Al Qaeda's after O'Reilly: If only it were so

Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, September, 2006 | by Howard Gensler

IT'S NICE to see radaronline.com back spinning out quirky, investigative news items, including this one on Bill O'Reilly. The pompous pundit recently told Barbara Walters in a "20/20" interview that "the FBI came in and warned me and a few other people at Fox News that al Qaeda had us on a death list." (Actually it wasn't al Qaeda, but Keith Olberman.) Now the no-spin-meister may have some spinnin' to do: "I've never heard that before," a Fox News correspondent told Radar.

"I do know the government has warned Fox about threats in the past, but I don't think they involved specific people." An exec at another cable news channel had some no-spin of his own: "That sounds like absolute bulls--- to me," he said. "It's typical O'Reilly. "We've never received any similar warnings...