If we are to apply Bill O’Reilly’s definition of being under fire, then every New Yorker was in a war zone if they were in the NYC metro area on 9/11. Towers falling, apocalyptic scenes right out of Dante’s Inferno with Lower Manhattan shrouded in toxic clouds, and a death toll that was unimaginable (and still growing as more and more people die from the effects of breathing in the toxic crap at Ground Zero and up on the Hill in Staten Island where the debris was taken to be sorted to try and find still more remains).

All that was missing is the combat badge, though more than a few ppl in the region still suffer from PTSD from the experience.

Add to that the 1993 WTC bombing or the Times Square bombing fizzle that could have had dire consequences.

Or if you’re on the West Coast, anyone who was in LA during the riots.

But that’s not anyone’s accepted definition of a war zone, or combat.

It stretched credulity, and O’Reilly knows it. Which is why he’s furiously spinning in his “No Spin Zone”. But he also knows that Fox wont take the kind of actions that NBC did with Williams. Because if they did, they’d probably have to dock all of their on-air talent for the endless stream of lies - I’m not talking about their opinions mind you. They’re free to express their ignorance all they like. But when it comes to facts, saying up is down, left is right, and that you’re in war zones when you aren’t, those are lies. And cannot and should not be tolerated.

It’s still a firing offense in my book, and O’Reilly should be gone.