Perhaps Fox News host Bill O’Reilly feels some sympathy for NBC’s Brian Williams now that O’Reilly, too, has been accused of overplaying his battleground experience.
On Thursday, Mother Jones posted an article questioning the accuracy of O’Reilly’s past claims that he “reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands” and “survived a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands War.”
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News reports from the time depict rioters breaking windows, throwing stones and sticks, and police responding by throwing tear gas, firing on demonstrators with rubber bullets, and clubbing them. But Corn and Schulman noted that “media accounts did not report, as O’Reilly claims, that there were fatalities.”
