Keith Olbermann
A segment by ESPN host Keith Olbermann last year sheds some more light on Bill O’Reilly’s questionable claims about himself (starting at about the 2:35 mark in the video).
On November 19th, 2014, Olbermann named the Fox News host Bill O’Reilly as his daily “Worst Person In The World.” It wasn’t actually because of their political differences. Instead, it was about O’Reilly’s past claims about his athletic skills that were presented as fact.
On November 17th, O’Reilly had given a radio interview talking about his days as a varsity football player at Marist College.
“We were undefeated our senior year,” O’Reilly told ESPN radio host Dan Le Batard. “That was a pretty good deal.”
But Olbermann had de-bunked that claim as far back as 2005, and showed that Marist did not have a varsity team until 1978 – seven years after O’Reilly graduated.
Le Batard pointed out Olbermann’s claims. “It was varsity football in the sense of that we played Georgetown, Catholic U., Fordham, Manhattan, Iona,” O’Reilly said in his defense. “So, you know, look. You know what it is, guys, you know what it is.”
O’Reilly made some claims about baseball that Olbermann also corrected.
OK, Fine. 