I wasn’t planning to write any more about Bill O’Reilly, but it seems I have to do one more round of fact checking about The Factor.

After I pointed out that O’Reilly had erroneously said Fox News never told viewers they could be jailed for failure to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, O’Reilly attempted to defend himself. In the course of doing so, he referred to my reporting on this as “dishonest,” “far-left” and part of a “sham.”

But I digress. Anyway, last night O’Reilly claimed he was only talking about the final health reform bill when he said no one on Fox “had ever said you are going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance. Nobody has ever said it.” Of course, a number of people have said this on Fox, as I pointed out. To be fair to Fox, in my previous post, I also pointed out that the House bill did not expressly prohibit imprisonment over failure to obtain insurance or pay a tax penalty. I noted that neither did the House bill include language about imprisonment and that those who quoted text about imprisonment were quoting the IRS code that says those who don’t pay their taxes can go to jail. I also said the Senate Finance bill and final legislation expressly prohibited imprisonment for failure to get health insurance. Here’s the paragraph I wrote about this: