Bill O'Reilly Scandal Grows As 8th Former Colleague Calls His War Coverage Claims Absurd

[Panich52]

Joe Strupp at Media Matters got yet another of Bill O’Reilly’s former colleagues from CBS News to talk about the Fox News host’s alleged “combat situation” coverage in Buenos Aires during the Falklands War, calling his description of his reporting “absurd.”

Even back then, O’Reilly’s colleagues thought he was “grandstanding”. From Media Matters:

Charles Krause, a CBS News correspondent from 1980 to 1983 who reported from Buenos Aires during the same period as O’Reilly, is the latest to contradict the Fox News host. In an interview with Media Matters, Krause called O’Reilly’s descriptions of his reporting “absurd.”

He also recalls O’Reilly being there for a short period of time and not having “any significant role in our coverage of the war.”

“I don’t recall him doing any major story that anybody remembers and he was there a very short time, then he was recalled, I don’t know why,” Krause said. “He wasn’t a team player and people thought he was grandstanding, basically.”

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Fox News Stops Pretending To Be A News Network By Standing Behind Bill O'Reilly

Fox News isn't even pretending anymore. Their pretense of journalism has been shattered by Fox News's decision to stand formally behind war coverage liar Bill O'Reilly.

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[randys1]

1. REPEAT AFTER ME...please!

O'Reilly could go on live TV

shoot in the head 100 infants lined up in a row

then look at the camera and say "I didnt do that"

or

"These were liberal babies who would have grown up and voted for liberals"

The SAME people who watch him would STILL watch him, in fact his audience would GROW

Fox has NO INTENTION EVER of doing journalism, they are not there for that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. billo will do a public meltdown if the reports keep coming

I see this as an opportunity for his own destruction not fox


“Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[cui bono]

6. Hopefully he'll "DO IT LIVE!!!"

[tosh]

8. That one is ALWAYS fun!

[napkinz]

11. a classic!

[cwydro]

15. Never seen that!

Hilarious!

[Exhibit A]

17. I like this version:

[GP6971]

27. Appears faux technicians can't count

They do the countdown starting at 5 and make it to 3......no 2......1.....go!

[aquart]

25. Agreed.

[CanonRay]

3. He's their cash cow

they won't fire him no matter what he does, and he's far too bullheaded to admit he's wrong and resign. So that's that. I like to see him squirm though.

[yuiyoshida]

10. Maybe in this case

Their Cash BULL... cause he is certainly full of Bull...

[eppur_se_muova]

4. ORLY has often been attacked as "delusional" ....

it's long past time to consider that this may be an accurate, clinically correct diagnosis. He seems to believe, quite literally, that he did things that he did not come even close to doing.

[Kingofalldems]

5. Kick and Rec all O'Reilly threads.

[ffr]

7. Fox Entertainment just uses the word News as a label

Let's get this clear, in case you're one of those who hasn't read their Terms of Use.

Fox News ToU - FOX News furnishes the Site and the FOX News Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment. - Foxnews.com

They make no claims that the word "News" is something that should be considered News. Viewers see the word News and think that Fox News should be no different and held to no less of a standard as a News organization, but they're not a News organization, they are an Entertainment organization.

So really, all this entertainment is 100% consistent with their mission.

[Panich52]

13. I think news has been considered entertainment on tv f/ long time. Fox had to

go to court to prove it, tho. And attempt to drag all other legitimate news programs down with them.

I remember in 70s I watched Harry Reasoner & Howard K Smith nightly news. After actual news, they'd end show alternate days w/ an opinion piece (one lib, one conserv). It was nice separation of 'news' & opinion.

[wwoodrich]

18. FOX vocabulary

Right, the word "news" is just a slang expression, you know.

[lpbk2713]

9. Eight at the least ... Bill you can no longer deny it.

Fake it until you make it. You're a lying weasel wannabe.

You really belong at Faux Snooze, a perfect match.

[olddots]

12. Murdoch and Fox are too big to fail

O'reilly is sponsored by companies owned by the media they advertise on .
The solution to this is not easy and could take as long as it took Murdoch to create this corporate fascism .

[Borchkins]

14. Asshat

B

[Exhibit A]

16. I have a feeling . . .

This is going to be like the never-ending count of Cosby victims.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

19. Has anyone compiled a list of all the lies?

- he claimed as a reporter he covered the Falklands war from a war zone

-he claims that while covering the El Salvador fighting that he saw nuns get shot in the head

-he claims he was in Florida at the front door of Lee Harvey Oswald friend and Warren commission witness George de Mohrenshildt when he heard a gunshot signaling the latter's suicide

Any more?

[Rex]

20. He's worked the tabloid garbage news industry for decades.

The crime here is that people think Foxnews is real news that they need to hear. O' Blowy is a pundit, we should label them as different than say a reporter or a journalist. The distinction is very clear imo.

[chervilant]

21. Everything about Billo is absurd.

I hope this latest brouhaha nets him an early 'retirement.'

[boston bean]

22. No Spine Zone, my ass....

[cynzke]

23. Per The CBS Reporters....

Despite orders to stay out of the melee and film from the sidelines, BillO kept going out into the crowds, dragging a cameraman with him. When the police/soldiers started to disperse the crowds firing teargas and plastic bullets, all hell broke out. If BillO got caught up in that, it was his OWN FAULT. It was not necessary to take that risk. Its like going to Pamplona Spain to report on the running of the bulls. If you step out in the path of the bulls and get trampled, you are not a hero. You are a fool!

[SunSeeker]

24. Drip, drip, drip...

At some point the dam is gonna break.

[VanillaRhapsody]

26. who is taking the over/ unders on when Bill explodes?