Postby Kiamichi » Thu Feb 26, 2015 3:09 pm
Now O'Reilly has responded that when he said he "saw nuns shot in the back of the head" he meant he had seen pictures of the bodies. By that standard I have witnessed nearly all the great historical events of the last century.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/oreilly-apparently-contradicted-himself-on-witnessing-nun-killings-fox-responds/
In the first, O’Reilly said, “I’ve seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador.” In the second, he said, “I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head,” according to Media Matters.
The politically progressive media watchdog pointed out on Wednesday that Salvadorans had raped and murdered three American nuns and a lay worker in December 1980. But O’Reilly did not arrive in the country until the following year, according to his own timeline of events.
In “The No Spin Zone,” O’Reilly writes that he arrived in El Salvador to cover the conflict several weeks after he was promoted to CBS News correspondent in 1981.
O’Reilly responded that he was referring to seeing photographs, not the actual executions.
“While in El Salvador, reporters were shown horrendous images of violence that were never broadcast, including depictions of nuns who were murdered,” he said in a statement to Mediaite.
O’Reilly expanded upon why he brought up the pictures during his TV program on December 14, 2012, the day of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
“The segment was about evil and how hard it is for folks to comprehend it. I used the murdered nuns as an example of that evil,” the statement reads. “That’s what I am referring to when I say ‘I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head.’ No one could possibly take that segment as reporting on El Salvador.”
