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O'Reilly Tangles With Obama Staffer
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ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: When candidates are working the rope lines after their events, it’s common practice to see reporters yelling questions at them as they are greeting voters.
But, after Sen. Barack Obama’s event in Nashua it was a reporter, FOX’s Bill O’Reilly, who got in a tete-a-tete with Obama’s National Trip Director, Marvin Nicholson.
O’Reilly was trying to get access to Obama, who was unknowingly just working the rope line about ten feet in front of them. Nicholson, standing 6 foot, 8 inches in height and a veteran of Senator John Kerry's, D-Mass., 2004 campaign, was standing next to Obama, as his job calls for, and thus blocking O’Reilly’s cameraman from a clean shot of Obama.
So O’Reilly took things into his own hands…literally. He maneuvered around the steel gate barricade, yelled expletives at Nicholson, and called him "low class."
In an interview after the incident, Nicholson said, "He grabbed me with both arms and tried to push me out of the way."
Secret Service then stepped in and told O’Reilly to get back.
After the commotion, Obama shook hands with O’Reilly.
Nicholson, however, said he’d never seen anything like it.
"I've never seen a member of the press lay hands on a staffer before."
January 5, 2008 in Kucinich, Dennis | Permalink | User Comments (151)
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O'Reilly is the poster child for low class. I wouldn't have shook his hand. I would have pressed charges. He needs to find a rock and crawl under it.
Posted by: Sara B. | Jan 5, 2008 4:01:06 PM
Bill O'Reilly is so utterly inappropriate. He's more interested in what he wants, getting video clips to use to trash Obama on his program, than being a decent human being.
Posted by: Matthew Ledwith | Jan 5, 2008 4:05:11 PM
Bill O'Reilly is so utterly inappropriate. He's more interested in what he wants, getting video clips to use to trash Obama on his program, than being a decent human being.
Posted by: Matthew Ledwith | Jan 5, 2008 4:05:16 PM
Just another Republican, That Obama has fired up!
Posted by: Nando | Jan 5, 2008 4:05:54 PM
O'REILLY OUGHT TO JUST SHUT UP!
Posted by: allan_krueger | Jan 5, 2008 4:07:55 PM
This behavior on the part of O'Reilly shouldn't surprise anyone. He is a horses.....*&$#! And, call him "Press" is a stretch. His behavior is like that of a spoiled bully.
Posted by: NotSurprisedatOReilly | Jan 5, 2008 4:09:38 PM
I am a loyal Ron Paul fan, but have not heard much about Obama, so I am still waiting for the debate. But after hearing he shook the Faux's hand, my opinion dropped significantly.
Ouch.
Posted by: Earl E | Jan 5, 2008 4:11:39 PM
Wow, O'Reilly's lucky he didn't get arrested.
Posted by: Erika | Jan 5, 2008 4:15:45 PM
Yeah, that O'Reilly is a nasty gas-bag. I've never thought the man was completely stable. Fox is taking a chance by keeping him around. These types seem to grow more volitile as time goes on.
Posted by: 4cryingoutloud | Jan 5, 2008 4:18:23 PM
This would be a predictable event when an over-the-top commentator (O'Reilly) meets an officious and aggressive bodyguard. They BOTH needed a reprimand for their behavior. I used to like Bill O'Reilly until he began sounding like a televangelist, and now I rarely agree with him. But I give him credit for saying what he thinks without regard for "political correctness".
Posted by: rmberryman | Jan 5, 2008 4:39:40 PM
O'Reilly and his staff are nothing more then thugs. I've seen his show and think he is as stupid as his staff. I stopped watching his show on FOX because of his crap.
Posted by: JJ | Jan 5, 2008 4:39:56 PM
O'Reilly was just hoping the guy would be confrontational so he could go on his show and badmouth Obama and say he sicc'ed a goon on him.
In all honesty my first reaction would be that O'Reilly would have got hit so hard that it would have left him in a vegitated state. But it's people like him and Limbaugh that help drive away people with any sense at all from the republican party. So I want the fool to keep doing what he is doing. :)
Posted by: Mike | Jan 5, 2008 4:41:32 PM
TURN it into a "white and black issue"? I actually like Obama, but I've noticed that whenever he is speaking to a predominantly black audience he ALWAYS plays the "race card". This is sad, because he doesn't need to do this, and he loses white support when he does it. Barack Obama NEEDS some white votes if he is to have a chance at being elected. And he should remember when HE makes it a racial thing, there ARE camera and microphones present, and his remarks WILL become public. Bill O'Reilly will have little or no effect on Obama's success or failure. The "Religious Right" will do everything in their power to sink Obama; O'Reilly will be "preaching to the choir".
Posted by: rmberryman | Jan 5, 2008 4:44:25 PM
Obama is just a new boss that will be the same as the old boss! Obama's advisers are(google)Richard Clarke & Zbigniew Brzezinksi (foreign policy) and will more than likely end up is his cabinet of advisers, essentially amounting to the same status-quo interventionists foreign policy that Bu$hco has now. Nothing will change!
Posted by: Bill Hicks | Jan 5, 2008 4:44:45 PM
O'Reilly is completely out of control. Whether it's interviewing someone with opposing views, or trying to get a staffer to go to bed with him, he feels he has this "entitlement" because he's famous. As far as I'm concerned, he's just another right wing ### talking head that needs to be smacked down.
Posted by: Tim | Jan 5, 2008 4:47:31 PM
O'Reilly's a NOBODY. He should stick to sexually harassing his female producers.
Posted by: wilder5121 | Jan 5, 2008 4:49:07 PM
Bill O'Reilly is the most un-American person in America. He needs to go back to Ireland.
Posted by: Jong | Jan 5, 2008 4:52:00 PM
Bill O'Reilly is a kind gentle soul. He was just doing his job as best he can. Why do you not like him? Peace my brotha...
Posted by: Hog-Wild | Jan 5, 2008 4:57:38 PM
Yeah, O'Reilly's nobody but has the #1 TV show in America.
You guys are a bunch of cry babys and well...I'm sure loosers too.
Posted by: Spencer | Jan 5, 2008 4:57:49 PM
A spirit grand as Obama's would cause an ego bloated as O'Reilly's to get desperately physical.
Posted by: missy erin | Jan 5, 2008 5:01:24 PM
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