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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSwedish military has never heard of Fox News's "swedish defense advisor", denies knowing him
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/24/bill-o-reilly-hosted-fake-swedish-defense-advisor-fearmonger-about-refugees/215463On the February 23 edition of Fox News The OReilly Factor, host Bill OReilly brought on a guest named Nils Bildt, who was introduced as a Swedish defense and national security advisor, to discuss Swedens refugee policies.
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According to a translation of an article in the Swedish outlet Göteborgs-Posten, the press secretary of the Swedish Armed Forces has said that they do not know who Bildt is, and that he is definitely not a spokesman for the Armed Forces. The translated Göteborgs-Posten article reported that Bildt currently lives in Japan.
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First they book a prankster who claimed to organize anti-Trump-protests for money.
Then they book somebody who claims to be an organizer for women's rights protests, but is actually just the friend of a friend of an organizer.
Then they book a swedish military expert who is abso-fucking-lutely none of those three things.
madokie
(51,076 posts)is proving to be the death of our democracy
Dorian Gray
(13,514 posts)At least SOME things haven't changed since Obama left office.
SledDriver
(2,059 posts)#fakenews
AllaN01Bear
(18,623 posts)not this rable rousing enticing nonsense.was at a local carls jr. ( isupport the local outfit , not the yahoo who owns it) they had tvs originaly for ads. no one was watching them, so they switched to fox news. came back a week later , now running cnn, many coustomers dont pay attention.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Well, it's sad that "Music Television" aka "MTV" no longer has music... At least in Germany we have "Deluxe Music". Nothing but music-videos from the 1970s to today, 24/7. And relatively few commercials.
Hosts are for example the music-journalist Markus Kavka (sort of a legend since his days as a host at MTV Germany in the 1990s) and the punk-singer Jennifer Weist.
You can livestream it here:
https://www.deluxemusic.tv/tv.html
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,674 posts)And the basis of his national security decisions.
Our country has become a laughingstock. Sad.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)mercuryblues
(14,552 posts)Highlights from the WaPo article. His real name is Nils Tolling and immigrated to the US in 1994. There is some dispute that he was convicted of a crime in 2014 and spent some time in prison. He has admitted and denied that report. He was enrolled in a security class at King's College, but left the program early and did not complete it. I read an article that his online bio said he was in the Swedish Navy. The OP reports that the Swedish Military has never heard of him.
But here is the money maker part of the story.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/25/who-is-nils-bildt-swedish-national-security-advisor-interviewed-by-fox-news-is-a-mystery-to-swedes/?utm_term=.6773f071f736