Bill O'McCarthy

He's at it again. O'Reilly again falsely claimed that American troops shot and killed unarmed German soldiers at Malmedy, when in fact it was the other way around. The Fox News changed the transcript to make O'Reilly say "Normandy" instead of Malmedy, which is no more right. Keith Olbermann let him have it tonight on Countdown, and with good reason.

"In Malmedy, as you know" Bill O'Reilly **said** Tuesday night, in some indecipherable attempt to defend the events of Haditha, "U.S. forces captured S.S. forces who had their hands in the air and were unarmed and they shot them dead, you know that. That's on the record. And documented."

The victims at Malmedy in December, 1944... were Americans. **Americans** with their hands in the air. **Americans** who were unarmed. That's on the record. And documented.

And their memory deserves better than Bill O'Reilly.

We **all** do.

The last time O'Reilly invoked Malmedy, I wrote about how Joe McCarthy's first brush with notoriety in the Senate was when he defended the Nazi SS officers who actually killed the unarmed Americans in the Belgian town. I don't know if O'Reilly gets all his facts from McCarthy's memoirs, or if he just likes to slander a bunch of soldiers who have been dead 60 years, but this is kind of beyond the pale.