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Last night on his Fox News program, The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly devoted a segment almost exclusively to attacking the work of Media Matters for America. Not only did he accuse us of lying, but, true to his normal style, he offered no evidence to back up his claims and instead relied on sweeping generalities and vague innuendos.


This is not the first time O'Reilly has attacked Media Matters, an organization dedicated to exposing conservative misinformation in the media. Last December, O'Reilly repeatedly and personally attacked Media Matters, its leadership, and its staff. After this smear attack, the president and CEO of Media Matters, David Brock, wrote him a letter asking for the chance to respond to these spurious attacks. We never received a response.

This struck us as strange, since nearly two years ago O'Reilly said: "If you attack someone publicly ... you have an obligation to face the person you are smearing. If you don't, you are a coward." By his own words, Bill O'Reilly appears to be a coward.

Take Action! Bill O'Reilly should be willing to defend his accusations and face the people he is attacking. Click here to write to O'Reilly and urge him stop his cowardly smearing of people he refuses to confront directly.

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Televised smear campaigns by Bill O'Reilly shouldn't have a place on Fox News.

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