This exchange is from Bildo’s radio show on friday:
For the record, O’Reilly isn’t even telling the truth about having been close to any shit as a journalist. He’s made these claims before, but the closest he’s ever come to combat is covering the Falkland Island War from a hotel room in Buenos Aires.
I’d like to know what makes him so sure the caller has never “come close” to whatever fantasy bio Bill-O has created for himself.
By the way, I love the sound of (what I imagine is) O’Reilly’s crew guys snickering in the background when the caller calls him on his bullshit. Even his employees can’t stand him.
Thank you, Roger, from Portland, Oregon!
When Bill said he was a media guy with a pen instead of gun getting shot at, Roger should have said “Is that how you won your Peabody awards?”.
From what I’ve read over at Free Republic, even the posters there can’t stand him. I really want to see their reaction.
But not nearly as much as Keith Olbermann’s. 
I came across this video yesterday. It’s a “remix” of Bill’s recently-unearthed meltdown. I thought it was funny.
I’m almost positive I saw that exchange posted somewhere (or maybe saw it on that MSNBC show thats always making fun of O’Reilly) a year ago or more. Re-run maybe?
Who listens to this guy, anyway? Somebody must be watching the advertising during his shoe, or he’d be off the air.
Same issue, but not a re-run. O’Reilly was shown up long ago for claiming he was in combat, be shot at (during the Grenada skirmish.) It was featured in an Al Franken book. However, O’Reilly still clings to the claim, and still uses it to embellish his argument for torture. He makes the claim again, some caller knocks his dick in the dirt again, and he gets pissed off again.
Most people, having been embarrassed over a false claim, would stop making the claim. It doesn’t work that way in the No-Spin Zone. Every time Media Matters for America catches him lying, they nail him to the wall for it. Instead of apologizing for the lie, BillO calls MM Islamofascist assassins, and he sticks with the lie. http://mediamatters.org/items/200803260003
The Google ad is Bill O’Reilly Goes Crazy.
I thought he was already crazy.
What a fucking putz this guy is. His claims of being in combat are an insult to those who have served, and those who have died while doing so. Ernie Pyle was a combat reporter, asswipe. You, sir, are a poseur of the worst kind: someone without a callus or a resume, someone who feeds off public paranoia, a leech battened on the ass of humanity.
It give me great pleasure to think how Bill O feels about Colbert getting the award he never got for making fun of him. Sometimes there is justice.
He may have mentioned a similar issue before too, but I mean that I’ve seen precisely this clip at least a year ago.
Ah, I’m not crazy. This page was making fun of O’Reilley for the same quote in January of 2005
Bill O’Reilly has his skill set: he’s a master at stoking outrage.
Why oh why doesn’t he mix in some deserving targets then? Some years back, the NYT’s Nicolas Kristoff challenged him to travel to Sudan and turn the heat on the genocidal bastards that transformed Darfur into a humanitarian catastrophe. Sure, it would be hard, but I would think that someone with Bill’s delusions of grandeur would be up for the task.
No dice.
“Fuck it, we’ll do it live!” is much older than that, but still new to the Intertubes.
Perhaps that’s why O’Reilly goes around claiming he got a Peabody-he figures that Colbert is such an accurate parody of him, that he can claim it by default?
Emphasis added, 'cause you really answered your own question. Bill O’Reilly doesn’t want to do anything hard. He’s a bully; bullies go after easy targets.
Is it everybody, or just us, who has this romantic notion that combat experience makes a better man? Is that why so many men are anxious to pretend to it?
I think it’s also interesting that, in my experience, the guys who have really been there usually have no wish to talk about it. The best way to give the impression of being a true combat vet is to never bring it up. They don’t.