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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill O’Reilly’s humiliating bust: Does Fox News have guts to suspend its own serial exaggerator?
Mother Jones shows Fox host has his own Brian Williams problem. Now we'll learn whether Fox cares about "truth"JOAN WALSH
Bill OReilly was predictably sanctimonious about the troubles of NBCs Brian Williams sanctimony shot with schadenfreude is the best kind of high for the Fox bully. So when Mother Jones charged OReilly with exaggerating his own war reporting record Thursday night, it didnt take long for him to launch a counter-attack. He called story co-author David Corn a despicable guttersnipe and told Politico that Corn had been trying to take him down for years.
That in itself was a sign that the punch landed; normally OReilly doesnt descend from his perch in the no-spin zone to debate mere mortals on platforms besides Fox. The Mother Jones story is embarrassing, but its probably not fatal. Most of the reporting on Fox has roughly the same relationship with the truth as OReillys claim to combat zone action. I cant see him facing censure for this, but I hope Im wrong.
If you missed the action, Corn and Daniel Schulman reported that despite OReillys claims of having survived a combat operation during the Falklands War, the Fox host, then with CBS, only got as close as Buenos Aires, roughly 1,400 miles away from the fighting. Nobody from CBS got to the Falklands, CBSs Bob Schieffer told Mother Jones. I came close. Wed been trying to get somebody down there. It was impossible.
There was, of course, no combat in the Argentinian capital, but there was a raucous protest, and thats apparently what OReilly refers to as a combat operation. He also claimed he was the only CBS reporter covering the demonstration, which Schieffer likewise denies. We were all out with our camera crews that day to cover the protest, Schieffer says. Id been out there with a crew too.
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Bill O’Reilly’s humiliating bust: Does Fox News have guts to suspend its own serial exaggerator? (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2015
OP
of course they care! they fought in court for the right to fire people who refuse to tell lies!
unblock
Feb 2015
#2
BillO caught with hides (on fire) pants down AGAIN! Nothin new to see here.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Feb 2015
#3
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)1. 'Now we'll learn whether Fox cares about "truth"'
I'm waiting with bated breath.
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)4. lol. faux doesnt care
unblock
(52,317 posts)2. of course they care! they fought in court for the right to fire people who refuse to tell lies!
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)3. BillO caught with hides (on fire) pants down AGAIN! Nothin new to see here.