Did Bill O’Reilly Fabricate a “Combat Situation” During the Falklands War?

It wasn’t a war zone - it was an “expense account zone”
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From Eric Jon Engberg’s Facebook post about this event; you should also read the comments at his post linked below because other media workers add their recollections.

I remember looking on a monitor at the long stand-up O’Reilly ordered his crew to shoot, which was never used on the air. He shot this description in the middle of a clearly angry, chanting crowd. As a reporter I wondered why he would think he needed video of himself standing in the middle of the crowd when his own crew and others had taken plenty of good crowd pictures that didn’t have O’Reilly standing in the middle of the frame blocking the action. You don’t shoot a long stand-up when you have plenty of good pictures of the event you are covering. What O’Reilly was doing was in the realm of local news. I didn’t know at the time that he had also violated the bureau chief’s order on use of lights, but I wondered why would any correspondent would imperil his colleagues by turning on lights during a riot.

O’Reilly has said he was in a situation in Argentina where “my photographer got run down and hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete and the army was chasing us.” The only place where such an injury could have occurred was the relatively tame riot I have described above. Neither Doyle, who would have been immediately informed of injury to any CBS personnel, nor anyone else who was working the story remembers a cameraman being injured that night. No one who reported back to our hotel newsroom after the disturbance was injured; 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, and O’Reilly should identify the cameraman by name so he can be questioned about the alleged injury.

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1 Justanotherhuman  Feb 22, 2015 9:56:12am

There’s no proof he didn’t, but plenty coming out that he did.

2 electrotek  Feb 22, 2015 9:56:21am

Just an example of Bill’s chickens coming home to roost

3 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 10:06:28am

Billo killed the thread.

Must be his arrogant ignorance that did it.

4 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 10:07:33am

Reporting from a live thread zone!

5 b.d.  Feb 22, 2015 10:08:36am

Don’t cry for me Bill O’Reilly
The truth is you never fought there
All through your wild days
Your mad existence
You broke your promise
Now keep your distance

6 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 10:13:11am

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Keep your head down and your eyes up.

7 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 10:18:34am

Bill O’Reilly: Starship Trooper?

8 Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2015 10:19:00am

Several white supremacists, of course - and J. Christian Adams, PJ Media’s “legal editor.”

9 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 10:20:39am

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Bill O’Reilly: Starship Trooper?

That was a terrible movie. It missed Heinlein’s points completely.

10 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 10:21:30am

The Sam Roberts comment near the end is great.

11 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 10:22:39am

re: #9 b_sharp

I liked 90210 Goes to War.

12 Dave In Austin  Feb 22, 2015 10:27:01am

Has there been ANY movement from FOX management on this thing? Or is flat denile from Billo going to rule the day?

13 Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2015 10:31:26am
14 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 10:31:33am

re: #12 Dave In Austin

Has there been ANY movement from FOX management on this thing? Or is flat denile from Billo going to rule the day?

Fox loves the attention. It just reinforces their message to their delusional target audience.

15 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 10:34:51am

re: #9 b_sharp

That was a terrible movie. It missed Heinlein’s points completely.

I was so disappointed. And they didn’t even use the powered suits. I would have forgiven everything else if they had done a decent job of showing them in action.

16 Justanotherhuman  Feb 22, 2015 10:35:58am
17 ObserverArt  Feb 22, 2015 10:36:32am

I’m trying to remember O’Reilly’s total career. Did he not get booted from CBS shortly after much of this happened?

Then he sort of disappeared aftyer a brief stay at ABC and resurfaced as the host of Inside Edition a tabloid Hollywood gossip show.

He again disappeared a bit and suddenly he was at FOX when they got going and it was FOX that made him a national figure.

So, how much of a real journalist has he ever been? Seems to me he failed journalism but was picked up by FOX because Ailes must have known he could be controlled as a talking head because he was never a hard-line and accepted journalist.

I’d say the reason he is bitching about other news people attacking him is he knows he isn’t liked and accepted in the industry. He’s just a well paid hack. No surprise to me his past came back to bite him. It seems to be a recycling of his problems when he was at CBS and more of that is going to come out.

18 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 10:40:41am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was so disappointed. And they didn’t even use the powered suits. I would have forgiven everything else if they had done a decent job of showing them in action.

Without the powered suits it wasn’t ST.

19 Great White Snark  Feb 22, 2015 10:43:23am

re: #18 b_sharp

I’d like to see Forever War done well.

20 Justanotherhuman  Feb 22, 2015 10:44:26am

re: #17 ObserverArt

“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. The key moment seems to have come when, during the Falkland Islands War, O’Reilly and his crew got some exclusive footage of a riot in the streets of Buenos Aires and it wound up being incorporated into a report from the veteran correspondent Bob Schieffer, which failed to mention O’Reilly’s contribution. O’Reilly was furious, and after that, by his account, he was in career Siberia at CBS. During this period of forced inaction, he later wrote, “on a visit to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, I stumbled upon an amazing story. The tiny fishing village of Provincetown had become a gay mecca!” O’Reilly took a cameraman there and did a piece on the dangers this posed to local kids, but the network wouldn’t air it. Not long after that, he left.”

newyorker.com

I also read a piece yesterday (which I cannot find now) that CBS was so dissatisfied with the malignant narcissist liar that even his boss said he was “going nowhere”.

21 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 10:46:16am

re: #20 Justanotherhuman

Everyone should read the Sam Roberts comment in the facebook post:

Thank you Eric. But there’s more. When O’Reilly got back to NY, Ed Joyce, the president of CBS News and O’Reilly’s rabbi, came into my office. I was then the National editor. Joyce told me that O’Reilly was to report directly to me and that I was to “turn him into a real CBS News Correspondent.” Not two minutes later, Dan Rather walked into my office and shut the door. 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 Dallass Cowboys and brought all his press clippings to training camp. “Nobody gives a shit,” I said. “You’ve got to do it here.” O’Reilly said he couldn’t work with producers in the field so I worked out a deal with the Weekend News allowing him to work alone. That lasted for about two stories. A few weeks later, his agent, Richard Leibner called. “How’s O’Reilly doing?” he asked. I hemmed and hawed a little and Richard then said he had a job offer in Boston for O’Reilly and wondered oif he should take it. “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.

22 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 10:47:50am

re: #19 Great White Snark

I’d like to see Forever War done well.

Strangely, I’ve not read that series.

23 BigPapa  Feb 22, 2015 10:48:47am

“Fuck it! We’ll do it live!”

24 Great White Snark  Feb 22, 2015 10:53:01am

re: #22 b_sharp

It’s a good read.

25 Justanotherhuman  Feb 22, 2015 10:53:55am

Taking a page out of the ISIS playbook?

Somalia extremists urge attacks on US shopping malls

bigstory.ap.org

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A video purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries.

“In the video, released late Saturday, the extremist group again said its September 2013 attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, was in reprisal for Kenyan military involvement in Somalia. Sixty-seven people died in the attack. The video, using footage from major news organizations, showed the assault on the mall.

“The masked narrator of the 76-minute video warned of more attacks in Kenya and concluded by calling on Muslims to attack shopping malls, specifically mentioning the Mall of America in Minnesota, the West Edmonton Mall in Canada and the Westfield mall in Stratford, England.”

The authenticity of the video could not be confirmed immediately.

26 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 10:55:55am

re: #18 b_sharp

Without the powered suits it wasn’t ST.

I loved that book and reread it until the spine fell apart on my copy. And always imagined how they would portray the powered suits in action in a film version…

C’mon, that is just made for CGI.

27 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 10:56:51am

re: #24 Great White Snark

It’s a good read.

I’ll DL from Kindle.

28 Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2015 10:56:51am

re: #25 Justanotherhuman

In this case, al-Shabaab wants to stage a repeat of the Nairobi Westgate Shopping Centre attack of 2013, except a little further afield.

29 Varek Raith  Feb 22, 2015 11:06:53am

FYI, if anyone got a follow from @VarekRaith on twitter, it’s me.
:)

30 electrotek  Feb 22, 2015 11:07:07am

re: #25 Justanotherhuman

Taking a page out of the ISIS playbook?

Somalia extremists urge attacks on US shopping malls

bigstory.ap.org

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A video purported to be by Somalia’s al-Qaida-linked rebel group al-Shabab urged Muslims to attack shopping malls in the U.S., Canada, Britain and other Western countries.

“In the video, released late Saturday, the extremist group again said its September 2013 attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, was in reprisal for Kenyan military involvement in Somalia. Sixty-seven people died in the attack. The video, using footage from major news organizations, showed the assault on the mall.

“The masked narrator of the 76-minute video warned of more attacks in Kenya and concluded by calling on Muslims to attack shopping malls, specifically mentioning the Mall of America in Minnesota, the West Edmonton Mall in Canada and the Westfield mall in Stratford, England.”

The authenticity of the video could not be confirmed immediately.

The joke’s on them, no one goes to shopping malls as much anymore.

31 #FergusonFireside  Feb 22, 2015 11:08:13am

re: #29 Varek Raith

FYI, if anyone got a follow from @VarekRaith on twitter, it’s me.
:)

ahem.

32 Varek Raith  Feb 22, 2015 11:08:28am

re: #30 electrotek

The joke’s on them, no one goes to shopping malls as much anymore.

I’m amazed there’s still one where I live. Might as well be a ghost mall.
Lots of empty shells.

33 Varek Raith  Feb 22, 2015 11:09:01am

re: #31 #FergusonFireside

ahem.

*Whistles innocently.*

34 #FergusonFireside  Feb 22, 2015 11:09:35am

re: #33 Varek Raith

*Whistles innocently.*

:)

35 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 11:10:23am

re: #34 #FergusonFireside

:)

At least he didn’t poke you.

36 Varek Raith  Feb 22, 2015 11:11:11am

re: #35 b_sharp

At least he didn’t poke you.

I ain’t done nothin.

37 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 11:16:11am

re: #30 electrotek

The malls around here draw a lot of people at certain times. There are a lot of kids there after school for instance, and Christmas is still very busy. If someone really wanted to, they could find the kinds of targets that make people cry for greater law enforcement and guns.

38 Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2015 11:19:16am

re: #32 Varek Raith

I’m amazed there’s still one where I live. Might as well be a ghost mall.
Lots of empty shells.

Yet here, in the Czech Republic, new malls continue to be built, and the existing malls are doing quite well.

Our most recent edition - opened about two years ago.

39 Justanotherhuman  Feb 22, 2015 11:19:54am

re: #30 electrotek

That’s what I thought, too. I haven’t been to a mall in at least 8 yrs…

40 Varek Raith  Feb 22, 2015 11:21:00am

There’s also 3 walmarts within 7 miles of me.
So…
:/

41 Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2015 11:22:41am

re: #38 Dr Lizardo

And this is the one closest to where I live; about a half-hour walk, weather permitting. Or a nine minute tram ride.

42 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 11:23:01am

re: #40 Varek Raith

There’s also 3 walmarts within 7 miles of me.
So…
:/

Walmart is the elephant in the lot.

43 Justanotherhuman  Feb 22, 2015 11:26:15am

re: #37 Belafon

The malls around here draw a lot of people at certain times. There are a lot of kids there after school for instance, and Christmas is still very busy. If someone really wanted to, they could find the kinds of targets that make people cry for greater law enforcement and guns.

One mall in Charlotte was closed for years and torn down recently because the neighborhood was “changing”. You know what that means.

With online shopping and such uneven income distribution, most places don’t even need a mall any more. WalMart might be a better “target” than malls these days.

44 Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2015 11:27:26am

And in the nearby city of Frydek-Mistek, we also have a new mall, which opened in summer of last year, Fryda.

45 Justanotherhuman  Feb 22, 2015 11:27:38am

Later, Lizards!

46 Charles Johnson  Feb 22, 2015 11:28:06am
47 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 11:28:44am

re: #43 Justanotherhuman

One mall in Charlotte was closed and torn down recently because the neighborhood was “changing”. You know what that means.

With online shopping and such uneven income distribution, most places don’t even need a mall any more. WalMart might be a better “target” than malls these days.

I don’t disagree, just that there seems to be enough around here to keep some of them open. And yes, Wal-Mart would make a better target.

48 electrotek  Feb 22, 2015 11:29:48am

re: #47 Belafon

I don’t disagree, just that there seems to be enough around here to keep some of them open. And yes, Wal-Mart would make a better target.

You know if a Wal-Mart was targeted, imagine the level of classist smears against the victims by the usual suspects.

49 team_fukit  Feb 22, 2015 11:32:33am

re: #21 Belafon

When O’Reilly got back to NY, Ed Joyce, the president of CBS News and O’Reilly’s rabbi, came into my office.

O’Reilly’s rabbi??

50 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 11:32:47am

re: #48 electrotek

My first thought was a Republican president going “Sure, we’ll get right on that after we invade Iran.”

And yes, if the death toll was 12 whites and 7 blacks, all we’d hear is how the terrorists blew up their own kind.

51 b.d.  Feb 22, 2015 11:33:52am

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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The Intercept has more ex-employees than it has breaking news stories.

52 Romantic Heretic  Feb 22, 2015 11:33:53am

re: #7 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Bill O’Reilly: Starship Trooper?

Not a chance. No way Billo would put his precious hide on the line for something as silly as the rights and duties of a citizen.

Well, he likes the rights but the duties are a pain.

53 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 11:35:07am

re: #40 Varek Raith

There’s also 3 walmarts within 7 miles of me.
So…
:/

We got four Wal-Marts
In the tri-county area
An outlet mall
It’s bargain hysteria
Anew Burger King so our kids get jobs
We don’t need you big city snobs
It’s small town America

Wal-Marts tried to conquer Germany and failed, sold out at a loss.

54 William Barnett-Lewis  Feb 22, 2015 11:38:11am

re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Wal-Marts tried to conquer Germany and failed, sold out at a loss.

Real unions there protecting their workers. No “Right to Work Exploit” laws either.

55 Romantic Heretic  Feb 22, 2015 11:40:21am

re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was so disappointed. And they didn’t even use the powered suits. I would have forgiven everything else if they had done a decent job of showing them in action.

Would have been really boring from a movie point of view. How exciting would viewers find repeated views of a single suit bouncing along whose only sight of his flankers is on his radar screen and the nearest is two miles away?

The real point of Starship Troopers was ruminating on what made a citizen of a nation and how do you make them responsible for the nation they take care of. Verhoeven, like too many people, thought Starship Troopers was about war. It was about societies, how they come into and how they pass out of existence.

56 Romantic Heretic  Feb 22, 2015 11:40:37am

re: #19 Great White Snark

I’d like to see Forever War done well.

Moi aussi.

57 makeitstop  Feb 22, 2015 11:40:46am

re: #49 team_fukit

O’Reilly’s rabbi??

Mentor.

58 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 11:42:00am

re: #55 Romantic Heretic

Would have been really boring from a movie point of view. How exciting would viewers find repeated views of a single suit bouncing along whose only sight of his flankers is on his radar screen and the nearest is two miles away?

The real point of Starship Troopers was ruminating on what made a citizen of a nation and how do you make them responsible for the nation they take care of. Verhoeven, like too many people, thought Starship Troopers was about war. It was about societies, how they come into and how they pass out of existence.

Disagree with first point, but agree that the movie sucked vacuum.

59 Dr Lizardo  Feb 22, 2015 11:45:29am

re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

60 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Feb 22, 2015 11:46:13am

re: #57 makeitstop

Mentor.

The term crops up fairly regularly in cop fiction. I haven’t heard it applied to the news business before, but why not?

61 b_sharp  Feb 22, 2015 11:46:15am

re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Disagree with first point, but agree that the movie sucked vacuum.

The suits were a metaphor for how technology affects culture.

62 lawhawk  Feb 22, 2015 11:47:43am

To me, the key part of Eric Jon Engberg’s story was that you had a veteran and professional leader in Argentina who had covered actual war zones and protests/riots around the world telling cameramen to not turn on the lights to their cameras because it tends to attract attention and fire from those with arms, or rocks and other projectiles. He wanted the CBS crews to do their jobs, but be smart and safe.

O’Reilly’s crew was there. They’re told not to use the lights, so what does O’Reilly do? He overrides common sense and his cameraman to tell him to use lights to do an on-scene shot with lights.

It was O’Reilly injecting himself into the story. And putting his crew in undue harm’s way during protests.

Now, mind you, the riots/protests never got as bad as they could have, but that’s besides the point. O’Reilly wanted his moment to shine, and then got pissed when his footage was spiked.

63 Romantic Heretic  Feb 22, 2015 11:49:37am

re: #58 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Disagree with first point, but agree that the movie sucked vacuum.

Perhaps I should have said ‘average viewer’. I suspect an accurate portrayal of Starship Troopers would end up like Pacific Rim.

The fans of that sort of thing would love it. Most viewers would be, “WTF am I watching? What ever it is I don’t understand it. It doesn’t fit into any trope I know and I hate it.”

64 philosophus invidius  Feb 22, 2015 11:50:19am

I notice the WaPo article tries to achieve “balance” by saying that O’Reilly’s lie is not as “big” as Williams’ since O’Reilly didn’t claim he was actually under enemy attack (only that he was under a mortal threat).

But here’s a couple differences that seem to me more salient:

1) Williams didn’t say “I haven’t seen Bill Moyers in any warzones” etc., using his own (irrelevant and, as it turns out partly fabricated) personal experiences in order to discredit those with whom he disagrees.
2) Williams didn’t hypocritically moralize about the dishonesty of journalists losing trust over warzone exaggerations.

Those things make O’Reilly’s lie worse.

65 Dr. Matt  Feb 22, 2015 11:53:23am
66 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 22, 2015 11:53:29am
67 Romantic Heretic  Feb 22, 2015 11:53:36am

re: #61 b_sharp

The suits were a metaphor for how technology affects culture.

That makes me think of David Drake’s Hammer’s Slammers stories where Mr. Drake purposely worked from the assumption that technology has far less effect on the life of a soldier that most would expect.

68 WhatEVs  Feb 22, 2015 11:54:45am

re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That was really cleaver.

69 Dr. Matt  Feb 22, 2015 11:58:18am

re: #62 lawhawk

It was O’Reilly injecting himself into the story. And putting his crew in undue harm’s way during protests.

In other words, it was BillO being BillO. He and his fox cohorts have made a living by injecting themselves into a story or creating a story when a story doesn’t exist.

70 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 11:58:40am

re: #61 b_sharp

The suits were a metaphor for how technology affects culture.

And how warfare is about controlled violence, not about mass slaughter.

71 b.d.  Feb 22, 2015 11:59:43am

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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The dudebros will be 10x more annoying if Poitras wins an Oscar tonight. (they’ll claim Snowden & Greenwald won one too)

If she loses then there will be stories on how the Oscars as bs, nobody cares about them, etc. Just like they did to TIME when Snowie didn’t get Person of the Year.

72 Romantic Heretic  Feb 22, 2015 12:02:59pm

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And how warfare is about controlled violence, not about mass slaughter.

I’m remembering Sgt. Zim’s little speech about knives.

73 electrotek  Feb 22, 2015 12:04:43pm

Liberals should continue to pound Bill O’Reilly until he flinches and admits fault. They should not give up and definitely should not give in to wingnuts.

74 lawhawk  Feb 22, 2015 12:05:42pm

Starship Troopers as a standalone movie - without knowing a thing about the book - was okay. It attempts satire, both at the infallibility of the military leaders who convince everyone that they know what’s right, how to win a conflict that they barely understand, and send in troops with gear that is insufficient to deal with the threats. The agitprop segments are particularly ironic since we see that kind of propaganda all the time today.

The whole service to gain citizenship is an interesting concept that gets touched on in the movie, but is far more central to the book.

When you compare the movie to the book, you get a completely different vibe and feel. The power suits don’t make the movie because of the tech and need to show more personal relationships, But by avoiding the suits, you lose a bit of the personal monologue and the effect on the person in the suits.

75 Dr. Matt  Feb 22, 2015 12:07:08pm

re: #73 electrotek

BillO will never, ever admit fault. It’s part of the conservative DNA to never admit wrongdoing.

76 wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2015 12:07:35pm

Not sure about this:

77 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 12:09:07pm

re: #74 lawhawk

Flores died on the way up, That’s about the only bit they got straight, the rest was nonsense.

78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 12:11:34pm

re: #73 electrotek

Liberals should continue to pound Bill O’Reilly until he flinches and admits fault. They should not give up and definitely should not give in to wingnuts.

He will not flinch and admit fault, he will claim that he is being hounded and persecuted and deflect.

79 Belafon  Feb 22, 2015 12:11:38pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

You can fail if you try, and most things take many failures before succeeding. The only thing doing nothing gets you is nothing.

80 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 12:14:27pm

re: #76 wrenchwench

Not sure about this:

A life spent making mistakes is more honorable than a life spent doing nothing.

How can they call me a failure if I’ve never tried anything?

-Andy Capp

81 Targetpractice  Feb 22, 2015 12:14:29pm

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He will not flinch and admit fault, he will claim that he is being hounded and persecuted and deflect.

Agreed, he won’t admit fault unless forced to, and there’s no chance that Ailes will even let one of his biggest viewer draws admit that he’s a liar. So Bill’O will simply continue name-calling and excuse-making until another major news story wipes this off the public’s radar.

82 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 22, 2015 12:15:17pm

re: #81 Targetpractice

Agreed, he won’t admit fault unless forced to, and there’s no chance that Ailes will even let one of his biggest viewer draws admit that he’s a liar. So Bill’O will simply continue name-calling and excuse-making until another major news story wipes this off the public’s radar.

The people who love and admire him will not find their loyalty the least bit affected, they will just be annoyed at how he is being “hounded”.

83 Dr. Matt  Feb 22, 2015 12:15:41pm

re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He will not flinch and admit fault, he will claim that he is being hounded and persecuted and deflect.

His first and only instinct was to respond with personal insults of David Corn. Enough said.

84 Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 22, 2015 12:18:47pm

A bit of happy news from Greater Cincinnati today:

Karson has been missing for two months.

85 wrenchwench  Feb 22, 2015 12:23:18pm
86 BeachDem  Feb 22, 2015 12:29:01pm

re: #20 Justanotherhuman

“During this period of forced inaction, he later wrote, “on a visit to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, I stumbled upon an amazing story. The tiny fishing village of Provincetown had become a gay mecca!” O’Reilly took a cameraman there and did a piece on the dangers this posed to local kids, but the network wouldn’t air it. Not long after that, he left.”

newyorker.com

Wait, so Billo thinks he discovered that there were gay folks in P-town in the mid 1980s? Little bit slow on the draw there, O’Reilly. Growing up in Mass., I knew about P-Town in the 50s and 60s.

By the 1970s Provincetown had a significant gay population, especially during the summer tourist season, when restaurants, bars and small shops serving the tourist trade were open. There had been a gay presence in Provincetown as early as the start of the 20th century as the artists’ colony developed, along with experimental theatre. Drag queens could be seen in performance as early as the 1940s in Provincetown. In 1978 the Provincetown Business Guild (PBG) was formed to promote gay tourism.
en.wikipedia.org


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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
4 days ago
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