A former colleague of Bill O’Reilly accused the Fox News host on Sunday of embellishing his war reporting experience in Argentina after the Falklands War.
Eric Engberg, a retired CBS correspondent who was working with O’Reilly in Buenos Aires at the time, says the scene in the capital was less dangerous than O’Reilly has led the public to believe.
“It wasn’t a combat situation by any sense of the word that I know,” Engberg, who worked for CBS for 26 years, told CNN’s “Reliable Sources.” “[O’Reilly] is trying to build it up into a more frightening and deadly situation than it was.”
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“I don’t want to turn this into an argument on his turf over what he did that night,” Engberg said. “I’m simply stating the facts. The facts speak for themselves. If he has a response to what the facts are, that’s fine — he can lay it out. I’m not going to argue about it.”
Video of both appearances below.
