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To: puborectalis who wrote (839667)

2/28/2015 2:21:05 PM

From: tejek

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Several former colleagues now claim that Bill O'Reilly also lied about his experience covering the Los Angeles riots in 1992.

O'Reilly has on occasion referenced an incident when he and his crew had to take cover during his time as a host for "Inside Edition." "They were throwing bricks and stones at us," O'Reilly claimed in a 2006 interview. “Concrete was raining down on us. ... The cops saved our butts that time."

But six people who worked alongside the Fox News host in California at the time told the Guardian that they have no recollection of being attacked by protesters.

“It didn’t happen,” said Rick Kirkham, the lead reporter on the riots for "Inside Edition." “If it did, how come none of the rest of us remember it?”

O'Reilly is a bit bombastic and needs to be loved like B. Williams. It doesn't surprised me. It just surprises me it took this long to expose him.

To: puborectalis who wrote (839667)	2/28/2015 3:05:00 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By longnshort Respond to of 1572507

I think these reports appear to be disgruntled coworkers and underlings for the most part. It is important to remember that the "source" for these comments appears to Media Matters, are far anti-First Amendment group which wants to shut down Fox News and has a history of lying toward that end. So you have to take these allegations with a grain of salt. Sure enough, there have been people who corroborated O'Reilly's claims in regard to the LA Riots. I would also point out that tejek has claimed to have have gotten PTSD as a result of those riots so we know it was the equivalent of a "war zone."