We reported yesterday about Rather’s comments on Fox News. The HDNet anchor told Bill Maher that Fox News gets their talking points from the White House, and now those comments are being challenged by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, who called on Rather to “put up or shut up.”

But Media Matters has been following the talking points story for years, and digs through their archives to bring out numerous examples of what Rather was talking about.

Meanwhile, the Fox watchers at News Hounds keep finding new examples of what Rather was talking about:

Today on Studio B with Shepard Smith they spoke of the President once again on sending more troops into Iraq.

Not only that, but they led with the President’s favorite new phrase — they had Iraq: Moving Forward as their banner for the story.

Smith said, “Here’s a newsflash, the enemy has had some success. That from President Bush as he looks back on 2006 in Iraq. But he says he still thinks that the United States will win this thing (Comment: thing?) even if it takes more troops, though a lot are saying that more troops might be more of a problem.”

He went to Bret Baier who was reporting from the White House. Baier said that the president was in favor of increasing the overall size of the U.S. military, the Army and the Marine Corps., but he’s still deciding on a possible surge of thousands of troops to send into Iraq. He said that the president had conceded that 2006 was a difficult year for U.S. troops and the Iraqi people saying the enemy had success sparking sectarian violence.

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