The American Spectator

THE BABBIN CONSPIRACY br> Re: Jed Babbin’s appearance on “The O’Reilly Factor”: /p>

Well if there was any uncertainty as to how you and the right-wing media work before the October 4 edition of Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” once again the typical tactics have been made as plain as day for all to see: 1) saturate the outlets with distortions and lies, 2) complain, whine, smear, mischaracterize, and attack when someone calls you out on your lies.

Media Matters didn’t “disagree with something you said on television,” as you told O’Reilly’s audience the other night. They corrected your mischaracterization of the Duelfer Report. You went on to say: “It’s kind of a — it’s a little boys’ Lord of the Flies kind of atmosphere, some of these things. They don’t want to be civilized, so they aren’t. But they’re really — they’re really not very efficient or effective. I mean, they’re more of a nuisance than anything else.”

p>Hilarious. In your reality, the tantrums O’Reilly is currently throwing about Media Matters are “civilized,” while a simple correction of the factual record is childish and uncivilized. Frankly Mr. Babbin, Media Matters is extremely civilized, efficient, and effective. And you essentially admit it: it is a “nuisance.” It’s the same nuisance our President has when confronted with the facts: they show your own words to be lies, your reality to be an utter fabrication. br> — Tom Orange br> Washington, D.C. /p>