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Saturday, February 21, 2015 7:17:47 PM
Ex-CBS reporter says Bill O'Reilly wasn't in a war zone, he was in 'an expense account zone'
Bill O, checking out his favorite war hero ...
Barbara Morrill
Sat Feb 21, 2015 at 03:15 PM PST
The fallout over Mother Jones' expose [ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/questions-bill-oreilly-falklands-david-corn ] of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's long-running lies about his combat reporting continues, today with a Facebook posting [ https://m.facebook.com/eric.j.engberg/posts/10204873374051471 ] by Eric Jon Engberg, a former CBS correspondent who worked for the network for 27 years and, along with O'Reilly, reported from Buenos Aires back in 1982. And how does he remember it? Just a few of the highlights:
We -- meaning the American networks -- were all in the same, modern hotel and we never saw any troops, casualties or weapons. It was not a war zone or even close. It was an "expense account zone."
All the members of the CBS reporting staff and all the two-person camera crews we had in Buenos Aires were sent in to the street. I believe there were four or five crews. The reporters, as I remember, were O'Reilly, Chuck Gomez, Charles Krause, Bob Schieffer and myself. Somewhere it has been reported that O'Reilly has claimed he was the only CBS News reporter who had the courage to go into the street because the rest of us were hiding in our hotel. If he said such thing it is an absolute lie.
The CBS bureau chief in Buenos Aires ... assembled the camera crews in our hotel newsroom and instructed them to refrain from using the lights on their cameras while around crowds. Television lights attracted potentially violent people ... According to Doyle, O'Reilly returned to the hotel in a rage over the fact that his cameraman wouldn't turn on the lights to photograph angry crowds. Doyle defended the cameraman and chewed out O'Reilly for violating his instructions on lights.
When Doyle informed O'Reilly that Schieffer would be doing the report, which would not include any segment from O'Reilly, the reporter exploded. "I didn't come down here to have my footage used by that old man," he shouted ... This confrontation led the next day to O'Reilly being ordered out of Argentina by the CBS bosses. Doyle had told them O'Reilly was a "disruptive force" who threatened his bureau's morale and cohesion.
O'Reilly has said he was in a situation in Argentina where "my photographer got run down and hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete and the army was chasing us." The only place where such an injury could have occurred was the relatively tame riot I have described above. Neither Doyle, who would have been immediately informed of injury to any CBS personnel, nor anyone else who was working the story remembers a cameraman being injured that night.
The gunfire reported by O'Reilly is equally suspicious. One of our camera crews reported that they believed the Argentine police or army had fired a few rubber bullets at the crowd. That was the only report we received of weapons being fired that night.
Now, perhaps Mr. O'Reilly will get around to responding the many questions [ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/20/1365764/-So-about-all-that-war-zone-reporting-Mr-O-Reilly?detail=hide ] that he refuses to answer. Or he'll continue with his tantrums and name-calling.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/21/1365976/-Ex-CBS-reporter-says-Bill-O-Reilly-wasn-t-in-a-war-zone-he-was-in-an-expense-account-zone
Bill O, checking out his favorite war hero ...
Barbara Morrill
Sat Feb 21, 2015 at 03:15 PM PST
The fallout over Mother Jones' expose [ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/questions-bill-oreilly-falklands-david-corn ] of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's long-running lies about his combat reporting continues, today with a Facebook posting [ https://m.facebook.com/eric.j.engberg/posts/10204873374051471 ] by Eric Jon Engberg, a former CBS correspondent who worked for the network for 27 years and, along with O'Reilly, reported from Buenos Aires back in 1982. And how does he remember it? Just a few of the highlights:
We -- meaning the American networks -- were all in the same, modern hotel and we never saw any troops, casualties or weapons. It was not a war zone or even close. It was an "expense account zone."
All the members of the CBS reporting staff and all the two-person camera crews we had in Buenos Aires were sent in to the street. I believe there were four or five crews. The reporters, as I remember, were O'Reilly, Chuck Gomez, Charles Krause, Bob Schieffer and myself. Somewhere it has been reported that O'Reilly has claimed he was the only CBS News reporter who had the courage to go into the street because the rest of us were hiding in our hotel. If he said such thing it is an absolute lie.
The CBS bureau chief in Buenos Aires ... assembled the camera crews in our hotel newsroom and instructed them to refrain from using the lights on their cameras while around crowds. Television lights attracted potentially violent people ... According to Doyle, O'Reilly returned to the hotel in a rage over the fact that his cameraman wouldn't turn on the lights to photograph angry crowds. Doyle defended the cameraman and chewed out O'Reilly for violating his instructions on lights.
When Doyle informed O'Reilly that Schieffer would be doing the report, which would not include any segment from O'Reilly, the reporter exploded. "I didn't come down here to have my footage used by that old man," he shouted ... This confrontation led the next day to O'Reilly being ordered out of Argentina by the CBS bosses. Doyle had told them O'Reilly was a "disruptive force" who threatened his bureau's morale and cohesion.
O'Reilly has said he was in a situation in Argentina where "my photographer got run down and hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete and the army was chasing us." The only place where such an injury could have occurred was the relatively tame riot I have described above. Neither Doyle, who would have been immediately informed of injury to any CBS personnel, nor anyone else who was working the story remembers a cameraman being injured that night.
The gunfire reported by O'Reilly is equally suspicious. One of our camera crews reported that they believed the Argentine police or army had fired a few rubber bullets at the crowd. That was the only report we received of weapons being fired that night.
Now, perhaps Mr. O'Reilly will get around to responding the many questions [ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/20/1365764/-So-about-all-that-war-zone-reporting-Mr-O-Reilly?detail=hide ] that he refuses to answer. Or he'll continue with his tantrums and name-calling.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/21/1365976/-Ex-CBS-reporter-says-Bill-O-Reilly-wasn-t-in-a-war-zone-he-was-in-an-expense-account-zone
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