Bill O’Reilly‘s claims of reporting in a war zone in the 1980’s is being challenged in an explosive new piece by Mother Jones.
The website’s David Corn highlights several instances where the Fox News primetime host claimed to have covered the 1982 fighting in the Falklands War between Argentina and England up close—the issue is few reporters were able to cover the conflict up close due to the remote location of the war zone.
The main fighting was 1,400 miles offshore between the British territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Corn reports O’Reilly was in Buenos Aires covering a public protest against the military junta directly after the Argentine surrendered to England—a point media critics are suggesting is not the equivalent of a war zone; the term O’Reilly has used on TV and in books.