O'Reilly's ratings and riches were acquired on his ponzi-scheme of stories,
and we all know who his contributors and investors are.
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Fox News Doesn't Care If Bill O'Reilly Is A Liar
Of all the allegations levied at Bill O’Reilly, the most compelling -- the most difficult to wave away -- is his
claim to have witnessed the suicide of George de Mohrenschildt, a friend of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The Fox host said in his book
Killing Kennedy that he had been knocking on the door when he heard the gunshot.
But O’Reilly’s colleagues say he was in Dallas at the time. Last week,
CNN played an audio clip between O’Reilly and a congressional investigator in which the Fox host asks where the suicide took place and whether a gun was used. “I'm coming down there tomorrow. I'm coming to Florida ... I'm going to get in there tomorrow,” O’Reilly says.
The Fox host’s explanations for his other fibs are far from satisfactory. However violent the protests in Buenos Aires got after the Falklands War,
O’Reilly can’t claim he was in a “combat situation” or an “active war zone” -- quite simply, the war was over, and took place 1,200 miles away from the Argentine capital. Watching footage of an execution isn’t the same thing as
seeing one firsthand. And
a brick being thrown does not an ambush make.
But all of these fall under the category of exaggerations. If O’Reilly were more forthright, he could simply say he misspoke. There’s no plausible explanation, however, for saying you were in one place when you were, in fact, in another.
This is probably why neither O’Reilly nor the network have responded to this accusation. A spokesperson for Fox News directed questions to O’Reilly’s publisher, Henry Holt, which in typical PR fashion issued a statement of support but didn’t answer the question: “We fully stand behind Bill O’Reilly and his bestseller
Killing Kennedy and we’re very proud to count him as one of our most important authors,” the spokesperson said.
