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@KingpinOG Threw some rep your way for being an anti-liberal crusader and showing them the extreme hypocrisy of their ways 
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where did he show hypocrisy from liberals bill oreilly still has his job brian williams is done?@KingpinOG Threw some rep your way for being an anti-liberal crusader and showing them the extreme hypocrisy of their ways
@KingpinOG Threw some rep your way for being an anti-liberal crusader and showing them the extreme hypocrisy of their ways
Uh ain't this dude swimming in a sea of red?
I have him on ignore so I'm assuming
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Bill O’Reilly and Fox News Redouble Defense of His Falklands Reporting
By EMILY STEEL and RAVI SOMAIYAFEB. 23, 2015
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Bill O’Reilly said he had covered violent protests after the Falklands war and that he would broadcast film to support that. CreditGabriella Demczuk/The New York Times
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By EMILY STEEL and RAVI SOMAIYAFEB. 23, 2015
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Bill O’Reilly said he had covered violent protests after the Falklands war and that he would broadcast film to support that. CreditGabriella Demczuk/The New York Times
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- 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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RELATED COVERAGEMr. O’Reilly has said that he had never claimed he reported from the Falkland Islands, where the fighting occurred. “I said I covered the Falklands war, which I did,” he said last Friday. He went on to describe his coverage of protests in the aftermath of the war on the streets of Buenos Aires, some 1,200 miles from the Falklands.
On Monday’s show, Mr. O’Reilly played CBS News footage from 1982 that showed the violent protests and quoted other correspondents describing the scene. He also included an interview with Don Browne, a former NBC News bureau chief who oversaw coverage of Latin America, who said there were tanks on the streets of the Argentine capital. “It was a real country at war,” Mr. Browne said. “It was a very intense situation where people got hurt.”
Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday. During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. “I am coming after you with everything I have,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “You can take it as a threat.”
David Corn, one of the reporters on the Mother Jones piece, said that the issue was not whether Mr. O’Reilly had reported on a violent protest, but whether Mr. O’Reilly had reported from a war zone.
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.”
The controversy comes less than two weeks after NBC News suspended its anchor, Brian Williams, for six months without pay after he was found to have falsified a story about being on a helicopter that was shot down in Iraq in 2003.
The two news networks have taken different approaches in responding to the similar controversies engulfing their biggest stars. After military veterans complained about Mr. Williams’s story about the episode in Iraq, NBC News started an internal investigation into Mr. Williams before removing him from broadcasts. Fox News executives, in contrast, have defended Mr. O’Reilly, combating the Mother Jones report and other critics. “Fox News Chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes and all senior management are in full support of Bill O’Reilly,” a spokeswoman said in a statement.
That aggressive defense fits a broader strategy at Fox News, which consistently swings back against rival media outlets, journalism observers said.
“Fox News channel is news for people who don’t trust the rest of the news media,” said Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University. “They actually want the controversy because it fits this strategy.”
The viewership of Mr. O’Reilly’s show on Fox News drew an average of nearly three million viewers over the last month, compared with the 9.7 million viewers who watched NBC’s “Nightly News,” according to Nielsen data provided by Horizon Media.
Mr. O’Reilly disputed the comparison between the two controversies, and said on his show last week that “Corn was trying to take the Brian Williams situation and wrap it around my neck for ideological reasons.”
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.”
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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.
Another CBS News correspondent on the ground, Charles Gomez, said in an interview that though he likes Mr. O’Reilly and was surprised by the accusations, his memories matched those of his former colleagues.
“I do remember that there was tension between the authorities and the crowd,” he said, but added that he “did not see any bloodshed.” No cameraman was injured, he said, to the best of his recollection. Mr. Gomez, who covered wars in Nicaragua and other conflict zones, said he would not describe the events that night as war.
“What was happening on the Falkland Islands was a war zone,” he said. “What was happening in Buenos Aires was unrest.”
Mr. O’Reilly had invited several former CBS employees to appear on his show, including Mr. Engberg, the anchor Dan Rather and Van Gordon Sauter, who was president of CBS News.
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Mr. Engberg said he declined to defend his account on Mr. O’Reilly’s show because “if he wants to present a different view or version of reality, I am not going to stand around and debate it.” He also said he was familiar with the way Mr. O’Reilly ran his show. “Nobody gets a fair shake,” Mr. Engberg said. “He just wants to beat them up, call them names.”
Mr. Rather and Mr. Sauter also did not appear on the show.
On Monday’s show, Mr. O’Reilly ended his segment about the controversy saying he hoped to move past the dispute. “I want to stop this now,” he said. “I hope we can stop it. I really do.”
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How Bill O’Reilly imploded at CBS following his Falklands War ‘combat’ reporting
By Terrence McCoy February 23 at 4:35 AM
a Thursday report in Mother Jones, now faces allegations he inflated his war reporting bona fides after covering the Falklands war. Mother Jones noted that no American correspondent ever got down to the Falkland Islands, a point O’Reilly readily concedes.
“I was in Buenos Aires” when Argentina surrendered to the United Kingdom and gave witness to vast protests that quickly engulfed the capital, O’Reilly told The Post’s Paul Farhi. “Troops fired at the crowd. I was in the middle of that carnage.” O’Reilly added: “In Argentina, I was in combat in the sense that bullets were being fired.”
O’Reilly elaborated on his experience in April 2013 when he told the harrowing tale of how he saved his photographer, who “hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us.”
But these assertions have now come under suspicion — which is when Engberg entered the drama. On Friday evening, Engberg posted 1,700 words to Facebook challenging O’Reilly’s claims. He said things never got that hot in Buenos Aires, calling the riot “tame.” “No one who reported back to our hotel newsroom after the disturbance was injured,” Engberg wrote on Facebook. “If a cameraman had been ‘bleeding from the ear’ he would have immediately reported that to his superiors at the hotel. This part of O’Reilly’s Argentina story is not credible without further confirmation.” The Falklands war, which began when Argentina tried to seize the British-controlled South Atlantic Falklands Island off the Argentine coast, lasted 10 weeks.
The drama is particularly fraught for O’Reilly. Earlier this month, as the Brian Williams controversy raged, O’Reilly, who normally has no problem marshaling moral indignation, went easy on the embattled anchor. “Every public person in this country is a target,” he told Jimmy Kimmel. “With the Internet — you know what it is, it’s a sewer. And these people delight in seeing famous people being taken apart. I just think it’s wrong. I mean, we’re human beings just like everybody else.”
the local TV circuit: Scranton, Pa., Dallas, Denver, Portland, Ore., and Hartford, Conn. Then CBS came calling. This finally seemed O’Reilly’s big break. He was going to be filing footage for the great Dan Rather.
“But it didn’t work out,” Nicholas Lemann wrote in the New Yorker. “… The CBS episode has stayed with him. It hurt — it still hurts. No matter how big a star he becomes, he’s eternally the guy who was banished from the charmed circle. O’Reilly’s account of what went wrong at CBS has him, as always, pissing off powerful people because he won’t play their phony games.”
It may be more complicated than that. The way O’Reilly tells it in his best-selling book “The No Spin Zone,” things went wrong in Buenos Aires from the beginning. “I was told there would be a CBS driver to meet me and guide me quickly through customs,” O’Reilly recalled, still burning over the slight decades later. “Guess what? Nobody showed up. I was beginning to see a pattern.”
It came to a head when O’Reilly and his cameraman captured what he called “the best news footage I have ever seen.” O’Reilly, in claims now questioned, said there was “a major riot” in Buenos Aires, and “many were killed. I was right in the middle of it.”
When O’Reilly filed the footage, he thought he had nailed it. No doubt he would lead Rather’s newscast. “Nope,” O’Reilly wrote. “In perhaps the most stunning thing that has ever happened to me, all the videotape was taken away from me and given to a big-name correspondent.”
Engberg, however, wrote in his post that O’Reilly was overreacting to a routine editing decision. When a superior “informed O’Reilly that [Bob] Schieffer would be doing the report, which would not include any segment from O’Reilly, the reporter exploded. ‘I didn’t come down here to have my footage used by that old man,’ he shouted.” (Schieffer would have been about 45.) O’Reilly was soon sent home, Engberg said, called a “‘disruptive force’ who threatened his bureau’s morale and cohesion.”
The squabble intensified in New York, commented retired CBS national editor Sam Roberts in a Facebook thread beneath Engberg’s Facebook post. Roberts said he was told to turn O’Reilly into a “real CBS News Correspondent,” but Rather had deep reservations.
“Dan Rather walked into my office and shut the door,” Roberts wrote. “He said, ‘Under no circumstances is O’Reilly to be assigned any story for the Evening News. I sat O’Reilly down and said something to the effect that he was like the All-American football player who got drafted by the Dallas Cowboys and brought all of his press clippings to training camp. ‘Nobody gives a s—,’ I said. ‘You’ve got to do it here.’ ”
A few weeks passed, and Roberts’s phone rang. It was O’Reilly’s agent. He wanted to know how O’Reilly was doing. A station in Boston had offered a job to O’Reilly — should he take it? Roberts: “‘He’ll never make it here,’ I said. ‘Take that job in Boston before it goes away.’ And that was the end of O’Reilly’s career at CBS News.”
And it was to remain that way — gone, forgotten — until now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...following-his-falklands-war-combat-reporting/
By Terrence McCoy February 23 at 4:35 AM
a Thursday report in Mother Jones, now faces allegations he inflated his war reporting bona fides after covering the Falklands war. Mother Jones noted that no American correspondent ever got down to the Falkland Islands, a point O’Reilly readily concedes.
“I was in Buenos Aires” when Argentina surrendered to the United Kingdom and gave witness to vast protests that quickly engulfed the capital, O’Reilly told The Post’s Paul Farhi. “Troops fired at the crowd. I was in the middle of that carnage.” O’Reilly added: “In Argentina, I was in combat in the sense that bullets were being fired.”
O’Reilly elaborated on his experience in April 2013 when he told the harrowing tale of how he saved his photographer, who “hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us.”
But these assertions have now come under suspicion — which is when Engberg entered the drama. On Friday evening, Engberg posted 1,700 words to Facebook challenging O’Reilly’s claims. He said things never got that hot in Buenos Aires, calling the riot “tame.” “No one who reported back to our hotel newsroom after the disturbance was injured,” Engberg wrote on Facebook. “If a cameraman had been ‘bleeding from the ear’ he would have immediately reported that to his superiors at the hotel. This part of O’Reilly’s Argentina story is not credible without further confirmation.” The Falklands war, which began when Argentina tried to seize the British-controlled South Atlantic Falklands Island off the Argentine coast, lasted 10 weeks.
The drama is particularly fraught for O’Reilly. Earlier this month, as the Brian Williams controversy raged, O’Reilly, who normally has no problem marshaling moral indignation, went easy on the embattled anchor. “Every public person in this country is a target,” he told Jimmy Kimmel. “With the Internet — you know what it is, it’s a sewer. And these people delight in seeing famous people being taken apart. I just think it’s wrong. I mean, we’re human beings just like everybody else.”
the local TV circuit: Scranton, Pa., Dallas, Denver, Portland, Ore., and Hartford, Conn. Then CBS came calling. This finally seemed O’Reilly’s big break. He was going to be filing footage for the great Dan Rather.
“But it didn’t work out,” Nicholas Lemann wrote in the New Yorker. “… The CBS episode has stayed with him. It hurt — it still hurts. No matter how big a star he becomes, he’s eternally the guy who was banished from the charmed circle. O’Reilly’s account of what went wrong at CBS has him, as always, pissing off powerful people because he won’t play their phony games.”
It may be more complicated than that. The way O’Reilly tells it in his best-selling book “The No Spin Zone,” things went wrong in Buenos Aires from the beginning. “I was told there would be a CBS driver to meet me and guide me quickly through customs,” O’Reilly recalled, still burning over the slight decades later. “Guess what? Nobody showed up. I was beginning to see a pattern.”
It came to a head when O’Reilly and his cameraman captured what he called “the best news footage I have ever seen.” O’Reilly, in claims now questioned, said there was “a major riot” in Buenos Aires, and “many were killed. I was right in the middle of it.”
When O’Reilly filed the footage, he thought he had nailed it. No doubt he would lead Rather’s newscast. “Nope,” O’Reilly wrote. “In perhaps the most stunning thing that has ever happened to me, all the videotape was taken away from me and given to a big-name correspondent.”
Engberg, however, wrote in his post that O’Reilly was overreacting to a routine editing decision. When a superior “informed O’Reilly that [Bob] Schieffer would be doing the report, which would not include any segment from O’Reilly, the reporter exploded. ‘I didn’t come down here to have my footage used by that old man,’ he shouted.” (Schieffer would have been about 45.) O’Reilly was soon sent home, Engberg said, called a “‘disruptive force’ who threatened his bureau’s morale and cohesion.”
The squabble intensified in New York, commented retired CBS national editor Sam Roberts in a Facebook thread beneath Engberg’s Facebook post. Roberts said he was told to turn O’Reilly into a “real CBS News Correspondent,” but Rather had deep reservations.
“Dan Rather walked into my office and shut the door,” Roberts wrote. “He said, ‘Under no circumstances is O’Reilly to be assigned any story for the Evening News. I sat O’Reilly down and said something to the effect that he was like the All-American football player who got drafted by the Dallas Cowboys and brought all of his press clippings to training camp. ‘Nobody gives a s—,’ I said. ‘You’ve got to do it here.’ ”
A few weeks passed, and Roberts’s phone rang. It was O’Reilly’s agent. He wanted to know how O’Reilly was doing. A station in Boston had offered a job to O’Reilly — should he take it? Roberts: “‘He’ll never make it here,’ I said. ‘Take that job in Boston before it goes away.’ And that was the end of O’Reilly’s career at CBS News.”
And it was to remain that way — gone, forgotten — until now.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...following-his-falklands-war-combat-reporting/
A former NBC bureau chief has come forward to back up O'Reilly's account of the Falklands war riots. What a shocker that a liberal blog would resort to lies to smear someone they disagree with.........................................
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-nbc-bureau-chief-backs-up-oreillys-account-of-falklands-war-riot/
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-nbc-bureau-chief-backs-up-oreillys-account-of-falklands-war-riot/
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The Falklands are thousands of miles from Buenos Aires...
I know you're a very sheltered person but are you comparing protests to war? Do you support the troops?
This wasn't a combat situation clearly.
Pretend to be in war zone and continue to lie about it when you're caught, brehs.
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CBS Releases Footage Of O'Reilly's Buenos Aires Coverage, Settling Nothing
The Huffington Post | By Catherine Taibi
Posted: 02/24/2015 9:50 am EST Updated: 02/24/2015 10:59 am EST
CBS News has responded to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's request and released the footage of its coverage of the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War.
O'Reilly has come under fire after Mother Jones called out the news host for allegedly misreporting his experiences covering the war. Mother Jones' David Corn and Daniel Schulman claimed that O'Reilly had said he was in "a combat situation" in Argentina, when actually, he was more than a thousand miles away in Buenos Aires.
Several former colleagues of O'Reilly have since come forward to also dispute his claims, but the Fox News host continues to stand his ground, calling Corn a "liar" and "despicable guttersnipe."
CBS News released four clips on Monday: the “CBS Evening News” and special report from June 15, 1982, and the “CBS Morning News” and “CBS Evening News” from June 16, 1982.
O'Reilly played pieces of the clips on his show Monday night and maintained that his reporting was correct.
“As I reported accurately, the violence was horrific,” he said. “In my reporting, I told it exactly the way it was.”
But in a response on Mother Jones, Corn and Schulman said Monday that the footage "doesn't support [O'Reilly's] claims."
"Rather than bolstering O'Reilly's description of the anti-government protest he says he covered as a 'combat situation,' the tape corroborates the accounts of other journalists who were there and who have described it as simply a chaotic, violent protest," they wrote.
One clip shows CBS News anchor Dan Rather reporting that "as word of the Argentine defeat leaked out in Buenos Aires, thousands of demonstrators began to gather outside the presidential palace.” In another, former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg also described the scene: "With guns that fired tear gas and plastic bullets, police opened fire. It is not known how many were hurt. But witnesses reported at least some serious injuries."
More from Corn and Schulman at Mother Jones:
On his Monday night show, O'Reilly broadcast clips from the CBS video and maintained that the footage proved "I reported accurately the violence was horrific." But the issue has not been whether violence occurred at the demonstration. O'Reilly had previously claimed this protest -- triggered when Argentines angry at the ruling junta's surrender to the Brits in the 1982 war gathered near the presidential palace -- was a massacre, with Argentine troops gunning down civilians. O'Reilly has relied on that description to support his claim that he was in a "war zone ... in the Falklands." The video does not show civilians being mowed down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...ootage-falklands-war-reporting_n_6742872.html
The Huffington Post | By Catherine Taibi
Posted: 02/24/2015 9:50 am EST Updated: 02/24/2015 10:59 am EST
CBS News has responded to Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's request and released the footage of its coverage of the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War.
O'Reilly has come under fire after Mother Jones called out the news host for allegedly misreporting his experiences covering the war. Mother Jones' David Corn and Daniel Schulman claimed that O'Reilly had said he was in "a combat situation" in Argentina, when actually, he was more than a thousand miles away in Buenos Aires.
Several former colleagues of O'Reilly have since come forward to also dispute his claims, but the Fox News host continues to stand his ground, calling Corn a "liar" and "despicable guttersnipe."
CBS News released four clips on Monday: the “CBS Evening News” and special report from June 15, 1982, and the “CBS Morning News” and “CBS Evening News” from June 16, 1982.
O'Reilly played pieces of the clips on his show Monday night and maintained that his reporting was correct.
“As I reported accurately, the violence was horrific,” he said. “In my reporting, I told it exactly the way it was.”
But in a response on Mother Jones, Corn and Schulman said Monday that the footage "doesn't support [O'Reilly's] claims."
"Rather than bolstering O'Reilly's description of the anti-government protest he says he covered as a 'combat situation,' the tape corroborates the accounts of other journalists who were there and who have described it as simply a chaotic, violent protest," they wrote.
One clip shows CBS News anchor Dan Rather reporting that "as word of the Argentine defeat leaked out in Buenos Aires, thousands of demonstrators began to gather outside the presidential palace.” In another, former CBS News correspondent Eric Engberg also described the scene: "With guns that fired tear gas and plastic bullets, police opened fire. It is not known how many were hurt. But witnesses reported at least some serious injuries."
More from Corn and Schulman at Mother Jones:
On his Monday night show, O'Reilly broadcast clips from the CBS video and maintained that the footage proved "I reported accurately the violence was horrific." But the issue has not been whether violence occurred at the demonstration. O'Reilly had previously claimed this protest -- triggered when Argentines angry at the ruling junta's surrender to the Brits in the 1982 war gathered near the presidential palace -- was a massacre, with Argentine troops gunning down civilians. O'Reilly has relied on that description to support his claim that he was in a "war zone ... in the Falklands." The video does not show civilians being mowed down.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...ootage-falklands-war-reporting_n_6742872.html
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Fukk your corny debates
Bill O'Ducktales feeling the heat.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/03/cnn-publishes-oreilly-tape-203331.html?ml=po
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