Bill O’Reilly busted again: Former colleagues dispute his LA riots story

‘Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly is under fire again as another one of his stories is placed under the microscope. This time, his former CBS News colleagues are disputing his reporting during the Los Angeles riots.

O’Reilly originally claimed that he and his colleagues “were attacked by protesters” when covering the 1992 riots. “They were throwing bricks and stones at us,” O’Reilly told an online interviewer in 2006. “Concrete was raining down on us. The cops saved our butts that time.”

However, six people who covered the riots with O’Reilly for CBS’ Inside Edition at the time told the Guardian they did not recall an incident in which, as O’Reilly has claimed, “concrete was raining down on us” and “we were attacked by protesters.”’

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