(Video) O'Reilly against officials testifying under oath to Congress

Bill O'Reilly is glad that former Justice Department official Monica Goodling will plead the fifth amendment instead of testifying in front of Congress on Thursday.  The Fox News host thinks Democrats are trying to get Administration officials to lie under oath, and he compared this alleged tactic to what happened with Scooter Libby.

Two problems with that comparison:

1. Scooter Libby lied to a grand jury, not to Congress.
2. Democrats had no control over anything regarding the Scooter Libby case.

Nevertheless, on his show last night, O'Reilly drove home the comparison, and even sympathized with Scooter Libby:

Partial Transcript

O'REILLY: She's taking the Fifth Amendment, saying I'm not going to say anything.  I'm going to go up there and get my Fifth Amendment rights.  Now, if you were in the same position, you would do it, and I would do it too.  And you know why?  Two words.  You know what the two words are.  You want to say them, or you want me?

TURLEY: Uh, go ahead.

O'REILLY: No.  You want to say them?  You know what they are.  Two words.

TURLEY: What are they?

O'REILLY: It's a name.  You know what the name is.

TURLEY: I couldn't imagine.

O'REILLY: Scooter Libby.

TURLEY: Well, you see, that's a bad thing to choose because he's a convicted fellon.

Jonathan Turley, who is a law professor, went on to add that the only time he would advise someone to plead the Fifth Amendment is if they may have committed a crime.  Politically speaking, pleading the Fifth Amendment in front of Congress is like an admission of guilt.

So in O'Reilly's world, there is virtually no Congressional oversight because officials in the Executive Branch never have to testify under oath.  Oh, and I almost forgot to mention, poor Scooter Libby, that harmless little Cheney bear cub.  He was victimized and tricked into lying by that evil prosecutor.

What ever happened to just being honest and telling the truth?