Bill O'Reilly about Falkland-controversy: "I want to stop this now. I hope we can stop it."

[DetlefK]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/cbs-releases-falklands-protest-footage-bill-oreilly

Excerpts:

"CBS News today posted its reports from Buenos Aires at the end of the Falklands war, in response to a request from Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, who has been seeking to counter reports that he mischaracterized his wartime reporting experience. But rather than bolstering O'Reilly's description of the anti-government protest he says he covered as a "combat situation," the tape corroborates the accounts of other journalists who were there and who have described it as simply a chaotic, violent protest."

...

"They say tear gas was deployed; police clubbed people with nightsticks and fired rubber bullets; reporters were assaulted by demonstrators and by police; and a photojournalist was wounded in the legs by gunfire. But these media accounts did not report, as O'Reilly claims, that there were fatalities."

...

"The footage captured a dramatic clash—including a shot of a protester, apparently injured, lying on the ground—but none of this footage shows Argentine military or police firing into the crowd with live ammunition and killing civilians."

...

"As he showed the CBS footage on his show, O'Reilly claimed that unidentified local media sources had reported fatalities. "We don't know how many deaths," he remarked. And he insisted, "I told it exactly the way it was." Referring to the controversy about his Falklands claims, he said, "I want to stop this now. I hope we can stop it.""

[hobbit709]

1. Bill, like most RWers not only forgets the First Rule Of Holes

by not stopping digging, he breaks out the heavy equipment so that he can dig faster.

[JHB]

2. Shorter Billo: "Owwww! Quit it! Quit doing that!"

[liberal N proud]

3. When the shit is piling on, you always want to stop it.

[sulphurdunn]

29. Being rightwing means

only knowing how to double down.

[boston bean]

4. Where is the released CBS video? nt

[leftynyc]

12. Here in this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141021531

[George II]

32. Couldn't you have just linked the video directly?

[leftynyc]

37. Feel free to do it yourself

instead of whining to others who have already gone out of their way. It's more polite.

[marble falls]

33. here:

[silverweb]

5. Dream on, Billy.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]This is not stopping and will bury your (nonexistent) credibility once and for all.

This is not going away. Not ever. It is your professional epitaph.

[Scarsdale]

17. Pinhead

Hey Bill-O Who is a PINHEAD now???

[Fred Sanders]

20. If we can also bury all of Fox also, because they will just promote another liar to Bilbo's slot.

[chillfactor]

6. so O'Reilly wants it stopped...

too bad..he started it with his lies! What a dunce he is....

[douggg]

7. Billo can disprove all these 'lies'

by showing that he was in the Falklands as he claimed.

[DesertDiamond]

8. No, Billy Boy, we are going to harp harp harp on it just the way YOU do, and your career will be

destroyed -- JUST AS YOU HAVE DESTROYED OTHERS, or participated in that destruction. Except, unlike you, who harped on lies, we are going to keep harping on the TRUTH. Your lies are catching up with you and you are going DOWN.

[Leith]

19. That's What I Was Thinking

He's finally getting a taste of what he has dished out for years. I'm sure that Dr. Tiller, Dan Rather, Sandra Fluke, Brian Williams, and countless others wanted it to stop, too.

[4dsc]

9. Oh, that Falkland war...

LOL.

[pinboy3niner]

10. BillO still has flashbacks

[PeoViejo]

11. Oh the O'manity!!!!

[Snarkoleptic]

13. So the gruff, macho guy is actually a tender little fellow.

I must admit having a bit of schadenfreude on this turn of events.

[JonLP24]

14. While I appreciate he is finally receiving some controversy

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I can't help but remember reporters wearing gas masks in Kuwait City

Go to about 4 minutes, the clip begins a Retired Navy Admiral (odds are he was a contractor appearing as part of the organized Pentagon propaganda media operation), I like how he notes there are people walking around & cars driving around but like he said earlier "most of these people are unprepared in the event of a biological attack" and that they're aren't "carrying around gas masks". The clip ends with the "city is deserted" but you still see a "few people walking around" (they also happen to be -- the few people -- that are walking & driving cars in front of the camera)

While I don't know the real story behind, every gut instinct is telling me this is stunningly manufactured bullshit. I don't know what Kuwait City was like in 2003, but Kuwait was very, very low risk for any sort of combat. The 92G in our unit, I was taken back by his still "fear of the unknown" over what lies across the border several months into deployment. The statement was made in-context to the other 92G used for a convoy slot.

I'm not sure what to compare it to but one thing is to hype up something in Buenos Aires in Argentina. Another to hype up something in a city that looks like a mix of Miami & Phoenix (Coastline-downtown - outer parts look more like Phoenix) with infrastructure that is in much better shape & condition than our own in a country that merely borders (& Southern Iraq was very low risk in the early years) that country engulfed in conflict

[Fred Sanders]

21. Fear sells wars. The media were the salesmen.

[blackspade]

15. Keep hoping scumbag.

[Nitram]

16. It is increasingly clear...

...that O'Liely believes his own lies. Classic Borderline Personality.

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. He was in the shit with the grunts, man

Thousand yard stare!

[cwydro]

23. He is a complete idiot.

But FOX will keep him.

So many liars in this world.

[tavernier]

24. I bet he does.

[tanyev]

25. You can make it stop by resigning and leaving the airwaves. It's that simple.

[Botany]

28. +1

One way to make this stuff stop and that would be for Bill to resign and
get off the air.

[LynneSin]

26. No it does not stop because Bill - you never ever let stuff like this stop

You push your half truths on your show and you harp on them for no end thinking somehow if you repeat the lie over and over again knowing that the low IQ viewers that watch your show will take on those lies as truths. Bill, you repeat those lies over and over again until EVERYONE KNOWS IT. Then those viewer start repeating those 'truths' everywhere like they think they know something when in fact all they are doing is spreading the lies created by you on your show that were reported as 'news stories'

So guess what Bill, this happens to be the real truth and it will NOT STOP because like you Bill we do not stop repeating the story until EVERYONE KNOWS IT.

[rurallib]

27. just like his heroes Saint Ronnie Reagan and John Wayne

both of whom believed they were war heroes when they never got off the soundstage in Hollywood.

[kairos12]

30. Unlike true heros like Jimmy Stewart.

[rurallib]

31. Norman Mailer and Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Rod Serling and Howard Zinn

Many folks never spoke of their experiences in WWII. It was always amazing to hear of some of the folks who were in the fight but you never heard about it

[Botany]

34. or James Doohan who played "Scotty" on Star Trek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan#Military_service

[marble falls]

35. Its pretty much the rule isn't it?

[tomsaiditagain]

36. Billo De Clown

His character is following the script.

Lie lie lie lie lie lie, scream scream scream scream, demean, demean, demean, demean and repeat nightly.

[JHB]

38. Easy way to make it stop, Bill: Retire. Go away.

Unless you've been miserable at managing your money, you're set for the rest of your life. Go do something else, something you enjoy.

Alas, what he enjoys is being an asshole, blowhard, and center of attention.

[UTUSN]

39. R#27 & K, great to see the old clips of real reporters!1 n/t