Creativity at Work
If you remember the story of Bill O’Reilly’s Peabody awards from Al Franken’s book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, it will come as no surprise to you that
Bill O’Reilly makes stuff up:
Media Matters has repeatedly debunked O’Reilly’s false claims of success regarding a French boycott. On April 27, 2004, he asserted that the boycott had cost France “billions of dollars,” citing the “Paris Business Review” as a source, but Media Matters documented that Census figures actually showed an increase in U.S. imports from France; additionally, there is no evidence of a publication named the “Paris Business Review.”
(Franken’s celebrated BookExpo run-in with O’Reilly is supposedly online here. It appears to be in RealMedia format. I can’t run it myself, because I don’t use RealPlayer.)