As embattled Fox News host Bill O’Reilly continues to fend off allegations of embellishing his reporting experiences, two new recordings have recently emerged calling his accounts into even greater question.
On Monday, Mother Jones’ David Corn and Daniel Schulman — the reporters who first questioned O’Reilly’s claim to have reported from an “active war zone” during the Falklands War — posted the original report the host filed with CBS News after Argentina surrendered to the British in 1982. O’Reilly has maintained that his presence at the riots in Buenos Aires, located some 1,200 miles from the conflict, qualify him as having reported from a “combat situation.”
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When asked for comment on the allegations last week, Fox News directed The Huffington Post to O’Reilly’s publisher, Henry Holt and Company.
“We fully stand behind Bill O’Reilly and his bestseller Killing Kennedy and we’re very proud to count him as one of our most important authors,” a spokesperson for the publisher said.
