Bill O'Reilly reveals his own lie, without admitting it.

As reported on Media Matters

On The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly read a letter criticizing him for "erroneously report[ing] that a poll found most Americans would not vote for a presidential candidate endorsed by a gay rights organization." But while O'Reilly noted that the poll was taken "in a few states," not nationally as he had earlier suggested, he did not acknowledge that his original assertion that the result applied to a "majority" of respondents was false.

…. While O'Reilly noted that the poll was taken "in a few states," not nationally as he had earlier suggested, he did not acknowledge that his original assertion that the result applied to a "majority" of respondents was false. Rather, he simply cited the Quinnipiac poll results from Florida -- which found that 28 percent of respondents would be "less likely" to support a candidate endorsed by a gay rights group, while 60 percent said it "would make no difference," and 10 percent said it would make them "more likely" to support such a candidate -- and added, "That's what I was referring to."

This has to make you wonder whether Bill O’Reilly really does not realize that those poll results undercut rather than support his assertion that “most Americans would not vote for a presidential candidate endorsed by a gay rights organization.” I have to suspect that Bill O’Reilly really knows that, but he thinks that if he asserts a lie with enough bravado you will be more influenced by his show of confidence than by the facts.