Bill O'Reilly Calls David Corn a "Despicable Guttersnipe" for Revealing his Falklands

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Bill O'Reilly Calls David Corn a "Despicable Guttersnipe" for Revealing his Falklands (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=244626&p=7837362) Lie



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Bill O'Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7UGC3quedc

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/bill-oreilly-brian-williams-falklands-war



Bill O’Reilly is super mad at Mother Jones — here’s why

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/bill-oreilly-is-super-mad-at-mother-jones-heres-why/

[Winehole23]

Infotainment.

O'Reilly doesn't sit at a news desk. It's a fake news desk, like Hannity's or Jon Stewart's.

[DarrinS]

Infotainment.

O'Reilly doesn't sit at a news desk. It's a fake news desk, like Hannity's or Jon Stewart's.


Jon Stewart is in a different category.

O'Reilly and Hannity would be in the same category as Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews.

[RandomGuy]

Infotainment.

O'Reilly doesn't sit at a news desk. It's a fake news desk, like Hannity's or Jon Stewart's.

Ouch, that is an insult to poor Jon. He is a satirist, and makes no pretense of being a journalist.

O'Reilly and Hannity on the other hand... both would say they were journalists, and in the pretense... that is the difference.

[RandomGuy]

Jon Stewart is in a different category.

O'Reilly and Hannity would be in the same category as Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews.

Damnit. Now you have me agreeing with you. Stop that.

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Billo trashed Williams for lying, but Billo now exposed as a "war correspondent" liar.

[Nero5]

LOL ... fox news again, no surprise.

[Winehole23]

Jon Stewart is in a different category.

O'Reilly and Hannity would be in the same category as Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews.I see what you're saying, but to me it sounds like the narcissism of small differences.

[Winehole23]

Ouch, that is an insult to poor Jon. He is a satirist, and makes no pretense of being a journalist.

O'Reilly and Hannity on the other hand... both would say they were journalists, and in the pretense... that is the difference.Rilly? They claim to be journalists?

[Winehole23]

...

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FOX NEWS' Hannity and O'Reilly are opinion journalists,not new journalists, take themselve and their topics seriously.

They are serious about their political influence on their ignorant, stupid, gullible audience

COMEDY CENTRAL's Daily Show is satire, comedy, ridicule

What's in dispute are not O'Reilly's bloviating, bullying opinions, but saying something AS A FACT of his "war journalism" that others say isn't true, the same kind of LYING he trashes Williams for.

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[Aztecfan03]

He is terrible. But so is Williams.

[Aztecfan03]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-nbc-bureau-chief-backs-up-oreillys-account-of-falklands-war-riot/


Don Browne was the NBC News Miami bureau chief at the time, and he oversaw the network’s Falklands coverage. And Browne told O’Reilly his account was accurate. As opposed to some of the other accounts, which have to some extent downplayed the danger, Browne said the situation “got progressively more intense” and there were demonstrations in Buenos Aires every day.
RELATED: Dan Rather in 1982 CBS Report: TV Crew Members ‘Knocked to the Ground’ in Riots Where O’Reilly Was (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dan-rather-in-1982-cbs-report-tv-crew-members-knocked-to-the-ground-during-riots/)
Both O’Reilly and Browne recalled a “very intense situation where people got hurt” and how “this was an extremely violent and volatile situation” where reporters were in danger.


I don't like O'reilly either way, but he might not have been lying.

[ChumpDumper]

lol war zone

[ElNono]

I don't like O'reilly either way, but he might not have been lying.

Buenos Aires was pretty violent then (all the time, tbh).... But the actual war was 1,100 miles away, separated by the Atlantic ocean. :lol

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http://images.dailykos.com/images/130538/large/RTR9RYF.jpg?1424558472

As more and more former colleagues (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/23/1366231/-Fox-News-stands-by-O-Reilly-as-former-coworkers-call-out-his-war-zone-lies) come forward to call out Fox News' Bill O'Reilly on his "war zone" and "combat situation" lies, Mr. O'Reilly appears to have lost his ever-loving (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/media/bill-oreilly-and-fox-news-redouble-defense-of-his-falklands-reporting.html?_r=3)mind:


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.”

O-kay. Way to tamp down the story, Bill-O.(And you know, one must wonder if it any point it will occur to this idiot that had he ignored the original Mother Jones' article, the story would have been a one-day wonder.)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/24/1366482/-Bill-O-Reilly-threatens-New-York-Times-reporter?detail=email#

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All The Journalists Disputing Bill O'Reilly's Falklands War Tales
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/02/24/all-the-journalists-disputing-bill-oreillys-fal/202647

MMA habitually destroys all things Fox.

[tlongII]

O'Reilly didn't lie. All you libtards bringing up potential exaggeration that occurred 33 years ago is quite amusing.

[ChumpDumper]

lol war zone

[DarrinS]

lol, Falklands, lol, whogivesashit

[SupremeGuy]

Boutons gets his news from Bill? :lol

[hater]

LOL that was not a war. Not when Margarita Tatcher sent in ships loaded with nukes to patrol the islands.

meanwhile Argentina sent in sail boats from the 1950s loaded with old tires :lol

[tlongII]

They showed news clips of it last night. Certainly looked like a war zone to me.

[tlongII]

And it was certainly dangerous.

[ChumpDumper]

They showed news clips of it last night. Certainly looked like a war zone to me.
Ferguson wasn't a war zone and neither was this.

And it was certainly dangerous.Not as dangerous as a war zone.

[tlongII]

Ferguson wasn't a war zone and neither was this.
Not as dangerous as a war zone.

So you think Ferguson was just as bad as Buenos Aires right after Argentina got its ass kicked by the Brits? Really? How old were you 33 years ago anyway?

[MultiTroll]

Ferguson wasn't a war zone and neither was this.
Not as dangerous as a war zone.
Nicely done Chump.

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tlongII
So you think Ferguson was just as bad as Buenos Aires right after Argentina got its ass kicked by the Brits?
Absolutely.

[Cry Havoc]

They showed news clips of it last night. Certainly looked like a war zone to me.

By all means link them

[tlongII]

tlongII
Absolutely.

:lmao

[ChumpDumper]

So you think Ferguson was just as bad as Buenos Aires right after Argentina got its ass kicked by the Brits? Really? How old were you 33 years ago anyway?Since no one died in either one, the difference is probably one of scale only.

Neither was a war zone.

No amount of stamping about will make it one.

[ChumpDumper]

If you want to get nostalgic about it, I wouldn't call Kent State a war zone either, even though it was more deadly and dangerous than Buenos Aires.

War zones are where, you know, wars are fought.

[MultiTroll]

:lmao
:jack

Ya if we are talking verified accounts, Ferguson was much more violent.

[tlongII]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-nbc-bureau-chief-backs-up-oreillys-account-of-falklands-war-riot/

Ex-NBC Bureau Chief Backs Up O’Reilly’s Account of Falklands War Riot

Two former CBS reporters have strongly disputed Bill O’Reilly‘s accounts of what happened one night when they covered a riot in Buenos Aires, but on The Factor tonight, O’Reilly brought on a former NBC News bureau chief who backed up his story.

Don Browne was the NBC News Miami bureau chief at the time, and he oversaw the network’s Falklands coverage. And Browne told O’Reilly his account was accurate. As opposed to some of the other accounts, which have to some extent downplayed the danger, Browne said the situation “got progressively more intense” and there were demonstrations in Buenos Aires every day

Both O’Reilly and Browne recalled a “very intense situation where people got hurt” and how “this was an extremely violent and volatile situation” where reporters were in danger.

O’Reilly also spoke with Mediaite’s own Joe Concha, who wrote a column this week questioning the motivations of O’Reilly’s attackers. Concha told O’Reilly that Mother Jones is in the business of throwing red meat to progressives, and beyond that, the story isn’t making much headway anyway.

[tlongII]

:jack

Ya if we are talking verified accounts, Ferguson was much more violent.

There was no Twitter or Facebook 33 years ago.

[MultiTroll]

a former NBC News bureau chief who backed up his story.

Don Browne was the NBC News Miami bureau chief at the time, and he oversaw the network’s Falklands coverage. And Browne told O’Reilly his account was accurate. As opposed to some of the other accounts, which have to some extent downplayed the danger, Browne said the situation “got progressively more intense” and there were demonstrations in Buenos Aires every day

Both O’Reilly and Browne recalled a “very intense situation where people got hurt” and how “this was an extremely violent and volatile situation” where reporters were in danger.
"A" former bureau chief (meaning one) said
"very intense situation where people got hurt"
"this was an extremely violent and volatile situation"
Well that just trumps Ferguson in spades! :lol

As Chump already reminded:
"War zones" you know, where wars are fought and lots of people die.

Ya this really backs up Oreillys account. :rolleyes

[ChumpDumper]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ex-nbc-bureau-chief-backs-up-oreillys-account-of-falklands-war-riot/

Ex-NBC Bureau Chief Backs Up O’Reilly’s Account of Falklands War Riot

Two former CBS reporters have strongly disputed Bill O’Reilly‘s accounts of what happened one night when they covered a riot in Buenos Aires, but on The Factor tonight, O’Reilly brought on a former NBC News bureau chief who backed up his story.

Don Browne was the NBC News Miami bureau chief at the time, and he oversaw the network’s Falklands coverage. And Browne told O’Reilly his account was accurate. As opposed to some of the other accounts, which have to some extent downplayed the danger, Browne said the situation “got progressively more intense” and there were demonstrations in Buenos Aires every day

Both O’Reilly and Browne recalled a “very intense situation where people got hurt” and how “this was an extremely violent and volatile situation” where reporters were in danger.

O’Reilly also spoke with Mediaite’s own Joe Concha, who wrote a column this week questioning the motivations of O’Reilly’s attackers. Concha told O’Reilly that Mother Jones is in the business of throwing red meat to progressives, and beyond that, the story isn’t making much headway anyway.BROWNE:It was the progression that led up to -- you call it a riot.

http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/02/24/cbs-news-releases-video-falklands-war-riots/

Yep, you call it a riot.

Not a war zone.

[Winehole23]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/24/oreilly-lied-about-suicide-of-jfk-assassination/202655

[ChumpDumper]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/24/oreilly-lied-about-suicide-of-jfk-assassination/202655Fog of war, man. Everyone knows how dangerous det porch was.

[SnakeBoy]

O'Reilly and Hannity on the other hand... both would say they were journalists, and in the pretense... that is the difference.

They both have specifically and repeatedly stated on their programs that they are not journalists. Shit even Jon Stewart was making fun of this lame attempt to hold O'Reilly to the same standard as a legit journalist on his show tonight.

[ChumpDumper]

They both have specifically and repeatedly stated on their programs that they are not journalists. Shit even Jon Stewart was making fun of this lame attempt to hold O'Reilly to the same standard as a legit journalist on his show tonight.Well it's weird because Billo keeps going on about his time as a journalist in war zones in "the Falklands" and Palm Beach.

[SnakeBoy]

Well it's weird because Billo keeps going on about his time as a journalist in war zones in "the Falklands" and Palm Beach.

He's the king of bloviating, what else would you expect.

[ElNono]

:lol I was actually in Buenos Aires, about 8 miles away from where Bill was that day... lol warzone

Peeps in Buenos Aires riot all the time. ie, google all the following:
- 1989 riots in Argentina
- December 2001 riots in Argentina
- 2013 police revolts in Argentina

No war during any of those times...

What's true is that the military junta was ruthless... Their power was fading though, and the Falklands war was basically a last ditch attempt to seize the population again, which failed miserably. A few months after losing the war, elections were called and that's the first time I've seen democracy in my life. Since then, it's been a democratic republic (corrupt, but democratic).

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BO not being a "journalist" now doesn't give him license to lie about his "war zone" bravado as a journalist 30+ years ago.

7 of his CBS colleagues say he lied.

Ailes/Fox of course gives all Fox its people license to lie non-stop, and you old, white, pissed-off, ignorant Fox viewers love being lied to.

[RandomGuy]

They both have specifically and repeatedly stated on their programs that they are not journalists. Shit even Jon Stewart was making fun of this lame attempt to hold O'Reilly to the same standard as a legit journalist on his show tonight.

Link?

tbh, I don't watch either show, so I simply have to guess.

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Bill O'Reilly Lied About Witnessing Suicide Of JFK Assassin's Friend, Former Co-Workers Say

new allegations have emerged that the Fox News anchor lied about being present at a suicide in Florida.

“He was in Dallas,” Tracy Rowlett, a former colleague of O’Reilly’s at Dallas station WFAA, told liberal watchdog Media Matters (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/24/oreilly-lied-about-suicide-of-jfk-assassination/202655). “Bill O’Reilly’s a phony -- there’s no other way to put it.”

The Fox host has claimed on several occasions that he heard the gunshot that killed George de Mohrenschildt, a friend of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald who committed suicide at his daughter’s home in Florida in 1977. O’Reilly originally made the claim in his 2012 book, Killing Kennedy (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/24/oreilly-lied-about-suicide-of-jfk-assassination/202655). He repeated it during an appearance on "Fox & Friends" while promoting the book: “I was about to knock on the door where [de Mohrenschildt] was, his daughter’s house, and he blew his brains out with a shotgun,” O'Reilly said (see embedded video at the bottom of this piece). He made the claim again in an adaption of Killing Kennedy for younger readers.

Rowlett and Byron Harris, another of O’Reilly’s WFAA colleagues at the time, both say the embattled host was with them at WFAA’s Dallas headquarters when de Mohrenschildt died.
The station "would have reported it as some kind of exclusive -- and there was no exclusive -- if O'Reilly had been standing outside the door,” Harris said.

Not only did WFAA run no exclusive, but the story was broken by The Dallas Morning News.

Live by the lie, get trashed by your lies. :lol



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/oreilly-suicide-mohrenschildt_n_6749182.html?ncid=newsltushpmg0000 0003

[Spur_Fanatic]

LOLOLOL

O'Reilly is lying. Post-Falklands "riots" were no more dangerous than the usual "killed-by-whitecop" aftermath back in the US.

Hell, in fact it's the way around.

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Bill O’Reilly’s absurd new conspiracy theory: Critics just angry we’re right about everything!?

he claimed that Fox News was under attack because it speaks the truth too powerfully.

“The reason is fairly simple — Fox gives voice to conservatives and traditional people far more than most national news agencies do,” he said. (Also, I would like to know what a “traditional person” is.)
And reason why criticism of Fox News has grown so fervent recently? O’Reilly explained: “We are putting tremendous pressure on the Obama Administration to fight the terror savages.”

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/25/bill_oreilly_explains_fox_news_backlash_we_are_pre ssuring_obama_to_fight_the_terror_savages/

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Old News: The Impact of the Aging Viewership on Bill O’Reilly and Fox News

When it rains, it pours.For Fox News and its month of May, the hits just keep on coming.As was reported Wednesday, Fox News’ viewership is down 27% this month (http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/28/benghazi-bs-wrecks-fox-news-ratings-plunge-27.html) thanks largely to the network’s insistence upon beating the dead horse that is known as Benghazi. In fact, this number was so low that it actually marked the network’s lowest monthly ratings (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/business/media/may-brings-a-loss-of-viewership-for-cable-news-channels.html?_r=1) since before 9/11.

As disheartening as this is for Fox News at the moment, what might be even more depressing for the network concerns the demographics of their current audience.

Take, for example, the network’s flagship program The O’Reilly Factor. The program for the past month averaged 313,000 nightly viewers. Despite the fact that this was the lowest amount in over twelve years, the program still more than doubled the viewership of both CNN and MSNBC. However, the interesting statistics involve who exactly was watching The O’Reilly Factor. According to the numbers less than fifteen percent of O’Reilly’s audience fell within the key 25-54 demographic, and the average age of O’Reilly audience was 72 years old.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/31/news-impact-aging-viewership-fox-news-flagship-program.html

:lol

[Spurminator]

Speaking of old news... thanks for the year-old article, boots.

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Speaking of old news... thanks for the year-old article, boots.

ya think Billo is doin better now with the younger segment, or stuck with the AARP/Social Security/Medicaid crowd?

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Another Fabrication: O'Reilly Never Witnessed The Murder Of Nuns In El Salvador
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/25/another-fabrication-oreilly-never-witnessed-the/202667

MMA has been kicking Fox's fat, corrupt, lying, slandering asses for years.

[Winehole23]

Asked about O’Reilly’s statements Friday, a Fox News spokesman said that O’Reilly was not an eyewitness to any bombings or injuries in Northern Ireland. Instead, he was shown photos of bombings by Protestant police officers.
The clarification is similar to one O’Reilly made in the wake of questions (http://news.yahoo.com/bill-o-reilly-defends-against-allegation-he-lied-about-nuns--executions-in-el-salvador-152939978.html) raised this week about his characterization of his experiences during the Salvadoran civil war.http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/is-bill-oreilly-making-things-up-or-just-bloviating/2015/02/27/bd5e7f66-bea4-11e4-b274-e5209a3bc9a9_story.html

[Winehole23]

The network released figures Friday showing that his weekly audience grew by 11 percent compared with the same period last year.same

[Nbadan]

claimed on several occasions that he heard the gunshot that killed George de Mohrenschildt, a friend of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald who committed suicide at his daughter’s home in Florida in 1977

hmmm....de Mohrenschildt threw fag parties with Ferri in New O leans.....all were in some ways associated with jack Ruby...and Oswald...

[Winehole23]

what's a "fag party?"

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Reporters And Lawyers Who Worked On Murdered Nuns Case Blast O'Reilly's Tall Tales

Bill O'Reilly's false claim that he witnessed the brutal 1980 murders of four American women in El Salvador -- and his excuse, after his lie was exposed, that he meant he saw photos of their bodies -- is drawing harsh criticism from journalists who covered the story and lawyers who worked with the nuns' families to bring justice in the case.

O'Reilly has recently faced scrutiny for a series of fabrications he has told over the years about his reporting career. Last week, Media Matters reported (http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/25/another-fabrication-oreilly-never-witnessed-the/202667) that O'Reilly had repeatedly suggested he saw nuns murdered in El Salvador while reporting for CBS News, despite the fact that the incident in question occurred before he arrived in the country. O'Reilly told his radio audience in 2005 that he'd "seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador." More recently, he said on his Fox News program, "I was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head."

After Media Matters challenged O'Reilly's story, he told (http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-apparently-contradicted-himself-on-witnessing-nun-killings-fox-responds/) Mediaite that he merely meant he'd seen "horrendous images" of the murdered nuns while reporting from El Salvador.

His apparent effort to use the brutal murders to bolster his own history as a journalist is drawing harsh rebukes from those who represented the families of the victims in legal cases related to the murders.

"It's disgusting, it's reprehensible," said Patti Blum, an attorney who worked with the families on a civil case for the Center for Justice and Accountability. "To use the death of four women who were in El Salvador just to do good for your own self-aggrandizement is unsavory."

Scott Greathead, a founder of Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, which is now Human Rights First, spent time in El Salvador representing relatives of the nuns during the prosecution of the killers.

He said of O'Reilly's claims and his weak excuse, "I don't know why he said that and why he came to say it. I know he didn't see it and nobody saw it and anyone who knew about that incident would have known they were killed in secret. Hundreds of thousands of people have seen pictures of it and I don't know anyone else being confused about what they saw."

He later added, "I don't think anyone should be making up stories about this, to invent a story. I know from representing the families from all this time they remain very, very sensitive about what happened to their sisters and daughters. Distorting the truth is appalling."

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/03/05/reporters-and-lawyers-who-worked-on-murdered-nu/202762

[Th'Pusher]

same

So NBC nightly news viewership drops by 100s K's while O'Rielly see a bump in his ratings. Seems about right.

[DMC]

what's a "fag party?"
Film Actor's Guild.. Matt Damon is at all of these.

[Winehole23]

South Park reference. of course.