Bill O'Reilly lying about being in combat

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Bill O'Reilly lying about being in combat

(NOTE: O'Reilly was never in the military, and certainly never had to contemplate how he would deal with an enemy prisoner.)

"I tell you what, I've been in combat. I've seen it. I've been close to it. And if my unit is in danger and I got a captured guy and the guy knows where the enemy is and I'm looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That's all I'm gonna tell you. If it's life or death, he's going first."

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Bill O-Reilly lying again about his other war reporting experiences

Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting

The New York Times
by EMILY STEEL and RAVI SOMAIYA
Feb. 23, 2015


Excerpt:

The Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Monday stepped up his defense against reports that he embellished stories about his war reporting earlier in his career, while some former colleagues continued to say he had exaggerated his experiences.

Mr. O’Reilly is contesting an article in the magazine Mother Jones and subsequent interviews with former journalists at CBS News that accuse him of misrepresenting his coverage of the Falklands war in 1982 as a young correspondent for CBS News.

The central dispute is whether Mr. O’Reilly reported from active war zones, as he has repeatedly said on the air and in his 2001 book, “The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America.”

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Former CBS News staff members said on Monday that Mr. O’Reilly’s account of his reporting on the protests in Argentina was flawed. Eric Engberg, a correspondent for CBS News for 27 years, reported on the same riot near the presidential palace in Buenos Aires in June 1982 as Mr. O’Reilly. He said in an interview that several CBS News camera crews were sent out to cover the angry crowds, who had heard that Argentina surrendered the disputed Falkland Islands to Britain. Though the crowd was unruly, Mr. Engberg said, the rest of the CBS News crew, which included veterans of war zones, thought “it was the chummiest riot anyone had ever covered.”

Mr. Corn said the video released by CBS News proved nothing. “The protest had a violent component that is not in doubt, our original piece reported that extensively,” Mr. Corn said. “The question is whether Bill O’Reilly was stating the truth when he repeatedly said that Argentine soldiers used real bullets and fired into the crowd of civilians and many were killed.”

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On Monday, there was also a back and forth over Mr. O’Reilly’s use of a New York Times article from 1982 reporting on the protests in Buenos Aires during an interview on Sunday’s Media Buzz show on Fox. Mr. O’Reilly faced criticism for cutting out a key phrase when he read excerpts from the Times article to back up his assertions that he was reporting from a war zone. The article read: “One policeman pulled a pistol, firing five shots over the heads of fleeing demonstrators.” Mr. O’Reilly left out that the shots were “over the heads of fleeing demonstrators.”

Rich Meislin, the Times reporter who wrote the article, said on Facebook that as far as he knew no demonstrators were shot or killed by police that night. On Monday, Mr. O’Reilly said he was just reading clips from the piece during the Media Buzz interview and that official reports on casualties there were difficult to obtain.

Mr. Engberg, the former CBS News correspondent, also strongly disputed Mr. O’Reilly’s claim that he had rescued an injured cameraman while being chased by the Argentine army. “Nobody reported a cameraman being shot or injured,” he said. His account was supported by a senior member of the CBS News management team, with close knowledge of the events that night, who said that nobody was reported injured, and no request for medical attention was made to CBS News’s local medical team.

Read more at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/bu...ting.html?_r=0

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Mother Jones series on Bill O'Reilly

It appears the news outlet called Mother Jones has recently began exposing Bill O-Reilly for lying about his war reporting experiences.

Below are links and dates to the series:


1. Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem - By David Corn and Daniel Schulman | Thu Feb. 19, 2015 5:26 PM EST

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...-falklands-war


2. Media Reactions to Mother Jones Report on Bill O'Reilly's "War Zone" Stories - By Inae Oh| Fri Feb. 20, 2015 11:27 AM EST

http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-med...tories-debated


3. These Are the Questions Bill O'Reilly Won't Answer - By David Corn | Fri Feb. 20, 2015 12:01 PM EST

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...nds-david-corn


4. Bill O'Reilly Responds. We Annotate. - By David Corn | Fri Feb. 20, 2015 8:02 PM EST

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...illy-falklands


5. Former CBS Colleagues Refute Bill O'Reilly's "Combat" Reporting Claims - By Inae Oh| Sun Feb. 22, 2015 3:40 PM EST


http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-med...oreilly-combat

6. The Proofiness of Bill O'Reilly - By David Corn | Mon Feb. 23, 2015 12:08 PM EST

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...-times-meislin


7. CBS Has Released The Falklands Protest Footage Bill O'Reilly Asked For. It Doesn't Support His Claims. - By David Corn and Daniel Schulman | Mon Feb. 23, 2015 9:18 PM EST

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...e-bill-oreilly