***** Is that true? I love this story and I hope O'Reilly goes down. But, I thought he said it was blown out of proportion and that Williams shouldn't be suspended.
AWildBard Unlike O'reilley, Williams was in real danger and he can easily be forgiven for misremembering exactly where the RPG and bullets landed. O'reilley made shit up on live television, and now is calling everyone stupid enough to let this slide, and he's pulling it off.
EclipseClemens Yes I agree, Brian Williams's story is closer to the truth. He was also down-playing danger, while O'Reilly was fabricating danger to make himself look awesome. Stolen valor. But I thought O'Reilly didn't think Williams should lose his job.? I'm not sure about that.
I love how everything Bill O'Reilly says printed out word-for-word on the screen. Is that necessary? Is that for his remaining audience, the old people in the nursing homes who can't hear anymore?
Billo said 'troops fired into the crowd', while that may have happened in Argentina it was because there were protests against the Junta for their handling of the war. It was not part of the war. Talk about a pin-head, he cannot tell the difference between Argentine soldiers firing on civilians in Buenos Aires and UK and Argentinian Soldiers fighting.
True, but so many value his opinion and here he is a complete liar. So now are they to value a complete liars opinion still? Williams read the news, no opinions. Whooooptidydooo!
My mother lived through those war zones in El Salvador. It's ridiculous someone would exaggerate what they've been through for money (that's really all this is about. It adds credibility which gets him more money).
Brilliant commentary, Cenk. My favorite is the bit about B.O. not being able to refute the facts so he makes it personal....this is always B.O.'s tactic....which makes him a bully.
This photographer that was run down and got a head injury. Someone needs to ask Bill O Reilly what his name was then go find the camera man and interview him.
who was that guy that said he climbed up the wall during the Benghazi attack and it turned out he wasn't even there or some other pile of crap? well whoever that guy is (and I'd like to know), he's like O'Reilly.
Time can't justify theft. We know very well Argentine people have not been allowed to migrate freely and that pro-South American opinions can be expressed freely without social ostracising in the islands. With thousands of military personnel from the real UK living in the island sure it has an impact on the opinions people express.
There has got to be somebody in Argentina who remembers this "combat situation" that O'Reilly describes. Why not contact people in Argentina and let them get the story straight?
Just think of the the situation in Argentina at the time. I remember saying (as did others) as soon as Thatcher started her task force gig that it would either be the end of her or the end of Galtieri. Unfortunately, we couldn't have both, and Galtieri was the goner. A hated military junta had just gambled and lost, was utterly humiliated and clearly finished. Such situations are always tumultuous but rarely very violent, not to the extent of soldiers shooting into unarmed crowds. Soldiers, police etc. know the times are a-changin' and don't want to be on the wrong end of either popular retribution or formal trials over human rights abuses. This is when those with most blood on their hands, often the middle management of the police or army, start to make themselves scarce, slip across borders, etc., while those left behind are in survival mode and not about to perpetrate any new atrocities. Sometimes, they change sides, but even if they don't do that they're inevitably mainly mindful of their own futures in whatever new order is about to emerge. There have been exceptions, but that's the general rule. The exceptions usually occur only when a major external power continues to back the regime and supports a new wave of repression. But that wasn't the situation in Argentina. Uncle Sam had already dumped Galtieri, he was done for, and so was military rule.
Just a quick point - it wasn't a "WAR" as neither country declared war on each other - it was the Falklands Conflict. Re OReilly's comment, if he was in Washington covering the Gulf War does that mean he was in a conflict zone covering the war?
Why when Oreily speaks on the right we have the subtitles of his speech? If this is for deaf people the subtitles should be on the bottom of the screen.
O'Reilly is also the son of a working-class family whose father "never made more than $35,000" his entire life. Except that $35,000 when his father retired in 1980 is equivalent to $100,000 now, and O'Reilly went to a private school growing up.
Who else is sick of seeing that commercial where the girl looking in the car's rear camera tells her dad to stop because she sees a boy she likes? I've seen it about a hundred times now, and once was too much. I will make sure to NEVER buy that vehicle.
You know what's hilarious about Bill O'Reilly is Everything he says is written down. I'd assume it's for his viewers who have a tough time to hear, or need to turn their hearing aids up.
BILL has been to a war zone,,,,,,he calls it a no spin zone,,, a fair and balanced,,,no spin zone not much else there but i liked the part about bill calling someone else a LIAR
It would be fun to hear O'Reilly's account of his heroism in the North of Ireland. His surname might not have made him too popular down the Shankill Road.
Credibility is integer number, and even before this, this number could not go lower for Bill O'Reilly. I guess we have to use double precision number for his credibility, where sign number states constant 1, and exponent part is very large, and positive :D
Dear Cenk, don't break the man in a million pieces. He's not really lying, his fantasy iis getting the best of him. He is still doing the same shiit and never grew up.
If he was in the war in El Salvador in "war zones" he wouldn't have lived, how the hell was he in the war zone and survived without a gun? Even if he was in El Salvador, he sure as hell wasn't in the war zones
