If you remember the story of Bill O’Reilly’s Peabody awards from Al Franken’s book Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, it will come as no surprise to you that Bill O’Reilly makes stuff up:

Media Matters has repeatedly debunked O’Reilly’s false claims of success regarding a French boycott. On April 27, 2004, he asserted that the boycott had cost France “billions of dollars,” citing the “Paris Business Review” as a source, but Media Matters documented that Census figures actually showed an increase in U.S. imports from France; additionally, there is no evidence of a publication named the “Paris Business Review.”

(Franken’s celebrated BookExpo run-in with O’Reilly is supposedly online here. It appears to be in RealMedia format. I can’t run it myself, because I don’t use RealPlayer.)

Annie Lamott, on the Bolton appointment:

Bush acts more and more like Bam-Bam Rubble, from the Flintstones: 4 years old, out of control—Bam! Bam! Bam! It used to work when we were still in Act II, waiting for the critical mass of lies and betrayal to be reached. But now that we are in Act III, where things are unraveling for the White House—winning CAFTA by two votes? Iraq and Iran’s new alliance?—it’s not going to help them in the long run.