Bill O'Reilly Rebukes Mother Jones' Assertions

Glenn Beck talked Friday With Bill O'Reilly

Fox News Bill O'Reilly host devoted the top of his talk show on Friday to blast the liberal magazine Mother Jones Earth News once again for a report alleging that he had exaggerated his accounts from the Falklands War in 1982, according to CNN.

"Mother Jones, which has low circulation, considered by many the bottom rung of journalism in America," O'Reilly said in his opening monologue, according to a rough transcript published online by Fox News. The host released the transcript early "in order to address the Internet guttersnipes," according to a tweet from the "O'Reilly Factor" Twitter account.

With that, O'Reilly picked up where he left off a day earlier.



On Thursday, after Mother Jones published the report, O'Reilly mounted a furious rebuttal, making his case in interviews with several reporters. He also made several disparaging remarks about David Corn, the Mother Jones Washington bureau chief who co-authored the report with Daniel Schulman.

O'Reilly kept it up with his monologue on Friday's broadcast, dismissing Corn as a "liar" and the report as a "political hit job." The host also reiterated that he never said that he was on the Falkland Islands during the conflict between Argentina and Britain.

The Mother Jones report highlighted several examples of O'Reilly saying he had been in a "war zone" during his coverage of the conflict for CBS News.

O'Reilly did not address his references to the "war zone" on his show Friday. He described his encounter with "angry mobs in Buenos Aires," recalling that he had witnessed "horrific" violence during a protest.

O'Reilly also highlighted an internal memo from CBS News praising his coverage of the protest.

He aslo  appeared on the Glenn Beck Radio Program Friday to call out the "absurd" Mother Jones report about his war reporting, as well as the other digital media who picked it up.




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