant "the beast"

[amaboss52]

Bill O Biley must be real proud you think hes the best. I must say he is the best at bs.

[lalalalilly127]

Okay, so in Bill's apology he says "he was only talking about primetime", however, in the original clip he says they never covered it "all day long".....­WOW!!!!

[Principaldad]

I don't even say "wow" to stuff like that anymore. It is just what O'Reilly does. He will make outlandish statements (usually at full volume and with a healthy dose of moral outrage) . When one of his statements is shown to be complete bs, he claims calmly that he said something different. He also ridicules the person who pointed out his bs.

[dave1111]

He's even lying in his so called 'apology.'

[i2ambler]

This is standard Bill Oreilly stuff.. say a bunch of nonsense, then when someone calls him on it, he says 'I didnt say that' Even when there is PROOF on tape of him saying exactly what he is accused of saying. The damage is done the first time, at full volume. Any apology is brushed under the rug.

[DSOTM]

So Bill, when a journalist points out your lack of integrity for not doing the research that one would expect from a journalist, he is now "snide and surely"?

Bill, I pray that the DOJ can find some way to indict you for conspiracy to murder in the Dr. Tiller murder.

[wolfmason]

Do you really even have to ask that question? The article makes it pretty clear that The Gospel According to Bill goes no further than what he immediately perceives, research/j­ournalism/­integrity be darned. That's the difference between "news", and whatever it is that Fox does.

[Garybot]

Do you guys gain your power thru your hatred, or something? You never quit with it.

[BobSacomano]

Sorry, don't try to pretend that the "Cons" are not the party of hate and lies. We'll never quit RESPONDING to hatred if that's what you mean. 10 minutes listening to Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Malkin, Ingraham, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity etc etc etc and it's pretty obvious who gains their power from hatred. Try not to be so naiive, I know it's hard.

[MJinCanada]

It's called indignation.

It's what people feel when some fool gets paid so much money to be a sociopathic liar on network television.

[wemikelori]

What's "blairtone" been smoking?

[CynAnne]

I believe it's referred to as "Wingnutter Weed", wemikelori, and it's known for being seedy, harsh, and burning up way too quickly..! ;) ...

[blairtone]

I've been toking facts

[hexham]

the key comment here is "Daily Show-like montage".. once again the fake news guys are showing the "real" news guys and gals how its done. Good for CNN for paying attention.

[MacGregor57]

the "Facts? No Chance!" (thank you blogger) channel has stripped "South Park" of it's "Excellence in Paddock Mucking" award, bestowed annually by "The G. Orwell Foundation". Bill O'Really, long considered The Mother of All Muckers (or MM), accepting the award for FNC, said that although the Foundation's Board is "a pack of killer sexual deviates" he none-the-less appreciated the ratings boost.

[LeftRight]

You're welcome!

[IntelligentDesign]

Bill O is irredeemable.

[GoogleMaster]

Rick couldn't have done this without CNN's blessing. Plus, somebody had to put that video montage together. O'Reilly made false charges against CNN and CNN, not just Sanchez set the record straight.
Perhaps this was a "teachable" moment for Bill. Perhaps, in the future, Mr O (AND his talking points) will think for at least a non-second before opening the pie hole. Now he has to answer to Olbermann tonight.

[bsc]

good job Rick Sanchez. I cant stand CNN but way to call out Billo

[getoffthecross]

Anyone chastized by Rick Sanchez has got to take a good hard accounting of their professional life. Seriously.