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

[billbb]

Hey! Look at the photo... Billo uses a Teleprompter, and a nasty, old-fashioned one, at that.

For the silly and random nature of his comments, I had always assumed he picked words out of the air at random. So, someone writes his stuff down? Either he seriously underpays for that service or the folks that do it are complete incompetents - or both.

[InofTouch]

Did CNN go all Daily Show on Bill O'Reily

[demimckingwoodtx]

Good for you CNN, I hope Rick Ripped him a good one.

[gopSTEALSyourTAXmoney]

'As thet say in third grade': 'My bad'.

Bill O'reilly is 'third' garde.

[leftbehind2000]

Bill O is bad.

[Forester]

LOOFA!

[Kungfublood]

This goes so far beyond the pot calling the kettle..this is more like the black hole calling dark matter black.

[senorlou]

WWF is right. Actually, cable news is more like the Jerry Springer Show than anything else. Sad thing is, nothing holds more sway over so many misguided people than these networks.

[vgirl1]

Not O'Reilly's first set of misrepresentations as fact. And, as usual "Bill O" wasn't man enough to just make a civil apology. Instead "Bill O" had to repeat his usual ugliness and try to lessen the character and appropriiateness of the person who called him out for the misrepresentation.

Will "Bill O" ever be able to Man Up about anything?

Don't hold your breath.

[Kungfublood]

Liars have no need of misrepresenting anything.

[gopSTEALSyourTAXmoney]

Big... Bill 'O man-up?

He's probably a big girl
bottom in bed.

[Counterglow]

O'Reilly got nailed to the wall for sexual harassment. No "he said, she said" stuff; he was caught red-handed and on tape. That says something inescapable about the kind of person you are at a bedrock level.

I know a lot of people with whom I disagree strongly, but I can respect them as human beings. I have no respect for O'Reilly. He's the kind of guy I'd beat the living crap out of if he tried to date my sister.

[pipetoe]

O good...a war for ratings....CNN and FOX.

[peterg76]

I know journalists issue retractions, but why would a circus clown do so?

[TallyLass]

lol.

[Michael Harris 1]

Now now.. there's no need to go insulting circus clowns. They'd be mortified and offended by having their serious and important careers placed on the same level as Mr "Bold piece of humanity" (sic) O'Reilly.

[helenwiells]

Yeah, I'll take snide and surly over bold and fresh. it AMAZES me that Bill O'Reilly still doesn't seem to understand that his Irish nun was NOT complimenting him way back when. In Ireland, if you call someone "bold", you mean rude, arrogant...and, "fresh" ? Well, we know what fresh means and we're not talking leafy lettuce. Me thinks Sister Mary Whoever had this little boy pegged but good.

[pipetoe]

Have you read the book?

[jsanti7]

this is probably not the last plate of crow he will eat cuz of his mouth ....bill i offer the salt shaker

[Kevin Ehsani]

its sad how he said "all day long", yet claims he meant primetime.

oreilly has a serious problem with short term memory.

[TAC]

I think his problem is long term lying...

[JessWonderin]

WHAT??? Faux News had an announcer malfunction???

Time to sue Fox and Bill-O for inciting and conspiracy to murder . . . a nice CIVIL suit would be fine by me . . . . even just for the general LEGAL EXERCISE . . . if "hot coffee" and "Cuban Castro Stress " can get multi-million dollar settlements, Bill-O's outrageous statements should be an easy first year law clerk filing.

[pipetoe]

That is a stretch..

[cinesimon]

Sure - for those of you who believe Billo is a centrist, who doesn't do spin, and who doesn't routinely lie on his show, anything said against him is unfair.

[Roxanna]

A"snide and surly guy on CNN"?????

O'Reily just described himself !

We need more people to call O'Reily up on his lies.

[pam45]

Snide and surly guy? O'Reily doesn't even know the meaning of those words.

[Bryan Seigneur]

Or, as they say in the 3rd grade, "takes one to know one."