Steve at No More Mister Nice Blog links to a Drudge report story that further documents the crap that comes out of Bill O’Reilly’s mouth:

FOXNEWS’s top-rated host Bill O’Reilly recently claimed that he is “running against Hillary for most copies of nonfiction books sold this year!”

But numbers obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT show a dramatically different sales scene for 2003.

NIELSEN, the same company that ranks O’Reilly #1 on Cable TV, currently places O’Reilly at #6 for the year on the nonfiction charts — trailing rival Al Franken by nearly 30%!

“We’ve outsold that guy [Franken] all over the place,” O’Reilly claimed Monday on NBC’s TODAY show. “We’re running against Hillary for most copies of non-fiction books sold this year!”

Which gives us a chance to take a stroll down memory lane and read the wonderful things Rush Limbaugh & Friends had to say about sales of Living History this summer:

“Mrs. Clinton’s first printing is rumored to be 1 million. But we’ve got a source … an unnamed source at Simon & Schuster saying they made that up, saying, ‘Where would we put a million books? Where could we hide ’em? And we don’t know how many have been sold we’re just saying this because it’s part of a PR campaign.’ …

Despite some media accounts of initially hot sales, WorldNetDaily reported that bookstores across America’s heartland were not seeing any strong demand for “Living History,” …

According to Publishers Lunch, Living History has sold in excess of 1 million copies.