Howard Gensler at the Philadelphia Daily News (http://tinyurl.com/n99ew) writes:

Al Qaeda's after O'Reilly? Yeah, right

IT'S NICE to see radaronline.com back spinning out quirky, investigative news items, including this one on Bill O'Reilly.

The pompous pundit recently told Barbara Walters in a "20/20" interview that "the FBI came in and warned me and a few other people at Fox News that al Qaeda had us on a death list."

(Actually it wasn't al Qaeda, but Keith Olberman.)

Now the no-spin-meister may have some spinnin' to do:

"I've never heard that before," a Fox News correspondent told Radar. "I do know the government has warned Fox about threats in the past, but I don't think they involved specific people."

An exec at another cable news channel had some no-spin of his own: "That sounds like absolute bulls--- to me," he said. "It's typical O'Reilly.

"We've never received any similar warnings from the FBI or any other government agency, and we've done plenty of reporting to piss off Bin Laden."

Lastly, a federal official told Radar, "I'm not aware of any FBI agents warning anyone at Fox News of their presence on any list... . For that matter, I'm not aware of any al Qaeda hit list targeting journalists."

O'Reilly's a journalist?

Asked about O'Reilly's claim, Fox News' spokesperson Leah Yoon had "nothing to say," as never-wrong O'Reilly's comments are being aired on ABC.

"We shouldn't be shouldering the burden of something he said on someone else's network," she said.

Huh? If Katie Couric went on Fox News and said she was abducted by space aliens, CBS would shoulder that burden.
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I wonder who else is on this death list. Bugs Bunny maybe? Kelly Ripa? They got the alligator hunter already...
O'Reilly is just so plain full o' shit.
Remember when he claimed that his 'boycott' of France had caused the French economy 13 million dollars damage and backed up his claim with a quote from the 'Paris Business Review'?
Problem there was there is NO 'Paris Business Review'.
What a doofus.
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