it was fought between argentina and the uk but not fought on the mainland of either country.ght on the faulkland islands, which are an isolated place. what david pointed out is mr. o'reilly said he reported from, quote, an active war zone. he said he was in a war zone in argentina, in the faulklands. that does not appear to have been the case. mr. o'reilly did report on the faulklands report, but he reported on that war from mainland argentina, from the capital city, which is more than 1,000 miles away from the fighting in the faulklands. mr. o'reilly tried to defend himself by saying, yeah well, he did cover a rowdy protest in the capital of argentina. but covering a protest about a war is not the same thing as covering the actual war, or being in a war zone, which is how he has repeatedly described what he did. so that's not good. no correction or apology, though. instead, the response has been, attack! >> basically david corn, a liar, says i exaggerated situations in the faulklands war and salvadoran war. everything i said about my career is true. i had to spend hours last

argentina. o'reilly was in buenos aires. he conflated two places, mainland and falklandides in his book. 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 whe