Bill O’Reilly blasted the liberal media on Wednesday night, saying the “hatred” of President-elect Donald Trump is so “unbelievable” that “almost every fair-minded American” wouldn’t listen to them anymore.
“The O’Reilly Factor” host played a montage of media members expressing fear for the Trump administration that included CNN’s Brian Stelter asking if it was a “national emergency.”
“Call in the National Guard to surround the inauguration,” O’Reilly sarcastically said when the montage ended. “That’s unbelievable.”
O’Reilly said that the media is “so overwrought” that most Americans “turn them off, or walk away or cancel their newspaper subscription.”
Fox Business host Trish Regan, who was a guest on the show, said she remembers when journalists at least pretended to be unbiased.
“Now, there is a school of thought in the media that is completely bias and so much so that god forbid you actually say something in defense of Donald Trump, they will pile on in a really extreme way,” Regan said.
Donald Trump is the country's most prominent spreader of fake news. Here are ten unquestionably fake news stories he has shared.
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In 2009, Trump helped create fake news when the USA Network and WWE falsely reported that Trump was planning to buy "Monday Night RAW." It turned out that it was all part of a wrestling storyline.
Trump spent years demanding that President Obama produce his birth certificate and other papers in response to false e-mails that Obama was a Kenyan-born Muslim. He finally admitted Obama was born in this country in September, then accused Hillary Clinton of starting the lies about Obama.
In December 2011, Trump said President Obama "issued a statement for Kwanza but failed to issue one for Christmas." That was provably false. (This photo is from 2014.)
In February 2016, Trump entertained conspiracy theories that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered when he said he was found with "a pillow on his face." Alex Jones' InfoWars had earlier reported on suggestions Scalia was killed. But the owner of the ranch where Scalia died later clarified that he did not have a pillow over his face.
In June 2016, Trump tweeted a photo that purported to show a family of African-Americans who supported him. But they told BuzzFeed they definitely did not.
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In another case of Trump creating the fake news, he scored 22,000 retweets on Election Day by posting, "Just out according to @CNN: 'Utah officials report voting machine problems across entire country.'" But it was just one county. No R.
After saying for months before election day that the vote would be rigged, Trump won. He subsequently said “million of people” voted illegally. A guy on Twitter who had tweeted that 3 million voted illegally declined to provide any source. Trump has continued to make baseless claims about millions of illegal voters since he took office.
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Let's give credit where its due: On Dec. 6, Trump fired one of his transition team staffers for tweeting a fake news story that led to an armed confrontation in a Washington, DC pizza restaurant. The issue became known as "pizzagate."
On his first full day in office, Trump visited the Central Intelligence Agency and claimed 1.5 million people attended his inauguration. The New York Times said that photographs "disproved" that number. Vox did a deep dive into why Trump's numbers appeared to be off. And a Texas NHL team, among others, made fun of him.
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A running tally of all the times President Trump shared totally bogus stories
Donald Trump is the country's most prominent spreader of fake news. Here are ten unquestionably fake news stories he has shared.