Bill O'Reilly's Cameraman Smacks Down Fox News Host's Falklands Tale
Source: TPM, Mother Jones
ByBrendan JamesPublishedMarch 30, 2015, 12:21 PM EDT
More than a month after Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was called out for apparently embellishing his record covering the Falklands War in the 1980s, his cameraman at the time has disputed key facts in the story.
Mother Jones, which published one of the first reports that sparked the recent investigations into O'Reilly's work, published a statement on Monday from onetime CBS cameraman Ignacio Medrano-Carbo.
Over the years, O'Reilly had repeatedly said he'd seen people gunned down by live bullets in the streets of Buenos Aires in the 1980s when he covered "riots" there for CBS. He also said he personally rescued his cameraman, who he said had been knocked down and was bleeding from the head during the melee.
Medrano-Carbo told Mother Jones that O'Reilly's story was news to him.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ignacio-medrano-carbo-bill-oreilly-falklands
Glad they're keeping this in the news, but of course O'Really (Bill-O) will deny.
still_one
(92,371 posts)also
Yes, and Billo would have stopped it too...
...if it weren't for the liberal media! Ha!
still_one
(92,371 posts)Roy Rolling
(6,928 posts)They were fair and balanced enough to cover the crucifixion. Where was the mainstream media in Jerusalem that day? That's my point.
George II
(67,782 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]
Kingofalldems
(38,469 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)harbinger07
(14 posts)Or he should turn them over to an "independent body" to review them!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)staggerleem
(469 posts)He pitched GOP-TV to BOTH Nixon and Reagan, but neither one bit. He finally got Murdoch to finance it, and lose money for 5 years building a brand. Now, it's EXACTLY what he always thought it could be - a television propaganda arm for the Republican Party.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)angry when she went off script, lol.
harbinger07
(14 posts)Ailes is the Lord Voldemort of broadcasting.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)O'Reilly's never gonna admit he lied, he'll just keep blustering if confronted. It's worked so far.
harbinger07
(14 posts)He resides inside the conservative media bubble. He will never be confronted. I think that a lot of conservatives have this problem.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)old guy
(3,283 posts)If this lying liar worked for any legitimate network he would be gone by now. The one and only reason he is still employed is that Fox entertainment is refusing to fire him and they never will. Until all his listeners finally die of old age he will have a job. A journalist? Not by any stretch of the definition.
George II
(67,782 posts)"Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"
old guy
(3,283 posts)PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)why not... and this one has more talons on it
Enrique
(27,461 posts)god bless O'Reilly for saving him!
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)harbinger07
(14 posts)What's the agenda? Or do I have to ask... the "liberal agenda"?
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Because he is SOOOOO important.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)Just like nobody cares if cruz was born in Canada, or Cuba, or hell for that matter. It just doesn't make a damn bit of difference. Mention it, but don't bother losing sleep over it. It's just one more hypocritical example of the reich wingers in this fuck'd up country we call home.
bor is a God damned liar, and cruz is a complete and utter evangelical tent preacher gone political. They are both worth less than a pile of dust. Everyone knows bor lies and twists truth until it gives up and dies. Everyone knows cruz is a deceitful, smokek-n-mirror snake oil salesman. They ONLY cared about a place of birth because some black man wanted to be President and have legitimacy. Nothing more.
Why Brian Williams ever lost his job over such a trivial and stupid incident still leaves me confused. They ALL lie. They ALL think they are somehow "models" that we adore. God, what a stupid society we wander among.
This whole subject is a waste of time. Nobody on the reich wing cares where cruz was born. Nobody is surprised that bor lied...he lies every day on fox-nonsense, and they swallow it up like ice cream.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,586 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Is that what passes for "lying" in the profession these days?
robbob
(3,537 posts)They updated the article. The big bor is claiming he never ever worked with the camera man. Unfortunately for him, the camera man claims 99% of the footage used in bor's piece was shot by him, and he has the original footage to prove it.
Not only a liar, but a really bad liar. And yes, he IS claiming a liberal media conspiracy to make him look bad.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)UTUSN
(70,725 posts)Stuart G
(38,439 posts)He will sound like the dumb liar that he is as he tries to get himself out...and it will be all over the net..
You and I will see it to when???..but it will happen someday...