Bill O’Reilly’s humiliating bust: Does Fox News have guts to suspend its own serial exaggerator?

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Mother Jones shows Fox host has his own “Brian Williams problem.” Now we'll learn whether Fox cares about "truth"

JOAN WALSH

Bill O’Reilly was predictably sanctimonious about the troubles of NBC’s Brian Williams – sanctimony shot with schadenfreude is the best kind of high for the Fox bully. So when Mother Jones charged O’Reilly with exaggerating his own war reporting record Thursday night, it didn’t take long for him to launch a counter-attack. He called story co-author David Corn a “despicable guttersnipe” and told Politico that Corn had been trying to take him down “for years.”

That in itself was a sign that the punch landed; normally O’Reilly doesn’t descend from his perch in the “no-spin zone” to debate mere mortals on platforms besides Fox. The Mother Jones story is embarrassing, but it’s probably not fatal. Most of the “reporting” on Fox has roughly the same relationship with the truth as O’Reilly’s claim to combat zone action. I can’t see him facing censure for this, but I hope I’m wrong.

If you missed the action, Corn and Daniel Schulman reported that despite O’Reilly’s claims of having “survived a combat operation” during the Falklands War, the Fox host, then with CBS, only got as close as Buenos Aires, roughly 1,400 miles away from the fighting. “Nobody from CBS got to the Falklands,” CBS’s Bob Schieffer told Mother Jones. “I came close. We’d been trying to get somebody down there. It was impossible.”

There was, of course, no combat in the Argentinian capital, but there was a raucous protest, and that’s apparently what O’Reilly refers to as a “combat operation.” He also claimed he was the only CBS reporter covering the demonstration, which Schieffer likewise denies. “We were all out with our camera crews that day to cover the protest,” Schieffer says. “I’d been out there with a crew too.”

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[KamaAina]

1. 'Now we'll learn whether Fox cares about "truth"'

I'm waiting with bated breath.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. lol. faux doesnt care

[unblock]

2. of course they care! they fought in court for the right to fire people who refuse to tell lies!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. BillO caught with hides (on fire) pants down AGAIN! Nothin new to see here.