O'Reilly berates Senator with a health care lie, is confronted with video evidence and lies again

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After Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) told a town hall audience that they shouldn't believe everything they hear on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly had Coburn on his show to reprimand him for wrongly using Fox as a "whipping boy."

Coburn had said, specifically, that Fox tells viewers they may go to jail if they don't buy health insurance. O'Reilly claimed that "Nobody has ever said it." So Coburn backed off: "Maybe it wasn't fair," he said.

The thing is, Fox News hosts, anchors and guests have made the claims over and over.

Media Matters put together an exhaustive list. Then Huffington Post then put together this highlight reel proving Coburn was right.

So the next night, O'Reilly dug in, doubled down and defended the lie.

Unfair and unbalanced.