O’Reilly lies: “Nobody” on Fox said failing to buy health insurance could result in jail time

Are you surprised that Bill O’Reilly lied when he claimed that no one on his propaganda, er, news channel had suggested that Americans could serve jail time for not having health insurance, given the recently passed health care reform act?

Here’s the transcript, via Media Matters:

O’Reilly: “[W]e researched” and “[n]obody” on Fox “ever said you are going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance.” On the April 13 edition of Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly told Sen. Coburn: “[Y]ou don’t know anybody on Fox News — because there hasn’t been anyone — that said people will go to jail if they don’t buy mandatory insurance.” He added: “[W]e researched to find out if anybody had ever said you are going to jail if you don’t buy health insurance. Nobody has ever said it. What it seems to me is you used Fox News as a whipping boy when we didn’t qualify there … you were wrong to do that, Senator, with all due respect.”

Let’s consider the video evidence, clearly proving Bill O’Reilly an out right liar: