Another Fabrication: O Reilly Never Witnessed the Killing of Nuns in El Salvador
Source: Media Matters
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OLIVIA MARSHALL:
Bill O'Reilly has claimed repeatedly that he witnessed the execution of nuns while reporting in 1981 on the civil war in El Salvador, an apparent fabrication that is at odds with both history and what O'Reilly himself has said about arriving in the country after the event took place, according to new information unearthed by Media Matters.
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Between 1980 and 1992, a civil war raged in El Salvador between the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the government of El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, four members of the Salvadoran national guard raped and shot "three American nuns and a layworker." The tragedy ''did more to inflame the debate over El Salvador in the United States than any other single incident,'' according to a 1993 State Department report. After the death of Silvia Arriola, a member of a religious order killed six weeks after those four churchwomen, "no priests or nuns were killed in El Salvador for more than eight years," according to Dr. Anna Lisa Peterson, a professor of religion at the University of Florida.
O'Reilly has spoken on several occasions about his time covering the Salvadoran civil war as a CBS correspondent in 1981, suggesting at least twice that he witnessed the murder of the churchwomen. On the September 27, 2005, edition of his talk-radio program The Radio Factor, O'Reilly said, "I've seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador." And on the December 14, 2012, edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly spoke of telling his mother that "I was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head."
However, O'Reilly could not possibly have witnessed the murder of the churchwomen if his own timeline is to be believed. The former CBS correspondent only arrived in El Salvador in 1981, as he mentioned on the February 22, 2002, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, saying (according to Nexis transcript), "Before I went to El Salvador in 1981, I talked with some experienced Latin American experts, people who had seen the brutal wars down there for themselves. I had never been in a war zone before, so I wanted some prep."
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At the above link, there is a short video (30 seconds) with O Reilly saying he witnessed the killing of 4 nuns in El Salvador..watch it yourself.
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- The same thing happened to me in Bosnia in 1996. But it turned out to be air turbulence and the gunfire was just champagne corks from First Class.....
He's getting a crash course in what it feels like for an arrogant bloviator prone to deceit and prevarication to roast on a spit in hell. And he's not doing too well, is he? 
"AND then there was this time I was on this Whaler, with this guy named Ahab, looking for this WHITE WHALE. I was the only one who survived, and people couldn't believe it, so I was going to write this book, but this guy Herman-something heard me tell the story in a bar, and totally ripped me off!!!"
The worse it will get. Doesn't he realize that the more he tries to cover up these lies, the more people are going to dig up on his other lies? He can't keep his mouth shut, and all his denial and blaming everything on those damned "liberals", the more he will be exposed on his other lies, and this guy is one hell of a great liar. Hell he man not even be who he claims to be! 
