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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 06:46 AM Feb 2017

Swedish military has never heard of Fox News's "swedish defense advisor", denies knowing him

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/24/bill-o-reilly-hosted-fake-swedish-defense-advisor-fearmonger-about-refugees/215463

On the February 23 edition of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly brought on a guest named Nils Bildt, who was introduced as “a Swedish defense and national security advisor,” to discuss Sweden’s refugee policies.

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According to a translation of an article in the Swedish outlet Göteborgs-Posten, the press secretary of the Swedish Armed Forces has said that they “do not know who Bildt is,” and that he is “definitely not a spokesman for the Armed Forces.” The translated Göteborgs-Posten article reported that Bildt currently lives in Japan.




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First they book a prankster who claimed to organize anti-Trump-protests for money.

Then they book somebody who claims to be an organizer for women's rights protests, but is actually just the friend of a friend of an organizer.

Then they book a swedish military expert who is abso-fucking-lutely none of those three things.
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Swedish military has never heard of Fox News's "swedish defense advisor", denies knowing him (Original Post) DetlefK Feb 2017 OP
fox noise and right wing radio madokie Feb 2017 #1
fake news Dorian Gray Feb 2017 #2
Fox Lies DFW Feb 2017 #3
fake news SledDriver Feb 2017 #4
all of those need to go off the air. seriously . please bring back decent music AllaN01Bear Feb 2017 #5
If you're looking for a TV-channel with decent music... DetlefK Feb 2017 #11
Goebellsvision! Chasstev365 Feb 2017 #6
Particularly galling because this is the Felon in Chief's chief news source Mr. Ected Feb 2017 #7
This is only the latest in a long string of fraud "experts" appearing on Fox Blue_Tires Feb 2017 #8
Grifter mercuryblues Feb 2017 #9
I didn't buy the "Swedish defense advisor" from the beginning. He just looked flaky... pinboy3niner Feb 2017 #10
Expose FAKE NEWS kick. oasis Feb 2017 #12

AllaN01Bear

(17,383 posts)
5. all of those need to go off the air. seriously . please bring back decent music
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 08:05 AM
Feb 2017

not this rable rousing enticing nonsense.was at a local carls jr. ( isupport the local outfit , not the yahoo who owns it) they had tvs originaly for ads. no one was watching them, so they switched to fox news. came back a week later , now running cnn, many coustomers dont pay attention.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
11. If you're looking for a TV-channel with decent music...
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 02:25 PM
Feb 2017

Well, it's sad that "Music Television" aka "MTV" no longer has music... At least in Germany we have "Deluxe Music". Nothing but music-videos from the 1970s to today, 24/7. And relatively few commercials.
Hosts are for example the music-journalist Markus Kavka (sort of a legend since his days as a host at MTV Germany in the 1990s) and the punk-singer Jennifer Weist.

You can livestream it here:
https://www.deluxemusic.tv/tv.html

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
7. Particularly galling because this is the Felon in Chief's chief news source
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 08:54 AM
Feb 2017

And the basis of his national security decisions.

Our country has become a laughingstock. Sad.

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
9. Grifter
Mon Feb 27, 2017, 10:05 AM
Feb 2017

Highlights from the WaPo article. His real name is Nils Tolling and immigrated to the US in 1994. There is some dispute that he was convicted of a crime in 2014 and spent some time in prison. He has admitted and denied that report. He was enrolled in a security class at King's College, but left the program early and did not complete it. I read an article that his online bio said he was in the Swedish Navy. The OP reports that the Swedish Military has never heard of him.

But here is the money maker part of the story.


The surname Bildt is well-known in Swedish political circles due to Carl Bildt, the former Swedish prime minister and Swedish foreign minister. Nils Bildt said that he was related to Carl Bildt, who he described as a "most decent and good man." However, when contacted by WorldViews, Carl Bildt noted that his brother, a successful Swedish entrepreneur who is also called Nils, was "highly irritated" when he heard Nils Tolling had began using the surname Bildt. Carl Bildt suggested that the former Nils Tolling had been "trying to use the name to gain favors."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/who-is-nils-bildt-swedish-national-security-advisor-interviewed-by-fox-news-is-a-mystery-to-swedes/?utm_term=.6773f071f736
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