Juan Williams Sets Record Straight on O'Reilly Row on Time.com

In a September 28 article on Time.com entitled, "What Bill O'Reilly Really Told Me," Fox News contributor Juan Williams explained the context of his conversation with O'Reilly that found itself fodder for context-mangling by liberal interest groups and O'Reilly's perpetual ratings victim, Keith Olbermann: Full Story »

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Polly Briley
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by Polly Briley - Oct. 1, 2008

This story, plus comments, are a must read to understand how Pravda and other state organizations have worked and will continue to work. When is a transcript not a transcript? When can the speaker deny he said what he said? Control and repetition can alter the truth. When the author of said words will not run the unedited audio, then the defenders will only quote from the edited transcript/audio, then repeat, repeat, repeat. You get a really big picture of a really big controlled spin. Ken, Bill, Rush and Juan - the old machine could not have done it better. Fortunately for the rest of us there is the full transcript still available. Sorry guys.

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