O’Really? Goes Bonkers on Ex-CBS Colleague and David Corn: ‘Apparatchik’ Trying to Take Me Down
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-goes-bonkers-on-ex-cbs-colleague-and-david-corn-apparatchik-trying-to-take-me-down/
In a Facebook post, former CBS correspondent Eric Engberg disputed the nature of the riots in Buenos Aires, Argentina, that O’Reilly witnessed while reporting on the 1982 war....
And when Kurtz mentioned that Engberg disputes O’Reilly’s story that a CBS photographer sustained injuries, the Factor host suggested perhaps his former colleague wasn’t at the protests at all, but was holed up in the hotel: “I’d like everyone to ask him, ‘Were you there?’ because his reputation was ‘Room Service Eric,’ because he never left the hotel.” Ouch.
O’Reilly became increasingly irate during the interview, especially when the conversation turned to Mother Jones editor David Corn, who first wrote the allegations. The Fox host accused Corn of being politically and personally motived to make such attacks. “Why does he have credibility anywhere?” O’Reilly shouted. “Why would CNN or anybody else taking anything he says seriously?”
Kurtz responded, with a chuckle, that Corn is a respected Washington reporter with a long history of successful stories. O’Reilly then went on a rant about how the Mother Jones icon is an “apparatchik” for liberal forces that would like to take him down.
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