O'REILLY: You know, the ethics committee is run by a Democrat. The majority of people on there are Democrats. They have liberal people on there.Fact: That is a lie, I found this in 2 seconds at (http://ethics.house.gov/About/) by doing a simple google search.
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1) Zoe Lofgren 2) Ben Chandler 3) G.K. Butterfield 4) Kathy Castor 5) Peter Welch |
1) Jo Bonner 2) Mike Conaway 3) Charles Dent 4) Gregg Harper 5) Michael McCaul |
SHARPTON: How many times have I heard allegations against my organization? It ended up being absolutely nothing? But if you get enough of these guys to beat the drums, they cost you a lot of money in legal fees. You don't even get the news story saying you were cleared.What a ridiculous statement from O'Reilly, he wants the House Ethics Committee to remove Charlie Rangel from his Chairmanship, before he has been proven guilty of anything. If they did that it would be a punishment, before the man has even been found guilty of any wrongdoing.
O'REILLY: They haven't even removed Rangel from the chairmanship of the Ways and Means Committee.
SHARPTON: Nor should they, because nothing's been proven.
O'REILLY: But they could say why don't you step aside while we investigate. And then if it's clean, you can come back in as the chairman.
SHARPTON: I disagree. I think if we had everybody step aside with an allegation we wouldn't have any chairmans in the House.