Bill O'Reilly Roughs Up Obama Aide, Forced Back by Secret Service at New Hampshire Event
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January 5, 2008
On Friday in New Hampshire, Bill O'Reilly crossed into a Secret Service security zone around Obama, without permission, and got into a scuffling match with an Obama senior staffer.
O'Reilly later imperiously justified his breach of security by declaring, "We're sorry we had to have that little confrontation, but no one on this earth is going to block a shot on "The O'Reilly Factor." It is not going to happen," O'Reilly said, according to the Associated Press.
The Associated Press noted that the Obama aide, Marvin Nicholson, "said O'Reilly yelled at him to get out of the way of his cameraman's shot. Nicholson said O'Reilly came around the waist-high barricade separating Obama from well-wishers. 'Then he grabbed me with both of his arms and tried to push me out of the way,' Nicholson said after the campaign agreed to make him available to reporters."
It was left to the Secret Service to usher O'Reilly to the outside of the security zone.
According to the AP, earlier O'Reilly was last seen trying to coax an audience member into asking Hillary a question about Iraq. It's what you call a set-up.
It's like O'Reilly is now openly working for the RNC dirty tricks division. He has lost all pretense of even appearing to be a respectable journalist.
Obama's aide commented, "I've never seen a member of the press lay hands on a staffer before."
Well, Bill "Loofah" O'Reilly is a hands on kind of guy, we guess, if you approve of roughing people up and phone sex (but that's another story).
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Make a poster!
Some posters like the "revised" WW2-era posters of both Nazi Germany and the Allies that appeared earlier in the decade on Homeland Security, Oil Wars, and John Ashcroft would be a good way to publicize O'Reilly and the whole Corporatist Fascist noise machine...again (sigh). EIN VOLK, EIN REICH, EIN FAUX NEWS...
Good Germans we are...be born, work, consume, procreate, die, and most of all SHUT UP! ARBEIT MACHT FREI!!!!
Fox News has no credibility even with the NH GOP
Fox News is mouthpiece for Rupert Murdock, the NY elitists and the RNC. They are working their butts off for Giuliani.
They refused to allow Ron Paul and Hunter to participate in their scam forum in NH tonight. Even the New Hampshire GOP has severed its relationship with Fox.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/new-hampshire-gop-backs-out-of-fox-forum/
January 5, 2008, 6:58 pm
New Hampshire G.O.P. Backs Out of Fox Forum
By Michael Falcone
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Ron Paul raised nearly $20 million in the last quarter, likely more than any of his rivals. He garnered 10 percent of the Republican vote in the Iowa Caucuses, surpassing Rudolph W. Giuliani. And he’s in New Hampshire this weekend on the airwaves and the campaign trail before the Jan. 8 primary.
But the Texas congressman and presidential contender won’t be getting a seat and the table at Sunday’s Fox News Republican candidate forum.
On Saturday the New Hampshire Republican party expressed its disappointment with the decision to exclude Mr. Paul and Representative Duncan Hunter of California by severing its partnership with Fox.
“We believe that it is inconsistent with the first in the nation primary tradition to be excluding candidates in a pre-primary setting,” said Fergus Cullen, chair of the state G.O.P. party. “All candidates regardless of how well known they are or how much money they’ve raised should be treated equally here.”
Fox News invited Mr. Giuliani, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson to the 90-minute forum which will be held Sunday night at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire. Mr. Paul is leading Mr. Thompson in several recent polls in the state.
The New Hampshire G.O.P. has been in discussions with Fox to include all the candidates in the forum, but the network said that it was only inviting candidates who received double digit support in national polls.
On Saturday, Fox News Channel issued a brief statement from David Rhodes, its vice president of news: “We look forward to presenting a substantive forum which will serve as the first program of its kind this election season.”
Supporters of Mr. Paul will still be able to watch him on their television screens Sunday night. Jesse Benton, his spokesman, said the campaign is planning its own town hall special to be broadcast on Manchester, N.H. public television, C-SPAN and online. Mr. Paul is also set to appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Monday.
Update: In a statement, Duncan Hunter’s presidential campaign announced that it too would hold its own town hall meeting in place of the Fox News forum, and noted that Mr. Hunter won a delegate in Saturday’s Wyoming primary while other candidates who received invitations to the forum did not.
oreilly
He should return to inside edition or whatever chintzy show he used to be on, that's about all he's qualified for, talking to Britney and the like.
This just posted on FOX website..
Politics: * O'Reilly 'gently removes' Obama staffer
Bill Orally
Why is this jackass still on the air?
Billy the Bully !!!
Billy the Bully is at it again... He NEEDs to explain this to all the little kidzos out there who bought his book and are becoming part of his fan base. Explain what? That THE ONLY way to climb the ladder of success is to be an arrogant, self-centered, pompous BULLY while you push and shove your way to the top... THIS (Billy the BULLY) is what's wrong with America these days - the CHILD should be ashamed of himself... I challenge BILLY THE BULLY to tell all his YOUNG fans ("Kids Are People Too" readers) that he made a mistake and they should NOT act the way he did... One final thought - this is NEVER a reason to vote for a Presidential candidate - but O'Reilly just changed me from being "on the fence" to being an ABSOLUTE OBAMA SUPPORTER...
SaveThePlanet2008
Ughh
As long as people give a certain pompous blowhard space on the blogs and in the news, certain pompous blowhards will keep surfacing in front of cameras. Ignore the man that wants to be behind the curtain.
If you live in San Francisco, vote Sheehan in November. Please help end the vile reign of neo-con Nancy Pelosi.
God I'd love to.....
God I wish I had been there. I'd love to knock the shit out of O'Reilly. My dream is to run into him at an airport or some other public spot by coincidence and pummel him till he cries like the big-ass baby he is.
O'Reilly
David T. Gray, SSGT, USAF 67-71. Boy, I was just thinking that when I read this letter. All 6'4" of him.
He is a classic bully. Many times guys, with training and without have challenged him but guess what...he never shows.
Then he accuses others of exactly the same thing that he does. In psychotherapy this is called projection. Whatever you feel that you personally are you PROJECT onto others and indict them for it.
I would absolutely love for someone to beat the living shit out of O'Riled up. Of course, videotape every single minute of the episode and expose him for what he is--an abject, misanthropic horror of a human being with a backbone of jelly.
O'Reilly
Well, at least he's doing his own fighting instead of sending Fox security as he did to intimidate one of his listeners who dared to say "Olbermann".
Goebbels would have been proud of Bill
amacd
It's no big thing or anything.
After all, O'Reilly is a very professional Fox News Angry Zipperhead Interviewer, and so he took it all in stride.
In fact, word has it that O'Reilly and some of the Fox gang went to the nearest beerhall and laughed it off.
Goebbels & O' Lieley
Good analogy. I wonder if any cartoonist has portrayed this fathead in a Hitler Brownshirt outfit, complete with Sam Brown belt and a Luger?
What? Did Bill-O Suddenly Discover Someone...?
...besides Olbermann who's not scared of his bullying b.s.?
Poor baby - squalling and finding nobody's paying attention. Give him a baby bottle full of scotch (or whatever he drinks - I don't care enough about him to find out) to suck on....
O-LIE-ly the gop pervert ass hat
Classic school yard bully. If this had been anyone but a gop-hack the seceret service would have hauled his sorry ass off to be detained (possibly even tasered - this would be one occassion I would say tasing was justified and hopefully very painful) until long after the event was over.
How do you think this would have played out if it had been Olberman assaulting a huckelberry-homophobe-phatazz aide? Quite differently indeed.
Welcome back to the stone age... where hatred and might trump reason and education.
Great post.
Great post.
O'Reilly
He has lost all pretense of even appearing to be a respectable journalist.
Describing O'Reilly as respectable and a journalist, both in a single phrase, is a stretch.
Ramón
Clinton just pandered to O'Reilly at her event --planned?
Did anyone catch Clintons strange event?
She spent the first 20 minutes trying to stuff people into the room to make it appear jammed full.
Then almost immediately went to questions -with the first question just happening to be by a young girl seated in front of Bill O-Reilly who was standing against the wall watching the event.
The cameras pans over to Bill -smiling -when the girl stand up and says "Bill O'Reilly asked me to ask you a question". Hillary seems not surprised at all by Bill's presence. ??
The question Bill-O wants to know -Bill the sharp tongued demon of Fox news and radi0 -wants to know how Hillary will bring the troops home.
COME ON!
Nationalism is not terrorism. And an adversary is not an enemy.
Ping Keith Olbermann
I bet he will have a field day with BillO. Can't wait for another countdown.