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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-CBS colleague of O'Reilly gives devastating rebuttal to BillO's "combat" lies
From Eric Jon Engberg, via Facebook:
The riot around the presidential palace was actually short-lived. It consisted mostly of chanting, fist-shaking and throwing coins at the uniformed soldiers who were assembled outside the palace. I did not see any police attacks against demonstrators. According to Doyle, O'Reilly returned to the hotel in a rage over the fact that his cameraman wouldn't turn on the lights to photograph angry crowds. Doyle defended the cameraman and chewed out O'Reilly for violating his instructions on lights. When Doyle looked at the tape shot by O'Reilly's cameraman he saw that the video included stand-ups -- on camera description by the reporter -- which O'Reilly had ordered the cameraman to shoot -- with his light on. Doyle was further upset by this tape, which clearly showed that his orders on lights had been unilaterally violated by O'Reilly. The issue here was safety.
CBS was doing a late night re-cap of the Falkland's story. As always the Buenos Aires bureau had no combat video footage to offer, so our part of the special would be the demonstrations, which had been well covered by three or four camera crews, including the one working with O'Reilly. All that footage was blended into the main story, narrated by Schieffer, who had been in Buenos Aires for weeks as the anchor on the scene. When Doyle informed O'Reilly that Schieffer would be doing the report, which would not include any segment from O'Reilly, the reporter exploded. "I didn't come down here to have my footage used by that old man," he shouted. Doyle was stunned. First O'Reilly had defiantly ordered a cameraman to disregard his orders on using lights, and now he was claiming the right to do a story the producers had decided should be done by the senior correspondent on the scene, Schieffer. This confrontation led the next day to O'Reilly being ordered out of Argentina by the CBS bosses. Doyle had told them O'Reilly was a "disruptive force" who threatened his bureau's morale and cohesion.
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.
It's a long, but good read:
https://www.facebook.com/eric.j.engberg/posts/10204873374051471?fref=nf
-- and let's not lose sight of the fact that, on top of all of this about the riot, O'Reilly is still lying and claiming he never said he was in the Falklands, when, in fact, he did...multiple times, on air and in print.
Add to this the imaginary Peabodys and the fake Paris Business Review and you have a guy with problems worse than anything Brian Williams ever did.
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Ex-CBS colleague of O'Reilly gives devastating rebuttal to BillO's "combat" lies (Original Post)
Adenoid_Hynkel
Feb 2015
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UTUSN
(70,695 posts)1. R#9 & K-ing all of these threads *FOREVER*!1 nt
spanone
(135,836 posts)2. k&r...
i'd like to see this smug, arrogant entertainer put in his proper place.
kairos12
(12,861 posts)3. +1000
barbtries
(28,795 posts)4. i shared it
and recommend that others do so as well. o'reilly is a lying sack of shit
NBachers
(17,110 posts)5. It's not just the detailed Facebook account; it's the comments from the news pros below
None of these news pros have the least bit of regard for Billo; none of them give him any credibility. Read it all the way to the bottom.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)7. I DID read it all the way to the bottom.
Yikes !
This must absolutely become public knowledge.
I suspect his career might be done, even at fox.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)6. The one big difference
is that Billo won't be forced out of his job because of his pernicious dishonesty.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)8. Not surprised, but this should be an all-points bulletin!
Bill O'Fucking Reilly should be shamed out of television. But, as you all well know, a sociopath cannot be shamed.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)9. conservatism is a mental illness
And al Franken wrote an entire book about their habit of lying. Rec
wildbilln864
(13,382 posts)10. k & r! n/t