In 1998, after the launch of “The O’Reilly Factor,” but before superstardom, he published a thriller called “Those Who Trespass,” which is his most ambitious and deeply felt piece of writing. “Those Who Trespass” is a revenge fantasy, and it displays extraordinarily violent impulses. A tall, b.s.-intolerant television journalist named Shannon Michaels, the “product of two Celtic parents,” is pushed out by Global News Network after an incident during the Falkland Islands War, and then by a local station, and he systematically murders the people who ruined his career. He starts with Ron Costello, the veteran correspondent who stole his Falkland story:
“The assailant’s right hand, now holding the oval base of the spoon, rocketed upward, jamming the stainless stem through the roof of Ron Costello’s mouth. The soft tissue gave way quickly and the steel penetrated the correspondent’s brain stem. Ron Costello was clinically dead in four seconds.”
Will there be the same backlash as there was with Brian Williams? No, because people expect Brian Williams to be truthful yet expect Bill O’Reilly to be full of shit. Welcome to the double standard Fox “news” has so bravely brought into the open.
I am disgusted beyond words to see that liberal pinheads are attacking the courageous war reporting for which Bill O’Reilly received his Pulitzer PrizePeabody AwardPolk Awardfalafelloofah free Diet Coke from McDonalds.
Its more true to say that Brian Williams pulled a Bill Oreilly considering that the Falklands war was in 1982.
Oreilly has been lying for over 4 decades or better said, his entire career is based on bullshit and that is likely what he means when he is screaming bullshit now, he’s just admitting it.
Bill Oreilly is a world class ass, so there is no expectation of doing the right thing and there never was. His station didn’t hire him to be truthful, the entire purpose of Faux news is to dissemble bullshit and Oreilly is their #1 bullshitter. David Corn could start from the beginning and right books about Oreilly’s lies or he could just say, Bill Oreilly is a liar and always has been, no book needed.
“If you were assigned to a war, you put on your resume you covered the Falklands, the Middle East, El Salvador, wherever it is where you were sent. That is what journalists do," the Fox host told Mediaite.
So now he’s calling himself a journalist??? Another lie…
It’s cute how we think his viewers will care that he’s lying. They’ve made their peace with his dishonesty long before this latest incident bubbled up. Now, it’s just seen as a badge of honor.
Here’s the giveaway to me: O’Reilly claims that when he was in Buenos Aires during the Falklands War he saved a man’s life and in the process was almost shot by an Argentine soldier who “pointed his M-16” at O’Reilly. What a hero! Except in 1982 the Argentine Army didn’t have M-16s. And even if O’Reilly didn’t know the name of the rifles they did have (they were license-built copies of the Belgian FAL rifle), there’s no possible way anyone of O’Reilly’s generation could fail to recognize that a rifle isn’t an M-16. All the televised coverage of the Vietnam war, all the Vietnam war movies that were out at that time, all the trouble O’Reilly went to to avoid service in Vietnam – the M-16 was instantly recognizable to kids, even, thanks to Mattell Toy Corporation, who sold the “M-16 Marauder” with braaaap-braaap! sounds and to G.I. Joe, who toted one into millions of imaginary backyard battles. In other words, no reporter who’d actually been there could get that wrong – and to be so wrong, and so specifically wrong, is usually the sign of someone who’s pulling it out of his a**.
