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In an interview with Barbara Walters, Fox News harridan Bill O'Reilly claims that the FBI told him he was on Al Qaeda's death list. Over at Radar, however, a little reportage reveals, shockingly, that O'Reilly sense of self might be inflated.

Says one Fox News correspondent:

"I've never heard that before."

Huh. An exec at another cable news network chimes in:

"That sounds like absolute bullshit to me—it's typical O'Reilly. We've never received any similar warnings from the FBI or any other government agency, and we've done plenty of reporting to piss off Bin Laden."

A federal law enforcement official joins the converation:

"I'm not aware of any FBI agents warning anyone at Fox News of their presence on any list....For that matter, I'm not aware of any Al Qaeda hit list targeting journalists."

Then an official at the FBI's New York office jumps in:

"I'm not aware of that."

To all of which, Fox's media relations director says:

"We shouldn't be shouldering the burden of something he said on someone else's network."

Bill O'Reilly's Death Wish [Radar]
Earlier: Reevaluating the War on Terror