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Bill O'Reilly's Cameraman Smacks Down Fox News Host's Falklands TaleSource: TPM, Mother Jones
ByBrendan JamesPublishedMarch 30, 2015, 12:21 PM EDT
More than a month after Fox News host Bill O'Reilly was called out for apparently embellishing his record covering the Falklands War in the 1980s, his cameraman at the time has disputed key facts in the story.
Mother Jones, which published one of the first reports that sparked the recent investigations into O'Reilly's work, published a statement on Monday from onetime CBS cameraman Ignacio Medrano-Carbo.
Over the years, O'Reilly had repeatedly said he'd seen people gunned down by live bullets in the streets of Buenos Aires in the 1980s when he covered "riots" there for CBS. He also said he personally rescued his cameraman, who he said had been knocked down and was bleeding from the head during the melee.
Medrano-Carbo told Mother Jones that O'Reilly's story was news to him.
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