Mother Jones Catches Bill O'Reilly Lying About Falkland Island War Coverage
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- "After NBC News suspended anchor Brian Williams for erroneously claiming that he was nearly shot down in a helicopter while covering the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly went on a tear. On his television show, the top-rated cable news anchor declared that the American press isn't "half as responsible as the men who forged the nation." He bemoaned the supposed culture of deception within the liberal media, and he proclaimed that the Williams controversy should prompt questioning of other "distortions" by left-leaning outlets. Yet for years, O'Reilly has recounted dramatic stories about his own war reporting that don't withstand scrutiny-even claiming he acted heroically in a war zone that he apparently never set foot in.
O'Reilly has repeatedly told his audience that he was a war correspondent during the Falklands war and that he experienced combat during that 1982 conflict between the United Kingdom* and Argentina. He has often invoked this experience to emphasize that he understands war as only someone who has witnessed it could. As he once put it, "I've been there. That's really what separates me from most of these other bloviators. I bloviate, but I bloviate about stuff I've seen. They bloviate about stuff that they haven't."
Fox News and O'Reilly did not respond to multiple requests for comment.*
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The Falklands war, was on the Falkland islands. Covering it from Argentina is like covering the Syrian war from Spain...
Well spotted. Notice how all the patriotards don't know that simple fact?
that's good. Except he said he was in Montevideo. MONTEVIDEO IS NOT IN ARGENTINA. IT IS IN URUGUAY.
That and the Yanks were not involved in that war and the Brits were allowed to report freely in Argentina during the time of the war.
dangerouslytalented "I covered it from Buenos Aires and Montevideo." One of those is indeed in Argentina. Having said that, Bill O'Reilley does indeed make it clear that the story he tells about his photographer took place in Argentina. He doesn't misrepresent himself.
MinesAGuinness
I typed too early.
O'Reilly also rescued Noah's ark from the Great Flood single handed...LIVE!
Lol
Brian Williams covered it live, in a dingy..
#foxfacts
Ha Ha Ha Ha
And when it was time he dived down to the ground level under the flood to snag a olive branch and toss it into the hand of noah. He was the dove.
hey don't hate Bill, to be fair he did cover the War on Christmas, War on Guns and War on Easter......😜😜.
you forgot to mention the "war on women" as revealed by the lying filthy Dems
What about the Inch War? Bill's been fighting that for the past 30 years.
And the war on his receding hairline.
Omnia in numeris And the war on women contrived by the hapless Dems who are as phony as their war
+Philip Vilsoni Points!
The Falklands war was conducted within an exclusion zone - just a couple of Brits reporters attached to the military were granted limited access - UK policy was not to escalate the war to the mainland unless napalm or other banned weapons occurred - Bill was defiantly not in a war zone there
Yeah they were pretty strict on the exclusion zone. One of the most controversial decisions during the war was the Sinking of the Argentine battleship Belgrano. Thatcher decided it hadn't left the exclusion zone in time so the Royal Navy sank it. There was no way he was getting anywhere near those islands.
LouisKing995 Indeed it was controversial - and probably saved a lot of lives
LouisKing995 Not quite right, Belgrano was the southern tip of a pincer, the Argie aircraft carrier and escorts were to the north. Belgrano was zig zagging in and out of the zone, the RN Sub tracking it warned London that the enemy ship was about to go over a large underwater mountain range which could cause the sonar tracking to be lost. Knowing enemy forces were also to the north London gave the order to sink the Belgrano. The Argentine carrier then ran to home as did the rest of the Argentine navy like the pussies they were. Later the commander of the Belgrano who survived said he would have done the same if he had been the British.
SSCFPA It had to be sunk though old it had large guns capable of sinking a small aircraft carrier or messing up the landing - looking back it was madness to send out a WW2 cruiser into waters known to have Brit hunter killer subs on the prowl - It was a crime to put that museum piece to sea
VideoAudioDisco09 Well you can speculate that I guess - We imagine it was more like "we should not miss this chance of sinking one half of the pincer movement " The sub that did it has been in a museum for 2 decades - the Ship that sank should have been half a century ago - it was cruel sending them brave lads out in an WW2 antique knowing there were British nuclear hunter killer subs there
I was there too, with Brian williams and hillary clinton. We were all dodging sniper fire from chris kyle.
O'Reilly lied O'Really?
If Chris Kyle had you in his sights you would be a dead duck
genie0390 Depends on if you are white or not.
SkiDaBird yes, Iraq war was all about color
Kyle, not the war...
I grew up in Northern Ireland, in Belfast in fact. There was no war zone in Northern Ireland. There was very serious terrorist activity, but no actual war zone. What happened was that terrorists would plant bombs in Belfast (the city I lived in) or Derry and they would go off. Journalists were there covering those events, but the journalists were never in any danger because they were covering terrorist events. They would turn up after a bomb had gone off in a building and film the wreckage. They would interview the families of the victims. All sensible stuff, but they were not taking any personal risks and no journalist who had really been to Northern Ireland during that period of terrorism would say that they were placing themselves at risk by being there.
Bill O'Reilly is a liar.
'I was in a combat situation in Argentina during the Falklands war' - How has anyone not picked up on the fact yet that the Falklands war didn't take place in Argentina. The people he was telling that to should have been lucid enough to point that out. The clue is in the name. It took place in the Falklands and on two other islands.
O'Reilly said he was in combat zone in Falklands War. He was not. He was 1200 miles away in Buenos Aires. Then he said reporting on demonstrations in Buenos Aires was combat reporting. Bullshit.
He covered the Falklands War from Montevideo? MONTEVIDEO IS IN NEITHER THE FALKLANDS NOR IN ARGENTINA.
Ah bill, the armchair human.
ElPocho DelMundo
Bill O'Reilly is apparently ALWAYS relevant to EVERYTHING.
dangerouslytalented he was in montevideo? Isn’t that supposed to be a fun touristy party spot in Uruguay? Lol what a piece of shit
My mother was there at the time and she also tripped as she was running to hospital to give labor. O'Reily not only saved his tape, and his friend but stopped to aid my mother in labor with me and helped her give birth. Thank you Bill O'Reilly.
The biggest problem with Fox news is that some people take it serious.
What does a Fucking Idiot like you watch?
EscapeforMankind are you telling me that you take Fox news serious?
mark guest
Fox News is so popular that second place isn't even close.
If you want to watch an unpopular news program then that's your prerogative.
EscapeforMankind Fox news viewers are the most misinformed viewers in the states it's just purely a republican propaganda channel does not deserve to be called a news channel.
mark guest
And the rest of the News Channels are Fucking Bull Shit Libtard Shit, so WTF do suggest I watch? you fucking idiot
I am from Argentina. Here our armed forces use 7.62 bullets FAL. and therefore it could never have been targeted for m16 and say "Por favor" hahaha Secondly Buenos Aires and Montevideo are in two different countries
This guy is a fraud!
This is not a new story. I remember someone calling O'Reilly out on his radio show about this, I believe it's somewhere on UA-cam.
Yeah, it was a vet, Bill hanged up on him and then proceeded to curse the guy out.
I remember that and it was a Vet who called him out. Bill's response was "I will destroy you" Don't you dare lie about me. The vet stood his ground and called him a lier...again. I'm going to look for this tape and send it to The Young Turks.
Everything is "somewhere in youtube."
I got here because of that: soundcloud.com/jon-swaine/oreilly-shooting
I have been on Earth throughout the last few decades of war and terrorism - HONESTLY me and those events shared the same planet - I often wonder how I survived. I once watched a movie where people were being killed and the TV was only feet away, I never tire of telling people how brave I am...
I'm going to shart in bill oreilly's office if he doesn't agree with my liberal ideology.
Before you do that learn how to construct a basic sentence in english
Son Of Man funny considering you edited your post.
Son Of Man What was wrong with the sentence?
The Moral Crusader Hi Cjbos81
Son Of Man The only thing wrong with his sentence was that he didn't capitalize Bill Oreilly's name.
Don't forget El Salvador not only executed thousands, it was a torture regime.
Keep it up, cleanse the journalist cesspool
Lol...you realize in the clips they provided, he clearly said he covered the war from Buenos Aries, in Argentina.
MasterC2121
"I've reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands."
- Bill O'Reilly
Sinnessa On the ground in Buenos Aries covering the conflict in the Falklands--I'm paraphrasing but in reality, that's what happened. O'Reilly *never* claimed to report from the Falkland islands.
MasterC2121
"On the ground in active warzones..." - Bill O'Reilly
Argentina was never an active warzone during the Falklands conflict. Bill claiming that he was reporting from an active warzone is a lie.
Australia fought in the Vietnam war. Would you consider a journalist in Melbourne reporting on that conflict as being in an active warzone?
SIXITHS The furor in Buenos Aries, Argentina, was a direct result of the war zone in the Falklands. My friend, context matters!
Breaking: Your Grandfather didn't actually walk ten miles in the snow to school, it was actual 3 blocks in a light drizzle.
As Clint Eastwood , would say " he's a legend in his own mind "
people in argentina weren't protesting after the war was over and the certainly weren't protesting by saying they gave up too easily. in fact, most people were against the war. they were protesting because of what the military junta was doing to our country. do you even know how many people disappeared because of them? how many lives were lost?
At least Bill OReilly has the balls to go out into the field and do some ACTUAL journalism and not just commentary on other people's hard work and effort, unlike some people. **nudge, nudge, wink, wink, tyt** ;)
He's a liar.
Al Coholic Oooo, you got me there! So who does the *actual* journalism on 99% of the stories they do? Do tell, ol' wise one. Do tell :)
Bill explained it tonight. He was over there in Argentina when angry crowd confronted the government over surrendering and turned it into a riot w/ soldiers firing into the crowd so it's as chaotic as a war zone.
Another liberal hit-job failed.
Navaro Palm But he said he was in a war zone. He wasn't. Firing rubber bullets into a crowd is not equal to being in a war zone, where they use real bullets.
Navaro Palm Of course he "explained" it. He was caught in a lie and tried to maintain his credibility. When he effectively explains and apologises for all of his lies over the years, and stops lying then I might start to listen to something he says. He has a really big audience and therefore a massive responsibility to the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But he lies.
Send Bill to the front lines for all his warmongering. He deserves it.
OMFG I am from Argentina, Buenos Aires. WE WATCH BILL O'REILLY the same way John Stewart watches him. He's the joke that paints all americans in a stupid brush!
To the best of my recollection that war lasted about two months and the ground fighting basically took place on uninhabited islands. It was probably hard to get a British reporter there let alone an American. O'Reilly probably never left the hotel bar.
$10 that Bill tries to deflect toward Benghazi on Monday
Bill O'Reilly doesn't even belong in the same room as someone like Bob Schieffer.
Can we also mention the fact that "army pointed an m-16 at my head" is absolute bull shit because the Argentine Armed Services standard issue rifle was the FN FAL, a Belgian weapon not the American M-16!
Why now, he has been lying for decades? What a disgraceful human being!
going to Northern Ireland in the 80s doesn't make you entering a war zone. I visited Ireland in 85 and drove up to the north with a friend to visit her cousin. spent a day hanging out at a farm. I guess I am a war correspondent now.
No one seems to like John very much. Cenk almost never looks at him when he's talking to the others. And they always make fun of him. Kinda sad. I like you John.
Bill came out with proof that he did what he said he did.
2001 - “You know that I am not easily shocked. I’ve reported on the ground in active war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands,”
2015 - “I never said I was in the Falkland islands - ever." - Sorry Bill, the only active war zones in the Falkland War were on the Islands
Nicolás Kasanzew is an argentinian journalist working for CNN, he was in the island in 82,he was the only one in the war zone, later a british journalist ,who was in the british carrier , went to the island
Gotta give you this Cenk - Northern Ireland was NEVER a shooting war, (I'm a 57 year old Irish Nationalist). There were certainly many violent protests over the thirty years of the "Troubles" that occasionally lead to shooting, (the worst being Bloody Sunday 1972 - see Wikipedia), but none ever lasted long enough for a US film crew to turn up in time to cover it. Northern Ireland was essentially a covert war - with 99% of the time being lived as an uneasy peace. I deeply resent O'Reilly misrepresenting the Northern Ireland conflict to promote bullshit mountain - he brings shame to his name.
"That the difference between a man and a guy who has spent his entire career trying to tell everybody he's a man"
Damn, Ben just described Bill O'Reilly in one sentence. I think what make Billo's vanity worse he HAS to exert that he THE guy at all times. He couldn't tell that war story without throwing someone under the bus.
The most pathetic lie I've ever heard O'Reilly tell was how in his senior year playing varsity football he led the nation in punting. Despite the fact that Marist College only fielded a varsity team SEVEN years after he graduated. This guy has kids!!! Can you imagine the embarrassment? So....erm i hear your dad led the nation in punting and tried out for the Mets.
At no time did the British, invade, shell, bomb, or strafe the Argentinian mainland in 1982. Since O Reilly was never on the Falkland Islands where the fighting actually was, how the hell could he be in a war zone? Did somebody knock his Martini over in the hotel bar? That's like calling Disneyworld a war zone during the first gulf war.
He said "please don't shoot" but he wasn't begging. Because he doesn't have to. He is a tough guy.
Bill O'Reilly also never served in Vietnam.
I am British and old enough to remember the Falklands War. From what I remember America didn't show a lot of interest at all. A fact which was brought up on our news several times. Nowhere did Bill O'Reilly figure in any of the actual war coverage.
You guys weren't around during the Falkland War. At the time we all knew there were no reporters on the Islands. The reporters were all reporting from Argentina an we all knew that. The Young Turks look pretty pathetic in this fight.
It occurred to me when I saw people like O'Reilly and Megyn Kelly NOT distancing themselves from Brian Williams and flatly condemning him that something is at work here. What could it be? It shouldn't matter what your political beliefs are....if a journalist lies, ALL other journalists should shun him and distance themselves. Its the ultimate sin in journalism. When I didn't see this from those two, I knew right then that they knew they had done the same thing in the past but just hadn't been caught....YET. Its pretty sad that major news people like this can do these things and not be immediately removed for good. Yet we still see the door left slightly open for Williams to someday return. Why? I've no interest in seeing him deliver the news ever again.
Apparently Bill O'Reilly grew up in the projects in Detroit. He got a lot of flack being the only white rapper. Took a few beatings one in front of his sister, then went to a place called the Shelter and rap battled all of them to shame and became a local Hero......according to Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. But wait Bill and you too Fox News.....Erm wasn't that the character portrayed by Eminem in the film 8 Mile?? Face it people,this is what happens when you climb to the summit of BullShit Mountain. You get so high up that even to you your bull shit doesn't stink and you start to believe that it smells like something other than what it is.
I love the American view on conflicts. Northern Ireland was never a 'warzone'. And the Falkland Islands aren't in Argentina, that's what that war was about, who it the islands belonged to. And Great Britain won, so it sure as hell isn't in Argentina.
The troubles in Northern Ireland was never a full blown out war zone ever.
if the Argentinian military at the time of the Falklands war had caught Bill and his team he would not be around today to tell the story, he would have been disappeared like so many poor Argentinian people.
Bill O'reilly "I was on the Front lines covering the Falkland War"
Brian Williams "So was I. I almost died".
But... Argentina failed in their attempted invasion of the Falklands, very, very badly - it lead to the total collapse of their military dictatorship. If O'Reilly was even there he certainly didn't help them!
And we specifically did NOT pursue the Argentines back on to their own ground - with a supply line literally thousands of miles long that would have been insane. Just the Vulcan bombing raids against various targets on the islands required huge, multi-staged planning with mid-air refueling by tankers which themselves required mid-air refuelling... It simply did not happen.
As a serving British soldier...I find it offensive that some journalist asshole is taking credit by claiming that he was in a warzone when he clearly wasn't.
Its an insult to the men on both sides of the Falklands war(or any war for that matter) who was on the ground fighting, dying and getting injured.
"Saving Private O´Reilly" - that was actually hilarious! :D
True
*FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY MORE BUSINESSES ARE DYING THAN ARE BEING BORN*
Congratulations Mr. president
He's suprised that they do not speak English in South America, where there's Spanish and Portuguese speaking people crossing the southern border. As if crossing a man made line magically replaces the language you spoke your whole life
My team sergeant in 5th Special Forces Group is a Medal of Honor winner. When asked in a press conference how it felt to be awarded the MOH, he responded, "It was a humbling experience. But I attribute the medal to the actions of the other 16 Americans in the battle..."
Then we have wannabe O'Reilly claiming to be a war hero...What a bloviating wimp! He isn't fit to lick the boots of héroes like my old team sergeant.
One problem, Bill O'Reilly wasn't lying and proved it. Where's your retraction? Hmm? Yeah I won't hold my breath. Nice witch hunt.
Have proof?
You do know that just saying "I didn't lie" is not proof right?
What did he debunk and with what evidence, and no his words are not evidence.
All sane people already don't take Billo seriously anyway. His elderly supporters are the only people who still think he has any kind of journalistic integrity.
Don't let O'Reilly's arrogant and pompous personality distract from the facts here. What happened to objective and unbiased journalism? It's all rhetoric, right wing and left wing desperately trying to throw each other under the bus.
ha ha , yeah you bagged it !
I'd just like to point out that Argentina were whipped in the Falklands War. They would remember but wouldn't be impressed that he brought it up. Argentina had their asses handed to themselves in the Falklands and are still reeling from it. They wouldn't be happy about him bringing it up when being told about his little Argentinian fan club
As an argentinian i can assure you, we don't tell our kids stories about O'Reilly.
"Makes Brian Williams not look so bad"
Totally missing the point. Fact is we have many journalists lying to us pathologically. Get them all out
Chuck Norris is feeling jealous of O'reilly now
I never thought Bryan Williams deserved that 6 month thing. I mean yea his whole story was fishy but if we are talking about creditability then this is a BS issue and Bill O'Reilly has lied way more and I dont even know why people still listen to him. Hell my parents only watch him to get a good laugh every now and then.
The hilarious thing is I remember Al Franken telling Bill O'Reilly he was a liar right in front of his face. This was a long time ago. I don't know what the thing was but Bill was on a panel on the stage and Al was at the podium telling a story about how O'Reilly claimed to have won Peabody Award(s) for Inside Edition. Franken checked with the Peabody people who said they never heard of such a thing. Franken was telling this story to the audience and Bill's head seemed like it was going to explode. He has always been a smug liar and continues to be.
Isn't false valour a crime in the USA these days? Lock him up! Lock him up!
Britain never attacked mainland Argentina. The war was fought on the Falklands to expel the invasion force.......
The British government did not allow foreign correspondents to travel with the task force even though many US and others requested travel to to conflict zone.
I love how the comedian on the panel is the only one being reasonable. This didn't need to be 20 minutes.
Covering the Falklands war from Argentina? The 'war' in Northern Ireland? We know he was never there because there never was a 'war'!
Bill used to work for CIA, he's used to lying. Its also a bit disturbing for a past CIA agent to be working in journalism anyhow. Glad they didn't make him weather man... then we'd never know what to actually dress for :p
Strange, I can't remember Northern Ireland being a warzone. Must've been in Bill's bong smoking youth.
If Bill O. almost died than clearly he wasn't trying hard enough. Try harder Bill. Please.
he has a narcissism disorder. 100%. and the level of his disorder is hiiiiiiigh! so high that he is an actual threat to his enviroment. He's not scared to use violence for sure.
I guess being around him is very unconfortable. poor studio workers.
Obama's done a better job at Destroying America than ISIS.
two years later.. bills ass got exposed
I'd like to see Bill O'Reilly cover more wars happening today. He is very brave. Please please send him out to the front lines again. Please. Please. He is such a good Journalist with war zones. I'd like to see him in Syria.
He was fired.
"I COVERED FO--- THREE WARS WITH A PEN!"
This video isnt about Bill O`rielly lying but about the young turk liberals vs the republicans, O`reilly is kind of untouchable with this kind of stuff, that's why we all love him.
“I was not on the Falkland Islands, and I never said I was. I was in Buenos Aires,” he explained. “In Buenos Aires we were in a combat situation after the Argentines surrendered.”
"He said he was in the war zone during the Falkland Island conflicts - the conflict was in the Falkland Islands, it was not in Buenos Aires,” Corn said to the Politico blog. “He covered a protest after the war was over in Buenos Aires. I don’t think that’s a reasonable definition of a combat situation. If you look up ‘combat situation’ in the dictionary, it’s not ‘an ugly protest.’’’
Bill, Bill, Bill, ...what day is it? Now, following the gospel according with O'Reilly, Ferguson protests were combat situations, Wow!! Only in fox news. Only there.
Just like fox and Giuliani, o'Reilly doesn't talk to the nation as a whole, instead they talk to please certain very peculiar districts composed of a well defined and loyal clientele who happens to vote republican, just that, and then they get so mad when they are unable to win a general election. Fox admits it is an entertainment station, not REAL news, however, ultra conservative, ultra reactionary, blatant nativistic right wingers take fox news as a gospel. What a sad story. Should be the "Limbaugh genes" deeply embedded in their chromosomes. They are hard-wired by nature, like reptiles. A sad story indeed.
There were no US hacks with the UK forces, either on land or ships, except that one NBC guy, not that we saw anything he did. Hell, there were not many UK press there even. The Ministry Of Defence even initially putting all of them on a naval supply ship loaded with ammunition! Only after a row were they dispersed more readily.
Northern Ireland? Could be rough if you were too near a bomb but it was/is a developed nation not some remote place.
A soldier in the Falklands - where he wasn't - levelled a M-16 at Bill?
Argentina did not use them, some UK SF troops did.
Bill was in zero risk in Argentina.
It's all BS Bill.
A chickenhawk at heart, like all of his ilk.
Regardless of whether you think he lied or didn't lie this is nothing compared to Brian Williams.
Apparently he had a fist fight with Superman and won.
Northern Ireland wasn't a War Zone. I spent Easter there (in 1980 or 81, can't remember) visiting a college friend on his parent's farm. Went to some bars, watched some kart racing, saw some really nice scenery and met some good people.There were places where you didn't go (I am English), lots of checkpoints and certainly violence over the years, including bombings and murders, which took a toll on ordinary people of both sides of the divide but a War Zone? Rubbish.
Ah, so THAT'S why he was so understanding when Brian Williams got caught and was suspended.
Billo is a compulsive liar and has claimed in the past to have gotten a tryout to pitch for the Mets in about 1970 where he says he met a rookie Tom Seaver. Olbermann pointed out that Seaver had already won a World Series and Sy Young award by that point because he had been with the Mets since 1967.
Bill O'Reilly blatantly lying to make himself look good? I've never heard of him doing such a thing, it's just so unlike him!
Even if he was in the north of Ireland during The Trouble's, I doubt he would have been getting openly shot at, not much of the firefights went on unless it was British forces coming into the Republican held and supported British No Go Zones.
And I highly doubt O'Reilly would have had the balls to go into any of the besieged parts.
The British didn't invade the mainland we only fought in the Falklands anywhere in the mainland would be safe
I am a Brazilian but it is NOT Falklands it is MALVINAS
No. Not quite. Thats how it is spelt but it's pronounced 'In the middle of nowhere.'
there wasn't a shot fired in argentina the clue is in the name the falklands war apart from a skirmish on south georgia all fighting took place on the falkland islands
People who actually go through experiences like that don't brag about it endlessly because they're traumatic and weighty experiences to go through.
If this guy is a war hero journalist, I'm Wilt Chamberlain..
Covering the Falkands war from Argentina is like covering WWII in the 80s.
The Factor word of the day: bloviate: do not bloviate when telling your life story as a journalist.
The average Fox News viewer doesn't know how to log on to the internet much less find youtube. That's just a fact.
I'm surprised there are buildings large enough and lenses wide enough to contain O' Lielly's ego. The man talks about himself more than any other topic.
Now, Eric Jon Engberg who was with him at CBS during this "event" has slammed his creditability. Can' t wait to see the follow up
You would have to go back to the 1920s to describe anything like a true Warzone in Ireland.
FOX News....Just Win Baby....they do every single night.
There were only a handful of instances that can be described as 'war zone' during the troubles in Northern Ireland. The reality of it was a shooting here and a bomb blast there every other day and kids throwing bricks at British army vehicles after school but that all quickly became every day life. It was bad but definitely not an atmosphere you would describe as a war zone. Syria right now is a war zone, Kobane is a war zone, Northern Ireland was just dangerous.
Al Franken was told you cant sue Bill because youd have to prove he doesnt believe his own bullshit and is as nuts as the day is long
I live in the Republic of Ireland and when I go up North I stay in a hotel called "The Europa" in Belfast. They have photographs of the hotel every time it has been bombed going up the stairs.
All Bill had to do was stay there (it's where lots of journalists stayed) to say they were in the middle of it.
Nice hotel, though.
Anyone else think Tropic Thunder was based on the true story of Bill O'Reilly?
The Falklands war took place on the Falklands Islands themselves there was no shooting or bombing in Buenos Aires. And, by the way - the UK won!