OUCH!!! David Corn sends Howard Kurtz A Devasting Note re: His O'Reilly Interview

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https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/569586943710904320

http://www.billoreilly.com/b/TRANSCRIPT:-Bill-DEFENDS-his-war-reporting-with-Howie-Kurtz/-383362269824416867.html

adding:
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2015/02/cbs-reporter-refutes-oreilly-combat



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UPDATED TO INCLUDE (He is losing it folks):
Bill O'Reilly Goes Ballistic Calls Bob Schieffer A 'Plagiarist'

Kurtz: You have said your photographer was rundown, hit in the head, he was bleeding, the army was chasing you guys, Engberg says, I never heard any injury to the photographer.

O'Reilly: I don't think he was there. I don't think he knows what happened and I'll tell you why If he were in the Plaza Del Mayo, where was the video, why did I have to run it up to the feed point and send it to new York? I’d like everyone to ask him, ‘Were you there?’ because his reputation, his nickname was ‘Room Service Eric,’ because he never left the hotel.

BillO then blasted CBS's Bob Schieffer for "big footing" his story which happens all the time in the news business.

If you write an article and send it in and another reporter put their name on the article, what's that called? it begins with a "p."

Howie refused to respond to O'Reilly's accusations of plagiarism, laughed and called it what it actually was.

Kurtz: I've always called it "big footing" and you're not happy if that happens.

O'Reilly: What is it called in print? it begins with a "p."

Kurtz: I'll let you tell me.

O'Reilly: Plagiarism.

Kurtz: Oh, if it's your colleague and you're working together

O'Reilly:I wasn't working together with these guys.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/bill-oreilly-goes-ballistic-eric-engberg

[tularetom]

1. Time to destroy O'Reilly's fragile hold on sanity

Glad to see David Corn won't back down and that the MSM (at least the CNN part of it) has now picked up on the story.

I'm still hopeful that we'll get to see an on-air O'reilly freakout that culminates in him being led off the set in a straight jacket.

[calimary]

9. Fragile hold on sanity?

I'm afraid that particular horse is already outta the barn. And running around somewhere in the next country.

[madokie]

30. And they'll never get that horse back in the barn either

Fragile hold on sanity is perfect way to describe O'liely too

[Skittles]

39. well let's put it this way

a freakout even his fucked up fans could not excuse

[Cirque du So-What]

11. I'd buy a ticket to see that

Perfect ending to his rant-based 'career.'

[Snotcicles]

19. It's to late for O'Reilly. Will it make his viewers question their own? Thats my hope. nt

[NBachers]

38. He may end up taking hostages and barricading himself in an office somewhere with a bullhorn.

The hostage scene in Robocop comes to mind.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. O'Reilly lied about what the article said? I'm ... just ... just ...

[font face="andalus" size="8" color="purple"]shocked![/font]

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

12. What?! That BOR lied? Surely you're joking (and I'm not calling you Shirley).

[LiberalAndProud]

17. Nice to see you're as gobsmacked as I.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. It's like when the report came out on Palin. It said she abused her office, she said it cleared her.

[LiberalAndProud]

32. Who was it who said, "We create our own reality?"

Was that Rove?

Yeah. Just like that.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. What I think is funny is when they act like "it didn't happen" unless they say so.

[Historic NY]

3. Looks like CNN is going deeper....

"Nobody remembers this happening," said Manny Alvarez, who was a cameraman for CBS News in Buenos Aires.

Jim Forrest, who was a sound engineer for CBS there, said that when he heard O'Reilly retell the Argentina riot story to interviewer Marvin Kalb several years ago, he contacted Kalb and said "I was on that crew, and I don't recall his version of events."

Longtime NBC News correspondent George Lewis, who was also there at the time, agreed with Engberg, writing on Facebook, "Cushiest war I ever covered."

Did O'Reilly's photographer get "run down" and bloodied?

CNN has interviewed seven people who were there for CBS, and none of them recall anyone from the network being injured.

"If somebody got hurt, we all would have known," Alvarez said.



http://linkis.com/money.cnn.com/2015/0/4Xdm4

[Motown_Johnny]

4. reality has a liberal bias...

you can't really trust reality, now can you?

[KG]

5. the whole falklands thing barely even counts as a war.

[WinkyDink]

13. It does to the 900+ dead.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. Thatcher sent NUKES down there....

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/dec/06/military.freedomofinformation

[MisterP]

37. "dos calvos peleando por un peine"

more vets committed suicide than died in the war, Argentina had more Britons than the Falklands, the French found them and named them, and the've been US longer than they were Argentinean

[JaneyVee]

6. Bill O'Reilly isn't resigning. FOXNews pays him to lie.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. He's not called Bill O'LIElly fo nuthin.

[George II]

24. Or as Olbermann used to call him, O'Really.

[gregcrawford]

7. O'Reilly's been a loudmouth bully...

... all his miserable life. But, like every bully Satan ever defecated, he's a craven coward and a pathological liar. Roger Ailes and his merry band of mental defectives have the honor and morals of a pack of hyenas. Wait, no... that does a disservice to hyenas; they actually serve a purpose in the Grand Scheme of Things. Pox News does not.

[Thespian2]

10. Excellent.

I think you captured the essence of the FUX news O'really? turd.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

15. Yup, Posturd Boy for the Faux Nutwork.

[csziggy]

16. Here is what one new person said about him

Ed Rabel
Eric, I sent this comment, eralier, to Joseph Galloway: "Joseph Galloway - I know this fraud from my days as a cub reporter at CBS News in Atlanta where O'Reilly spent a short time. I say a short time because, even then, O'Reilly was a complete fraud - refusing to do the hard, grunt work of a neophyte reporter to earn his stripes. He was lazy, flippant, self-centered, egotistical and full of excuses (There's a word for excuses I won't use here) When called to go on stories in the middle of the night, he was too good for that. And for almost anything else he was asked to do. Today, we are witnessing the same old fraud at play. Cheers!"
February 20 at 2:40pm
https://www.facebook.com/eric.j.engberg/posts/10204873374051471

O'Lielly hasn't changed at all.

[mountain grammy]

28. +1

[Skittles]

40. Bill O's dad was a bully too, according to someone I know who worked with him

imagine that

[UTUSN]

8. R#29 & K for, lalalalalalalalala!1 n/t

[starroute]

20. I can't recall experienced reporters ever piling on like this

O'Reilly must have crossed some invisible line. Or else it was the Brian Williams thing that made them decide the reputation of their entire profession was at stake. But something happened...

[Skittles]

41. it's the idea that Fox Fucking News can even begin to trash Brian Williams

that entire network is based on bullshit

[Android3.14]

21. Kurtz and O'Reilly, two-man circle jerk

Barely worth commenting upon.

[gratuitous]

22. "Is this complicated?"

The short answer, as Corn well knows, is "no." It's really quite easy. But Fox and its minions have a job to do, and that job is to confuse and frighten folks. The fact that Billo has been caught - badly - makes their job a little harder, which is indeed complicated. Kurtz can't be bothered with fact-checking Billo's brandishing of the times article; not if he wants to keep his phony-baloney job. Besides, Kurtz can't be sure what Billo might do if provoked. He's crazed enough at his most sedate, and this episode really has Billo torked all out of shape.

[czarjak]

23. Uhhhhh...

What about that no spin zone thing? What say you,Billy?

[turbinetree]

25. Touche'

Way to go Mother Jones and David Corn--facts are facts and since Kurtz likes to think he knows maybe he should research before he makes his little comments--

[Buzz Clik]

26. O'Reilly is fighting for his professional life.

Apparently, FoxNews is not allowing him to just shrug it off.

He is in desperate need of a Checkers moment.

[LibGranny]

27. HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE!

[mountain grammy]

29. but, but, but it's free speech to lie on fox.

If O'Reilly slithers though and survives this, fox will have no credibility. Oh wait, they already don't.

[George II]

31. O'Really must be a worse guy in person than he seems on television....

....EVERYONE he's run across, and run over, seems to be coming out of the woodwork to bash him. Pity.

[Skittles]

42. courage in numbers

easy for Bill to destroy someone who speaks the truth about him, not so easy to destroy a lot of them.....as Mr. Cosby now knows too

[rhett o rick]

33. I hope Fox doesn't fire him. His unraveling will get better and better.

I feel bad for enjoying watching a person unravel. Actually, not that bad.

[deutsey]

36. It is too complicated for Kurtz.

I remember he and I got into a snippy private email exchange in 2001 or so. I can't remember what it was about (it had to do with Bush), but I sent a response to him on a column he wrote, pointing out something that I thought was wrong in it.

He shot back with what I thought was a very snotty response and I responded in defense of my original point. I don't recall how many emails we exchanged (it wasn't a lot), but he ended up writing something that actually reinforced what I was saying. When I pointed that out to him, I never heard from him again.

I wish I had saved those emails.

[George II]

43. Considering that O'Really interrrupted repeatedly and didn't allow Kurtz to even finish....

....many questions or comments, I thought he did a decent job. It's not easy interviewing someone like O'rally.

[hootinholler]

44. O'Liely told the truth!

"O'Reilly:I wasn't working together with these guys."

Yep, that's obvious that you never worked with anyone, Bill.