CBS Releases Footage of O’Reilly’s Buenos Aires Coverage, Settling Nothing

CBS News has responded to Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s request and released the footage of its coverage of the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina during the 1982 Falklands War.

O’Reilly has come under fire after Mother Jones called out the news host for allegedly misreporting his experiences covering the war. Mother Jones’ David Corn and Daniel Schulman claimed that O’Reilly had said he was in “a combat situation” in Argentina, when actually, he was more than a thousand miles away in Buenos Aires.

On his Monday night show, O’Reilly broadcast clips from the CBS video and maintained that the footage proved “I reported accurately the violence was horrific.” But the issue has not been whether violence occurred at the demonstration. O’Reilly had previously claimed this protest — triggered when Argentines angry at the ruling junta’s surrender to the Brits in the 1982 war gathered near the presidential palace — was a massacre, with Argentine troops gunning down civilians. O’Reilly has relied on that description to support his claim that he was in a “war zone … in the Falklands.” The video does not show civilians being mowed down.

The Huffington Post