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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.
Here is what O'Reilly's former co-workers had to report on the incident:
Inside Edition colleagues from the time who were in Los Angeles with O’Reilly – reporters Bonnie Strauss, Tony Cox and Rick Kirkham, and crew members Theresa McKeown, Bob McCall and Neil Antin – told the Guardian that they did not recall such an incident.
Kirkham, the show’s lead reporter on the riots, was adamant that it did not take place. “It didn’t happen,” he said. “If it did, how come none of the rest of us remember it?”
Tonya Freeman, the head of the show’s library at the time, said: “I honestly don’t recall watching or hearing about that. I believe I probably would have remembered something like that.” Another librarian from the time also said she did not recall the incident. A spokeswoman for Inside Edition declined to comment.
Several other senior Inside Edition staffers from the time declined to comment when asked if they recalled O’Reilly’s version of events. Several members of the team, however, recalled that one afternoon in the days following the peak of the riots, which began on 29 April, the angry resident attacked a camera while O’Reilly was being filmed near the intersection of Fairfax Avenue and Pico Boulevard. “It was one person with one rock,” said McCall, the sound man. “Nobody was hit.”
“A man came out of his home,” said Antin, who was operating the camera that was struck. “He picked up a chunk of concrete, and threw it at the camera.” Told of O’Reilly’s description of a bombardment, Antin said: “I don’t think that’s really … No, I mean no, not where we were.”
“There was no concrete,” said McKeown. “There was a single brick”. Kirkham’s response was: “Oh my God. That is a completely fictitious story. Nothing ever rained down on us”.
Here is my favorite part of this article:
O’Reilly is said to have shouted at the man and asked him: “Don’t you know who I am?
Gee who does that sound like?
Okay let's see if we have this straight now.
Bill O'Reilly was NOT actually on the ground covering the Falklands War.
He never saw any nuns get shot in the back of the head in El Salvador.
He was NOT standing outside the door when George de Mohrenschildt committed suicide.
And now he did not even have concrete thrown at him while covering riots in 1992.
Is that finally enough for Fox News to be embarrassed enough by his bullshit to send him packing?
"Is that finally enough for Fox News to be embarrassed...?"
ReplyDeleteNo. Fox News only cares about ratings and ad revenue. Almost all the FN hosts and 'contributors' are embarrassing.
And their audience isn't concerned with facts. Fox delivers the comfort food they chose to believe.
DeleteBill O is trying to beat Bill Cosbys record for having folks come out after every lie, more come to say "he's lying" Bill will be outed for the liar he is. If it's good enough for Brian Williams, why not anyone else!
DeleteAre you kidding? This makes him a hero in the eyes of the crazy right. If anyone on the right does anything wrong, they somehow become the victim. As long as he brings in viewers Fox won't care.
ReplyDeleteHe works for Faux news... so,
ReplyDeleteIt... Just... Doesn't... Matter!!!
Funny that no one cares about democrats in this way. Oh, liberal media hypocrisy
ReplyDeleteHi, troll. You'll find the "period" key right there on your keyboard. Just look a little harder next time.
DeleteI bet you use the "but they did it" excuse all the time don't you?
DeleteLook below and Gryphen had an article about multiple faux snooz employees lying just like Billo
2:47 PM Sean Hannity is who you are describing. Talking about Birthers when he promoted all of the Obama Birthers and Trump.
DeleteHmm. Let's recap. David Vitter: convicted criminal, still in Congress.
DeleteAnthony Weiner: sent an explicit text to a grown woman: was run out of DC in 10 days' time.
Brian Williams: Caught in one lie..offf the air a week alter for at least six months
O'Reilly: caught in numerous lies and still lying on Fox
Wanna try again?
Now, can we PLEASE stop looking like assholes and creating these lies. She looks the same, just 6 years older, and 20 years emotionally older
ReplyDeletehttp://imgur.com/kzaV1Z1
No. No date? No good.
DeleteLook it's before Brisket bought a new chin.
DeleteOld Bristol vs. New Bristol, so what. She had massive lipo on her double chin and side neck fat, a new chin implant a nose thinning and jaw realignment. She's prettier now, but still dumb and shallow as hell, she'd be a perfect Kardashian, because they are all dumb and shallow and surgeried beyond belief, just like Bristol. They are all sisters by different parents; vacuous and looking nothing like the did 6 years ago.
DeleteBristol is "emotionally older", that is why she posts requests for a lumbersexual while sleeping with Joey Junker.
DeleteIf Brisket had half a brain she could try to find a job instead of dreaming of being a celebrity. Instead she's just an unpleasant, mentally stunted, homely wannabe hick. Pathetic.
DeleteOff track:
ReplyDeleteLeonard Nimoy died today.
Damn, Billo the Clown is getting into Sarah Palin territory with all his lies.. I wanna see him fake a birth like she did!
ReplyDeleteI came here right after I read the article in The Guardian. I knew Gryphen would pick up on the line "Don't you know who I am". I swear I am starting to think there is rampant narcissism in conservative pundits and leaders. What a bunch of blowhards.
ReplyDeleteDon't you mean a bunch of bloviaters, 3:12? Billo used that word rather frequently as he would be familiar with it's meaning quite literally.
DeleteMaybe it would be easier to figure out when he told the truth.
ReplyDeleteDidn't he write a children's book-someone better fact check that too, was that the war on Christmas book for kids?
No, he, like Rush, writes American history stories aimed at grade schoolers.
DeleteI'll say it if Fox won't: PINHEAD, YOU'RE FIRED !!!!
ReplyDeleteAs far as the bricks being thrown then Billo says "Don't you know who I am?" the brick thrower should have paused to let Billo deliver his screed, then throw the brick anyway!!
Got that Sarah?
Oh hey, the Beehive is asking everyone who wants to sell their designer items to bring them in and set up consignment with them. That could be a windfall. Alaska is full of people who buy designer goods. It's the distance thing, distance from the states.
ReplyDeleteEveryone I know from up there hit a continental mall when they're down here. Oregon, Seattle, Minnesota. Alaska has nothing. You see more moms with Coach diaper bags in Alaska than most places, I'd wager. And Allison wondered why Mercede's been a designer lover since middle school.
It is Alaska.
What the sam hill does this comment have to do with anything? except of course for your extreme jealousy of Mercede.
DeleteMost of us in the other 49 states are too smart to waste our money on "designer" stuff.
DeleteMost of it's just run-of-the-mill merchandise that has a 1,000% markup because advertising and marketing have convinced rubes to pay exorbitant prices.
So, along with your airfare to those great malls that hawk that stuff, I hope you Alaskans have enough money left over for mac-and-cheese, heating oil, and a few good books.
You are correct, Alaska is full of wanna be's. BTW I can walk down any city street in Texas and see more designer clothes( usually classy ) than there are people is useless welfare state Alaska, but real rich people don't carry low class coach.. Now run along Bristol, no one cares if you got a coach becuse "coach" is 12 yrs ago in Texas. I bet that salesperson laughed when you bought 3 coach items, they can't sell coach bags on the 'net for $79.
DeleteCoach is basic shit for basic people. It is popular up here because our population is 90% "people of Walmart".
DeleteOh please. If anyone is looking for proof that the fairy tale troll doesn't know beans about Alaska, this is it.
DeleteBoy, I wish Stephen Colbert were still on the air. This is the end point of his nine years of skewering O'Reilly as the bombastic, bullying blowhard that he is.
ReplyDeleteYes! Colbert would have a field day with this. Stewart said it well, too. 'No one watches Bill for the truth!'
DeleteI heard Bill O'Reilly say on his program in 2003 that if 'we (US) go into Iraq and don't find WMDs, I'll never trust the Bush Administration again' now, everyone know he not only trusted the Bushites, he championed the war and continually praised Bush. Perhaps not the biggest lie, but still worth another Billo tall tale.
ReplyDeleteO'Reilly In 2008: If You've Been Shot At Like I Have, You 'Remember It'
ReplyDeletehttp://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/oreilly-clinton-2008-sniper-shot-at
The hits keep coming. You gotta love it.
DeleteAs those who knew Billo find a friendly environment to dish on his journalistic ethics, I savor the anticipated Bill Cosby treatment he will receive. Before long, we're going to have a difficult time finding even one credible story he's reported on. Then what will Fox News call his hour of fiction?
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of like MSNBC keeping Joe-dead-intern-in-my-Congressional-office Scarborough around ain't it?
ReplyDelete“Knowing Bill O’Reilly’s set to go meth-lab-explosion-angry trying to salvage his shitty career is my Christmas,”
ReplyDeletehttp://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/27/comedian-patton-oswalt-is-very-amused-about-the-implosion-of-bill-oreillys-crappy-career-image/
Anyone know if there is a blog out there that follows Billo like Gryphen follows Palin? Now that Sarah is just about finished, it would be fun to follow his every move.
ReplyDeleteI guess you could just keep reading here because Bill O stories are getting as many or more comments than Palin pieces these days.
DeleteUsed to a website called 'sweet Jesus I hate bill O'Reilly.' Try that.
Delete"Is that finally enough for Fox News to be embarrassed enough by his bullshit to send him packing?"
ReplyDeleteUm, no. Hell no.
This has been Simple Answers to Stupid Questions. (SATSQ)
Was billo there when en first landed on the moon? Of course he was!
ReplyDelete"Is that finally enough for Fox News to be embarrassed enough by his bullshit to send him packing? "
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This is the network that has allowed the scatter-brained venomous bleatings of Palin for the last 6 years, so, no.