Media Matters for America announced that it has awarded its first annual "Misinformer of the Year" title to Fox News Channel's O'Reilly -- who beat out Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Britt Hume and Bob Novak for "top honors."
"Our staff analyzed more than 1,000 instances of conservative misinformation captured on our website and tallied the number of times members of the media espoused lies, distortions, or mischaracterizations of fact in order to further the conservative agenda," said David Brock, founder of Media Matters for America.
"In the end, Mr. O'Reilly stood out from all the rest."
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Continuing to tout his struggle against the "media forces of darkness" who seek to eliminate Christmas from the public sphere, O'Reilly characterized the perceived fight on his December 20 show, saying "all I'm doing is sticking up for is the baby Jesus," and noting that -- as a result of criticism of the imagined battle -- "somewhere, Jesus is weeping." Read more »
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