Bill O'Reilly - one example of his lying

I'm reading through this free ebook about how Fox star Billy O"Reilly. It's really bloody good. Am up to chapter 4 I think. Have never read an ebook, but must say it's a pretty attractive option. You can change the font and the backgound colour, size and all. Plus the thing is chocka block full of links. 

This link I followed.

This is what O'Reilly says now about his time in El Salvador:

For example, note that in his 2006 radio show explanation of the stress of “close-quarter combat,” O'Reilly got quite detailed and claimed he had witnessed a wild “firefight” with “guerrillas all over the place” and “people just shooting everywhere.” According to O’Reilly, this particular battle was at an army base in San Francisco Gotera, a city in the Morazán province in El Salvador that O’Reilly was sent to as a CBS correspondent.

As O’Reilly explained on his radio show, this was the “first time I saw combat” and “it was -- and when you see what happens when people start to shoot at each other, it is nothing like the movies. It‘s nothing like -- it‘s just sheer panic. All right? People just shooting everywhere, running everywhere. Screaming, noise, chaos.”

Boehlert, Eric; Media Matters For America (2015-04-07). Killing Truth: The Lies And Legends Of Bill O'Reilly (Kindle Locations 576-583). Media Matters for America. Kindle Edition.

This is the video he filed when in El Salvador. It's not nearly as concocted:


That damnation internet eh? Little did he know back in 1982 that his exact report could be looked up online. Apparently he doesn't even know that now. What a fuckwit.

As they always say, if you're going to lie you have to have a good memory. At least as good as YouTube's  :)