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They changed it. Twice.

Upthread, there's a copy & paste from someone who saw it when it said Normandy.

I'm watching Olbermann's 9 am repeat right now, and he's covering it.

Obviously, the links I can find for the story at the moment (googling for things like malmedy transcript) all lead to liberal-leaning blogs, so if you want to believe that Olbermann is making it all up, that's your perogative -- though, I'd be surprised if there weren't screen captures of the transcript floating around -- but I did click to see the transcripts at Fox News when this was first reported, and they DID say "Normandy" then, and they now say "Malmedy." I don't blame you for wanting to see it with your own eyes to believe it, but I've seen it, and I think it's disgusting.

I'm not one of those people who think public apologies need to be made by O'Reilly or anything like that -- though, would it kill him to admit he screwed up -- but I think news organizations have pretty much a scared obligation to have their transcripts reflect actual reality, and to never change a transcript except to fix actual errors -- not to change words to what the person speaking meant to say.