{"id":3868,"date":"2015-02-25T21:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T04:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3868"},"modified":"2015-02-26T02:57:24","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T09:57:24","slug":"lying-sack-of-manure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3868","title":{"rendered":"Lying Sack Of Manure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just commented a few posts back about the growing liars club in today&#8217;s media and political circus. In the wake of the Brian Williams scandal, Fox News&#8217; Bill O&#8217;Reilly was caught in a little lie of his own. O&#8217;Reilly criticized Williams for his lack of integrity <a title=\"Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2015\/02\/bill-oreilly-brian-williams-falklands-war\" target=\"_blank\">while exaggerating his own war experiences in Argentina during the War in the Falklands<\/a>, when he was working for CBS. Now, <a title=\"Former CBS News Colleague Calls O'Reilly's Combat Claim &quot;Absurd&quot; \" href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/23\/former-cbs-news-colleague-calls-oreillys-combat\/202624\" target=\"_blank\">several former CBS colleagues have stepped forward to refute what O&#8217;Reilly claimed<\/a>, calling him basically a lying sack of manure; something we&#8217;ve known for years.Will O&#8217;Reilly be suspended like Williams? Hah! Fox News will probably give a promotion and a years supply of loofah mitts. According to Republican Propaganda Network, it ain&#8217;t a lie if you believe it to be true. Ahh! That&#8217;s some responsible journalism!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3869\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3869\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3869\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3869\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oreillylyingsackofmanure.jpg\" alt=\"A couple mistakes bloviating Fox News host Bill O'Reilly for a lying sack of manure.\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oreillylyingsackofmanure.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oreillylyingsackofmanure-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox News talk show host Bill O&#39;Reilly, whose only goal in life is to look out for you, bloviates to anyone who will listen that he has first hand experience with war.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just commented a few posts back about the growing liars club in today&#8217;s media and political circus. In the wake of the Brian Williams scandal, Fox News&#8217; Bill O&#8217;Reilly was caught in a little lie of his own. O&#8217;Reilly criticized Williams for his lack of integrity while exaggerating his own war experiences in Argentina &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lying Sack Of Manure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,8,3,198],"tags":[1027,1020,252,69,22,20,389,27,1025,1026,4,9,766,662,1024,21,255,98,596,296,19,991,47,48,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3868"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3868\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}