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Posted at 8:12am on Jul. 8, 2008 So Tell Me, Mr. Immelt, Why Are You Killing American Servicemen?

Bill O’Reilly doesn’t let facts get in the way of a good story line

By blackhedd

Years ago, a large young man from Flint, Michigan with nothing better to do started stalking Roger Smith, who was then the CEO of General Motors Corporation. The young man, with a small film crew in tow, would stick a microphone under Smith’s nose and ask him all kinds of strange questions. Later, he assembled the pieces into what looked like a documentary but in fact was tendentious propaganda.

General Motors learned then that truth is no barrier to being smeared effectively. And young Michael Moore learned that craftily-packaged lies can change the world.

I was reminded of that when I heard that Bill O’Reilly, of Fox News, showed up last week at the National Governor’s Association meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. And he appears to have gotten in front of attendee Jeffrey Immelt, who is the CEO of the General Electric Company of Fairfield, Connecticut.

What O’Reilly wanted to know from Immelt more or less boiled down to: Why are you still killing Americans in Iraq?

It turns out that this has been a hobbyhorse for O’Reilly for quite some time now. He’s generated several flaps about General Electric this year.

So this is my way of trying to cut off another one.

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