Fox News: Bill O’Reilly To Correct Glenn Beck’s Trump-Misinformation

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by JOHN NOLTE18 Jan 20161182

Friday on Fox News’s “O’Reilly Factor,” Glenn Beck spread the false information that Donald Trump voted for Barack Obama in 2008. To back his erroneous claim, Beck cited a fake photoshopped tweet from faketrumptweet.com. Responding to an inquiry from Breitbart News Monday, we were informed by a Fox News source that the record will be corrected on Monday night’s “O’Reilly Factor.”

Beck will not be a guest, we were told, but a segment will cover Beck’s error and by extension inform “O’Reilly Factor” viewers of the truth.

After Trump slammed Beck for falling for the fake tweet, Beck doubled down Saturday with a tweet taunting Trump, “Why do you keep saying things like you didn’t vote for @BarackObama ?… just admit it @realDonaldTrump.

Later Saturday night, after apparently figuring out he’d been duped, Beck finallytook to his Facebook account to apologize for spreading the misinformation.

On Monday, Beck returned to Facebook to argue that while he did fall for a fake tweet, he still believes Trump voted for Obama in 2008. This, despite the fact Trump publicly endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in 2008 and was on a committee that raised money for him.

Montage: In 33-Minute Speech on Guns, Obama Refers to Himself 76 Times

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While announcing his new executive actions on guns, President Obama spoke today about the pain of having to give speeches after mass shootings. He also spoke about meeting Gabby Giffords shortly after she was shot, and noted that she opened her eyes for the first time just an hour after his visit. 

He spoke about his support for the Second Amendment, his background as a constitutional law professor, his critics, his frequent trouble locating his iPad, and perhaps most memorably, his anger when thinking about child victims of mass shootings. 

If it's starting to sound like Obama made frequent mention of himself, that’s because he did. 

In total, we counted 76 references to himself during his 33-minute address.

Note that in arriving at this calculation, we included mentions of "we" when he was clearly including himself as part of the plural pronoun; the many uses of "we" in referring to America at large were not included. "Me," "myself," and "our" were also included. 

Did we miscount? Feel free to let us know in the comments section. 

[Note: We've also posted this montage to Facebook, if you'd like to share it there.]

Earlier:

Oct. 1st, 2015: In 12 Minute Speech to America About Mass Shooting, Obama Refers to Himself 28 Times

Jan. 27th, 2015: In India, Watch Obama Refer to Himself 118 Times in a 33-Minute Speech

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