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#19: How Many Harvard Researchers Does It Take To Read the Washington Post?
Franken continues to assault Bill O’Reilly’s upbringing on the bottom of page 73 (p. 77 in the paperback) of Lies. But this time, Franken shamelessly drags O’Reilly’s mother into the fray. Franken writes,
Mrs. O’Reilly proudly told the Washington Post that the family regularly took vacations in Florida.
At the back of his book, Franken lists a December 13, 2000, Post article as his source. Uh-oh. Nowhere in the article is there any such claim made by Mrs. O’Reilly. Go ahead: Click here to read the article yourself.1
Franken and Harvard’s TeamFranken score another research winner ... not!
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Notes:
1 The article is the same one cited by Franken: Paul Farhi, "The Life of O'Reilly," Washington Post, December 13, 2000. [Author's note: What about those reported Florida vacations? In an October 2003 interview with Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air, O’Reilly retorted, "We went to Florida one time -- on the Greyhound bus." Here is where you might find that interview.] [Also, Farhi tries to besmirch O'Reilly with the Levittown issue, but the deed from O'Reilly's home clearly debunks and discredits Farhi's effort.]