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

[NYCMami]

I'm always happy to see O'Rielly owned but CNN shouldn't get on any high horse.

[Portnoy]

The right is going all out trying to make the media look like, what Limbaugh calls, "state run media". Nothing could be farther from the truth. It was comapring apples to oranges.

On one hand we have a mentally deranged individual who took out his agression agaisnt the army recruiters, an unfortunate incidnet. But see how the military does prey on individuals who are not mentally stabel, its no wonder some "snapped" and went after them.

On the other hand we have a relgious nutcase who brutally stalked and killed an Physician in a Church. Besides the clear ironic nature of the murder, the political implications of this senseless murder reaches well beyond a random drive by shooting.

Christians love playing the "victim".

[JerryTheAngel]

Seeing these three cable news networks fight each other like children is boring. 10 million people out of 300 million people even bother to watch these "news" channels.

9 million people watched the Brian Williams special on the White House on NBC. NBC got as many viewers in one night as all three cable networks collectively get.

[AddyGmom]

Won't it be a treat if the DoJ includes billo in their Tiller murderer investigation?

[Moxo]

"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.
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When O'Reilly compares them to himself... yes, they are nobody.

[Dionita]

Hilarius.

[lovable]

YOUKEEPYOURCHANGE u cannot admitt that oreilly liedDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
so as usual the right wing goes after the complaining person.

[bibimimi]

Billo sez 'ease up on yer FACTS, Sanchez'

[33Greeper]

BillOLieLy makes a lot of money lying.

[StillWise]

Reporting on Bill O'Reilly is "news", CNN?

[shastacola]

If only those mean news channels would let FOX lie without consequenc­e.Life would be so much easier.

[mgray34]

Way to go Rick Sanchez!! It is amazing to me HOW any so-called news agency can stay in business reporting as much erroneous information that FOX news reports! Time and time again, FOX continues to report stories that ARE NOT based on fact. All one has to do is go to youtube or google to discover this. Any yet, this is the so-called number one cable news channel. It has got to be morally wrong to lie to the public like they are doing by not checking their facts before reporting!! Not just for FOX, but for any organization that calls themself reporting the news.

[cloth99]

Nice job Rick!

[YouCanKeepYourChange]

Sure seems like Bill touched a nerve with the DirtySanchez. LOL

[shastacola]

I think you're confusing "touched a nerve" with "caught him lying".

[moUSAnMe]

rick's the man.
i always watch him if i'm home