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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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Bill O'Reilly has followers and fans for the same reason Hitler did: He's low and evil. Popularity does not equal decency or worthiness and O'Reilly exudes only the opposite of any virtue. He SO creeps me out.
Posted by: Blah on the Brown-Shirt | Jan 5, 2008 5:03:04 PM
This is just another senseless act from a selfish member of the Press. Its people like him that give the people who are good at what they do a bad name. I totally beleive o'reily was out of line. Just let these staffers (who put endless hours of work in each day) do there jobs. Its hard enough as it is. I can only imagine what the dirty Leprechaun would do if he was on the other end.
Posted by: Luke Dickens | Jan 5, 2008 5:07:00 PM
Bill O'Reilly always says he never says what he actually says over and over and over. Now, I suppose he'll say he never did what he actually did. Will he do it again?
Posted by: Ellen B | Jan 5, 2008 5:10:16 PM
O'reilly is not a racist. Please don't play that game. I am an occassional listener to Bill O'reilly and I am a conservative. I have no reason to doubt that this article is accurate, so I will assume that it is. That being said, if O'reilly did what he is reported to have done, then he certainly acted more than just inappropriately. In my opinion, his actions would border on criminal assault and he should be held accountable for his actions. Can you believe a conservative is even saying this? But please....stop with the race baiting.. It was not a racial incident, it was a political incident.
Posted by: NCPilot | Jan 5, 2008 5:12:01 PM
O'REILLY IS TRYING TO RAISE HIS SHOW'S RATINGS by creating a commotion...
This story makes Bill'O Reilly of Fox Noise, the W-OR-S-T P-E-R-SO-N in the Woooooorld, would say MSNBC Keith Olbermann, with a religious musical organ chiming sound heard in the background.
He is doomed journalist, i'm sorry... commentator, so is Fox-News doomed as well, going out of Business.
Posted by: franklin | Jan 5, 2008 5:13:28 PM
O'Reilly is in the "business" of making headlines. Now, his viewers are getting a glimse of the gasbag they mindlessly follow.
Posted by: zuzu | Jan 5, 2008 5:22:25 PM
O'Reilly trying to raise his ratings?? Ha! One of the #1 rated shows....People hate him because he corners you and tells it like it is..the truth hurts.....Race Issue, please quit...that is BS and you know it..
Bill you keep on the Politicians..
Posted by: pathlo | Jan 5, 2008 5:22:41 PM
Bill O Reilly should have been arrested! He's the most obnoxious lowlife on television or any other media outlet. Go OBAMA!!!!!!!!! You've got these FOX nerds all heated up!
Posted by: chuckinla | Jan 5, 2008 5:23:06 PM
RE: Bill O'Reilly
Caution. You're entering a no class zone!
Posted by: Noah | Jan 5, 2008 5:23:39 PM
Bill O"Reily is a idiot- an hour or 30 mins whatever, of mental institution on TV or radio for all the dumbwits to take part.
Posted by: Kash | Jan 5, 2008 5:29:27 PM
If you were listening to O'reilly's radio show yesterday you would have known that this action was pre-meditated. I am not suggesting that anyone watch or listen to a Fox production - I merely like to keep tabs on the loonie and influential.
Posted by: Nuetral Observer | Jan 5, 2008 5:29:33 PM
to call o'reilly a member of the press is an insult to members of the press
Posted by: chris | Jan 5, 2008 5:42:37 PM
Mr. No Spin Zone put a stop to Obama's handlers. O'Reilly was absolutely correct in removing the 6'-8" obstruction from his cameras.
Keep up the great work Bill. You are looking out for us and we appreciate it. The liberals hate you because of your honest reporting and high TV ratings. Excellent.
Posted by: Jim Stevens | Jan 5, 2008 5:45:23 PM
I would like to line my litter box with Bill O'Reilly.
Posted by: Wayne Collins | Jan 5, 2008 5:47:13 PM
obamas wife called oreilly yesterday saying they would get together today.I would do the same if some little staffer was trying to block obama from me.Obama you noticed went over to him at the time.Get the facts
Posted by: patrick novasio | Jan 5, 2008 5:48:31 PM
O'Reilly Rocks
Posted by: Dennis | Jan 5, 2008 5:50:28 PM
I don't like O'Reilly and I can't stand Obama, however, I still think O'Reilly has brains compared to Obama.
Posted by: swissdiver | Jan 5, 2008 5:50:59 PM
When are they going to fire O'Reilly? Is this not enough to say the man has REAL issues!
Posted by: Cari | Jan 5, 2008 6:03:30 PM
You can't even email o'really w/o joining his club. 1st week of Iraq invasion: "they'll greet us as liberators, hug the troops; end of story." Oh, really. He's just bad radio. Period.
Posted by: eric | Jan 5, 2008 6:04:08 PM
I"ve realized a long time ago that FOX news IS NOT A NEWS Organization.
It seems as if they try to be the news by pushing and walking the line to get reactions. And then reporting/exploiting those reactions as news. They have their own agendas and that's what they try to project by masquerading as a news organization.
These methods are no different that a Supermarket tabloid. But since they have viewers who actually absorb this as news, makes for a very scary situation.
I do believe that their max market is the 23% who still support this president.
Posted by: roy | Jan 5, 2008 6:05:20 PM
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