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How Bill O’Reilly imploded at CBS following his Falklands War ‘combat’ reporting
Washington Post ^ | February 23, 2015 | By Terrence McCoy

Posted on 02/23/2015 11:21:09 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee

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To: Brad from Tennessee

We are supposed to think that something is wrong with BOR because he didn’t get along with Dan Rather’s CBS?


21 posted on 02/23/2015 1:10:13 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Engberg told The Post. “He didn’t seem too interested. I offered in a suggestion on how things worked and he didn’t pay any attention to me. … I saw him as someone who wasn’t willing to be held back by the restrictions that govern rookie reporters — the fact you got to get up in the morning and go over to whatever briefing was going on and report it to your bosses and wait for your next assignment. He was the kind of guy who wanted to find a story that was going to get him on the air that night.”

Is that supposed to be painting a bad picture because I'm not getting a bad picture out of that.

22 posted on 02/23/2015 1:13:25 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Apparently he knew something of what he was doing. Numbers don’t lie...


23 posted on 02/23/2015 1:21:18 PM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I'm not a bif fan of BOR but even Politico says the Mother Jones story doesn't have legs:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/02/why-the-bill-oreilly-charges-arent-sticking-202962.html

24 posted on 02/23/2015 1:53:43 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg
bif = big
25 posted on 02/23/2015 1:54:12 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: riverdawg

Almost nobody in the MSM is going to go down the smear BOR road too far. People in glass houses and all...


26 posted on 02/23/2015 1:56:49 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Brad from Tennessee
I just looked up the cover story in this issue of Newsweek on the Buenos Aries riots in June 1982. There are two color photos of the riots, the one on the bottom of the cover showing several riot police and maybe some tear gas in the distance and one inside at the story showing three blue-clad rioters apparently helping to set fire to some debris in the street). The write-up is just a couple of paragraphs, with no mention of any deaths or injuries during the riots. Of course, this is Newsweek, FWIW.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1982-Newsweek-Wars-Without-End-Bloodshed-In-Beirut-Rioting-In-Buenos-Aires-/261251582723

27 posted on 02/23/2015 2:02:01 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Bill O'Reilly went to Harvard (as he will occasional admit). You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.

Eric Jon Engberg went to the University of Missouri.

28 posted on 02/23/2015 2:31:41 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I don’t care too much for BO’R but where is the CBS guy today in comparison?


29 posted on 02/23/2015 2:35:50 PM PST by Fledermaus (The GOP is dead to me! McConnell and Boehner can drop dead!!)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Bill O'Reilly went to Harvard (as he will occasional admit).

Kennedy School of Government. He did his undergrad at Marist College.

30 posted on 02/23/2015 2:36:49 PM PST by x
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To: Verginius Rufus

Proving exactly nothing whatsoever.


31 posted on 02/23/2015 2:52:26 PM PST by FredZarguna (Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Entitled pompous self promoting journalista food fight!

I am biased towards Bill O.

32 posted on 02/23/2015 3:51:16 PM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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[I don’t care too much for BO’R but where is the CBS guy today in comparison?]

Television is an entertainment medium and that includes the news. If newscasts aren't entertaining people won't watch. TV news anchors are highly paid actors who portray broadcast journalists. They are selected for looks, voice, hair and charisma. They read news copy produced and written by other people. Brian Williams’ mistake was he confused his real self with the fictional character he portrays on nightly news.

Dan Rather screwed up because he was hoodwinked by a total crackpot with counterfeit government documents so flimsy they wouldn't fool a summer intern at a small town weekly paper. But Rather was fooled because he isn't a reporter but an entertainer.

Bill O’Reilly is successful because he knows he is an entertainer and embraces it. O’Reilly portrays a semi-informed, emotionally volatile boor. Archie Bunker in an $800 suit. If O’Reilly was really the character he plays
he would have jumped off the rails long ago.

33 posted on 02/23/2015 4:03:41 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: cuban leaf

I’ll still take BOR’s word over MSM nitwits.


34 posted on 02/23/2015 5:36:53 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The most comical element of this non-issue for me is that the left considers O’Reilly as a conservative.


35 posted on 02/24/2015 5:55:56 AM PST by muir_redwoods ("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
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To: FredZarguna
I was being sardonic...or perhaps mordant (to use one of Ted Baxter's recent "words of the day"). The benefit of attending Harvard is to be able to tell people afterwards that you graduated from there--there are probably many places where a student can get as good or better an education.

More than 15 years ago I was on a search committee for an academic position. One of the applicants had a Harvard Ph.D. and did not make the short list. The person who was hired (who has a Ph.D. from one of the Big Ten universities) has done an excellent job.

36 posted on 02/24/2015 6:02:13 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: donozark

The “Black Buck” missions, with RAF Vulcans bombing targets on the Falkland Islands (trying to cut the runway at Stanley with bombs and taking out Argie radars with Shrikes) were designed in part to let the Argies know that the RAF could go after mainland targets, if Maggie Thatcher asked it to.

Remember that the invasion of the Falklands was intended to shut down domestic social unrest by creating a unifying “rally ‘round the flag” effect that boosted national pride. So there were definitely social tensions before, and most certainly after, the Falklands War. Including the June 1982 riots cited above.


37 posted on 02/24/2015 6:05:08 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Even if there were something to this story, you would have to prove that BOR is a serial liar to catch up with the Life of Brian.
38 posted on 02/24/2015 6:21:29 AM PST by windsorknot
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