Another shoe drops: Bill O’Reilly’s ex-colleagues call his L.A. riot stories ‘completely ficticious’

[Katashi_itto]

Fox News host, whose stories of past reporting exploits are under renewed scrutiny, claimed ‘we were attacked by protesters’ when covering the 1992 riots

Former colleagues of Bill O’Reilly, the Fox News host whose tales of past reporting exploits are facing renewed scrutiny, have disputed his account of surviving a bombardment of bricks and rocks while covering the 1992 riots in Los Angeles.

Six people who covered the riots with O’Reilly in California for Inside Edition told the Guardian they did not recall an incident in which, as O’Reilly has claimed, “concrete was raining down on us” and “we were attacked by protesters”.


Several members of the team suggested that O’Reilly may instead be overstating a fracas involving one disgruntled Los Angeles resident, who smashed one of their cameras with a piece of rubble.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/another-shoe-drops-bill-oreillys-ex-colleagues-call-his-l-a-riot-stories-completely-ficticious/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Evidence O'Reilly's a cockroach

So many shoes are dropping
this thing has gotta have 6 legs

[Panich52]

6. 6? I was thinking more on libes of disgusting bug - centipede

[BeanMusical]

23. Hey, don't insult cockroaches!

[JHB]

2. I demand Bill O'Reilly speak English Only. Actual English, that is...

...not his own personal dialect where the meanings of words are stretched like taffy so that he, by Soviet-grade redefinition, can be "accurately" described as being stalwart in the face of grave personal danger.

[Andy823]

3. Yep

O'Reilly isn't so smart as he thinks. Every time he denies he made things up, more people are going to dig up all kinds of things he has lied about, and his problem is that there is one hell of a lot of things he has lied about over the years. The man is stupid as hell if he things he is doing himself any good by lying about his lying!

[SoonerShankle]

18. He's lying about his lying because...

a) Roger Ailes supports him wholeheartedly and will do nothing (no suspension, etc.) other than claim O'Reilly and Fox News are victims of liberal media bias.

b) O'Reilly stays in the limelight longer, generating more viewers and/or media attention to his show. Remember that bad news is better than no news.

[BeanMusical]

24. I think that you're on to something.

Totally agree.

[Stuart G]

4. Bill O Reilly has made many enemies with his bullying and meanness.

This story will go on for a while. In fact, there are probably a few more like this out there.

[Roy Rolling]

25. Continuing Story

Yeah, O'Reilly should have just landed on a carrier and declared "mission accomplished" after his trashing of Brian Williams. See what happens when you can't just shut up?

[salin]

5. Yikes - he just stepped into a box.

From here-to-forward there is a Bill O'Rielly game after each show, speech and book. Everything stated as if "he experienced it" - gets rewritten as he saw a photo of it. Until he can prove it, he has just admitted that when he states that he witnessed something can mean he saw a photo of it.

Bill and Fox thrive on emotionalism. The emotional impact between "I witnessed this brutal event (and I was in danger)" versus "I saw a photo" (then as a journalist, share the photo), has a different effect. He has just invited editing of every claim made forward. In short, he has just invited endless mockery.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Every person he has ever stepped on is gunning for him

couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[progree]

8. Didn't (now Senator) Al Franken call him "Bill O'Lielly" way back in his 2003 book

"Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them) A Fair And Balanced Look At The Right"

Yes, and I think he spent more time on Bill O'Lielly than any other single liar in the book.

[Botany]

9. Don't forget about Bill O's time when he was the best punter in college football

[frylock]

13. Billo Reilly mentored a struggling Ray Guy

[Botany]

16. The funny thing about Bill O'Punter's story is that they didn't keep records for club sports.

Falklands war .... lie
Central American war and the murder of the nuns ... lie
Mets try out story ..... lie
LA riots story .... lie
Man connected to JFK assignation suicide Bill was there .... lie
The Killing of Lincoln Book ..... lies Ford's theater dropped it because it was so wrong
The Killing of Jesus Book .... Bill said on a 60 minutes story that "God had awoken him in
the middle of night and told him to write the book." My guess is that is a lie too but Bill's
viewers will see all these stories about his lies as attscks on him because he speaks the truth.

Bill has a show coming out this spring called "legends and liers" on Fox .... my bet is that
project will be put on hold.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026276290

frylock

[frylock]

17. Knowing Billo's enormous ego, he likely kept a detailed record of his statistics

[Stonepounder]

10. And the really disturbing thing about all this

is that O'Reilly ratings just keep going up and up, because the Foxbats choose to believe that he is the only one telling the truth and everything else is just a libural plot to get him because he is in the 'no-spin' zone.
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...Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead ----- or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky. And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, "Dan'l Webster ----- Dan'l Webster!" the ground'll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you'll hear a deep voice saying, "Neighbor, how stands the Union?" Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper-sheathed, one and indivisible, or he's liable to rear right out of the ground. At least, that's what I was told when I was a youngster.
-Steven Vincent Binet
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Might be time to change the answer to "Dan'l....HELP!!"

[Pisces]

11. His fans have fingers in their ears and blindfolds on. THey don't care for the truth, that is why

they watch him. Fox only cares for dollars and that is why he will not be fired.

[libodem]

22. A conservative I used to date

Rarely missed his show and considered him a moderate voice of reason.
Some people say Faux is centrist and Billo is a libertarian.
Some people are self deluded.
Some people get dumped.

[frylock]

12. Billo Reilly personally rescued Reginald Denny

[Jamastiene]

14. I might be going to Hell for how good it feels to hear people counteracting O'Lielly, but

I will be in good company.

[freebrew]

15. Billo saved Linclon from getting shot...

I heard him say so...twice.

[chervilant]

19. Bill O'Reilly is a pitiful fear-based man,

and he is paid by his handlers (he doesn't condescend to call them "bosses&quot to succor fear in his pathetic viewers.

[spanone]

20. faux is comprised of liars...they'll never fire billo

[libodem]

21. If he weren't so self righteous

I might have begun to have a shred of pity for this hapless fellow.

Ah, hell. Poor fuck.The need to assuage his own ego is so pathetic.

He had to call out others for lying and demanded consequences. What goes around....comes around.

The bigger they are the harder they fall is not just a proverb about lumberjacking trees.

Ya fookin' lie yourself up, a skyscraper of tall tales, and somebody pulls the bottom out,
yer gunna crash.

I want to gloat about this misfortune as much as anybody but it makes me a shitty person, too.
We should try not to be shitty people. You can see how instant Karma can be.

[Warpy]

26. Like Forrest Gump, he seems to have been there at every pivotal moment of history

over the last 50 years or so. Amazing, isn't it, life imitating the movies.

And just as true.

[Buzz Clik]

27. There are two camps on this issue:

1) Those who have watched O'Reilly tell lie after lie for years and no longer care. This latest revelation is hardly news.

2) Those adoring fans who want to be lied to and just don't care that he's been caught.

Bottom line: the energy being spent is going for nothing.

[truebluegreen]

28. So are there ANY instances of BillO's exceptionally heroic courage under fire

that actually occurred, like, under fire? Or even a barrage of concrete?

And why has it taken so long for all of this to bubble to the surface? At least we can tell our wingnutty friends and relatives that if there really were a liberal media we would have known all this crap years ago.

[libodem]

30. No.

He is entirely disingenuous. An inflated ego blown up with hot air and no substance. Habitual liars are not trustworthy and they are con artists. He is an oily used car salesman, set out to misinform and mislead while, looking wholesome, well scrubbed and wearing a nice suit.

He's rather like the sexually objectified Faux, female news anchors, all Barbie'd up, in that respect.

[truebluegreen]

38. It wasn't really a serious question.

I've been enjoying the cascading roll-out of exposed lies: the Falklands, Nicaragua, the Florida suicide, LA riots and now Ireland! Since I never pay any attention to BillO I don't know how many more to gleefully await (other than "all of them&quot .

[libodem]

40. He's a regular

Ari Fletcher. A meatpuppet to lie with a straight face and and magnetic eye contact. A regular Gobbels.

Bad German!

[libodem]

42. .

http://bluenationreview.com/enjoy-bill-oreillys-suffering/

[1StrongBlackMan]

29. Serious Question ...

Who do you go work for after getting fired for lying ... by fox?

[libodem]

32. Revolving Door

On the lecture circuit. Republicans rejoice in paying for someone to lie to them.

He could be a journalism professor at Bob Jones University.

He might be Jeb's, press secretary.

God forbid.
LOL

[calimary]

31. Once a jerk, always a jerk.

[Helen Borg]

33. FOX Entertainment will not fire him.

...

[sulphurdunn]

34. Give him a break.

A lying, sociopathic opportunist has no choice but keep digging.

[pinboy3niner]

37. In his defense, he falsafel about it

[libodem]

41. I smell sulfur

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. That must be from back when there were palm trees in Wisconsin....

[truebluegreen]

39. One of my favorites...

[JonLP24]

36. Remember he cited the nonexistent Paris Business Review

to claim success of his French boycott back in 2003. He was known liar for a longtime, every episode at-least has a half-truth. I remember in 2008, he repeated over-and-over saying to Obama (from his show, not actually to him) "There is no such thing as a capital gains tax" to suggest Obama is being misleading but O'reilly was the one being misleading.

[the_sly_pig]

43. I wonder if his sex-capades really happened....

the loofah monster, "SHADDDAP". Does anyone really expect him to go away? It's the 'morans' that keep him on the air. The morans certainly aren't going away.....

[dawn frenzy adams]

44. I don't think O'Reilly is the anomoly in Mainstream Media.

I think he is the norm. I think the corporate media embellishes and lies about everything. Their participation in getting you to accept stolen elections, illegal wars, and overt racism from the Republican Party should tell you that.