Buenos Aires was neither a “war zone” nor a “combat situation” after Argentina surrendered to Britain in the Falklands War, says one of Bill O’Reilly’s former colleagues at CBS who was with him in the capital at the time.
“It was an ‘expense account zone,’” writes Eric Jon Engberg, a retired CBS correspondent, in a Facebook post. “We — meaning the American networks — were all in the same, modern hotel and we never saw any troops, casualties or weapons.”
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Mother Jones’ Corn said the revelation from the CBS veteran raises further questions about the Fox News host’s integrity.
“This account from a veteran CBS News correspondent and a former colleague of O’Reilly — who witnessed O’Reilly’s short stint in Buenos Aires at the end of the Falklands War — is additional confirmation of what we reported and raises additional questions for O’Reilly,” Corn told The Huffington Post. “Will he responsibly respond to all the questions or will he continue to rely upon invective and bombast?”