repeated campaign to smear FR, outright lie about FR, manufacture bs to smear FR, etc.
Any Specific references? or just “reliable unnamed sources”?
Educate yourself.
O’Reilly smears FreeRepublic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO5TEvSNguQ
O’Reilly Responds To Michelle Malkin And Freerepublic (and Jim Robinson):
to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fhJzjMw1Mo
Mark Levin vs. Bill O’Reilly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiuo4n29hzA
Mark Levin: “Bill O’Reilly doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6EFAIWzEDw
Mark Levin - Why is Bill O’Reilly attacking the tea party movement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USgoEGsXRNA
Heck, there were even threads on FR about BOR smearing FR back then.
A simple Google search should pull a few up.
Bottom line is, nobody should she’d a tear for the dude.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-young/oreilly-condemns-right-wi_b_57844.html
Huffpuff did a little dance over it too.
And that wasn’t the only time he pulled that.