Bill O'Reilly Catches Sharpton In Another Deceptive Video Edit: 'They Don't Come Lower'

NewsBusters.org ^ | December 10, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday again exposed MSNBC’s Al Sharpton for deceptively editing a video, this time to make it appear the Factor host was disparaging Nelson Mandela within hours of his death.

“Sharpton uses the occasion of Nelson Mandela's death to dishonestly attack people he doesn't like,” said O’Reilly. “They don't come lower” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Bill O’Reilly Slams MSNBC’s Al Sharpton: ‘They Don’t Come Lower’

BILL O’REILLY: Now, as a young man, Nelson Mandela had Marxist leanings and dealt closely with communists. Check out a recent article in The Economist magazine if you want specifics on that. Anyone who knows anything about South Africa understands Mr. Mandela's philosophy.

Enter the far left MSNBC network and Al Sharpton. As we have demonstrated in the past, Sharpton is a dishonest purveyor of information, a man who could not care less about reporting what's true. Last Friday, using Nelson Mandela as cover, Sharpton attacked me.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AL SHARPTON: He said about Nelson Mandela last night on Fox:

O’REILLY: 95 years old. Nelson Mandela, I spent some time in South Africa, he was a communist, this man. He was a communist, all right?

SHARPTON: [Unintelligible]

KAREN FINNEY: But don't you wonder where in South Africa? It wasn't like he was hanging out in Soweto that Bill O'Reilly I'm quite certain.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O’REILLY: Well, here I am in Soweto where I did spend some time. That woman Karen Finney, a former spokesperson for the DNC, obviously made a mistake. So I am expecting a letter of apology from Ms. Finney by tomorrow. If she is honest she'll send it over. If she is like Sharpton and not honest, she will not and I will let you know what happens tomorrow evening.

As for Sharpton, he is a flat out deceiver. Here is what I actually said about Mr. Mandela.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

O’REILLY: 95 years old. Nelson Mandela, I have spent some time in South Africa, he was a communist, this man. He was a communist, all right? But he was a great man. What he did for his people was stunning. The sacrifices that he made. He could have repudiated and got out of that prison. He wouldn't do it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O’REILLY: So you can see that Sharpton cut out all of the context as he has done many times before. Now, any other commentator on national TV would have been fired for doing that, but MSNBC seems to be afraid of Sharpton. The thing is, Sharpton uses the occasion of Nelson Mandela's death to dishonestly attack people he doesn't like. They don't come lower.

O'Reilly exposed Sharpton in August for similar deceptive editing.

But this is clearly acceptable at MSNBC; people there do it all the time to trash their political opponents.

At this point, one has to assume that the executives at MSNBC - and conceivably NBC as well as Comcast - are aware of what Sharpton and others do with video clips, and mustn't be concerned by the dishonestly or the lack of journalistic integrity.

And why should they?

MSNBC isn't journalism, and everyone knows it.

Which forces me to once again ask: When will cable and satellite providers move this farce of a network away from the legitimate cable news channels on their program guides?

If MSNBC is going to make up news rather than report it, it shouldn't be in any way associated with real news organizations.

[Wiggins]

Bill O’Reilly is just looking out for us. LOL.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Sharpton started out his extortionist career with a hoax, libel and lies, so what else would you expect from this charlatan and crook?

Then again, MSNBC is full of liars, extortionists and distortionists, so why are we surprised by Sharpton’s “idiotisms”?

[moovova]

Bill thinks it all about Bill.

Sounds like Barrack.

[cloudmountain]

Sharpton started out his extortionist career with a hoax, libel and lies, so what else would you expect from this charlatan and crook?
Then again, MSNBC is full of liars, extortionists and distortionists, so why are we surprised by Sharpton’s “idiotisms”?

You nailed it.

[CaptainK]

Bill is responsible for the legitimization of this con man. He had him on his show many times, socialized with him and gave money to one of Sharpton's "charities". Instead of treating Sharpton like the criminal he is for the libeling of District Attorney Steven Pagones in the Tawana Brawley make believe rape case, Bill thought Sharpton changed and wanted to give him a chance. Only God knows why.

Now Bill cries like a child when Sharpton doctors a tape to make Bill look like a bigot. Bill likes to think he's a watchdog for the public, but he's actually a naive rube who is easily fooled. Just ask Andrea Mackris.

You lay down with a rattlesnake, you'll always get bitten,

[Mustangman]

When I saw that Sharpton was on the Meet the Press round table last Sunday I quickly awitched channels. The man is a gangster in a suit. He and people like him make their careers on stirring up the racial muck. Every ten years or so, he hits on an actual race case, but most of the muck he stirs is based on lies and extortion and BS. He longs for the good ole days 1950’s Selma Alabama. Instead he lives in 2013 America where 97% of the folks don’t give a rats ass about skin color and of the 3% that do, two thirds of them are black.

Bottom Line: Sharpton is a very dishonest man...the type of man you would think liberal and black America would distance themselves from, but they choose to embrace him instead. It’s just an unseemly relation they have....grosss really.

[jmacusa]

I remember when Sharpton was running for president as a Democrat. I remember thinking at the time that it’s nice when a party gets the candidate it deserves.

[Leaning Right]

Bill O’Reilly vs. Al Sharpton. I hope that shameless self-promoter gets his butt kicked.

Oh, wait. They are both shameless self-promoters. They are both pigs. I don't care who wins. Maybe they will knock each other out.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I have a liberal sister-in-law and even she cant stand Sharpton.

[nickcarraway]

I wonder what he is hiding for Sharpton. How much did he supress fdor Jesse Jackson?

[nickcarraway]

I wonder what he is hiding for Sharpton. How much did he supress fdor Jesse Jackson?

[Kaslin]

You’re on Sharpton’s side, aren’t you? Come on admit it

[Kaslin]

I remember that too. He and the other 8 dwarfs and they all acted as if they were all going to share the presidency together

[Kaslin]

Bill O’Reilly doesn’t need to promote himself and you know it

[kcvl]

Karen Finney is a former political consultant. She is a political commentator for MSNBC and hosts the show Disrupt with Karen Finney.

Finney served four years as the spokesperson and Director of Communications at the Democratic National Committee. She has also written for The Hill, is a commentator for Politico, MSNBC and The Huffington Post.

Finney served as Press Secretary for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

On April 2, 2013, it was announced that Finney will host a weekend news program called Disrupt with Karen Finney on MSNBC.

[kcvl]

8/27/13

MSNBC’s Karen Finney on Monday hung up on conservative talker Hugh Hewitt after he repeatedly asked her during an interview on his radio show to say whether Alger Hiss was a communist.

Hewitt had Finney on his program to discuss her statement on her weekend show that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s rhetoric on health care is reminiscent of the “fear stoking” of Joe McCarthy, who she said “also wanted to take his country back, then it was from the communists who had supposedly infiltrated it.” While Cruz’s mission might be different than McCarthy’s, Finney told viewers of her show “Disrupt,” “the rhetoric sounds eerily the same.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/karen-finney-hugh-hewitt-95937.html#ixzz2n8cScm61

Hewitt kicked off his interview with Finney by asking, “Did any communists infiltrate the United States government?”

“I think if we go back to the McCarthy hearings, it’s pretty clear that he created a culture of paranoia and fear that people later recognized, they sort of bought into it and then recognized that it was absolutely misplaced,” Finney told Hewitt. “That’s the point.”

“But Karen, did any communists infiltrate our government?” Hewitt asked.
Finney asked Hewitt to “go ahead and name them,” and Hewitt replied, “Can you? I’m trying to figure out if you know if any of them did.”

“Karen, Karen, I’m just a little talk show host, I’m not an MSNBC host, I just have history,” Hewitt said. “I just want to know, do you think Alger Hiss was a communist?”

Finney told Hewitt he just “wanted to go down a rabbit hole” with his line of questioning, while the conservative talker said he just wanted “to know if you actually know that Alger Hiss was a communist.”

“What I actually know is that the culture the McCarthy hearings created in this country were dangerous to our democracy,” she said.

[kcvl]

@finneyk we know you cut the Oreilly talk on Mandela to slander him! He was talking about what a great man he was, wow you looked cheap!
10:15pm - 10 Dec 13

Interesting, @finneyk, isn’t that exactly what you did when making remarks about O’Reilly? You consider yourself a hypocrite or jackass?
8:44pm - 10 Dec 13

https://mobile.twitter.com/finneyk

@isyalacewell @btsmgl @ATXScott Really uncool to think you know me & make assumptions based on what? U have no idea what my experience is

[Leaning Right]

Bill O’Reilly doesn’t need to promote himself and you know it

Huh? Have you ever seen his show? He constantly interrupts experts to insert his own opinions. Rarely do any of his guests get a chance to finish their thoughts.

And half his letters are all about him. "Bill, your latest book is great! I've sent copies to all my grandchildren."

"Bill, I can't wait to see you and Miller in Toledo. I'm bringing the whole family!"

Yeah, right, that's breaking news.

And if you're wondering why I still watch O'Reilly, the answer is that I don't. I switch over to Fox business channel at that time.

But here's the irony of it all. O'Reilly still does the best commentary on television, hands down. His opening comments are almost always right on. So I tune in for the commentary, then switch.

[Wiggins]

Bill O’Reilly doesn’t need to promote himself and you know it

Huh! You need to watch the show before you make a statement like that.