Looks like Papa Bear didn’t just lie about his “combat” experience
by digby
He’s pretty much lied about his whole career:
O’Reilly has claimed he has “seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador” and “was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head” during his time as a CBS correspondent. The incident that O’Reilly appears to be referring to is the well-documented execution of four churchwomen by the Salvadoran national guard in December 1980. After this event, experts say that there were no priests or nuns killed in the country for more than eight years.
But in his book The No Spin Zone, the host writes that he did not begin covering the civil war in El Salvador until “a few weeks” after he began as a CBS News correspondent in 1981 — the year after the execution took place.
“Before I went to El Salvador in 1981, I talked with some experienced Latin American experts, people who had seen the brutal wars down there for themselves,” O’Reilly said on “The O’Reilly Factor” in February 2002. “I had never been in a war zone before, so I wanted some prep.”
The Fox host also said during a 2009 interview on WVVH-TV’s American Dreams Show that he arrived in El Salvador “right after” the murders.
Check out the video where he says he saw nuns shot in the back of the head.
Again, no biggie for him. This will just make him more of a hero on the right. Still, worth noting.
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