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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts) Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:01 PM Feb 2015

Views You Can Use: O'Reilly's War Stories

Views You Can Use: O'Reilly's War Stories

Mother Jones magazine accused Fox News' Bill O'Reilly of having a 'Brian Williams problem.'

By Adriana Scott

Feb. 20, 2015 | 6:15 p.m. EST

David Corn and Daniel Schulman of Mother Jones magazine released a report Thursday highlighting Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly’s supposedly exaggerated recollections of covering the 1982 Falklands War for CBS News. Saying that the Fox host has a "Brian Williams problem" – referring to the recently suspended NBC News anchor – they wrote, "for years, O'Reilly has recounted dramatic stories about his own war reporting that don't withstand scrutiny – even claiming he acted heroically in a war zone that he apparently never set foot in." They note that, while O'Reilly has claimed to have "survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands war," he was actually never near the islands where combat took place, and was instead at the scene of protests in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

O’Reilly shot back, calling Corn a “despicable guttersnipe” in an interview with Politico. “Everything I said about what I reported in South and Central America is true,” O'Reilly said, adding, "I was not on the Falkland Islands and I never said I was. I was in Buenos Aires ... In Buenos Aires we were in a combat situation after the Argentines surrendered."

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Views You Can Use: O'Reilly's War Stories (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2015 OP

This guy got it right, I think... DonViejo Feb 2015 #1

It's called "trying to have it both ways" COLGATE4 Feb 2015 #2

MoJo considers Brian Williams "one of ours"??? Doctor_J Feb 2015 #3

No. Jack Marshall, in reviewing the MoJo charges against O'Reilly, is calling DonViejo Feb 2015 #4

no Doctor_J Feb 2015 #5

Uh, that's what I just wrote... DonViejo Feb 2015 #6

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

1. This guy got it right, I think...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:25 PM

Feb 2015

with the exception of the charge it's revenge for Brian Williams:

Jack Marshall, a lawyer and author of the blog Ethics Alarms, considered that the left-leaning had Mother Jones ulterior reasons to go after O'Reilly, but that they don't negate the investigation's findings. “This is good investigative journalism,” he wrote. “It also wreaks of a deliberate ‘you took one of ours down, so we take one of yours’ hit job by Mother Jones.” But, he wrote, if Mother Jones' report hold up, "then O’Reilly is obligated by his own words to take himself off the air. If he does not, then he will have branded himself a fraud and a hypocrite."

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)

2. It's called "trying to have it both ways"

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 08:55 AM

Feb 2015

"I think that Mother Jones probably wrote a 'hit piece' because 'Fox took one of ours down' but if the article is true then I applaud it".

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

3. MoJo considers Brian Williams "one of ours"???

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #1)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 11:11 AM

Feb 2015

Williams is a right-wing hack and hate radio fan. And BTW O'Really is and will be a fraud and a hypocrite whether he takes himself off the air or not.

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

4. No. Jack Marshall, in reviewing the MoJo charges against O'Reilly, is calling

Reply to Doctor_J (Reply #3)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 11:19 AM

Feb 2015

Williams "one of ours."

Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)

5. no

Reply to DonViejo (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 11:21 AM

Feb 2015

“It also wreaks of a deliberate ‘you took one of ours down, so we take one of yours’ hit job by Mother Jones.”

This guy thinks MoJo considers Williams a kindred spirit. Very insulting to MoJo

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)

6. Uh, that's what I just wrote...

Reply to Doctor_J (Reply #5)

Sat Feb 21, 2015, 11:33 AM

Feb 2015

No. Jack Marshall, in reviewing the MoJo charges against O'Reilly, is calling

Williams "one of ours."

Jack Marshall, a lawyer and author of the blog Ethics Alarms, considered that the left-leaning had Mother Jones ulterior reasons to go after O'Reilly, but that they don't negate the investigation's findings. “This is good investigative journalism,” he wrote. “It also wreaks of a deliberate ‘you took one of ours down, so we take one of yours’ hit job by Mother Jones.” But, he wrote, if Mother Jones' report hold up, "then O’Reilly is obligated by his own words to take himself off the air. If he does not, then he will have branded himself a fraud and a hypocrite."

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