Bill O'Reilly's Cameraman Smacks Down Fox News Host's Falklands Tale

[George II]

Source: TPM, Mother Jones

ByBrendan JamesPublishedMarch 30, 2015, 12:21 PM EDT

More than a month after Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was called out for apparently embellishing his record covering the Falklands War in the 1980s, his cameraman at the time has disputed key facts in the story.

Mother Jones, which published one of the first reports that sparked the recent investigations into O'Reilly's work, published a statement on Monday from onetime CBS cameraman Ignacio Medrano-Carbo.

Over the years, O'Reilly had repeatedly said he'd seen people gunned down by live bullets in the streets of Buenos Aires in the 1980s when he covered "riots" there for CBS. He also said he personally rescued his cameraman, who he said had been knocked down and was bleeding from the head during the melee.

Medrano-Carbo told Mother Jones that O'Reilly's story was news to him.


Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ignacio-medrano-carbo-bill-oreilly-falklands

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Glad they're keeping this in the news, but of course O'Really (Bill-O) will deny.

[still_one]

1. As someone mentioned to me yesterday in o'reilly's "Killing of Jesus", he was there when that occurred

also

[harbinger07]

6. funny

Yes, and Billo would have stopped it too...

...if it weren't for the liberal media! Ha!

[still_one]

19. I agree

[Roy Rolling]

26. I did see it on Fox News

They were fair and balanced enough to cover the crucifixion. Where was the mainstream media in Jerusalem that day? That's my point.

[George II]

28. That was when his name was Barrabas

[bravenak]

29. I remember the paintinb with him in it.

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[Kingofalldems]

2. Kick and Rec all O'Reilly threads.

[Thinkingabout]

3. Where are his emails, he needs to produce all of them.

[harbinger07]

17. turn them over

Or he should turn them over to an "independent body" to review them!

[Thinkingabout]

24. Truth must be in them somewhere, we know we can't trust him.

[Sunlei]

4. republican-fox-lies, is at least a consistent Republican BRAND TV

[staggerleem]

7. That WAS Rodger Ailes original idea!

He pitched GOP-TV to BOTH Nixon and Reagan, but neither one bit. He finally got Murdoch to finance it, and lose money for 5 years building a brand. Now, it's EXACTLY what he always thought it could be - a television propaganda arm for the Republican Party.

[Sunlei]

12. oh Rodger Ailes, fox lies manager? he was the one who screamed about paying palin a million a year?

angry when she went off script, lol.

[harbinger07]

15. Ailes

Ailes is the Lord Voldemort of broadcasting.

[Shrike47]

5. It was a 'different' camera man O'Rellly helped. Perhaps a 6 foot invisible cameraman? Just wait.

O'Reilly's never gonna admit he lied, he'll just keep blustering if confronted. It's worked so far.

[harbinger07]

10. He will never be confronted.

He resides inside the conservative media bubble. He will never be confronted. I think that a lot of conservatives have this problem.

[Sunlei]

14. R fox lies & O'really? will never be confronted- they hate real journalists with real questions.

[old guy]

8. Face it.

If this lying liar worked for any legitimate network he would be gone by now. The one and only reason he is still employed is that Fox entertainment is refusing to fire him and they never will. Until all his listeners finally die of old age he will have a job. A journalist? Not by any stretch of the definition.

[George II]

22. Time for me to pull out Al Franken's book and reread it:

"Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them"

[old guy]

23. Yes indeed.

[PatrynXX]

9. well if they keep Benghazi in the news

why not... and this one has more talons on it

[Enrique]

11. he must have amnesia from the blow to the head

god bless O'Reilly for saving him!

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

13. What a lying ahole.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. He'll claim it's all part of "the agenda".

[harbinger07]

20. the agenda?

What's the agenda? Or do I have to ask... the "liberal agenda"?

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. It's a conspiracy to try to discredit him by "smear merchants".....

Because he is SOOOOO important.

[Hulk]

18. Nobody care.....

Just like nobody cares if cruz was born in Canada, or Cuba, or hell for that matter. It just doesn't make a damn bit of difference. Mention it, but don't bother losing sleep over it. It's just one more hypocritical example of the reich wingers in this fuck'd up country we call home.

bor is a God damned liar, and cruz is a complete and utter evangelical tent preacher gone political. They are both worth less than a pile of dust. Everyone knows bor lies and twists truth until it gives up and dies. Everyone knows cruz is a deceitful, smokek-n-mirror snake oil salesman. They ONLY cared about a place of birth because some black man wanted to be President and have legitimacy. Nothing more.

Why Brian Williams ever lost his job over such a trivial and stupid incident still leaves me confused. They ALL lie. They ALL think they are somehow "models" that we adore. God, what a stupid society we wander among.

This whole subject is a waste of time. Nobody on the reich wing cares where cruz was born. Nobody is surprised that bor lied...he lies every day on fox-nonsense, and they swallow it up like ice cream.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

21. Bill has done and seen it all!

[KansDem]

27. "Embellishing his record" ???

Is that what passes for "lying" in the profession these days?

[robbob]

30. He's already denying...

They updated the article. The big bor is claiming he never ever worked with the camera man. Unfortunately for him, the camera man claims 99% of the footage used in bor's piece was shot by him, and he has the original footage to prove it.

Not only a liar, but a really bad liar. And yes, he IS claiming a liberal media conspiracy to make him look bad.

[yellowcanine]

31. Clearly just another left wing stooge out to get Bill O........

[UTUSN]

32. R#50 & K for, keeping it kicked for O'REILLY and his Googling himself n/t

[Stuart G]

33. K and R...someday, someone will confront him on these lies.

He will sound like the dumb liar that he is as he tries to get himself out...and it will be all over the net..

You and I will see it to when???..but it will happen someday...