At the end of Thursday's The O'Reilly Factor, FNC's Bill O'Reilly gave a shout out to the Media Research Center, publisher of NewsBusters, for tracking the media's distorted coverage of the remarks made by O'Reilly last week on his radio show which the far-left has tried, with complicity of several media outlets, to turn into an “Imus moment”:
And finally tonight, the mail. Before we get to the letters, I want to thank Brent Bozell and his staff at M, as in Mary, RC.org. They're doing a great job covering this racial deal. Thank you guys.
On Thursday, the MRC issued a press release: “BOZELL CALLS ON CBS AND CNN TO APOLOGIZE TO BILL O’REILLY; CBS and CNN Embarrassing Themselves by Associating With Dishonest, Far-Left Organizations Such As Media Matters.” (As posted on NewsBusters and MRC.org)
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A rundown of MRC.org posts, most of which were also posted on NewsBusters:
“CBS News Disreputably Promotes Left-Wing Smear of Bill O'Reilly” (MRC.org and NewsBusters)
“MSNBC Graphic Defames O'Reilly: 'Anchor's Racist Comments'” (MRC.org and NewsBusters)
“On CNN, O'Reilly is 'Ahmadinejad,' Juan Williams a 'Happy Negro'” (MRC.org and NewsBusters)
“Is Keith ‘Chicken & Waffles’ Olbermann a ‘Passive-Aggressive’ Racist?” (NewsBusters)
“CNN Sees 'Imus Moment' for O'Reilly, Williams Calls CNN 'Idiots'” (MRC.org)
For all the NewsBusters items on O'Reilly.
