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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ignerntbend" data-source="post: 2712566" data-attributes="member: 6981">There was a war in Iraq. A helicopter was fired upon. Many people will verify that.This is crucial: Brian Williams was not in a helicopter that was fired upon in Iraq.If you saw the Howard Kurtz program on Sunday, you saw Bill O'Reilly point to a New York Times article from 1982 that documented a riot in Argentina. This is crucial: the article DOES NOT verify O'Reilly's story that many people (or any people) were killed. It doesn't verify his heroic efforts to save a photographer in the face of real bullets in a war zone. He embedded his tall tales in a story with an element of truth? Isn't that how it always goes?He says that the police were firing real bullets into the crowd and many were killed. All anyone will verify is that the police were firing rubber bullets into the crowd and several were injured. Several is not many and injured is not killed. This is not hair splitting or semantics.This doesn't even touch on his other story about war zones from El Salvador to the Falklands. In fact, he now says that he never claimed to have been in the Falklands, even though he wrote that he was  in a book still available on  Amazon.com. Its not a big deal. His audience doesn't care and it's a fascinating thing to watch.</blockquote>