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The Fox News Channel’s core line of defense against White House assertions that they are not a ‘news’ organization, but propagandists, can be summed up by Bill O’Reilly’s Oct. 13 — O’Reilly Factor ‘Talking Points’:

First of all, there is no question that Fox News is tougher on the Obama administration than the other TV news operations, because we actually have some conservative commentators on this network … However, our hard news people don’t do commentary. […]

Our hard news coverage is fair and balanced. Again, if somebody doesn’t believe that, let’s see the evidence because bloviating walks.

And that’s “The Memo.”

Well, Bill, it appears Media Matters has taken you up on your challenge.  They’ve put together this scathing compilation of Fox News clips, first displaying your channel’s wing-nut commentary lies, and then it jumps to your hard news team where these same lies are being elevated to ‘real factual issues’:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRx5ethd8JU[/youtube]

And if you’d like to see some more, the Huffington Post has put together “The Ten Most Egregious Fox News Distortions” — ten separate clips of Fox ‘hard’ News doing its routine misinformation thing.  Scroll through all ten and vote for the most egregious distortion of the lot.

Bill, there’s the evidence.  Now what were you saying about ‘bloviating’?