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Bill O’Reilly Responds To Mother Jones’ ‘Brian Williams’ Piece With Name Calling

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on February 19, 2015 · Flag

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Unfortunately for Bill O’Reilly, Mother Jones has video of O’Reilly saying what he now claims he never said.

As I’ve previously posted, Mother Jones has published a well-researched and well-sourced article detailing many discrepancies between O’Reilly’s war-reporting claims and evidence. Or to put it another way, Fox News may have its own Brian Williams problem.

Despite the facts presented by Mother Jones, O’Reilly has responded with attacks rather than answers about the discrepancies. Neither O’Reilly nor Fox responded to Mother Jones’ many requests for comment before publication. But in an interview with Politico’s Dylan Byers, O’Reilly nonetheless called the Mother Jones article “a hit piece,” and “a piece of garbage.” He called co-author David Corn a “despicable guttersnipe” and “a liar.”

Byers also reports:

In the interview, O’Reilly said that he never claimed to have been on the Falkland Islands.

“I was not on the Falkland Islands and I never said I was. I was in Buenos Aires... In Buenos Aires we were in a combat situation after the Argentines surrendered.”

…”It was clear that I did not say I was in the Falkland Islands. I’ve done myriad interviews over the years and I never said that,” O’Reilly told On Media.

O’Reilly also told TVNewser, “I never said I was on the Falkland Islands, nobody was.”

But among other contradictions, Mother Jones included a video of O’Reilly saying:

I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, where my photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us. I had to make a decision. And I dragged him off, you know, but at the same time, I’m looking around and trying to do my job, but I figure I had to get this guy out of there because that was more important.

You can watch that video below.

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Jan Hall commented 2015-02-20 09:00:43 -0500 · Flag
David Corn goes on to The Junior O’Reilly Enemies List————
Junior O’Reilly’s making an enemies list
He’s checking it twice
He’s gonna find out
Who’s been a Despicable Guttersnipe.
Ray Michaels commented 2015-02-20 06:10:35 -0500 · Flag
Just like his “little sexual harassment problem” FOX will sweep this under the rug too and pretend it never happened!
Hulk commented 2015-02-20 02:59:51 -0500 · Flag
I’m sure he forgot he misremembered forgetting he wasn’t really there….or something like that….commercial…commercial!!
Aria Prescott commented 2015-02-20 01:43:52 -0500 · Flag
If O’Reilly answered to me, he’d be spending the weekend cleaning out his desk, so that someone else can use it during his suspension. Ratings or not, There is no excuse to talk this way about people who question you.
w d commented 2015-02-20 00:47:14 -0500 · Flag
Please. Fox celebrities are not held to the same high standard as real journalists. Just as Mike Wallace and Brian Williams.
d d commented 2015-02-19 22:21:23 -0500 · Flag
Just did a quick fast forward through BOR’s show tonight. He didn’t mentioned any of this except for a quick moment during the Bernie Goldberg segment. Bernie mentioned that BOR had covered events in El Salvador and Grenada. BOR made sure to correct Bernie by laughingly saying that he was “never in Grenada. I don’t want to get in trouble” but he went on to say that he was “in El Salvador and down in Argentina”. It will be interesting to see if he further mentions it in an upcoming show.
NewsHounds posted about Bill O’Reilly Responds To Mother Jones’ ‘Brian Williams’ Piece With Name Calling on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-02-19 21:36:17 -0500
Well, that didn't take long.








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