[lbo-talk] letter to NPR ombudsman on Oreilly's lies about Glick

[Stephen E Philion]

Dear Mr. Dvorkin, 
I recommend you see the transcript of Mr. Glick with Mr. Oreilly and 
then refer to the distorted version that Mr. Oreilly put forth on Ms. 
Gross's program: 
Oreilly claims to Gross that Glick refferred to the attack as 
an 'alleged attack' (actually he referred to Oreilly's claim his father 
was assassinated as an 'alleged assassination'), that Glick 
"blamed Bush and elder Bush for orchestrating the attack on the 
country" (actually Glick said no such thing, he stated that Bush Sr's 
policy, which predated Bush Sr. during the Carter administration, armed 
the Mujahedin in the 1980's and that this contributed to the attacks on 
911--not an unreasonable point, which even if you disagreed with it, it 
remains clear he never claimed anything about 'orchestrating the 
attack'). Finally Oreilly claims to Gross that he 
"asked for evidence and he had none' (that never happened on Oreilly's 
show, in fact he just cut him off and refused to debate the issues with 
Glick) and that Glick made 'defamatory allegations'...(there were no 
defamatory allegations, the claims that Glick made are backed up by no 
less than interviews with such figures as Zbigniew Brzezinski among 
others....

In a nutshell, look at the 'full transcript' that Oreilly blasted Gross 
for allegedly not reading...and tell me that Oreilly didn't start out 
the interview with an outright lie about Mr. Glick.  

Stephen Philion
MPLS, MN