LIAR: Another Fabrication: O'Reilly NEVER Witnessed The Murder Of Nuns In El Salvador

[kpete]

Another Fabrication: O'Reilly Never Witnessed The Murder Of Nuns In El Salvador
O'Reilly's Claim To Have Seen Nuns "Shot In The Back Of The Head" Contradicted By His Own Timeline



Bill O'Reilly has claimed repeatedly that he witnessed the execution of nuns while reporting in 1981 on the civil war in El Salvador, an apparent fabrication that is at odds with both history and what O'Reilly himself has said about arriving in the country after the event took place, according to new information unearthed by Media Matters.
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Between 1980 and 1992, a civil war raged in El Salvador between the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the government of El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, four members of the Salvadoran national guard raped and shot "three American nuns and a layworker." The tragedy ''did more to inflame the debate over El Salvador in the United States than any other single incident,'' according to a 1993 State Department report. After the death of Silvia Arriola, a member of a religious order killed six weeks after those four churchwomen, "no priests or nuns were killed in El Salvador for more than eight years," according to Dr. Anna Lisa Peterson, a professor of religion at the University of Florida.

O'Reilly has spoken on several occasions about his time covering the Salvadoran civil war as a CBS correspondent in 1981, suggesting at least twice that he witnessed the murder of the churchwomen. On the September 27, 2005, edition of his talk-radio program The Radio Factor, O'Reilly said, "I've seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador." And on the December 14, 2012, edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly spoke of telling his mother that "I was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head."

However, O'Reilly could not possibly have witnessed the murder of the churchwomen if his own timeline is to be believed. The former CBS correspondent only arrived in El Salvador in 1981, as he mentioned on the February 22, 2002, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, saying (according to Nexis transcript), "Before I went to El Salvador in 1981, I talked with some experienced Latin American experts, people who had seen the brutal wars down there for themselves. I had never been in a war zone before, so I wanted some prep."



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[Rex]

1. I get it now, O' Blowhard is Zelig!

[lovemydog]

5. Here he is telling Babe Ruth

'Just hit the ball out of the park, ya loser.'

[Rex]

7. BAWHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I love it!!!

[Panich52]

8. Or Forrest Gump.

I have suspicion thete are gonna be more of these 'embellishments' show up. If he'd just admitted to the 1st one about Falklands, and not threatened a reporter, story would've probably died quickly.


Maddow just played O'Really calling reporter a 'guttersnipe.' Har

[Rex]

9. The reason I left Forrest alone is he didn't lie about anything. He was a straight arrow.

Zelig on the other hand, lied all the time and probably for good reason.

Guttersnipe?

Wow he is going deep into the well now for inane retorts. I expect his media persona-self destruction any day now.

[Panich52]

15. True. And Gump was nice guy. Never bad word about anyone. Anti-O'R

[Segami]

2. Cats out of the bag,....

Billo is a 'Jumper'.............thats how he's able to be in two places at the same time......

[Cali_Democrat]

4. LOL. nt

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. He also sees Russia from his back door. n/t

[Fumesucker]

6. There is probably a minor industry going now looking for O'Reilly lies..

This is going to be fun to watch..

[johnnyreb]

10. And now a message from our baroque oratorio:

Uploaded on Sep 19, 2007

Excerpt from "Mackris v. O'Reilly", a baroque oratorio composed by Igor Keller. Libretto uses verbatim transcript of sexual harassment complaint brought against Bill O'Reilly in 2004.

[salin]

12. wow. Had never seen that. This needs to go viral (if it hasn't already.)

This from the harassment words of the master warrior in the war against Christmas.

[ND-Dem]

13. yuck

[UTUSN]

11. R#13 & K for, *GREAT* patton graphic!1 Am saving it for my CONSTANT USE!1 n/t

Loving that PATTON graphic!1 Here's MINE = VFW bestowing an award on chickenhawk:

[Initech]

14. Is there anything that this guy won't lie about?

[Aerows]

16. He *did* lose a leg at Appomattox Courthouse

and survived the plague in 1352. He deserves credit for that!

[Initech]

17. He survived the Alamo!

[pinboy3niner]

18. And the Battle Of The Little Bighorn

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018730584

[Aerows]

19. He's the only

journalist to cover the Cabildo Fires, both times! *