There are so many stories that are complete non-events, that to call them news is a disservice to the public and the world of journalism. And it's not just your National Enquirers, Daily Stars and OK! magazines that are worst culprits. There are more sources of non-event non-news stories than many people realise. These include popular so-called news programmes, such as Fox News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor.
The Factor has been caught before getting it's facts wrong, but now, it seems to have gone over the line. Bill O's current target of his brand of bluster is the website DailyKos, which is a blog that was created back in 2002, at a time when all criticism of the 'War On Terror' was branded unpatriotic, or even treasonous. With it's distinctly liberal/democratic agenda, it has become a target for the Conservative media of talk radio and now the Falafel guy is promising an expose on DailyKos on tonight's show that he says will destroy the site.
Except, that once again, Bill O'Reilly is being less than truthful. DailyKos themselves have seen the evidence, and rather than print the photo on the site, they have separately linked to it. And when you look at the photo, it is clear as day, that the photo is a piece of photoshopping! As a subscriber to the DailyKos RSS feed, I've checked back through the archives, and I cannot find the photo having been used anywhere on the site. If anybody can find it being used, I would like to know.
So, as far as my own investigations have revealed, this wouold appear to be a story, made up by Bill O, out of his fear or possibly paranoia, so as to denegrate or discredit this popular internet site, because of it's liberal agenda. This latest Falafel-fatwa is totally, ridiculous.
This is a total, non-event non-news story, that deserves only ridicule, and believe me, this story is as ridiculous as the loofah-wielding buffon gets. There seems to be no truth here for the truthseeker, just a lot of dark, sad unfunniness that should be attempting to pass for comedy, not news.
Expect "Bill Orally" to pick up another World's Worst gold medal either tonight or tomorrow on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann. At least that segment is satirical, unlike the Bill O ballon of bluster and buffoonery that is "The O'Reilly Factor"
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