Discussion: O'Reilly Pulls A Brian Williams? Questions Surface Over His War Coverage

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Billo making things up? Surely you jest! Wait…isn’t that his job?

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O’Loofah has to feed his reality-averse audience a steady flow of lies. There is no need to apologize for doing what you’re supposed to

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O’Reilly also claims to haves spent a lot of time with Martin Loofah King, Jr.

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This is going to be very interesting,mainly because BillOs own words are in print,let alone the video tape.Popcorn over here please,lightly buttered Thank You.

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Didn’t he used to do Access Hollywood or something ‘total fluff’ like that? But seriously, it is not like he is a REAL journalist or anything.

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Like it matters. He will be affected not at all.

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This is going nowhere.

#IOKIYAR

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What I love best about this, is O’Reilly will make this a front page story all be himself, so finally a bigger audience will recognize what a lying blowhard he really is.

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Bill O’Reilly, too big to fail.

Just ask him.

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Yes because he will get a pass from the "liberal"media and the GOPERs will come to his rescue

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P.J. O’Roark was right about it…war correspondents’ stories get bigger with the retellings.

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No, it’ll all be a distraction to try to dilute attacks against well known librul Brian Williams. And probably something involving Benghazi.

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By the time they reach 60 most of the guys down at the VFW hall are Audie Murphy.

The passage of time promotes embellishment. The fact that O’Reilly is an unashamed attention whore adds an additional layer. Unlike Williams, who admitted the truth when confronted, don’t expect O’Reilly to back down. He doesn’t have that kind of courage.

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He only covers HOLY WARS.

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It’s clear that BillO has substantially inflated his account of covering the Falklands conflict while he was 1,200 miles away. By that yardstick, I was right in the middle of the Ferguson protests, even though I never left my home in Virginia.

Fox News, however, will do nothing about this. That’s because credibility has never been one of their news values. Incredibility is much more valued by Fox, and for that reason, BillO might even get a raise.

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NBC suspended Williams and his career as an anchor is almost certainly over. O’Reilly? Fox will probably give him a medal…

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The real scandal is that there are so many wars that even the people who cover them get mixed up.

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The thing is, there’s a difference between lying on the actual news, where anything reported is presumed to be true, and lying on fox news, where anything reported is presumed to be false.

It’s sort of like when FAIR pined down Rush Limbaugh, and his excuse for his lies was, “Hey, I’m an entertainer, not a reporter. I have no responsibility to be factual”.

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