No one but his most fawning fans is surprised that Bill O’Reilly has been exposed as a serial liar. But since Mother Jones first revealed the Fox News impresario wasn’t telling the truth about covering a war zone on the Falkland Islands, the accusations of further lies have been piling up faster than the snow in Boston.
The latest lie is simple. In his book Killing Kennedy,
O’Reilly wrote he was at the the Florida home of a friend of Lee Harvey
Oswald, George de Mohrenschildt, when Mohrenschildt shot himself.
O’Reilly claimed he heard the shotgun go off.
The only problem is that O’Reilly was
likely in Dallas, where he worked as a local TV reporter, at the time.
And an audio call proves it.
In that segment, CNN media
reporter Brian Setzer played a tape of a call between O’Reilly and
Gaeton Fonzi, an investigator in Florida, who informs him that
Mohrenschildt shot himself. O’Reilly says, “I’m coming down there
tomorrow. I’m coming to Florida,” proving he wasn’t there at the time.
Fonzi told him about the suicide. He
told him it was a death by gunshot. He told him the name of the town
where it happened — he even spelled it.
Clearly O’Reilly was not there. Clearly he wrote that he was. So what will he say about this accusation of lying — or will he just ignore it?
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