Bill O'Reilly, the Next Brian Williams? TV Host Lied About "Active War Zone" Experiences

A new report shows that Fox News' Bill O'Reilly regularly lied about his reporting and experiences in a manner nearly identical to NBC's now disgraced Brian Williams.

Mother Jones reports that the issue arises from how O'Reilly described his experiences in Argentina around the time of the Falklands War in the early 1980s. Throughout O'Reilly's career, in books, interviews, and his own program, O'Reilly stated that he had been in "an active war zone" and "survived a combat situation."

O'Reilly says he was in these situations during the 1982 Falklands War between the United Kingdom and Argentina. The only problem is that not a single journalist from the United States made it to the island during the war. The closest O'Reilly ever got to seeing Falklands combat was 1,200 miles away, in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires.

Mother Jones found at least seven times where O'Reilly claimed he was involved in a combat situation and active war zone although he never was. In one incident, O'Reilly, like Brian Williams, completely fabricates details about what happened. O'Reilly said that while on the Falklands Islands his photographer was injured and he had to make a choice between reporting, and helping save his colleague. O'Reilly said saving the photographer was more important. If only any of it were true, at all.

Although he never made it to the islands, O'Reilly was able to break some news. Argentina erupted in protests after the Argentine military lost the war against the United Kingdom. This led to enormous protests throughout the country, and O'Reilly reported on one that took place in Buenos Aires. Even though O'Reilly really was at such a protest, he lied about it by claiming that people were killed in the protest. No reports from that event, even the CBS report he was working on at the time, mention any deaths occurring.

O'Reilly also repeated this lie a number of times as well.