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.”
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The new allegations come after several other colleagues and journalists have accused the host in recent days of embellishing his war reporting experience. The controversy began last Thursday, when Mother Jones writers David Corn and Daniel Schulman published a scathing report indicating that O’Reilly had misreported his experience in Argentina during the Falklands War in 1982.
On Tuesday, a former colleague claimed that O’Reilly also lied about being present at a Florida suicide. The very next day, more allegations emerged regarding inaccuracies in a story O’Reilly had told about witnessing the murder of four churchwomen during the civil war in El Salvador.
