WestVirginiaRebel Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Fox News: Bill O’Reilly responded to a Mother Jones story accusing him of making false claims about his reporting on the Falklands War by calling its author a liar. The Fox News host told me in an interview that he has always accurately described what happened during that period and that David Corn, Washington bureau chief of the left-wing magazine, “is a liar, a smear merchant, and will do anything he can to injure me and the network. Everybody knows that. Everything I’ve reported about my journalistic career is true.” Corn, who is also an MSNBC contributor, said last night that he had tried repeatedly, through e-mails and voice mails, to obtain comment from O’Reilly or Fox. “I’d never speak to him,” O’Reilly said. The crux of the story involves O’Reilly’s role as a CBS correspondent in the 1982 shooting war between Britain and Argentina over the disputed islands. Referring to the press corps, O’Reilly told me: “Nobody was on the Falklands and I never said I was on the island, ever.” Corn was a Fox News contributor, from 2001 to 2008, whose contract was not renewed. The adversarial tone of the story he co-authored is telegraphed in the headline: “Bill O’Reilly Has His Own Brian Williams Problem.” That clearly accuses O’Reilly of telling lies on par with the false tale that prompted NBC to impose a six-month suspension on Williams, who had to apologize for claiming that he was on a helicopter hit by a rocket-propelled grenade over Iraq in 2003. And yet the Mother Jones piece appears to turn on semantics, not some specific story that O’Reilly told about being in the Falklands. ________ An outlet founded by hippies versus an angry Irishman...bring popcorn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 @WestVirginaRebel He's going to answer tonight. I'll try and post the vid tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 (edited) http://youtu.be/w-JaudqUf9Q Edited February 21, 2015 by Valin Longer version 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 FOOD FIGHT!!! http://youtu.be/ckuUBRlXIwo http://youtu.be/caRpdPdxtY4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 The FOOD FIGHT continues... Transcript Two quick points 1. This is how you do it. This is how you destroy someones tale...quietly...calmly, and Hugh is a master of the art. 2. What was David Corn Thinking! DU: Bill O'Reilly about Falkland-controversy: "I want to stop this now. I hope we can stop it." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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