You–there is no one on earth you could bring in that would say I said it. You can’t find a transcript where I said it. Guy says about me, couple weeks ago, O’Reilly said he won a Peabody Award. Here is how O’Reilly responded to Reno, on March 13, 2001: At one point, he even shows a cartoon drawing of Bill O’Reilly wearing two Peabody awards around his neck (page 260, paperback). Yet Franken adamantly stands by the Reno column.
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After all, how many people have watched the Superbowl from hundreds or even thousands of miles away and have stood up and shouted, “we won!”? But that did not stop Franken from using the word.īut that’s okay. Of course Al Franken was not ahead in the polls. The polls were about John Kerry. “…the exit polls suggested we were so far ahead, some of us wondered if we hadn’t worked too hard…” Take, for instance, when Al Franken wrote in the first chapter of his book, The Truth, that: The use of the word “we” merely indicates an affiliation. The statement by Neville is in the context of O’Reilly’s affiliation with the show as an alumni. You hosted Inside Edition which is considered a Tabloid show O’Reilly said this in response to a statement made by his guest Arthel Neville: On O’Reilly had said:ĭoes that mean we throw the Peabody Awards back? We won Peabody Awards… So in the context of the award being a Peabody, which O’Reilly thought it was, it was natural for O’Reilly to use the word “we”. In any event, Franken only provided one verified incident wherein O’Reilly even used the word “we”. Notice how it honored the entire nine-season history of the series. In examining its record, members of the Peabody Board indicated they wished to acknowledge the contributions of “American Playhouse” with the presentation of a Peabody Award.
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#Inside edition bill o reilly series
During 1990 alone the series presented such quality works as “Women and Wallace” and “An Enemy of the People.” During the eight previous years it has attracted both seasoned filmmakers and has nurtured new talent. It has offered works by outstanding American playwrights and has presented adaptations of stories by distinguished American writers. This is not always the case today, but it was usually the case at the time.įor nine seasons “American Playhouse” has been showcasing quality television. When O’Reilly studied journalism, the Peabody Award was for the series’ entire history, which by extension affords bragging rights to anyone who has ever worked on it and certainly to a former anchor. Most often, the Peabody honors one-time special presentations like Olympic coverage. But remember, he had thought it was a Peabody the show had won. O’Reilly seemed a bit surprised by the question, shook his head and let the expo move along at that point. It was about the pro-gram.”įranken: “Then why did you use the pronoun ‘WE’?”įranken was referring to the fact that O’Reilly was no longer on Inside Edition when the awards were won. O’Reilly: “It was a discussion about the program. Franken recounted having publicly confronted O’Reilly at a book expo, but his account dishonestly leaves out this part, where O’Reilly’s explains: The Polk is “a journalists award” while the Peabody is oriented toward the program itself. There is an important distinction between Polk and Peabody. Matt Meagher and Tim Peek each got one for their work in an undercover investigation of insurance fraud for the show O’Reilly had claimed that Inside Edition won two Peabody Awards when, in fact, the two award winners at Inside Edition had actually received Polk awards, not Peabody. O’Reilly had been mixed up about what awards had been won by Inside Edition, a news series he had anchored. Of course, Bill O’Reilly never claimed to have Peabody Awards.
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Claiming to have more than one would be unprecedented boldness indeed.
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In the cases where it does recognize an individual, it is usually for their lifetime body of work, a high honor. The Peabody Award usually recognizes a program, not an individual. If O’Reilly had claimed to have Peabody Awards, this would in fact be quite a lie. O’Reilly… has repeatedly boasted of his Peabody Awards… In a column for Newsday on March 8, 2001, Robert Reno asserted: This is without a doubt Franken’s most famous incident.