Bill O'Reilly Once WROTE A WILD STORY About The Incident At The Center Of His Scandal

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O'Reilly's book was titled "Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Murder and Television." It is clearly a work of fiction, but several critics have pointed out the central characters bear a clear resemblance to O'Reilly. In 2004, the late Michael Hastings said the book offers "an inside view of the author’s mind." The New Yorker's Nicholas Lemann described the main characters as two versions of O'Reilly's "alter ego." One of those characters is Shannon Michaels, who like O'Reilly, is a tall, Irish-American journalist who was sent to cover the Falklands War for a television network. The protest is a life-changing moment for Michaels where, as he puts it, he "almost got killed." In O'Reilly's story, Michaels is on the scene reporting for the fictional network GNN on June 15, 1982 when thousands of Argentines angry over the surrender rioted in front of the president's residence, La Casa Rosada. O'Reilly has said he was also there reporting for CBS News, but his accounts of the protest have been disputed. O'Reilly has described his experience covering the aftermath of the Falklands conflict as being [bin a "war zone" and "combat situation."] He has also said "many were killed" at the protest and that his cameraman was injured. These claims were disputed by a series of reports in Mother Jones and several of his former colleagues who have said no one was killed and no CBS staff was injured.


In O'Reilly's novel the protest was broken up by soldiers, or as the author put it, "combat-ready shock troops dressed in full battle gear and armed with machine guns." At this point, Michaels, one of the characters described as O'Reilly's fictional "alter ego" realized he "had to get away" with his cameraman and soundman. As Michaels and his crew escaped, the soldiers let loose on the crowd. "Without warning, they began firing directly into the crowd," O'Reilly wrote, adding, "Hundreds of people immediately fell onto the cement." O'Reilly wrote that Michaels "saw one man take a bullet squarely in the right eye" and he "was killed instantly." He described "ten thousand tightly packed demonstrators ... desperately trying to get away from the gunfire any way they could." These scenes written by O'Reilly contradict contemporaneous reports of the real-life protest, which do not describe widespread gunfire or any deaths. At this point in O'Reilly's tale, Michaels' cameraman and soundman, "Francisco" and "Juan" are knocked down by "a pack of fleeing young men." Michaels comes to their rescue by "fighting his way through the panicked mob." After their rescue, the two men are concerned with retrieving an expensive camera they dropped in the melee. "Fuck the camera, it's gone. Get moving," Michaels declared. Juan resists Michaels' order leading the heroic journalist to hit him with what O'Reilly described as a "murderous" look and an order to, "Get the fuck out of here Juan." "The soundman finally got the message and moved out," O'Reilly wrote.


O'Reilly's story continued with Michaels carrying his injured cameraman away amid "gunfire and screams." As they escaped. Michaels noticed his colleague was bleeding badly and needed to get to a doctor. This was no simple task in O'Reilly's fictionalized version of the protest. "Movement of any kind would not be easy," O'Reilly wrote, continuing, "The crowd was in complete disarray. Scores of dead and wounded lay on the cold concrete." This scene echoed O'Reilly's claim a CBS cameraman was injured, which has been disputed by his colleagues. In O'Reilly's novel, before Michaels and his were able to escape, they faced two more life-threatening obstacles. Michaels was involved in a tense standoff with a soldier who had "an M-16 pointed directly at his head." Just as they were about to drive off they were also stopped by a secret policeman who attempted to take their tapes. Michaels eliminated the threat by knocking out the secret policeman with a punch O'Reilly described as guided by "pure instinct" and "pure adrenaline" that was fueled by the "violence" he "had just experienced." The protest is pivotal in O'Reilly's novel. After the dramatic escape, a colleague attempted to take Michaels' notes and tapes from the protest. This causes Michaels to have a violent outburst that leads to him getting ousted from the network. Michaels' rage at his co-workers who try to take credit for his Falklands reporting is reminiscent of claims the real-life O'Reilly has made about his experiences in Argentina. O'Reilly has implied other CBS reporters were not on the ground covering the protest, another claim which has been disputed.




You can read Bill O'Reilly's fictionalized version of the protest, which is on page 17 through 25 of his book, here.






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[Enrique]

1. interesting, but it confuses the issue

this article lays out some discrepancies between O'Reilly's novel and what actually happened. To what end? So what if fiction doesn't match the actual events?

O'Reilly is facing a major scandal and he along with a lot of allies are fighting back hard. Any muddying of the waters just helps them.

[JHB]

3. I think the point is that Bill's claims bear more resemblance to...

...his fictionalized versions than to what actually happened. It's not muddying the waters to note that Bill's blurring the distinction between fact and fiction. (As John Stewart noted, "that's kind of his hook.&quot

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4. "...While the characters in O'Reilly's novel...

...bear clear similarities to the Fox News host, the account of the protest in Argentina differs wildly from the stories of the real-life incident...."

How long has Billo been spoon-feeding the public a diet of his Falkland's War account without any of his lies or distortions ever being called out? The applicable strategy in play here that comes to mind is a quote from Joseph Goebbels who once claimed..

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

My speculative....... Was Billo intentionally trying to fudge the line between facts and his fictional novel so he, at a later date, could claim that the main character in his novel was really him in real life? What if a production company, producer, director et al thought his book novel was commercially viable and decided to purchase an option to adapt his novel into a feature film? Billo would then be able to show (through video clips as proof) of himself making these trumped up war claims on air over the years.......

...Just my own speculation as to someone leaving a trail of bread crumbs behind that might come to fruition at a later date.

[JHB]

2. Bill must be so happy to be just like Ronald Reagan....

...remembering fiction as if it were fact. (On multiple occasions Reagan's anecdotes were from old movies he'd seen, rather than anything produced by real life.)

[Android3.14]

5. Sounds like his internal history is confused with his fictional wishful thinking

[dhol82]

6. Looks like he created his own false memories

Wrote a fictional story with himself as the rousing hero and it somehow morphed into his own personal reality.

He is probably convinced that what he is remembering is real and the 'loony left' is just out to get him. Pathetic.

[Lochloosa]

7. Take your pick...

http://www.sherv.net/shit-emoticons.html

[JonLP24]

8. How did this controversy suddenly become more interesting

and that kept becoming interesting since it started and all this was unknown during 2003?

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9. It was known back then but....

"...In a better media world, this would offend every journalist who wasn't an ideological ally of O'Reilly's. This would get the rest of the press's back up. But it won't, because the nerdy members of the Journalism Club see O'Reilly and the rest of the people at Fox as BMOCs who sit at the cool table in the media's high school cafeteria. They fear Fox. So most of them won't wade into the fight...."

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/defense-bill-oreilly-enters-thuggish-phase

Looks like a big reason for that was that journalists 'feared Fox'................

[UTUSN]

10. R#16 & K n/t

[hamsterjill]

11. O'Reilly got his start in trash tv

He used to be a host of Inside Edition, didn't he? He's used to sensationalizing the facts.

It's simply time that he's being held to task for doing it! And it's sheer entertainment to watch him squirm!!!