Bill O'Reilly Blasts Article Questioning Falkland War Reporting

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is reportedly being questioned over his 1982 Falklands War coverage, shortly after NBC's Brian Williams was suspended for misreporting an event during the Iraq War in 2003.

The media outlet Mother Jones recently published a story questioning the validity of O'Reilly's war stories during the Falklands War off the coast of Argentina. The article reports that although O'Reilly has repeatedly confirmed he was reporting from a "war zone" during the Falklands War, his employer at the time, CBS News, has said that their American reporters were allowed nowhere near the battle area surrounding the Falkland Islands, and were often kept based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

O'Reilly has already denounced the Mother Jones article, published Thursday. The Fox News host said in a statement to The Washington Post that he has never claimed to have been in the Falklands during the war, but has always maintained that he was in Buenos Aires to do war coverage.

"This is a slander what's happening here. [...] I was not in the Falklands. I was in Buenos Aires" O'Reilly told The Washington Post, adding that the co-author of the Mother Jones article, David Corn, is "a liar" and "a guttersnipe."

Corn, who serves as Mother Jones' Washington Bureau chief, told The Washington Post that he thinks "it's easier to call someone a liar or a guttersnipe than to answer the question."

Allegations regarding O'Reilly's alleged fabrications come after NBC News' Brian Williams was suspended from the network for six months for allegedly fabricating a story regarding a Chinook helicopter hit by enemy fire in 2003 during the Iraq War.