Karmic surprise

It seems Bill O'Reilly of Faux News -- Motto: We make it up and you fall for it -- is upset because he has been caught in a flat out lie about reporting from the Falklands during the Falklands conflict. It is an established fact that no reporters were allowed into the Falklands and therefore Mr. O'Reilly is lying. Or, as he reportedly says, he was just using the term "the Falklands" in a general sense to indicate that he was south of the equator at the time.

This is a bit sticky because of Mr. O'Reilly's moral outrage over the revelations that Brian Williams had lied, or in Mr. O'Reilly's terms "used words to mean something other than what they mean in plain English."

Most unsettling for Mr. O'Reilly, of  course. I don't see why he is upset by the reports, however, since perhaps the reporters are able to say he was lying when they mean to use the word "lying" in the general sense of talking.