Another Fabrication: O'Reilly Never Witnessed The Murder Of Nuns In El Salvador

[Judi Lynn]

Another Fabrication: O'Reilly Never Witnessed The Murder Of Nuns In El Salvador

O'Reilly's Claim To Have Seen Nuns "Shot In The Back Of The Head" Contradicted By His Own Timeline

Blog ››› 49 minutes ago ››› OLIVIA MARSHALL

Bill O'Reilly has claimed repeatedly that he witnessed the execution of nuns while reporting in 1981 on the civil war in El Salvador, an apparent fabrication that is at odds with both history and what O'Reilly himself has said about arriving in the country after the event took place, according to new information unearthed by Media Matters.

The Fox host has faced withering scrutiny from historians, former colleagues, and others for having exaggerated his claims of being in a "combat situation" during the Falklands War.

O'Reilly's El Salvador Fabrication Revealed

Between 1980 and 1992, a civil war raged in El Salvador between the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the government of El Salvador. On December 2, 1980, four members of the Salvadoran national guard raped and shot "three American nuns and a layworker." The tragedy ''did more to inflame the debate over El Salvador in the United States than any other single incident,'' according to a 1993 State Department report. After the death of Silvia Arriola, a member of a religious order killed six weeks after those four churchwomen, "no priests or nuns were killed in El Salvador for more than eight years," according to Dr. Anna Lisa Peterson, a professor of religion at the University of Florida.

O'Reilly has spoken on several occasions about his time covering the Salvadoran civil war as a CBS correspondent in 1981, suggesting at least twice that he witnessed the murder of the churchwomen. On the September 27, 2005, edition of his talk-radio program The Radio Factor, O'Reilly said, "I've seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador." And on the December 14, 2012, edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly spoke of telling his mother that "I was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head."

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. These are not mistakes or faulty memory...

there are too many and they are too obvious to be anything but just plain bullshit.

[Enrique]

2. he lied to his mother

most people lie to their mother when they say they like the present she got them.

O'Reilly lies to his mother about seeing nuns getting murdered:

O'Reilly spoke of telling his mother that "I was in El Salvador and I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head."

[forest444]

3. Not only did O'Lielly not see any such thing

(Ambassador Robert White was one of the first people at the scene, and even he did not see it as it happened the previous night), but more importantly he has always been on the side of the perpetrators.

Tin pot dictators across Latin America literally cheered when the news announced than Reagan had won the 1980 election; in Argentina, for instance, some prisoners later told of being given a break from the horrors in order to join their torturers in the merriment (!). As for Billo, I don't have the cite handy; but I clearly remember reading that he was firmly in the "thank God the military is cleaning house down there" camp at the time. Like most Republicans, to be fair.

[Judi Lynn]

4. So true! Thanks for pointing this out to those of us still unfocused. n/t