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Bill O'Reilly has His Own Brian Williams Problem
Mother Jones ^ | 2/19/2015 | David Corn and Daniel Schulman

Posted on 02/20/2015 3:09:59 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist

After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter while covering the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly went on a tear. On his television show, the top-rated cable news anchor declared that the American press isn't "half as responsible as the men who forged the nation." He bemoaned the supposed culture of deception within the liberal media, and he proclaimed that the Williams controversy should prompt questioning of other "distortions" by left-leaning outlets. Yet 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. ...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: briamwilliamslies; brianwilliams; foxnews; lyingliars; motherjones; nbc; oreilly; oreillylies
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Much more there. Who knows how this will turn out...
1 posted on 02/20/2015 3:09:59 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

BOR is not a journalist, he is a bloviator by trade.


2 posted on 02/20/2015 3:11:05 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

O’Reilly is a blow hard, whereas ‘Williams was a supposedly ‘respected news man.’


3 posted on 02/20/2015 3:11:42 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I seldom trust any of those fools on tv left right or in the middle I have always felt Oreally was full of it


4 posted on 02/20/2015 3:12:33 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist; All

Corn and Schulman and what they say in the article versus O’Reilly and what O’Reilly may or may not have said or done in the past?

This could get interesting as the things go forward on this...

O’Reilly saying (not saying he will say this) that this is just a liberal outlet (and Mother Jones is definitely a liberal outlet) would just be using Ad Hominem.


5 posted on 02/20/2015 3:13:41 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: GeronL

Hmmm. Possibly a two-fer. Williams gone and now maybe O’Reilly.

I don’t see a downside here.


6 posted on 02/20/2015 3:15:17 PM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: abb

I wouldn’t miss him but if BOR goes, shouldn’t every single host at MSNBC and CNN go too?


7 posted on 02/20/2015 3:16:29 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Short version:
“I covered the Falklands War!”
(From Uruguay and Artentina.)


8 posted on 02/20/2015 3:17:00 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I hope this isn’t true, not because I have any fondness for BOR, but because the crazies will use this as another opportunity to bash the right, even though BOR is not a conservative.

So, before we start feeling any Schadenfreude over this....


9 posted on 02/20/2015 3:17:59 PM PST by clintonh8r (CHRISTIAN LIVES MATTER!!!!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Bullshit. let’s quote Cory Gardner football-truther David Corn.


10 posted on 02/20/2015 3:18:06 PM PST by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushes)
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To: Travis McGee

I have no love for BO.. be it Bill O’Reilly or Barack Obama


11 posted on 02/20/2015 3:20:09 PM PST by tophat9000 (An Eye for an Eye, a Word for a Word...nothing more)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Besides being unwatchable, BOR has an Andrea Mackris / “falafel” problem that he swept under the rug with a big, undisclosed payoff.


12 posted on 02/20/2015 3:21:01 PM PST by twister881
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To: tophat9000

I agree.
He’s the biggest bloviator around. He’s less informed on most topics than most of his guests, and it shows. But he just bloviates on.


13 posted on 02/20/2015 3:21:21 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

I stopped watching Bill O after he back-stabbed the Swift Boat Vets. So thats been a while.

He’s a phony. His schtick is to be the sane middle ground between two straw men.


14 posted on 02/20/2015 3:21:47 PM PST by marron
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Mother Jones? Sorry, ain’t going to give them the hit.........


15 posted on 02/20/2015 3:23:46 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Uncle Sy: "Beavers are like Ninjas, they only come out at night and they're hard to find")
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To: GeronL

“even claiming he acted heroically in a war zone that he apparently never set foot in”

Yes but that was when he was in his alter ego status as Ted Baxter. :-)


16 posted on 02/20/2015 3:24:23 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

O’Reilly never said he made it to the Falkland Islands.

He was supposedly in some dust up while in Argentina “During the Falklands”.

Cute, how MJ is creating a whole new scenario by implications and inuendo...


17 posted on 02/20/2015 3:25:03 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

It would be wonderful if BOR fell and a real conservative could take over his spot.


18 posted on 02/20/2015 3:25:12 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (#JuSuisCharlesMartel)
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To: GreyFriar

This is how liberals always respond, well your guy did it too, Thing is the supposed credibility of a news anchorman is set at a much higher standard than a commentator.


19 posted on 02/20/2015 3:25:28 PM PST by TonyM
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To: GeronL

BOR has gotten extremely belligerent and annoying lately.

Maybe he knows he’s being investigated for BW Syndrome.


20 posted on 02/20/2015 3:26:15 PM PST by miserare ("Reverence for life--life of all kinds--is the first principle of civilization." ~~Schweitzer)
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