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KELLY'S CORNER

Bill O'Reilly mixes up Obama and Osama

By
Kelly Fincham

Published Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 1:26 PM
Updated Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 1:31 PM


Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly

Hmm. What's going on with Bill O'Reilly?

How does a man with his broadcast experience accidentally mix up the world's most infamous terrorist with the President of the United States?

One is called President Barack Obama, the other is called Osama Bin Laden.

Hard to see how an experienced broadcaster could make that slip.

Was it the tele-prompter? Did someone make a mistake there?

There's no way a professional should make a blooper like that.

It's hardly a minor consideration to call President Obama "Osama."

When I started out in journalism I accidentally left the apostrophe out of the word Shi'ite in a news broadcast at Boyneside Radio.

The reporter, Shane Harrison (now with the BBC), didn't skip a beat as he read the name correctly despite my best efforts to trip him up.

Makes you wonder what O'Reilly was thinking.

Watch the clip and see what you think.

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Posted by JosephOCasey on Jan 22, 2010, 03:33 PM EST
Your Patron Saint, Teddy Kennedy also did so repeatedly. the difference is that he didn't simply call him Osama, he actually called him Osama bin Laden. I am sure it was a slip of the tongue on O'Reilly's part..not so sure about Teddy, though. I believe Brian Williams or one of the other lefty anchors also recently made a similar slip of the tongue. Where's your report on that? Just stirrin' up crap I suppose.
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Posted by Estasia on Dec 09, 2009, 12:32 AM EST
Just a professional gaff,one must wonder how many other items cross the mind at a given time.Not a large issue.
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Posted by plasticpaddy on Dec 03, 2009, 09:54 AM EST
That's meant to say O'Reilly not Hillyer's - its early!
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Posted by plasticpaddy on Dec 03, 2009, 09:53 AM EST
seemed like a mix up to me, I can see how it would be easy to mix up, as much as I dislike Hillyer's, I think that seemed like an innocent mistake to me.
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Posted by hurley3 on Dec 02, 2009, 05:16 PM EST
I guess Kelly F. never heard Ted Kennedy confused take on the names!!!






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