Mother Jones lol.I am watching the story on CNN...here is the link to Mother Jones.Interesting at the least...but journalistic integrity is paramount...I wonder if it is true.
Bill O Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem Mother Jones
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Mother Jones lol.I am watching the story on CNN...here is the link to Mother Jones.Interesting at the least...but journalistic integrity is paramount...I wonder if it is true.
Bill O Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem Mother Jones
Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem
The Fox News host has said he was in a "war zone" that apparently no American correspondent reached.
... O'Reilly has recounted dramatic stories about his own war reporting that don't withstand scrutiny—even claiming he acted heroically in a war zone that he apparently never set foot in.
O'Reilly has repeatedly told his audience that he was a war correspondent during the Falklands war and that he experienced combat during that 1982 conflict between England and Argentina. He has often invoked this experience to emphasize that he understands war as only someone who has witnessed it could. As he once put it, "I've been there. That's really what separates me from most of these other bloviators. I bloviate, but I bloviate about stuff I've seen. They bloviate about stuff that they haven't."
Fox News and O'Reilly did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Here are instances when O'Reilly touted his time as a war correspondent during the Falklands conflict:
- In his 2001 book, The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America, O'Reilly stated, "You know that I am not easily shocked. I've reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands."
- Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson, in a 2003 book, described how O'Reilly answered a question during a Washington panel discussion about media coverage of the Afghanistan war: "Rather than simply answer the question, O'Reilly began by trying to establish his own bona fides as a war correspondent. 'I've covered wars, okay? I've been there. The Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Middle East. I've almost been killed three times, okay.'"
- In a 2004 column about US soldiers fighting in Iraq, O'Reilly noted, "Having survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands war, I know that life-and-death decisions are made in a flash."
- In 2008, he took a shot at journalist Bill Moyers, saying, "I missed Moyers in the war zones of [the] Falkland conflict in Argentina, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland. I looked for Bill, but I didn't see him."
But read what he says here:
Bill O Reilly s war zone stories questioned - Feb. 20 2015
To be fair he is not currently employed by a news organization. He's an entertainer but many still believe Fox News is actually news.
Should he be held to the same standard as real journalist, Brian Wilson? I believe he should be but he won't. Fox will not fire hin or admit he lied. He will, in his own words, "bloviate" through this and Fox will just go on lying.
He got three Purple Hearts for three cases of the Vietnamese Black Clap.John "I shot myself in the blooming arse with a grain of rice" Kerry lied about his Walt Kurtz Christmas trip to Cambodia
And your spamming continues.Not just Fox who won't hold him responsible. The usual RWs are lining up to lie FOR him as well.
Anybody surprised?
Gullible RWs is why Fox gets away with telling the truth in only 18% of their stories.
And your spamming continues.Not just Fox who won't hold him responsible. The usual RWs are lining up to lie FOR him as well.
Anybody surprised?
Gullible RWs is why Fox gets away with telling the truth in only 18% of their stories.
Every bogus claim by you is disputed and your constant response is that the usual rw response is to lie.
For someone who lies and constantly facilitates liars you sure seem to hate lying.
The difference though is that Bill O'Reilly is not a journalist. He should be held as accountable as Jon Stewart would be if he lied.
the lefties/progressives are nothing if not predictable
Williams is found to be a fraud so they have to hunt down a so called conservative who they are now calling out as one