O'Reilly attacked Media Matters with falsehood about whether he received complaint

Published: September 26, 2007, 9:58 pm

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In defending his controversial comments about race, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly claimed on the September 25 edition of his television show that "we didn't hear one complaint about the program that ran on more than 400 radio stations." Similarly, in a September 26 article, the Associated Press reported that "O'Reilly said the [Juan] Williams conversation was carried on more than 400 radio stations and there wasn't one complaint from a listener." While Media Matters for America has no way of determining whether O'Reilly received any private complaints, his discussion of race did provoke at least one public complaint from a listener. During the same September 19 broadcast in which O'Reilly made his controversial remarks, a caller told O'Reilly: "I think your spinning and bloviating does not do the black community justice. You're just giving fodder to your viewers who have a negative view of black people anyway, so your pointing

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