Ulaven_Demorte
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Here’s a story nobody could have predicted: Bill O’Reilly is a big fat liar. Again. And yes, we’re still reeling from the devastating breaking news too. The guy who claimed to have won Peabody awards that were in fact Polk awards that were in fact not awarded to him or for his work at all has told some untruths about his own journalism experiences.
Say it ain’t so!
Being a real stand-up kind of guy, and a serious journalist to boot, Bill O’Reilly recently devoted a segment of his show to whining about the revelation that NBC’s Brian Williams had made up some stories about his heroic and harrowing experience in Iraq when he was doing serious embedded journalism. This, of course, is an affront to real journalists like O’Reilly, especially because NBC won a Peabody Award (an actual one) for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, thanks in part to Williams’s reporting, and O’Reilly is still bitter and jealous about news outlets who win actual Peabody awards instead of just the made-up O’Reilly kind.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7UGC3quedc#t=42
O’Reilly has repeatedly told his audience that he was a war correspondent during the Falklands war and that he experienced combat during that 1982 conflict between England and Argentina. He has often invoked this experience to emphasize that he understands war as only someone who has witnessed it could. As he once put it, “I’ve been there. That’s really what separates me from most of these other bloviators. I bloviate, but I bloviate about stuff I’ve seen. They bloviate about stuff that they haven’t.”
And yet:
American reporters were not on the ground in this distant war zone. “Nobody got to the war zone during the Falklands war,” Susan Zirinsky, a longtime CBS News producer who helped manage the network’s coverage of the war from Buenos Aires. She does not remember what O’Reilly did during his time in Argentina. But she notes that the military junta kept US reporters from reaching the islands: “You weren't allowed on by the Argentinians. No CBS person got there.”
Say it ain’t so!
Being a real stand-up kind of guy, and a serious journalist to boot, Bill O’Reilly recently devoted a segment of his show to whining about the revelation that NBC’s Brian Williams had made up some stories about his heroic and harrowing experience in Iraq when he was doing serious embedded journalism. This, of course, is an affront to real journalists like O’Reilly, especially because NBC won a Peabody Award (an actual one) for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, thanks in part to Williams’s reporting, and O’Reilly is still bitter and jealous about news outlets who win actual Peabody awards instead of just the made-up O’Reilly kind.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7UGC3quedc#t=42
O’Reilly has repeatedly told his audience that he was a war correspondent during the Falklands war and that he experienced combat during that 1982 conflict between England and Argentina. He has often invoked this experience to emphasize that he understands war as only someone who has witnessed it could. As he once put it, “I’ve been there. That’s really what separates me from most of these other bloviators. I bloviate, but I bloviate about stuff I’ve seen. They bloviate about stuff that they haven’t.”
And yet:
American reporters were not on the ground in this distant war zone. “Nobody got to the war zone during the Falklands war,” Susan Zirinsky, a longtime CBS News producer who helped manage the network’s coverage of the war from Buenos Aires. She does not remember what O’Reilly did during his time in Argentina. But she notes that the military junta kept US reporters from reaching the islands: “You weren't allowed on by the Argentinians. No CBS person got there.”
