Bill O'Reilly has his own made up war stories. I wonder if Fox will[W:237,343,676] (1 Viewer)

[Fletch]

Facts and video and audio tape sure are pesky.

Did he ever report from the Falklands "War Zone"?

He explained what he did during the Falkland war in the clip Jesse Booth posted.

 

[Removable Mind]

Maybe all of the lying TV and media (reporters, columnist, radio personalities) folks can start a new cable TV network. "The Prevaricator's Network".

 

[Derp]

Its as embarrassing as Brian Williams stories, if not worse.

But the Fox news crew is silent on the issue, probably because its not really a matter of 'trust', since no right thinking person actually trusts what O'Reilly says in the first place anyway.

Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem | Mother Jones

Report: Bill O'Reilly repeatedly told first-hand combat stories that never happened - Vox

I'm confused. O'reilly says he was in Argentina and in the video they say he and the American press corps were in Argentina... :lamo

Where's the lie?

 

[year2late]

Not that I ever heard of before Williams ended his show discussing it and talking about his self-declared suspension. But I don't watch NBC (and I don't rely on blogs and partisan sites to feed me information). Which NBC show discussed the controversy the day after broke?

Perhaps before you make a statement as if it was fact, you could try google?

 

[jpn]

I'm confused. O'reilly says he was in Argentina and in the video they say he and the American press corps were in Argentina... :lamo

Where's the lie?

O'Reilly has repeatedly said that he was "in a war zone in Argentina" during the Falklands war, when in fact he was nowhere near the war zone. He was in Buenos Aires, a thousand miles away. No matter how he tries to, um, spin it, he claimed that he was in a war zone and he was not.

But this really is interesting. Williams' career may be over, I don't know. But O'Reilly probably won't miss a day. He hurls insults and abuse at the people pointing out the troubling truth, while Fox "News" says totally silent.

So typical.

 

[Kobie]

Maybe NBC can cover it. They didn't cover the Williams story.

Golly, I wonder why.

 

[Hatuey]

Maybe NBC can cover it. They didn't cover the Williams story.

They didn't cover an issue that involved the suspension of one of their highest paid employees? Well, gee, I'm sure it had nothing to do with the legal liabilities involved. It couldn't have been because of the pending defamation lawsuit if any facts are wrongly reported. It couldn't have been that NBC commenting on an employee who is being disciplined could violate employee privacy policies written into contracts... it must have been bias. I mean, it's standard for news networks to comment on the employees they've disciplined. Right?

 

[ironhorse]

I can't stand O'Reilly. He is an arrogant obnoxious A hole in my book but his position at FOX is not on par with Brian's position at NBC. An anchor man on the nightly news needs to have the trust of viewers to give factual accounts of news and Brian lost that trust. Bill on the other hand does a news based show that could be called The World According to O'Reilley. You know when you turn him on it is his opinion on news events and not news.

 

[ocean515]

O'Reilly has repeatedly said that he was "in a war zone in Argentina" during the Falklands war, when in fact he was nowhere near the war zone. He was in Buenos Aires, a thousand miles away. No matter how he tries to, um, spin it, he claimed that he was in a war zone and he was not.

But this really is interesting. Williams' career may be over, I don't know. But O'Reilly probably won't miss a day. He hurls insults and abuse at the people pointing out the troubling truth, while Fox "News" says totally silent.

So typical.

So if a reporter was in Berlin in 1939, you wouldn't agree they were in a War Zone?

 

[bubbabgone]

We already know he was in Argentina, but he has said numerous times he was in The Faulklands.

Here are a few more examples from his radio show:

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Looks like you like to comment on stuff you don't understand.

Sad to see you two buying into this from M.J., of all things, but it does explain your susceptibility to the whole Adjusted Global Warming business.
I just hope you're trolling and not serious.

 

[Threegoofs]

Sad to see you two buying into this from M.J., of all things, but it does explain your susceptibility to the whole Adjusted Global Warming business.
I just hope you're trolling and not serious.

I see you can't address the substance, so you attack the source....as usual.

 

[Jack Hays]

I see you can't address the substance, so you attack the source....as usual.

The "substance" has already been debunked.

 

[Fletch]

I see you can't address the substance, so you attack the source....as usual.

There is no substance.

 

[pbrauer]

Updates on Bill O'Reilly's "War Zones" Scandal - Little Green Footballs

David Corn lists The Questions Bill O’Reilly Won’t Answer.
And Media Matters has put together a video of O’Reilly’s greatest hits, with transcripts of his long history of exaggerating his “combat zone” experiences: Bill O’Reilly’s “Combat Situation” Reporting, in His Own Words.

 

[Verax]

This all illustrates the difference between the left and right quite clearly. When the left is wrong they will admit it, they'll swear they'll be better, they'll even punish themselves. When the right is wrong, they lie, they deny, they go on the offensive.

This is why the left adapts and grows, becomes more intelligent and accurate over time. Conversely the right peaked at age 16, they'll be walking in those old shoes until they die.

Left = progress, right = stagnation.

 

[Jack Hays]

Updates on Bill O'Reilly's "War Zones" Scandal - Little Green Footballs

David Corn lists The Questions Bill O’Reilly Won’t Answer.
And Media Matters has put together a video of O’Reilly’s greatest hits, with transcripts of his long history of exaggerating his “combat zone” experiences: Bill O’Reilly’s “Combat Situation” Reporting, in His Own Words.

This all illustrates the difference between the left and right quite clearly. When the left is wrong they will admit it, they'll swear they'll be better, they'll even punish themselves. When the right is wrong, they lie, they deny, they go on the offensive.

This is why the left adapts and grows, becomes more intelligent and accurate over time. Conversely the right peaked at age 16, they'll be walking in those old shoes until they die.

Left = progress, right = stagnation.

The problem with this attempt to manufacture a "scandal" is that it's the questioners doing the lying. BO has already shredded the allegations. Move along. Nothing to see here.

 

[chad1389]

This all illustrates the difference between the left and right quite clearly. When the left is wrong they will admit it, they'll swear they'll be better, they'll even punish themselves. When the right is wrong, they lie, they deny, they go on the offensive.

This is why the left adapts and grows, becomes more intelligent and accurate over time. Conversely the right peaked at age 16, they'll be walking in those old shoes until they die.

Left = progress, right = stagnation.

That's because the right is never wrong. Don't you watch Fox?

 

[Verax]

The problem with this attempt to manufacture a "scandal" is that it's the questioners doing the lying. BO has already shredded the allegations. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Uhhh, I've looked at the evidence and BO has not resolved anything. He's simply bold facing it, not addressing the actual points in question, and saying he has done nothing wrong.

 

[bubbabgone]

I see

you can't address the substance,

so you attack the source....as usual.

Right there ... there's your problem.
The most substance you two have is that sometimes he said he covered the Falkland Islands War from Argentina and sometimes he shorthanded it to covering Falkland.

Now, realize one thing.

Bill O'Reilly is too often a self-aggrandizing irritant but you should go after him for that when you have something solid.
This ain't it.

Another thing ... speaking of sources, when you get something ping-ponging back & forth from Mother Jones and Media Matters, get another source.
And I don't mean CNN repeating David Korn's piece in Mother Jones.

So, yes, sources are important.
After all, they're important to you when you have to defend Adjusted Global Warming from criticism by skeptics.

 

[Verax]

That's because the right is never wrong. Don't you watch Fox?

They are the moral authority on all that is good and righteous.

 

[Fletch]

This all illustrates the difference between the left and right quite clearly. When the left is wrong they will admit it, they'll swear they'll be better, they'll even punish themselves.

Really?? When has that happened?

When the right is wrong, they lie, they deny, they go on the offensive.

Obviously you are too young to remember the Clintons administration.

This is why the left adapts and grows, becomes more intelligent and accurate over time. Conversely the right peaked at age 16, they'll be walking in those old shoes until they die.

Lol. Lemme guess. you are 20. 21 tops right?

Left = progress, right = stagnation.

Actually, socialism = stagnation. See 20th century history.

 

[Jack Hays]

Uhhh, I've looked at the evidence and BO has not resolved anything. He's simply bold facing it, not addressing the actual points in question, and saying he has done nothing wrong.

That's because he hasn't done anything wrong. His on-air rebuttal was crushing.

 

[Verax]

That's because he hasn't done anything wrong. His on-air rebuttal was crushing.

He lied a dozen times about being in war zones and combat when he wasn't. He won't elaborate on what he has said over the years other than a general "I haven't lied about anything".

 

[pbrauer]

O'Reilly: My Experience Reporting "Got A Little Hairy In The Falklands." On the January 30, 2006 edition of his radio show, O'Reilly emphasized the "danger" he experienced reporting in the Falklands:


O'REILLY: But again, look, I mean all of us who are reporters -- and I was a reporter for 24 years, even, you know -- and I was in El Salvador, and in the Falkland War in Argentina, and in Northern Ireland, and in the Middle East. And I did some pretty risky things. I was single and nobody cared, but you know -- a couple of girlfriends would have been - 'oh, no more free dinners from Bill.'


But I did. I put myself, you know, in positions that perhaps I should not have, but I got good stories. And that's what people do. That's what journalists do. But I volunteered. Nobody sent me. Nobody forced me. I went it. And that's what these guys did. And these guys were in much more danger than I was ever in, although it got a little hairy in the Falklands, that's for sure. [Westwood One, The Radio Factor, 1/30/06]

 

[Jack Hays]

He lied a dozen times about being in war zones and combat when he wasn't. He won't elaborate on what he has said over the years other than a general "I haven't lied about anything".

All his descriptions of his whereabouts while reporting were accurate.