Bill O'Reilly Responds To Attacks Over Falkland Islands War Coverage Lies
“
The Mother Jones piece, ultimately if you boil it down, comes down to this semantic question. You said you covered a combat situation in
Argentina during the
Falklands War….
Looking back, do you wish you had worded it differently?”
Howard Kurtz posed this question to
Bill O’Reilly on
Sunday morning, in an attempt to distill three days of media chatter over alleged embellishments in O’Reilly’s reporting. The accusation:
Mother Jones claims that there are contradictions in O’Reilly’s descriptions of his
1982 reporting in Argentina for
CBS. The follow up: In a 1700-word
Facebook post,
Eric Engberg, a former CBS
News correspondent who was also in Argentina, said O’Reilly’s tale is suspicious. The wording in question: O’Reilly has said, “I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the
Falklands…” even though he never made it to the
Falkland Islands and instead reported from
Buenos Aires.
So does the
Fox News star wish he had worded it differently?
“No,” O’Reilly answered
Kurtz. “When you have soldiers and military police firing into the crowd, as the
New York Times reports, and you have people injured and hurt and you’re in the middle of that, that’s the definition. This is splitting hairs trying anything they can to bring down me because of the
Brian Williams situation.”
Read more from the
Washington Post here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/
2015/02/22/bill-oreilly-responds-to-accusations-of-his-brian-williams-problem-saying-buenos-aires-not-the-falklands-was-his-war-zone/
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) host of
The Young Turks discusses O'Reilly's response and reactions from other CBS reporters.
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