It appears that Bill O'Reilly has his own Brian Williams problem.

You can read the entire story here at Mother Jones.

Here is a taste:  

Here are instances when O'Reilly touted his time as a war correspondent during the Falklands conflict: 

• In his 2001 book, The No Spin Zone: Confrontations With the Powerful and Famous in America, O'Reilly stated, "You know that I am not easily shocked. I've reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands." 
• Conservative journalist Tucker Carlson, in a 2003 book, described how O'Reilly answered a question during a Washington panel discussion about media coverage of the Afghanistan war: "Rather than simply answer the question, O'Reilly began by trying to establish his own bona fides as a war correspondent. 'I've covered wars, okay? I've been there. The Falklands, Northern Ireland, the Middle East. I've almost been killed three times, okay.'" 
• In a 2004 column about US soldiers fighting in Iraq, O'Reilly noted, "Having survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands war, I know that life-and-death decisions are made in a flash." 
• In 2008, he took a shot at journalist Bill Moyers, saying, "I missed Moyers in the war zones of [the] Falkland conflict in Argentina, the Middle East, and Northern Ireland. I looked for Bill, but I didn't see him." 
• In April 2013, while discussing the Boston Marathon bombing, O'Reilly shared a heroic tale of his exploits in the Falklands war: 

I was in a situation one time, in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands, where my photographer got run down and then hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete. And the army was chasing us. I had to make a decision. And I dragged him off, you know, but at the same time, I'm looking around and trying to do my job, but I figure I had to get this guy out of there because that was more important.

Yeah none of that happened.

It does appear that O'Reilly was present in Buenos Aires during a protest, which O'Reilly described like this:  

"A major riot ensued and many were killed. I was right in the middle of it and nearly died of a heart attack when a soldier, standing about ten feet away, pointed his automatic weapon directly at my head." A television cameraman was trampled, journalists were banged up, and O'Reilly and others were teargassed. "After a couple of hours of this pandemonium," he recalls, "I managed to make it back to the Sheraton with the best news footage I have ever seen. This was major violence up close and personal, and it was an important international story."

Only problem was that the news agencies present at the riot, including CBS News who O'Reilly was working for at the time, did not report any fatalities nor use of tear gas.

Now I know what you're thinking. "Well surely, much like Brian Williams, a trusted newsman like Bill O'Reilly will take a leave of absence and offer an apology for lying to his viewers all of these years."

Only problem with that is suggesting that Fox is a trusted news source or that Bill O'Reilly has an ounce of integrity.

And both assumptions are incorrect.

No he will continue to do his same bullshit job, at the same bullshit cable news station, catering to the same bullshit loving demographic. Nothing changes when your job is nothing more than shoveling excrement for a living.

P.S. It turns out that O'Reilly got wind of this Mother Jones piece and he is none too happy:  

Bill O'Reilly says a new Mother Jones report alleging that the Fox News host made false claims about his Falklands War experience is "a piece of garbage" and that its principal author, David Corn, is "a liar." 

In a telephone interview with the On Media blog, O'Reilly called Corn a "despicable guttersnipe" who has been trying to take him down "for years." 

"It's a hit piece," O'Reilly said. "Everything I said about what I reported in South and Central America is true. Everything."

P.P.S. David Corn, the "despicable guttersnipe," caught wind of O'Reilly catching wind and he stands by his reporting:

"He said he was in the war zone during the Falkland Island conflicts -- the conflict was in the Falkland Islands, it was not in Buenos Aires," Corn said. "He covered a protest after the war was over in Buenos Aires. I don't think that's a reasonable definiton of a combat situation. If you look up 'combat situation' in the dictionary, it's not 'an ugly protest'."

He's got a point.  However I stand by my earlier statement that this will have virtually NO impact on O'Reilly who is after all an entertainer, and NOT a journalist.