MOTHER JONES: Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem

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Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem
The Fox News host has said he was in a "war zone" that apparently no American correspondent reached.
by David Corn and Daniel Schulman


In April 2013, while discussing the Boston Marathon bombing, O'Reilly shared a heroic tale of his exploits in the Falklands war:

I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, where my photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us. I had to make a decision. And I dragged him off, you know, but at the same time, I'm looking around and trying to do my job, but I figure I had to get this guy out of there because that was more important.

Yet his own account of his time in Argentina in his 2001 book, The No Spin Zone, contains no references to O'Reilly experiencing or covering any combat during the Falklands war. In the book, which in part chronicles his troubled stint as a CBS News reporter, O'Reilly reports that he arrived in Buenos Aires soon before the Argentine junta surrendered to the British, ending the 10-week war over control of two territories far off the coast of Argentina. There is nothing in this memoir indicating that O'Reilly witnessed the fighting between British and Argentine military forces—or that he got anywhere close to the Falkland Islands, which are 300 miles off Argentina's shore and about 1,200 miles south of Buenos Aires.

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American reporters were not on the ground in this distant war zone. "Nobody got to the war zone during the Falklands war," Susan Zirinsky, a longtime CBS News producer who helped manage the network's coverage of the war from Buenos Aires, tells Mother Jones. She does not remember what O'Reilly did during his time in Argentina. But she notes that the military junta kept US reporters from reaching the islands: "You weren't allowed on by the Argentinians. No CBS person got there."


way more:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/bill-oreilly-brian-williams-falklands-war

[randys1]

1. Yes, he is a liar and a coward.

[olddots]

2. O'reilly should shave his ass and walk on his hands

Everything that comes out of his mouth is shit ,not being a news station allows fox to lie as a form od entertainment

[Kingofalldems]

3. Where's that guy who got all huffy about Brian Williams?

[dilby]

4. I think it's a disservice to Brian Williams to put Bill O'Reilly in the same category as him.

Brian Williams is a reporter who reports the news, Bill O'Reilly is a spin meister who watches Brian Williams' Report then tells his audience how they should think.

[cwydro]

5. He's an idiot.

That being said, I give Brian Williams no quarter in this stupid kerfuffle.