O'Reilly Cites His 'Novel Of Television And Murder' To Prove His War Zone Creds

[DonViejo]

In an odd move on Thursday, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly answered charges of embellishing his war zone experience by citing one of his books — a work of fiction.

In an interview with AdWeek's TVNewser, O'Reilly dismissed an article by Mother Jones magazine that accused him of lying about being in the Falkand Islands in the 1980s while covering a war for CBS.

O'Reilly insisted he had always said he was in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, with the rest of the American press.When asked about whether he had ever written or said he was in the Falklands, O'Reilly said he "laid this out" in his first book, "Those Who Trespass."

The 1998 book, a crime thriller about a journalist who ends up murdering his former colleagues, was a work of fiction. It's full title is "Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Television and Murder."

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[CanonRay]

1. He's lost the last thread clinging desperately to sanity

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. He's been with the fiction network for so long where everything is a scripted made up story

he can't tell fantasy from reality anymore. If he thinks he's a main character in a novel about a journalist who murders his collegues, I don't know if I'd want to work with this guy.