Saturday, July 01, 2006

UPDATE: O'Reilly apologizes for Murtha misquote

On the June 29 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly apologized for "pick[ing] up" a quote from a South Florida Sun-Sentinel article that incorrectly reported that Rep. John P. Murtha (D-PA) had claimed that the "American presence in Iraq is more dangerous to world peace than nuclear threats from North Korea or Iran." The Sun-Sentinel issued a correction on June 28, stating that Murtha was actually citing a recent Pew Research Center poll of public opinion in the United States and 14 European, African, and Asian countries. Read more

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