[h=1]Bill O'Reilly threatens N.Y. Times reporter[/h]
By DYLAN BYERS | [h=5]2/24/15 12:01 AM EST[/h]
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly threatened a New York Times reporter on Monday night, promising to come after the reporter "with everything I have" if he felt that any of the reporter's coverage about his Falklands war controversy was inappropriate.
"Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday," the Times' Emily Steel and Ravi Somaiya reported. "During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. 'I am coming after you with everything I have,' Mr. O’Reilly said. 'You can take it as a threat.'”
Steel confirmed on Twitter that she was the reporter in question. Reached by email late Monday night, she declined to comment further, noting that "the story speaks for itself." A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from O'Reilly.
The Times article was published just hours after O'Reilly sought to put an end to the controversy surrounding claims he made about his experiences during the Falklands War in 1982. "I want to stop this now,” he said after a segment about the controversy. “I hope we can stop it. I really do.”
Mother Jones journalists David Corn and Daniel Schulman have alleged that O'Reilly lied about being present in a "war zone" and "combat situation" during the Falklands War, and that he even suggested he had gone to the Falkland Islands. O'Reilly was present at a violent demonstration in Buenos Aires during which police fired into the crowd. He says he never claimed to have been in the Falkland Islands and has defended his characterization of the protest as a "combat zone."
Corn and Schulman also noted that O'Reilly falsely claimed that "many were killed" during the demonstration. On Monday night's broadcast, O'Reilly argued that a casualty count was impossible to determine.
By DYLAN BYERS | [h=5]2/24/15 12:01 AM EST[/h]
Fox News host Bill O'Reilly threatened a New York Times reporter on Monday night, promising to come after the reporter "with everything I have" if he felt that any of the reporter's coverage about his Falklands war controversy was inappropriate.
"Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News colleagues occurred both on the air and off on Monday," the Times' Emily Steel and Ravi Somaiya reported. "During a phone conversation, he told a reporter for The New York Times that there would be repercussions if he felt any of the reporter’s coverage was inappropriate. 'I am coming after you with everything I have,' Mr. O’Reilly said. 'You can take it as a threat.'”
Steel confirmed on Twitter that she was the reporter in question. Reached by email late Monday night, she declined to comment further, noting that "the story speaks for itself." A Fox News spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from O'Reilly.
The Times article was published just hours after O'Reilly sought to put an end to the controversy surrounding claims he made about his experiences during the Falklands War in 1982. "I want to stop this now,” he said after a segment about the controversy. “I hope we can stop it. I really do.”
Mother Jones journalists David Corn and Daniel Schulman have alleged that O'Reilly lied about being present in a "war zone" and "combat situation" during the Falklands War, and that he even suggested he had gone to the Falkland Islands. O'Reilly was present at a violent demonstration in Buenos Aires during which police fired into the crowd. He says he never claimed to have been in the Falkland Islands and has defended his characterization of the protest as a "combat zone."
Corn and Schulman also noted that O'Reilly falsely claimed that "many were killed" during the demonstration. On Monday night's broadcast, O'Reilly argued that a casualty count was impossible to determine.
[h=1]Bill O'Reilly Has A Long Record Of Threatening And Ambushing Journalists[/h] Posted: 02/24/2015 11:44 am EST Updated: 02/24/2015 11:59 am EST
WASHINGTON -- There are few people in the media more thin-skinned than Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
Mother Jones recently published a report calling out O'Reilly for exaggerating stories about his reporting during the Falklands war in 1982.
In response, O'Reilly seemingly wished bodily harm on one of the piece's authors, David Corn, saying, "I expect David Corn to be in the kill zone. Where he deserves to be."
O'Reilly later said "kill zone" was simply a "slang expression" and not meant to be interpreted literally.
But the threats didn't stop there. O'Reilly also lashed out at a New York Times reporter covering the controversy. During a phone conversation, he promised to go after the reporter if the story was not to his liking.
"I am coming after you with everything I have," he said. "You can take it as a threat."
Threats are nothing new from O'Reilly. And as I know firsthand, he sometimes goes even further.
In 2009, O'Reilly was scheduled to speak at an event for a group that helps rape survivors. At the time, I was a blogger for ThinkProgress, and I noted in a post that in the past, O'Reilly had implied that women who dress in a certain way or consume too much alcohol should perhaps expect to be raped.
A few weeks later, while I was on vacation several hours outside of Washington, D.C., a producer for O'Reilly, Jesse Watters, ambushed me outside my hotel, asking me why I was hurting rape victims and demanding that I apologize to rape victims everywhere for my post.
Fox News never answered my inquiries about how Watters found me, but my best guess -- since I hadn't told anyone exactly where I was going that weekend -- was that he staked out my apartment and followed me to Virginia. No one from The O'Reilly Factor had contacted me before the ambush for comment.
I wasn't the first one to face this type of harassment from O'Reilly or his team. He had behaved similarly toward dozens of other people before me, including judges, religious officials and journalists.
In 2008, Watters confronted Cynthia Tucker, then a columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, while she was outside her home getting the mail. Roger Oglesby, then the editor and publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was ambushed by Watters in his driveway as he got out of his car in 2007.
Nevada journalist Jon Ralston said O'Reilly's team tried to get him blocked from appearing on Fox News after he wrote in 2012 that The O'Reilly factor had aired a segment that was "one of the most shockingly idiotic and insulting pieces I’ve seen about Las Vegas."
Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti did not return a request for comment on whether O'Reilly will send anyone to confront reporters at Mother Jones or The New York Times, and whether the network still stands behind these types of ambushes.
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WASHINGTON -- There are few people in the media more thin-skinned than Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.
Mother Jones recently published a report calling out O'Reilly for exaggerating stories about his reporting during the Falklands war in 1982.
In response, O'Reilly seemingly wished bodily harm on one of the piece's authors, David Corn, saying, "I expect David Corn to be in the kill zone. Where he deserves to be."
O'Reilly later said "kill zone" was simply a "slang expression" and not meant to be interpreted literally.
But the threats didn't stop there. O'Reilly also lashed out at a New York Times reporter covering the controversy. During a phone conversation, he promised to go after the reporter if the story was not to his liking.
"I am coming after you with everything I have," he said. "You can take it as a threat."
Threats are nothing new from O'Reilly. And as I know firsthand, he sometimes goes even further.
In 2009, O'Reilly was scheduled to speak at an event for a group that helps rape survivors. At the time, I was a blogger for ThinkProgress, and I noted in a post that in the past, O'Reilly had implied that women who dress in a certain way or consume too much alcohol should perhaps expect to be raped.
A few weeks later, while I was on vacation several hours outside of Washington, D.C., a producer for O'Reilly, Jesse Watters, ambushed me outside my hotel, asking me why I was hurting rape victims and demanding that I apologize to rape victims everywhere for my post.
Fox News never answered my inquiries about how Watters found me, but my best guess -- since I hadn't told anyone exactly where I was going that weekend -- was that he staked out my apartment and followed me to Virginia. No one from The O'Reilly Factor had contacted me before the ambush for comment.
I wasn't the first one to face this type of harassment from O'Reilly or his team. He had behaved similarly toward dozens of other people before me, including judges, religious officials and journalists.
In 2008, Watters confronted Cynthia Tucker, then a columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, while she was outside her home getting the mail. Roger Oglesby, then the editor and publisher of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, was ambushed by Watters in his driveway as he got out of his car in 2007.
Nevada journalist Jon Ralston said O'Reilly's team tried to get him blocked from appearing on Fox News after he wrote in 2012 that The O'Reilly factor had aired a segment that was "one of the most shockingly idiotic and insulting pieces I’ve seen about Las Vegas."
Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti did not return a request for comment on whether O'Reilly will send anyone to confront reporters at Mother Jones or The New York Times, and whether the network still stands behind these types of ambushes.
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MSNBC Anchor Resigns; Admits to Spreading Lies on Behalf of Obama
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Caught Lying About Koch Brothers; Refuses to Retract
NBC Buries Own Reporter To Hide Obama Lie
NBC Reportedly Has ‘Dossier’ of Brian Williams Lies
Yep...good old NBC. If they're known for anything, it's that insatiable thirst for the truth.
MSNBC Anchor Resigns; Admits to Spreading Lies on Behalf of Obama
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Caught Lying About Koch Brothers; Refuses to Retract
NBC Buries Own Reporter To Hide Obama Lie
NBC Reportedly Has ‘Dossier’ of Brian Williams Lies
Yep...good old NBC. If they're known for anything, it's that insatiable thirst for the truth.
I doubt you wanna play this game....www.politifact.com/punditfact/tv/fox
MSNBC Anchor Resigns; Admits to Spreading Lies on Behalf of Obama
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Caught Lying About Koch Brothers; Refuses to Retract
NBC Buries Own Reporter To Hide Obama Lie
NBC Reportedly Has ‘Dossier’ of Brian Williams Lies
Yep...good old NBC. If they're known for anything, it's that insatiable thirst for the truth.
Umm, you might want to actually read your stories completely, especially the 1st one, and you might have caught this
UPDATE–Alex has not actually left the network, nor did she say any of the things above. Alex, call me, I will treat you better than that chef boyfriend of yours! - See more at: http://nationalreport.net/msnbc-anc...ading-lies-behalf-obama/#sthash.HX0gGfus.dpuf
instead of just walking in chin 1st and letting Vit have another easy one, fool. Speaking of fools, want to amend your idiotic statement that Humans have only been on earth for about 2000 Years?
You know what? My bad for posting the wrong link. This was the one I wanted to post about the very same Alex Wagner:
http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-co...d-from-new-jersey-bridge-closure-2794156.html
Not that it would make much of a difference to you, though. You consider anything negative about your blow up doll leader to be a "lie" regardless of whether it's true.
As far as the 2,000 years...since you continue to hump my leg about that day and night, why don't you try this one on for size:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...n-began-2-000-years-ago-scientist-claims.html
Just try to rise above a pro wrestling fan's hilariously low intelligence level and see if you can grasp what I meant when I implied significant human population began 2,000 years ago. Although frankly, I'm planning on being impressed that someone will fail so badly on such a simple task. You're preoccupied, too...still buzzing talking about, like, how awesome that PPV was a few nights ago. So many pro wrestling message boards to post on, such little time!
Laughable. You said Human Life began on earth 2,000 years ago, not A Population explosion happened 2000 years ago. You're sinking worse and worse. Just admit you were exposed badly for making such a stupid statement, and that it was a stupid statement with no basis in reality, rather than doubling down. But that's what you idiots do, and why you are the clueless idiots you are.
As for Wrestling, a fellow Wrestling fan down here asked my opinion about the PPV, I gave it, and we had a nice discussion. PPV was pretty good, last 2 matches killed. Why don't you get your idiot stalker friends to find posts I made on Wrestling Message boards 10 years ago, and then you can gleefully post that it proves I like Pro Wrestling, which I do.
[h=1]David Corn: Bill O'Reilly Has Yet To Refute A Single Fact In My Story[/h] HuffPost Live | By Kira Brekke
Posted: 02/25/2015 12:32 pm EST Updated: 02/25/2015 12:59 pm EST
As Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly continues to fight off allegations that he fabricated details of his reporting during the Falklands War, David Corn told HuffPost Live on Wednesday that O'Reilly "still has yet to refute a single fact" in his and Daniel Schulman's original Mother Jones' report on O'Reilly's Falklands claims.
Corn told host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani that he can understand why O'Reilly wants to have the final word in the controversy, but the Fox News host still hasn't addressed the discrepancies pointed out in Mother Jones, specifically O'Reilly's claims that he reported from a "war zone" and his characterization of the Buenos Aires protest as a "massacre."
"O'Reilly can't back that up," Corn said. "It's pretty lightweight to say you were in a war zone because you covered a protest."
Corn also weighed on another "apparent whopper" reported by Media Matters Tuesday alleging that O'Reilly lied about hearing a gunshot from the suicide of George de Mohrenschildt, a man involved in the John F. Kennedy assassination investigation:
Posted: 02/25/2015 12:32 pm EST Updated: 02/25/2015 12:59 pm EST
As Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly continues to fight off allegations that he fabricated details of his reporting during the Falklands War, David Corn told HuffPost Live on Wednesday that O'Reilly "still has yet to refute a single fact" in his and Daniel Schulman's original Mother Jones' report on O'Reilly's Falklands claims.
Corn told host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani that he can understand why O'Reilly wants to have the final word in the controversy, but the Fox News host still hasn't addressed the discrepancies pointed out in Mother Jones, specifically O'Reilly's claims that he reported from a "war zone" and his characterization of the Buenos Aires protest as a "massacre."
"O'Reilly can't back that up," Corn said. "It's pretty lightweight to say you were in a war zone because you covered a protest."
Corn also weighed on another "apparent whopper" reported by Media Matters Tuesday alleging that O'Reilly lied about hearing a gunshot from the suicide of George de Mohrenschildt, a man involved in the John F. Kennedy assassination investigation:
It seems to be a pretty strong case that Bill O'Reilly was in Dallas ... when this fellow [Mohrenschildt] committed suicide in Florida. Yet, in his book Killing Kennedy, there's a very, very dramatic scene when O'Reilly's trying to track this guy down ... [and O'Reilly] was on his doorstep, about to talk to him, and BOOM, a shot rings out and the guy commits suicide, with O'Reilly just about to get the big story out of him.
Corn called these latest allegations a "serious matter" and noted that when asked to give comment about the Media Matters piece, Fox and O'Reilly declined.
