Bill O'Reilly in confrontation with Obama staffer at rally: Screams at Marvin Nicholson
By John Amato Friday Jan 04, 2008 2:30pm
(graphic via The Washington Note)
Bill O'Reilly rules the world! The king of the sandbag technique tries to hassle Obama.
Bombastic Fox News host Bill O'Reilly got into a confrontation with an Obama aide after O'Reilly started screaming at him as he tried to get Barack Obama's attention following a rally here.
The incident was triggered when O'Reilly--with a Fox News crew shooting--was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson "Move" so he could get Obama's attention, according to several eyewitnesses. "O'Reilly was yelling at him, yelling at his face," a photographer shooting the scene said.
O'Reilly grabbed Nicholson's arm, said "move" and shoved him, another eyewitness said. Nicholson, who is 6'8 said O"Reilly called him "low class." Secret Service agents came after O'Reilly pushed Nicholson and the agents flanked O'Reilly...read on
O'Reilly blows his stack and acts like a jackass which is typical for him to do on his show. He's just lucky he wasn't a left winger at a Republican event or he would have probably been arrested and locked up for the rest of the weekend. Hope08 has a diary up at Kos. "I was watching CPAN live event in Nashua and after the rally when Obama was shaking hands I noticed he got into a conversation with this man who seemed to be insisting on something."
Jane Hamsher says: "Jonah Goldberg predicted it. Glen Reynolds nodded in sage assent. The campaign of Barack Obama will inevitably lead to violence on the campaign trail. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged," said Goldberg. We scoffed. And yet -- it has come to pass."
Obama has pretty much shut out FOX news ever since they started to smear him with this phony "Madrassa story" that CNN did a little reporting on and debunked it.
Conservative Insight magazine runs an unverified story that the minions at FOX News then cite to smear politicians they don't like.
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Stop fristing the Obama aides!
Mirror, Mirror in my hand
who is so full of shit
he can barely stand.
why you are billo, you diminished dried up shit.
I'm usually against the tasing of unruly disrupters of political events, but...
O'Reilly grabbed and shoved an Obama aide; he should spend some time in lockup. Assault is, in fact, a real crime, unlike peaceful protest or being an obnoxious jerk.
I wish they would have tased Bill O'fucktard.
What's really "inevitable" is that O'Reilly would assault someone. He's an angry, egotistical man, and a complete bully.
Bill O Reilly acting Ridiculous in public... *typical*
Civility prevails. Any bullish behavior should be thoroughly checked by security. We all remember RFK and security is of great importance to protect the candidates.
Hey security. Just shoot him next time.
Well billO got the spotlight on himself and isn't that always his aim. The guy he shoved should file charges against him but I hope he doesn't because that would keep the pot boiling with this story and bill would just eat that up.
When billo called into fox news an hour or so ago, he admitted that he might have called the guy a son of a bitch. And he kept repeating that he "gently" moved the guy out of the way. He put heavy emphasis on the word gently.
Considering the way Fox News treats Democrats and even worse how they treat Obama, he should get a restraining order against them.
Hope the secret service is waterboarding him as we speak. The liver-spotted one is reeling out of control, realizing he's within a few months of have no access to people in power. Expect him to be arrested for stalking in 09. How fast and hard a jowly drunk can fall, my oh my.
Keith Olbermann is going to have a BALL with this... :-)
(I'm laughing my butt off too, too bad BillO didn't get busted.)
Not sure why you wonderful folks at Crooks and Liars shut down the Elizabeth Edwards thread when it was on a roll?
Poor Marvin is going to come home to find a partially eaten falafel on his pillow.
I though Bill O' lielly was a comedian. Oh! silly me.
This is the first ruckus I have heard of happening at any of the candidates events. And wouldn't you know it would be this asshole that caused it. I'm sure Fox News is so proud. I can't remember the guys name at Fox news that BillO was talking to on the phone but the guy was not yucking it up along with BillO. He was very stoned faced as bill explained what had happened.
As many cameras and cell phones as we see at these events, hopefully someone not affiliated with fox got some movies or shots of what happened.
Rats. We were close to three potential great endings -
1) The 6'8" guy could have beat the dogshit out of Bill
2) The police could have used their tasers
3) The guard could have been contracted through Blackwater, and have given Bill some new orifices
Guess I will have to keep hoping....
Bill should have his opinion credentials revoked for all future political rallies.
I thought Bill O’ lielly was a comedian. Oh! silly me. Calling all Olbermanns, calling all Olbermanns Bill just did another funny!
Too late, Jonah and Glenn! Certain segments of American political life have already become completely unhinged. Unfortunately it's you two jokers and your ilk, the Neo-Cons and the Religious Right, as well as the GOP fiscal conservatives that have bankrolled your deterioration into lunacy.
Did I read correctly that O'Reilly was not behind the press rope when this happened? That he was out of place?
Think he'd treat GW Bush's bodyguards this way?
I'm glad that Fox News is being treated like the National Enquirer. It's about as credible. Too much energy has been wasted trying to correct the misinformation coming from that network. It's time to put them on the heap where they belong.
By the way, I saw a funny cartoon in reference to Fox the other day. A guy had bolted a toilet to the wall and tuned it to Fox.
After Obama's speech in Iowa, my first thought was, "My God, if he gets too close to making it, they'll have him killed. They'll assassinate him." Then I told myself I was overdramatizing it. Surely a politician who is not beholden to the corporatists keeping us locked in a march towards facism for their own unlimited wealth and power wouldn't go so far as to..........
Sigh, I do think anyone bucking the crowd that has kept Bush/Cheney in there for eight years runs the serious risk of being killed. I can't help it. I've lived thru the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK & Malcolm X. I do think they kill what they can't control or destroy.
And the fact that threats of violence are now arising from the right wing meme factory, which is where they seem to test-run all their plans before launching them, doesn't make me feel any better about it. Isn't this what they did with Iraq, beat the drums for their war in the right-wing noise machine until, by the time they started it, the war was seen as inevitable?
Unless I'm wrong, and I hope to God I am, they are introducing the inevitability of violence into the campaign. Then when it happens, they'll be right in front, saying we told you so.
Remember how the PNAC manifesto spoke with longing of another Pearl Harbor? To get the masses riled enough to accept the Middle Eastern war they wanted a reason to start? And how convenient 9/11 was for them to use to start the war they already planned on starting?
Anyone familiar with right-wing rhetoric knows that they would use the assassination of a candidiate to wage all-out war on what's left of our rights and the electoral process. And who would that serve more than them?
Bill-o was
lookingfor a confrontation, guaranteed. There's absolutely no other reason for him to be at an Obama event."He’s just lucky he wasn’t a left winger at a Republican event or he would have probably been arrested and locked up for the rest of the weekend."
lol... he's lucky he wasn't tasered
The Secret Service had to surround a screaming dirt bag that was pushing his way toward one of our elected officials??? That bastard should be sent to Guantanamo. God damn terrorist, O'Reilly!
Like to see that Obama's peeps can give the smack down to the GOP even before winning the primary!
Hey... even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
This is the guy who belittles Code Pink for getting into press conferences and asking legitimate questions or sit in audiences with tshirts reminding us this is supposed to be a democracy with free speech. Others get tasered, arrested and jailed. Why does he get a pass when he was clearly abusive and physically aggressive.
Tell me, why this asswipe is allowed to do this shit with impunity.
Bill-O is just showing his "priest molested" shanty Irish ass, which he does daily, one way or another, in the ongoing saga of a "trash mouth with a Murdock mike, and sometimes a camera to boot!"
Whoopee!
Or is that, "who peed in Bill's Post Toasties?"
Liberals get Tased for being impolite at political functions.
"Hey Bro, don't tase me!"
The spin is that the Secret Service didn't step in and it was no big deal. There's two photos here, one of the Secret Service telling O'Reilly to back off and another of Obama in O'Reilly's face after the incident.
You can see by the look on O'Reilly's face in the first photo that he's pissed - Marvin is the guy in black with his back to the camera. I know Marvin very well from the Kerry campaign, he's a real mellow guy. Nice as they come.
Bill is going to give a "full report" on his Falafel Zone show Monday night. Let's see if he mentions how many people gave him the single finger salute in NH.
They should have tasered and searched him.
myiq2xu @ 30:
"Hey Bro, don't tease me!"
While Obama's on the campaign trail, no department stores better close too early for Queen Oprah to do her shopping.
Billo will need plenty of War on Easter stories to cope with his latest scandal
roooth @ 24:
Perhaps Oreily was testing the waters to see how quickly and accessible Secret Service and Security react...in preparation for a future attack. Hes simply laying the foundation.
Does o'really ever prance around singing, "I Feel Pretty"?
jr @ 36:
Which side of the War on MLK Day would o'really be on?
Herbert @ 33:
Body cavity search, on camera
myiq2xu @ 40:
Well, considering how full of shit O'Reilly is, that could get messy.
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"Low class."
There's your true Republican arrogance in action.
Never forget... we are "assets" to them - materials to be used in manufacturing goods and selling and servicing them so that rich people can get richer. Our rights are a pain in their ass and therefore our rights should be secondary to the privileges of the rich.
Low class.
The white, right wing, inbred mouth-breathers will go apeshit if Obama is the Democratic nominee. I hope his campaign has contingency plans when the rednecks attack.
If you really need to cover what this delusional asshole says or does, at least please call him Bill O'Falafel. I love saying that. Bill O'Fafalel. How's Andrea Mackris, Billy?
Wait. Hannity and Boyce try to have me arrested while I'm perfectly civil and polite and PRIOR to asking a question and O'Reilly assaults a man and is not arrested.
Something is very wrong with this picture.
Well, I do think were are seeing the demise of the so-called compassionate conservative movement. It turns out they are not conservative (spiraling deficit, billions in Iraq) and definitely not compassionate(Katrina, S-chip) and Billo represents all of that. His blind loyality to corporate masters and Bush's admin. is his shame. I hope Faux News's ratings go down the drain. When Faux News didn't allow Ron Paul in the debate they probably lost a lot of their viewers. It's about freakin time!
Mr Obama PLEASE allow me to be your body guard... I would PAY BIG BUCKS for the opportunity to bitch slap O'Reilly to the dirt on national television if he crossed the line and got pushy.... it gives me a woody just thinking about it.
Rob J @ 43:
Two girls, one cup
A couple things about me:
1) I'm not gay. 100% heterosexual.
2) I don't condone torture or police brutality.
Those two things said, if a YouTube clip of bill o'reilly getting tasered for causing a disruption at a public event ever made it's way to the internet...Yes, I would masturbate to it.
I'm a bad man.
You guys need to go watch NOW (David Brancachio) on PBS last night. It is a report on the republican smear machine, including the Obama-madrassa smear, originated in South Carolina.
I short [6:44] segment of it will be posted at my site within about 5 minutes
Instead of blocking the "Factor" camera that guy should have smashed the "Factor" camera. Someone should smash O'Reilley in the face as well. The guy is a heinous act.
Bill O'Reilly is a complete RACIST.
I would suggest a full-body cavity search, just to be sure he wasn't hiding any weapons or drugs. And also to humiliate him a bit. Just because.
i don't think too many people would cry foul if o'reilly got a forearm to the chops-he's more than earned it.
Give Billy O a break. His "grabbing" may have been a simple expression of affection... or even lust.
This was a TAZER moment if there ever was one.
This 6'8" Obama thug was intentionally blocking O'Reilly's shot and he got exactly what he deserved. Freedom of the press anyone? My question is, Why is Barack Obama so scared or Bill O'Reilly?
You poor degenerates are going to reap the whirl wind. Just because your only hope to bring this nation down does not have the balls to go on the number one news network in the country means that he would not have the guts to do what needed to be done if a whole bunch of you weenie whiner socialist got your arses blown up at your local commie Starbucks. O swinely only moved a dumb ass lefty out of his cameras way, WAh WAh Wah. I will be very surprised if Madras's boy gos on the factor after the primary. The Secret Service that is attached to the Senator did not detect a threat to your great half white hope so they did not act as they are trained to in a threat situation to their charge. Your Code pinko commies are just that COMMIES and they are the ones that should be banned from public discorse. How many of you bad Americans posting here have ever done a thing for your country other than bitch and moan about her. Get a life you cretins and try to do what JFK stressed in one of his famous speaches. Its not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. That means serve her in some capacity not protest her or radically change her with subversive acts and actions.
Good thing Bill was not at a Senator Kerry event. He would have gotten tazed by democrat operatives like the "don't taze me bro" guy. I'm sure America wants the next president to have courage, even enough to face tough questioning on Fox. (Truth: Dennis Cusinic is the only candidate willing to face Fox.)
Yo Dingbats:
O'Reilly isn't running.
Jeebus...
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