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i never said i was on the falklands islands as corn reports. i said i covered the falklands
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we seeing weighed down through the falklands war.re overseeing the coverage there in the falklands. you know what happened that night when the government surrendered to the british. in my reporting i told it exactly the way it was or did i make any mistakes mr. brown. >> no. let me take you the progression of the war. at first it was a joke. nobody took it seriously. we had the only reporter that actually got on the falkland islands. robin through the argentine navy. as the war went badly, there were demonstrations every day. there were tanks in the street it was a country at war. at first it was casual and it became more and more serious. and as the military were losing badly, the populist began to turn on the military leadership. >> you said there were tanks in the streets you mean the streets of buenas aries where we all were. >> yes. it was a real country at war. it wasn't a joke. it was a real war and they were taking it very seriously and at first buenas aries was a pretty nice place to be if you are covering the war. but as it
we seeing weighed down through the falklands war.re overseeing the coverage there in the falklands. you know what happened that night when the government surrendered to the british. in my reporting i told it exactly the way it was or did i make any mistakes mr. brown. >> no. let me take you the progression of the war. at first it was a joke. nobody took it seriously. we had the only reporter that actually got on the falkland islands. robin through the argentine navy. as the war went...
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i reported on the ground from el salvador to falklands. after mother jones pointed this out, o'reilly denied saying he was on the falkland islands. a series of news outlets then friday on his own show. he focused on a co-author of the mother jones report who was a paid contributor to fox news. he's now a paid contributor to msnbc. that leaves some people wondering if this is all about television news rivalries. o'reilly says he's just out to get fox news. >> this man, 56-year-old david corn works for far left mag "mother jones" smeared me your humble correspondent, yesterday saying i fabricated mother jones considered bottom running of journalism. >> i'm not sure he's talking about when he says bottom running of journalism but corn says he's trying to distract. most has been about whether he misstated where he was in the war. play the clip again, where o'reilly talked about his photographer being injured. >> i was in a situation one time in a war zone in argentina in the falklands where my photographer got rundown and hit his head and was
i reported on the ground from el salvador to falklands. after mother jones pointed this out, o'reilly denied saying he was on the falkland islands. a series of news outlets then friday on his own show. he focused on a co-author of the mother jones report who was a paid contributor to fox news. he's now a paid contributor to msnbc. that leaves some people wondering if this is all about television news rivalries. o'reilly says he's just out to get fox news. >> this man, 56-year-old david...
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, and he comes out and says in the last couple days i never said i was in the falkland falklands falklandsontrast and come to whatever conclusion they want but i guess he can call me a liar for putting up his own video contradicting what he says but -- and i hate to say this but it shouldn't win the argument but for his audience might be effective. >> that's the strategy right? to say you have disproven something without actually doing it and hoping the loudness of your argument will do it. bombast is easy to come by but threats against other journalists for being journalists is not tenable in this business for any news organization unless they're not going to pretend to be an organ new organization anymore. david corn thank you for helping us understand this and i'm sorry you got threatened. >> thank you for having me and giving a good explanation of it. i appreciate it rachel. >>> lots still to come. stay with me and i can hear you screaming from twitter on here. i can hear you. stay with us. ♪ okay, you ready to go? i gotta go dad! okay! let's go go, go, go... woah! go right, go left, g
, and he comes out and says in the last couple days i never said i was in the falkland falklands falklandsontrast and come to whatever conclusion they want but i guess he can call me a liar for putting up his own video contradicting what he says but -- and i hate to say this but it shouldn't win the argument but for his audience might be effective. >> that's the strategy right? to say you have disproven something without actually doing it and hoping the loudness of your argument will do...
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there is a study of the falklands suicides which the ministry of defense commission. i have a number of problems with the methodology of that which is kind of opaque because it's very hard but they went out of their way to prove in their own minds the rates of suicide from the falklands veterans was way way below that of the civilian equivalent population. the answer being we don't really need to worry about it. it's just some sort of media myth. >> host: to turn that around is that too much emphasis on the way things are in the united states in terms of the way veterans are tracked? it does make the news regularly here and there are a lot of people deeply invested in the problem and a lot of folks that trackpad and are concerned about that. i think we would include ourselves in that but when you compare that to another country where there is that little attention. >> guest: you have to be careful about pretraining veterans as victims are taking taking -- ticking time bombs are angry man about to go postal. there is a caricature that has been associated with the left
there is a study of the falklands suicides which the ministry of defense commission. i have a number of problems with the methodology of that which is kind of opaque because it's very hard but they went out of their way to prove in their own minds the rates of suicide from the falklands veterans was way way below that of the civilian equivalent population. the answer being we don't really need to worry about it. it's just some sort of media myth. >> host: to turn that around is that too...
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the falklands war was in 1992 and this was 2009 but during the falklands the welsh watts garden and they were killed while sitting on a ship waiting to land on bluff go for hits by argentine bonds. one of the most aranda's incidents in the falklands war but one of the things about the casualties that no officers were killed. it was overwhelmingly guardsman and corporals but it was very much the lower ranks that were hit. but it was the sense that they were on that ship like a sitting duck targets because of the actions of officers. even now you can go to sergeant smith in the watch guardsmen and there will be an argument about what happened that day at bluff cove. i don't think it's complete -- the three officers were killed and three watch guards officers were killed. i think psychologically it was a compensating behavior so leaving from the front was part of the culture of the regiment that the officers some of the officers had been blamed for failure back in 1982. as a regiment there was a very strong sense of history in this moment that they were going out as infantry battalion in th
the falklands war was in 1992 and this was 2009 but during the falklands the welsh watts garden and they were killed while sitting on a ship waiting to land on bluff go for hits by argentine bonds. one of the most aranda's incidents in the falklands war but one of the things about the casualties that no officers were killed. it was overwhelmingly guardsman and corporals but it was very much the lower ranks that were hit. but it was the sense that they were on that ship like a sitting duck...
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first time since the falklands' war a battalion commander had been killed in war. so that was a trigger to me to get out and see what was going on. i got in touch with the regiment and soon after that it became apparent that charlie antel, who was bumped to -- to replace rupert. and charlie was a company commander in iraq. so it was happenstance this came together. so i got out there in august 2009. i was there at the last month or so of the tour, with the new commanding officer in place, and i was able to travel into the battle group area. i traveled to all the patrol bases and the outposts and was out on the ground with the troops. it was -- the book isn't my description of what happened to me. it's a few things in there that did involve me but really that was an opportunity to start the interview process, and you know yourself, when you're imbedded with troops you have conversations you just don't have anywhere else. they're in this mental place and they open up and talk about their fears. you might be the last person they ever speak to. and you also someone who
first time since the falklands' war a battalion commander had been killed in war. so that was a trigger to me to get out and see what was going on. i got in touch with the regiment and soon after that it became apparent that charlie antel, who was bumped to -- to replace rupert. and charlie was a company commander in iraq. so it was happenstance this came together. so i got out there in august 2009. i was there at the last month or so of the tour, with the new commanding officer in place, and i...
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i never said i was on the falkland islands as corn purports. i said i covered the falkland war, which i did. >> david corn responds to "the huffington post." >> bill o'reilly in the aftermath of the article yesterday gets throughout and calls me ally arrest and says that he didn't say what he said and he accusing me of peddling garage and not really responding to the issue. >> and joining me by the phone is bill o'reilly. now, the latest developments of a reporter in argentina taking you on in a facebook posting calls you a bloviator and he says that o'reilly has been correct in describing the situation in argentina as "someone dicey," for reporters but then he says it was a pretty tame riot. >> it might have been tame for him because cuomo if he was there, i asked him to come on the program, but he turns us down. he is running over to cnn but he cannot come to my program. eric was there, and, by the way, all of the cbs correspondents that were there were search to cover the folk lands war, that is what we were told to cover 9 falklands war so
i never said i was on the falkland islands as corn purports. i said i covered the falkland war, which i did. >> david corn responds to "the huffington post." >> bill o'reilly in the aftermath of the article yesterday gets throughout and calls me ally arrest and says that he didn't say what he said and he accusing me of peddling garage and not really responding to the issue. >> and joining me by the phone is bill o'reilly. now, the latest developments of a reporter in...
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. >> that is a sichtuation one i'm in a war zone in argentina in the falklands with where my forever got run down and then hit his head and bleeding from the ear on the concrete, and the army was chasing us, and i had to make a decision, and i dragged him off, but at the same time i am looking around and trying to do my job, but i feared they had to get the guy out of there, because it was more important. >> what do you think? >> well, that is one good example of him, don, describing being in the combat situation, and in the past o'reilly has talked about surviving the combat situation in the falklands, and he described it in argentina and whether it is a combat situation or not that is the issue, a a ndnd he said another time in 1993, i have been killed almost three times, and so those claims will be scrutinized more times. >> and let's play the sound bite again. >> that is a situation where i was nin a war zone one time in argentina in the falklands where my photographer got run down and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete, and u the army was chasing, and hayed to drag him of
. >> that is a sichtuation one i'm in a war zone in argentina in the falklands with where my forever got run down and then hit his head and bleeding from the ear on the concrete, and the army was chasing us, and i had to make a decision, and i dragged him off, but at the same time i am looking around and trying to do my job, but i feared they had to get the guy out of there, because it was more important. >> what do you think? >> well, that is one good example of him, don,...
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mother jones calling his reporting in the 1982 falklands war as false.eilly says he covered the conflict and he never said he went to the falklands. o'reilly said he covered stories in argentina. mother jones posted evidence on its web site. he never said he was actually in the falklands. >>> the fda warning about a deadly superbug. improperly cleaned medical scopes may be infecting patients with a deadly bacteria. this is after a report of several people and two who died, were infected with the superbug cre at ucla medical center. ucla is apologizing. i think 180 people have come in contact with that superbug. >> serious issue. >>> a federal advisory board is urging the government to tax sugary drinks and food. a report published by the diet guidelines recommends you keep your sugar intake to no more than 10% of total calories per day. >> say that one more time? >> all that coffee we're drinking is good for us. we are doing our part at "early start" to stay healthy. they are backing off the strict limits on salt. potato chips and coffee. breakfast the c
mother jones calling his reporting in the 1982 falklands war as false.eilly says he covered the conflict and he never said he went to the falklands. o'reilly said he covered stories in argentina. mother jones posted evidence on its web site. he never said he was actually in the falklands. >>> the fda warning about a deadly superbug. improperly cleaned medical scopes may be infecting patients with a deadly bacteria. this is after a report of several people and two who died, were...
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i said i covered the falklands war, which i did.ow, in what i consider to be a miracle, i found this cbs internal memo from 33 years ago praising my coverage that day. cable was sent to the cbs bureau chief in buenos aires by the news desk here in new york city. quote, doyle o'reilly didn't have the time last night but would like to say many thanks for the riot piece last night. they called to say thanks for a fine piece. thanks again your piece made the late feed a winner last night, unquote. want more? here it is. shortly after my crew and i escaped grave danger on the streets ofes buenos aires the riots were bad, we were gassed, shot at, i had the best vantage point to report the story. we had rock solid proof that david corn smeared me. and some websites have picked up his defamation. it is well. now, i had to spend hours last night on the phone with various reporters and crawling around my basement covered with dust trying to find documents from 33 years ago. it was a miracle i found them. all because an irresponsible guttersni
i said i covered the falklands war, which i did.ow, in what i consider to be a miracle, i found this cbs internal memo from 33 years ago praising my coverage that day. cable was sent to the cbs bureau chief in buenos aires by the news desk here in new york city. quote, doyle o'reilly didn't have the time last night but would like to say many thanks for the riot piece last night. they called to say thanks for a fine piece. thanks again your piece made the late feed a winner last night, unquote....
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i never said i was on the falklands islands as corn purports. i said i covered the talk lands war, which i did. >> bill owe really'reilly gets out there and calls me a liar.lands war, which i did. >> bill o'reilly gets out there and calls me a liar. says he didn't say what he said and he's accusing me of pedaling garbage and swil and not really responding to the issue. >> and joining me now by phone is bill o'reilly. bill, let's start with the latest developments, former cbs correspondent in argentina at the time taking you on you in a facebook posting. he says that o'reilly has been correct in describing the situation as somewhat dicey for reporters. we'll get into the details in a moment. but he says this was a pretty tame writing. your reaction. >> it's absurd. i mean it might have been tame for him because i don't know if he was there. i asked him to come on the program. he turned us down. but he's running over to cnn, but he can't come on to my program. eric aimburg was there, and by the way, all of cbs correspondents that was there, five,
i never said i was on the falklands islands as corn purports. i said i covered the talk lands war, which i did. >> bill owe really'reilly gets out there and calls me a liar.lands war, which i did. >> bill o'reilly gets out there and calls me a liar. says he didn't say what he said and he's accusing me of pedaling garbage and swil and not really responding to the issue. >> and joining me now by phone is bill o'reilly. bill, let's start with the latest developments, former cbs...
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but o'reilly said he was at the faulk falkland islands he wasn't.omething that deserves scrutiny. and i wonder if other stories will come up about other conflict zones he was in. i'm not saying there's anything now, but that's what we thought with brian williams. there was one story and then another and another. >> brian stiller, see you sunday. and monika with "mother jones" manage. appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >>> we are also now getting our first look at the young suspect in the apparent road rage murder. las vegas police just released eric ousch's mug shot. the 19-year-old faces murder and two other charges in connection to the shooting death of his neighbor, tammy meyers. the young man of taken into custody after a police standoff that play out live on the show. this entire hour this time yesterday as it unfolded. the victim's husband confronted -- confronted police confronted reporters. >> he's an animal a block away! are you happy? >> that was around this time. anna bra ca-- anna cabrera is there at the police department out
but o'reilly said he was at the faulk falkland islands he wasn't.omething that deserves scrutiny. and i wonder if other stories will come up about other conflict zones he was in. i'm not saying there's anything now, but that's what we thought with brian williams. there was one story and then another and another. >> brian stiller, see you sunday. and monika with "mother jones" manage. appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. >>> we are also now getting our...
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he didn't say i was at the falklands situation? he's claimed to have been in a combat zone in a war zone during the falklands conflict. the only place combat took place during that war was in the remote falkland islands which were 1200 miles from buenos aires where bill o'reilly and the rest of the press core is. the combat situation he says he was involved in now was a very violent protest that took place after the war was over. now it was violent, but this was not a combat situation. bill o'reilly has also claimed that the argentinian troops opened fire on si vail yans and killed many people. we could find no evidence that people were killed and tho soldiers opened fire on civilians. that's another aspect of this. i'll tell you one more. he said that his colleagues at cbs at the time were cowering in their hotel and would not go out to cover this protest. bob bob scheefer says that's not true. >> no coward. >> no coward. >> or is it puffery? big shots tend to do that and you hate bill o'reilly. >> absolutely not. it is puff ri ye
he didn't say i was at the falklands situation? he's claimed to have been in a combat zone in a war zone during the falklands conflict. the only place combat took place during that war was in the remote falkland islands which were 1200 miles from buenos aires where bill o'reilly and the rest of the press core is. the combat situation he says he was involved in now was a very violent protest that took place after the war was over. now it was violent, but this was not a combat situation. bill...
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he sometimes talked about being at the falkland island when in fact he was 1,000 miles away in argentinavery few reporters were actually able to get to those islands during that war in 1982. so there is some substance to this. but bill o'reilley is on the offense responding to it. here's some of what he said last night. >> here's the truth. everything i've said about my reporting career everything is true. 33 years ago in june argentina surrendered to great britain ending the falklands war. i was covering the conflict from argentina for cbs news. after learning of the surrender, angry mobs in benuenos aires. tried to overthrow the government. i was there. argentina troops fired into the crowd responding with violent acts of their own. my reporting led the cbs evening news with dan rather that evening. later an i filed a report of what went nationwide. that's what happened. >> he went on to say mother jones is trying to smear him, out to get him in fox news. he was describing himself as the victim in this situation. you hear him talking about the situation there. sounds like it was a hair
he sometimes talked about being at the falkland island when in fact he was 1,000 miles away in argentinavery few reporters were actually able to get to those islands during that war in 1982. so there is some substance to this. but bill o'reilley is on the offense responding to it. here's some of what he said last night. >> here's the truth. everything i've said about my reporting career everything is true. 33 years ago in june argentina surrendered to great britain ending the falklands...
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the issue, of course is that you cooperate get to the falkland islands, no reporters could.ring a riot after the end of that war in argentina what he's referring to. some independent observers and mother jones are looking and saying actually that's not a war zone bill. here's what he said on his program last night. >> here's the truth. everything i've said about my career career everything is true. 33 years ago in june argentina surrendered to great britain ending the falkland war. i was covering the conflict from argentina for cbs news. after learning of the surrender angry mobs in buenos aires stormed the palace trying to overthrow the government. i was there on the street with my camera crews. the violence was horrific the soldiers fired into the crowd responding with acts of their own. my video of the combat led the cbs evening news with dan rather that evening and later on i filed a report that ran nationwide. that's what happened. >> well you can hear o'reilly defending his record talking about the apparent harrowing situation he was in. the question is whether that wa
the issue, of course is that you cooperate get to the falkland islands, no reporters could.ring a riot after the end of that war in argentina what he's referring to. some independent observers and mother jones are looking and saying actually that's not a war zone bill. here's what he said on his program last night. >> here's the truth. everything i've said about my career career everything is true. 33 years ago in june argentina surrendered to great britain ending the falkland war. i was...
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i was at the falklands. i was in argentina.rate his credential to say i've been there and done that. he's been in risky situations. he was a correspondent in many parts of the world before he became a host on "the o'reilly factor." underlying point here is there are war correspondents who risk their lives every day. those are the people that don't overstate what they experienced. they actually understate. they underplay what happens to them. >> you're absolutely right. >> i agree with robert. this is not something that is a career ending offense for bill o'reilly. he's in a different category than brian williams and treated differently by fox. >> robert is he in a different category than brian williams? >> yes. >> it's just a left wing hack job on a right-wing network? >> i wouldn't simplify it that way. i do think the act that bill o'reilly does on fox is different than the act brian williams was doing on nbc. let's face it. they were all acts. so was cronkite and all of the rest of them. they were different. and to think that
i was at the falklands. i was in argentina.rate his credential to say i've been there and done that. he's been in risky situations. he was a correspondent in many parts of the world before he became a host on "the o'reilly factor." underlying point here is there are war correspondents who risk their lives every day. those are the people that don't overstate what they experienced. they actually understate. they underplay what happens to them. >> you're absolutely right. >>...
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he is defending himself against the mother jones article over the falklands islands report in 1982. >s received in decades. >>> let's see what "new day" has coming up with chris cuomo. >> now you have the old timers from cbs coming out. the situation got more interesting, if only just to see the parts of the legend of our business coming out. the cbs strong coming out and talking about the coverage there. we have to remember o'reilly survived scandal before. we will take you through what is the best worst proof of the situation and where is it going to go. there are bigger items on the agenda this morning. we will take a very close look on the politics behind what happened with rudy giuliani. why didn't the republican party come out right away and why are they coming out now? what about the op-ed that he wrote in "the wall street journal?" is he talking about the same thing? of course, we will give you the big headline. do we finally have the boots on the ground that we need in the fight against isis? >> looking forward to that. chris, thanks. >>> more on the oscars. the big winners,
he is defending himself against the mother jones article over the falklands islands report in 1982. >s received in decades. >>> let's see what "new day" has coming up with chris cuomo. >> now you have the old timers from cbs coming out. the situation got more interesting, if only just to see the parts of the legend of our business coming out. the cbs strong coming out and talking about the coverage there. we have to remember o'reilly survived scandal before. we will...
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. >> one-time in a war zone in argentina in the falklands where my photographer got run down and hit his head and was bleeding from the ear on the concrete and the army was chasing us. i had to make a decision. i dragged him off. at the same time, looking around and trying to do my job. i figured i had to get this guy out of there because that was more important. >> at the time o'reilly was working for cbs, and it turns out no cbs reporter got into the falkland islands during the war. o'reilly's own book, "no spin zone," which recounts his time in argentina, makes no mention of witnessing any combat. o'reilly does write about a protest he covered in the argentine capital buenos aires after the fighting was over, where he claimed "a major riot ensued and many people were killed." but multiple news reports, including the cbs news report from the time, which used o'reilly's footage, did not report any fatalities. meanwhile the nation has , published footage from o'reilly's reporting in el salvador in the early 1980's, just after the el mozote massacre, when some 1000 civilians were slau
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the falklands, yugoslavia somalia, including every decade. >> tel a viv was created by sadness, sadness beyond works. >> reporter: he wrenlt he was risking his life along the way. >> we saw a jeep in the distance, an iraqi army jeep and they took us away. >> reporter: during the opening days of the first gulf in 1991. simon and three members were taken prisoner by the iraqi military and held as p.o.w.s in iraqi prisons for 40 days. >> has this changed you? >> yeah. >> how? >> i don't know. too early to tell. >> reporter: simon joined "60 minutes" in 1996. this was his 19th season on the broadcast, reporting last week on "selma." he won 40 emmy awards including this one about poor members who constructed their instruments out of trash. >> just look and listen. ♪ >> reporter: this is the recycled orchestra. >>> "60 minutes" producer jeff prager praised his friend. >> he loved what he does. a body of work that i think is difficult to match. >> bob simon was 73. kris van cleave, cbs news new york. >>> reaction to simon's death is pouring in from journalists who remember him for his lifetime
the falklands, yugoslavia somalia, including every decade. >> tel a viv was created by sadness, sadness beyond works. >> reporter: he wrenlt he was risking his life along the way. >> we saw a jeep in the distance, an iraqi army jeep and they took us away. >> reporter: during the opening days of the first gulf in 1991. simon and three members were taken prisoner by the iraqi military and held as p.o.w.s in iraqi prisons for 40 days. >> has this changed you? >>...
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. >> bill o'reilly, mother jones accused the host of image rating his heroics in the falkland islands> he talked about being in a combat situation in a war zone. >> jon: really? we're going after o'reilly for exaggerating being in a war zone? (laughter) i don't know if you watch his -- >> caution! you are about to enter the no-spin zone! >> jon: misrepresenting -- misrepresented the zone he is in (laughter) he passes to some jackass that misrepresents global warming by wandering around boston pointing at snow. textbook case of controlling. no one's watching him for the actual truth. you're basically putting in a tremendous amount of work to say, the emperor has no clothes! when the emperor has spent like, 20 years going look at my dick! i'm naked! whoo! but even worse, mother jones, you brought a magazine article to a tv fight. >> more proof the american media is corrupt, mother jones which is low circulation, the bottom rung of journalism in america. a liar irresponsible guttersnipe, far-left zealot, defamation political hit job. >> jon: well, that deserves a terse blog retort. cut,
. >> bill o'reilly, mother jones accused the host of image rating his heroics in the falkland islands> he talked about being in a combat situation in a war zone. >> jon: really? we're going after o'reilly for exaggerating being in a war zone? (laughter) i don't know if you watch his -- >> caution! you are about to enter the no-spin zone! >> jon: misrepresenting -- misrepresented the zone he is in (laughter) he passes to some jackass that misrepresents global warming...
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he built a career in war zones, itself falklands, yugoslavia, somalia and nearly every other conflict in between spending decades covering the middle east from tel aviv. >> tel aviv's largest square was invaded by sadness. >> reporter: he went where the news was risking his life along the way. during the first gulf war in 1991, simon and his cbs news crew were taken prisoner by the iraqi military and held as pows in iraqi prisons for 40 days. he talked about it with ed bradley. >> reporter: has it changed you? >> yes. >> reporter: how? [ inaudible ] >> reporter: this was his 19th season on "60 minutes." jeff fager worked with simon on hundreds of stories. >> he stood out that way, he always did. his observations, what he noticed, what he picked up on and his ability to articulate it in a story was really rare. >> reporter: colleagues say simon's life changed three years ago after the birth of his beloved grandson. >> so i'm teaching jack about motor psyche cams because -- motor cycles because it's about time. you can't start too early. >> reporter: his final story will air on sunday o
he built a career in war zones, itself falklands, yugoslavia, somalia and nearly every other conflict in between spending decades covering the middle east from tel aviv. >> tel aviv's largest square was invaded by sadness. >> reporter: he went where the news was risking his life along the way. during the first gulf war in 1991, simon and his cbs news crew were taken prisoner by the iraqi military and held as pows in iraqi prisons for 40 days. he talked about it with ed bradley....
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1967 two years before i did but we never really worked together until 1982, when we covered the falklandsher in argentina. it was there i really came to appreciation just how good he was, in a medium where we tell the story so much of the time with pictures, he knew how to make the pictures more meaningful with words. there is an old saying that one picture is worth 1,000 words but i always that that depended on the words. bob always shows the rights words and he was never afraid to go where the news was to find them, that's what the good ones do. and he was a good one. bob's final "60 minutes" piece airs tonight on cbs. > ♪ engine rev. ♪ i obviously haven't slowed down at all! what do you think? >> schieffer: that's it for us today. we will see you right here next sunday on "face the nation". captioning sponsored by cbs saw as the plane came down. good evening, i'm ann notarangelo. and i'm brian hackney. kpix 5's christian hartnett is at the skywest golf course in hayward. he says the plane missed slamming into some homes. christian. live - moving live shot) it's amazing to see how littl
1967 two years before i did but we never really worked together until 1982, when we covered the falklandsher in argentina. it was there i really came to appreciation just how good he was, in a medium where we tell the story so much of the time with pictures, he knew how to make the pictures more meaningful with words. there is an old saying that one picture is worth 1,000 words but i always that that depended on the words. bob always shows the rights words and he was never afraid to go where...
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o'reilly is defending himself against the mother jones article over the coverage of the falklands islandsks are up around the world. u.s. stock futures are down a bit. after hitting all-time highs, the dow climbed 155 points. the s&p closed at a high. markets like the four-month bailout extension with greece and the eu lenders. greece must outline budget cuts by today, keeping the greece drama at the top of the money news. oil, the largest oil refinery strike in 35 years. it is getting bigger. negotiations with the united steel workers union fell apart on friday. the workers joined the strike. 6,500 workers at 15 refineries and production facilities. >>> yesterday was nice. >> it was nice. >> it was amazing. balmy conditions here in the northeast. are they going to last? no. no they are over. it is freezing again. there is a wintry mix in texas. more than 1,200 flights canceled all across the country. the majority in dallas. let's go to meteorologist pedram javaheri for an early look at the weather. >> john and christine, good morning. good monday morning to you. look at the perspective a
o'reilly is defending himself against the mother jones article over the coverage of the falklands islandsks are up around the world. u.s. stock futures are down a bit. after hitting all-time highs, the dow climbed 155 points. the s&p closed at a high. markets like the four-month bailout extension with greece and the eu lenders. greece must outline budget cuts by today, keeping the greece drama at the top of the money news. oil, the largest oil refinery strike in 35 years. it is getting...
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the fox news host worked for cbs back then on a trip to cover the falkland war he depicted buenos airesituation telling the story that he helped save an injured cameraman at one point, but multiple cbs employees are telling cnn they don't remember anyone getting hurt during that coverage. the cameraman declining to comment to cnn. o'reilly's former kleegeric enberg from cbs was also in argentina at that time covering the story. he told brian stelter o'reilly is not telling the truth. >> is bill o'reilly lying when he describes his combat situation? >> well i think that what he's doing is he's trying to build it up into a more frightening and deadly situation than it was. it wasn't a combat situation by any sense of the word that i know. there were no people killed. he said that he saw troops fire into the crowd. i never saw that and i don't know anybody who did, and i was there on the screen. the one thing i am going to argue about and the thing that's got me talking about this is that in one of those tapes, you haven't played it. >> i think i know the one that you'll refer to. >> go ah
the fox news host worked for cbs back then on a trip to cover the falkland war he depicted buenos airesituation telling the story that he helped save an injured cameraman at one point, but multiple cbs employees are telling cnn they don't remember anyone getting hurt during that coverage. the cameraman declining to comment to cnn. o'reilly's former kleegeric enberg from cbs was also in argentina at that time covering the story. he told brian stelter o'reilly is not telling the truth. >>...
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a mother jones hit piece questioning his account after his reporting of the brief falkland's wars inideo which clearly shows violent demonstrations he covered in buenos aires, a former nbc news bureau chief supporting o'reilly and he had this to say last night. >> it was a real country at war, it wasn't a joke. >> that's right. >> it was a real war, they were taking it seriously, and at first buenos aires was a pretty nice place to be if you are covering the war. as it turned out, it got progressively more intense. lou: and for the record i'm not suggesting any way this has anything to do with the left wing hit jobs on o'reilly, but he does host the o'reilly factor on the fox news channel, which is the highest rated show on the highest rated network in cable years. his show the highest rated for just the past 15 years. i'm sure there's no connection no couldn't be. and star trek legend leonard nimoy treated at los angeles hospital complaining of severe chest pains. the 83-year-old treated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. >>> and christina aguilera with jimmy fallon nailing
a mother jones hit piece questioning his account after his reporting of the brief falkland's wars inideo which clearly shows violent demonstrations he covered in buenos aires, a former nbc news bureau chief supporting o'reilly and he had this to say last night. >> it was a real country at war, it wasn't a joke. >> that's right. >> it was a real war, they were taking it seriously, and at first buenos aires was a pretty nice place to be if you are covering the war. as it turned...
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i mean even minor wars like the falklands war the -- you know, i was down there in argentina salvadoran there when gren nayda was hit, there was big coverage, iraq invasion, huge, huge coverage. here there seems to be muted coverage of this expanding unit. no coverage in nigeria. can't get anybody in there but it seems to me the appetite of this story the jihad, all right, the islamic fundamental lists trying to take over as much territory as they can take over isn't what it used to be as far as conflict is concerned, or am i wrong? >> no i think you're on to something, but that's because television news isn't what it used to be. you talk about going to el salvador and grenada, that's when news organizations covered the news, you know. now, you know, weather becomes -- >> weather is the big thing. i didn't go to grenada. i want to make that clear to everybody. i don't want to get in trouble. i was in salvador and argentina. >> no, i understand. look. nostalgia ain't what it used to be. >> you say just because it's downsized. >> here's the bottom line. americans are interested in this st
i mean even minor wars like the falklands war the -- you know, i was down there in argentina salvadoran there when gren nayda was hit, there was big coverage, iraq invasion, huge, huge coverage. here there seems to be muted coverage of this expanding unit. no coverage in nigeria. can't get anybody in there but it seems to me the appetite of this story the jihad, all right, the islamic fundamental lists trying to take over as much territory as they can take over isn't what it used to be as far...
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the falklands, yugoslavia, somalia and nearly every conflict in between spending decades covering the middle east from tel aviv. >> tel aviv's largest square was invaded by sadness, sadness beyond words. >> reporter: he went where the news was risking his life along the way. >> and we saw -- [indiscernible] it was annual iraqi army jeep. they took us away. >> reporter: during the opening days of the first gulf war in 1991, simon and three members of his cbs news crew were taken prisoner by the iraqi military and held as p.o.w.s in iraqi prisons for 40 days. >> just changed you. >> reporter: simon joined 60 minutes in 1996. this was his 19th season on the broadcast reporting last week on the movie "selma." "60 minutes" producer jeff fager praised his friend. >> he loved what he did. that was from the moment he started at cbs news, a long and brilliant career and a body of work that i think is really difficult to match. >> reporter: bob simon was 73. kris van cleave, cbs news, new york. >> you watched his reports, you learned. you learned how this job is supposed to be done. >> so intel
the falklands, yugoslavia, somalia and nearly every conflict in between spending decades covering the middle east from tel aviv. >> tel aviv's largest square was invaded by sadness, sadness beyond words. >> reporter: he went where the news was risking his life along the way. >> and we saw -- [indiscernible] it was annual iraqi army jeep. they took us away. >> reporter: during the opening days of the first gulf war in 1991, simon and three members of his cbs news crew...
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one of the most her in this incidence is in the falklands war. but one of the things about the casualties is that there were no officials killed and mostly it was overwhelmingly the guardsmen's and corporals, a couple sergeants but very much below. it was the sense that they were on the ship like a sitting duck because of the actions of officers and so even now you can go to the watch guards and there will be an argument about what happened that day. i don't think it is a complete coincidence that three officers were killed. psychologically there was a kind of common behavior and it was a part of the regimen that some of the officers had been blamed. i think this is a very strong sense of history in this moment that they were going out in the infantry battalion having never really had the chance to fight in the war because they were hit so badly before they even landed. i was fascinated. i am now an american status and -- citizen and british classes something i still don't understand. but particularly the guards regiment in case of the welsh guar
one of the most her in this incidence is in the falklands war. but one of the things about the casualties is that there were no officials killed and mostly it was overwhelmingly the guardsmen's and corporals, a couple sergeants but very much below. it was the sense that they were on the ship like a sitting duck because of the actions of officers and so even now you can go to the watch guards and there will be an argument about what happened that day. i don't think it is a complete coincidence...
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did bill o'reilly embellish his war stories from 1982 falklands war.est star on cable news. in the 1980s, a young correspondent for fox news. here he is in el salvador covering the war there. he covered from argentina and said he did not exaggerate anything about his experience there. he is furious anybody is scrutinizing his record. but this weekend we have interviewed six other people who
did bill o'reilly embellish his war stories from 1982 falklands war.est star on cable news. in the 1980s, a young correspondent for fox news. here he is in el salvador covering the war there. he covered from argentina and said he did not exaggerate anything about his experience there. he is furious anybody is scrutinizing his record. but this weekend we have interviewed six other people who
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i've reported on the ground in active war zones from el salvador to the falkland islands.he was never at the islands. no american correspondents were and there are discrepancies. >> frank, i'm curious. i mean, you covered this same war. what can you tell us about access there? >> there wasn't much. in fact, there wasn't any. we were covering the war from buenos aries. when as bill points out occasional demonstrations and sometimes threatening and wasn't a war zone. i think that bill is trying to say, well, wait a minute, maybe it's defined the war zone broadly. the way you have to hear those remarks saying i was in a war zone and makes it sound like the combat going on around him. and now he's making it clear that he was not there. none of us were anywhere near it. >> and brian, now mother jones also reporting there may be issues about the reporting of buenos aries, as well. >> he talked about people dying in the streets in the riots. according to mother jones hard to back up the reports of people killed. it was a violent riot that he was present at but there's questions a
i've reported on the ground in active war zones from el salvador to the falkland islands.he was never at the islands. no american correspondents were and there are discrepancies. >> frank, i'm curious. i mean, you covered this same war. what can you tell us about access there? >> there wasn't much. in fact, there wasn't any. we were covering the war from buenos aries. when as bill points out occasional demonstrations and sometimes threatening and wasn't a war zone. i think that bill...
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promising to come after her, quote, with everything i have if he deemed her coverage of his disputed falkland's reporting inappropriate. >>> vice president joe biden trying to laugh off an awkward moment last week. last night biden poked fun at himself for a recent photo gaffe. >> so i just want to say, enjoy the evening and i hope you'll stick around. and i just want you to know that i will not be offended if you don't want to but i'm going to be in that room if anybody wants to photograph i would not blame if you didn't. >> biden, of course referring to this picture of him getting a little too up close and personal with the wife of new defense secretary ash carter. the things that make him such a good retail politician you know on the ground knowing everyone's name being able to be close and personal with people, the same thing that looks like personal space issues. >> i don't want anybody touching me like that. i don't care if you're the vice president. not even you. >>> it took less than three hours for a jury to commit the man who shot and killed chris kyle. we'll give you all the new deta
promising to come after her, quote, with everything i have if he deemed her coverage of his disputed falkland's reporting inappropriate. >>> vice president joe biden trying to laugh off an awkward moment last week. last night biden poked fun at himself for a recent photo gaffe. >> so i just want to say, enjoy the evening and i hope you'll stick around. and i just want you to know that i will not be offended if you don't want to but i'm going to be in that room if anybody wants to...
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[shouting] [gunfire] >> cbs news releasing the video from the falklands war riot in buenas aries thes said was a day in the park. >> we think paul revere would do about all the snow. >> he would probably ride his horse around and shovel it out with his horses. [ laughter ] >> also ahead, jesse watters trying to get to the
[shouting] [gunfire] >> cbs news releasing the video from the falklands war riot in buenas aries thes said was a day in the park. >> we think paul revere would do about all the snow. >> he would probably ride his horse around and shovel it out with his horses. [ laughter ] >> also ahead, jesse watters trying to get to the
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[shouting] [gunfire] >> cbs news releasing the video from the falklands war riot in buenas aries the zealots said was a day in the park. >> we think paul revere would do about all the snow. >> he would probably ride his horse around and shovel it out with his horses. [ laughter ] >> also ahead, jesse watters trying to get to the
[shouting] [gunfire] >> cbs news releasing the video from the falklands war riot in buenas aries the zealots said was a day in the park. >> we think paul revere would do about all the snow. >> he would probably ride his horse around and shovel it out with his horses. [ laughter ] >> also ahead, jesse watters trying to get to the
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1967 two years before i did but we never really worked together until 1982, when we covered the falklandsin argentina. it was there i really came to appreciation just how good he was, in a medium where we tell the story so much of the time with pictures, he knew how to make the pictures more meaningful with words. there is an old saying that one picture is worth 1,000 words but i always that that depended on the words. bob always shows the rights words and he was never afraid to go where the news was to find them, that's what the good ones do. and he was a good one. bob's final "60 minutes" piece airs tonight on cbs. > ♪ engine rev. ♪ i obviously haven't slowed down at all! what do you think? narrator: gas prices are down helping middle class families. but now, the white house wants to impose title ii regulations on your internet meaning new government taxes and fees. every month: you'd pay more. 11 billion dollars a year in new taxes and fees. internet freedoms can be protected with the white house and congress working together, but imposing new tax increases through public utility style
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afterwards but being out there with people like dan collins john williams who was one of the three falklands veterans being on board the ship in the watch guardsmen and burned to death. .. are they falling back on the campaign? to attract the differences or to try to learn lessons? >> guest: there is a study that was kind of a take that but they went out of their way to prove the rate was way below that. there wasn't a problem here we don't need to worry about this. >> host: to turn that around is there an emphasis on the way things are in the united states and the way that they track backs it does make the news regular and there are a lot of people that are deeply invested in the problem and the folks that really attracts out and are concerned about that and we would probably include ourselves in that. but when you compare that to another country where there is but little attention. you have to be careful about for trading the veterans as victims are ticking time bombs of angry men that are about to go postal at any moment. i think that most people have amazing skills. and in many ways they
afterwards but being out there with people like dan collins john williams who was one of the three falklands veterans being on board the ship in the watch guardsmen and burned to death. .. are they falling back on the campaign? to attract the differences or to try to learn lessons? >> guest: there is a study that was kind of a take that but they went out of their way to prove the rate was way below that. there wasn't a problem here we don't need to worry about this. >> host: to turn...
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1967 two years before i did but we never really worked together until 1982, when we covered the falklandsin argentina. it was there i really came to appreciation just how good he was, in a medium where we tell the story so much of the time with pictures, he knew how to make the pictures more meaningful with words. there is an old saying that one picture is worth 1,000 words but i always that that depended on the words. bob always shows the rights words and he was never afraid to go where the news was to find them, that's what the good ones do. and he was a good one. bob's final "60 minutes" piece airs tonight on cbs. > ♪ engine rev. ♪ i obviously haven't slowed down at all! what do you think? we thought our cable internet was fast. but, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really half-fast. so half-fast. someone did a half-fast job posting our vacation pics. when i post my slow jams, i'm a little half fast totally half fast stop living with half fast internet. only verizon fios comes with speedmatch - uploads as fast as downloads. and the fastest wi-fi availa
1967 two years before i did but we never really worked together until 1982, when we covered the falklandsin argentina. it was there i really came to appreciation just how good he was, in a medium where we tell the story so much of the time with pictures, he knew how to make the pictures more meaningful with words. there is an old saying that one picture is worth 1,000 words but i always that that depended on the words. bob always shows the rights words and he was never afraid to go where the...
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. >> a war in argentina in the falklands and the army was chasing us. >> o'reilly has a, quote briano'reilly under fire and accused of lying. the new claims he greatly exaggerated his war experience. >> he was not where the war was. >> then, what caused the tragic death of a young parks and rec producer? were drugs involved? and kanye candidly defends kim while trashing his ex. >> i'd take 30 showers before i got with kim you know. >> his fiery new rant is trending. then, it's fake week. and an oscar weekend begins. lloyd gets his hands on the red carpet. and with predictions about wins losses and snubs heating up yo's at the center of a rather unique oscar critics corner. >> green light more movies than madea's family vacation. >> yeah. >> let's go inside. >> that is a good movie. the fact it wasn't nominated is an abomination. >> the latest celebrity and pop culture news delivered to you 24/7, it's "the insider" together with yahoo!. >>> first brian, now bill in his own spin zone. could o'reilly be the next anchor under fire for a war zone lie? >> press our ultimate academy awards
. >> a war in argentina in the falklands and the army was chasing us. >> o'reilly has a, quote briano'reilly under fire and accused of lying. the new claims he greatly exaggerated his war experience. >> he was not where the war was. >> then, what caused the tragic death of a young parks and rec producer? were drugs involved? and kanye candidly defends kim while trashing his ex. >> i'd take 30 showers before i got with kim you know. >> his fiery new rant is...
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. >> that was a situation one time in a war zone in argentina in the falklands where my photographereeding from the ear on the concrete and the army was chasing us. >> he's trying to build it up into a more frightening and deadly situation than it was. it wasn't a combat situation by any sense of the word that i know. there were no people killed. he said that he saw troops fire into the crowd. i never saw that. i don't know anybody who did. >> you are known for your fairness and known for how you do your job as a journalist. today, you present the perspective of what is wrong with this. i will push back from the perspective of what o'reilly's defense is of it. please begin, what is wrong here? >> first of all, what is wrong here we're in a season we're taking a look at what people have said thanks to brian williams and a hard look at what mr. o'reilly said raises questions about whether he embellished the word in the falklands, may have been passing words on his part but were not where he and berg or i who followed that conflict ever were. we were in buenos aires. bill says that's wh
. >> that was a situation one time in a war zone in argentina in the falklands where my photographereeding from the ear on the concrete and the army was chasing us. >> he's trying to build it up into a more frightening and deadly situation than it was. it wasn't a combat situation by any sense of the word that i know. there were no people killed. he said that he saw troops fire into the crowd. i never saw that. i don't know anybody who did. >> you are known for your fairness...
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. >> simon: when the falklands war began in '82, alexander haig who was then secretary of state, wentry to mediate between the british and the argentineans. he failed. and then he took his plane back to washington with a press plane. and i deliberately missed the press plane. so i stayed there for the whole war. >> fager: he needed to be out in the world. he needed to be out reporting and... and adventure. >> kroft: he would find it in israel, where he had been reassigned by the time the first palestinian uprising broke out in 1987, the beginning of another turbulent tenure. by then, simon knew everyone of any consequence there, both palestinian and israeli, and he wasn't afraid to be tough on the israeli government. >> simon: young rock-throwing arabs were chased up a steep and rugged hill by israeli soldiers, who eventually caught two of them. much is done in the middle east in what passes for the heat of passion. this seemed cold, deliberate methodical. it went on for 40 minutes. >> kroft: he reported from every country in the region, and his status only grew following the first gu
. >> simon: when the falklands war began in '82, alexander haig who was then secretary of state, wentry to mediate between the british and the argentineans. he failed. and then he took his plane back to washington with a press plane. and i deliberately missed the press plane. so i stayed there for the whole war. >> fager: he needed to be out in the world. he needed to be out reporting and... and adventure. >> kroft: he would find it in israel, where he had been reassigned by...