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Crooks and Liars gives us a recap of O'Reilly's interview this morning with Howard Kurtz on Fox News:
Kurtz: You have said your photographer was rundown, hit in the head, he was bleeding, the army was chasing you guys, Engberg says, I never heard any injury to the photographer.
O'Reilly: I don't think he was there. I don't think he knows what happened and I'll tell you why If he were in the Plaza Del Mayo, where was the video, why did I have to run it up to the feed point and send it to new York? I’d like everyone to ask him, ‘Were you there?’ because his reputation, his nickname was ‘Room Service Eric,’ because he never left the hotel.
BillO then blasted CBS's Bob Schieffer for "big footing" his story which happens all the time in the news business.
If you write an article and send it in and another reporter put their name on the article, what's that called? it begins with a "p."
Howie refused to respond to O'Reilly's accusations of plagiarism, laughed and called it what it actually was.
Kurtz: I've always called it "big footing" and you're not happy if that happens.
O'Reilly: What is it called in print? it begins with a "p."
Kurtz: I'll let you tell me.
O'Reilly: Plagiarism.
Kurtz: Oh, if it's your colleague and you're working together
O'Reilly:I wasn't working together with these guys.
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Even Howard Kurtz seems to be telling O'Reilly not to go there, suggesting that 'bigfooting' happens all the time in journalism. But I guess Billo has too much rage-ohol in his system - he's lashing out, blaming everyone except himself for his current predicament.
And it speaks volumes to O'Reilly's narcissism that he claims he wasn't working together with the CBS news team during his time in Argentina. I don't think this will end well for him.