Bill O'Reilly Distorts My Email About Dawkins Interview

More info here: http://www.thebroadroad.com/m/articles/view/Bill-O-Reilly-Distorts-Email-Abou...

O'Reilly reads my email to specifically criticize the fact that he didn't "attack Dawkins", the only problem is I never said he did! I said that he discounts atheists, which he does whenever any are on his show.

Furthermore did his shortening of my email even make it shorter than his normal emails posted? Not at all. In fact, instead of changing its meaning to "attack Dawkins" he could have simply shortened it to "discounting atheists" and it would have been the same length and kept its original connotation.

My email is also shown in quotation marks without any indication that it was changed. Using brackets to indicate changes is considered the norm in ethical journalism.

Bill, if you are going to read emails on the air, you have no right to change their words to fit your faulty interpretation of them. Where is your journalistic integrity that you constantly harp on? No Spin Zone? Fair and Balanced? It makes you wonder how many other reader's emails are distorted like mine.

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On October 5th 2011, Bill O'Reilly interviewed Richard Dawkins about his new children's book 'The Magic of Reality', you can watch that intervew here: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/oreilly/index.html#/v/1202819421001/oreilly-vs-...

Frustrated by Bill's usual demeaning of Dawkins, I decided to send an email to him about it, here is the actual email I sent to him:

Bill, have you read Richard Dawkin's book 'The God Delusion'? You should have the guts to investigate both sides before being so pompous in your faith while completely discounting the critical thinking of atheists. The truth will stand up to any scrutiny.

Jeremy Kopchak
St. Petersburg, Florida

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• Bill O'Reilly
• Richard Dawkins
• Fox News

[MiahX007]

Sorry the sound sux :(

[Valendros]

O'Reilly? DISHONEST? Say it isn't so!

I do like that he wasn't impartial about an e-mail calling him out on not being impartial.

[dummychaos]

Never a miscommunication. As usual.

[Snoopii211]

@MiahX007 Hey there does he answer and read all the emails that are sent to him on his show or does he only select a few.

[jonhunter1987]

wow.

[lankygit101]

It's times like this that remind me why I'm so glad I'm not an American.

I don't actually have to put up with retards like this in my country.

[LedWhisky69]

@jparenti03 What would the point be? Hmmm, let's see...to push an anti-O'Reilly/anti-FoxNews agenda? I won't see that he edited his own email, but it is certainly possible. It's kind of funny though how quickly this notion would be discounted, but the allegation that O'Reilly and his staff edited it was swallowed hook, like, and sinker. That's very telling, isn't it?

[LedWhisky69]

Your comments were simply too long, so they found a way to condense them and get right to the point. Be thankful he actually read it on the air because you wouldn't believe how much viewer mail he gets every single day that never sees the light of day.

[dankuck]

Don't let the bastards get you down. You'll note that O'Reilly had to misinterpret you in order to defend himself. I'm sure by this point he only remembers his own version of it, but for a moment, you must have made him nervous. Otherwise he'd have given a straight response. And BTW St. Pete FTW!

[pplus0440]

Ha dude the god delusion is a fail philosphy book. I wouldn't really recommend it to anyone seriously. If you wanted to really discuss religion you should try Hume or a philosopher. In the god delusion dawkins just says that ID is more complex than science and dismisses it via Occam's razer. Rather silly philosophical argument though as a book it rallies the rabble into believing they are smart.