O'Reilly cuts off his partner's microphone
Washington state's very own Lis Wiehl is making headlines after her boss cut off her microphone.
Some Seattle viewers may remember her as a legal analyst for KIRO, and her Fox bio says she still does work for NPR.
I remember seeing Wiehl on television in the distant past, and she struck me as fairly well informed. She really should tell Billo to stick it and go see if MSNBC is hiring.
On the March 23 edition of MSNBC's Countdown, host Keith Olbermann named Fox News host Bill O'Reilly the winner of his nightly "Worst Person in the World" segment because, as Media Matters for America documented, O'Reilly "had his radio engineer turn off the mike of his own co-host, Lis Wiehl, because she said Gonzales-gate mattered and because she reminded him, under the president's offer to Congress, [White House senior adviser] Karl Rove and company would not have to testify under oath."In addition to her duties as Billo's sidekick, Wiehl is still a University of Washington associate professor of law, according to her Fox bio.
Olbermann then observed: " 'Stop talking,' he yelled at her. 'It's not about you, and you're misleading the audience. Stop talking.' He then had her mike shut off for three minutes, and asked rhetorically about Wiehl, 'What can we do to her? What can we do to her?' "
O'Reilly ordered Wiehl's microphone turned off after she asserted accurately that the Bush administration had offered to allow White House staffers to be interviewed privately by members of Congress investigating the controversial firings of eight U.S. attorneys only if no transcript of the interviews is produced. O'Reilly called her claim a "lie" and maintained that Wiehl "did not do [her] homework."
Some Seattle viewers may remember her as a legal analyst for KIRO, and her Fox bio says she still does work for NPR.
I remember seeing Wiehl on television in the distant past, and she struck me as fairly well informed. She really should tell Billo to stick it and go see if MSNBC is hiring.
