A Screaming O'Reilly Shoves Obama Staffer, Is Restrained by Secret Service

marmar

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Sun Jan-06-08 12:46 PM
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A Screaming O'Reilly Shoves Obama Staffer, Is Restrained by Secret Service

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from AlterNet's PEEK:

A Screaming O'Reilly Shoves Obama Staffer, Is Restrained by Secret Service

Posted by Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake at 5:59 PM on January 5, 2008.

Bill O'Reilly says, "No one on this earth is going block a shot on the O'Reilly Factor. It is not going to happen."

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:

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'Reily.

Obama had his back turned at this point and did not see any of this. O'Reilly yelled "sir" at Obama and Obama walked over, not aware of what happened and told him he had an overflow crowd to visit. According to the time code from a photographer shooting the two, Obama and O'Reilly talked about 12 seconds near 11:45 a.m. eastern time.

The situation took place near a basketball hoop in the gym at Nashua North High School where Obama just addressed a jammed rally.

There is evidently no video tape of the kerfuffle, but a photographer from Polaris reportedly got some stills.

I guess we'll get to see who comes "unhinged."

UPDATE via Huffington Post: O'Reilly also crashes a Clinton event .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/72802/

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liberalmuse

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Sun Jan-06-08 12:47 PM
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1. That is an awesome headline.

You read that, and you pretty much have the entire story, LOL.

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robbedvoter

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Sun Jan-06-08 12:48 PM
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2. It's became a tradition - if it's New Hampshire, Dildo has to shove someone

happened in 2004 too.

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madeline_con

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Sun Jan-06-08 12:48 PM
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3. The best part...

"... the agents flanked O'Reily."

Where's a taser when you need one?! :rofl:

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napi21

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Sun Jan-06-08 12:54 PM
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4. So when does O'Liely get arrested? I completely support freedom

of the press, but the young guy who was ONLY yelling at the Kerry speech WAS arrested and he wasn't doing any shoving that I know of! When is somebody going to stop this arrogant AH?

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globalvillage

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Sun Jan-06-08 01:02 PM
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5. Video of Marvin Nicholson (Obama staffer)

Edited on Sun Jan-06-08 01:03 PM by globalvillage

http://www.kerryvision.net/2008/01/pretty_classy.html

O'Reilly is an ass. Marvin explains what happened in the CNN video at the link.

edit typo

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Vanje

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Sun Jan-06-08 01:08 PM
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6. Taze him!

Any one else would get tazed.

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marmar

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Sun Jan-06-08 01:10 PM
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7. You can't taze the Factor, bro!

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Judi Lynn

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Sun Jan-06-08 01:33 PM
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8. "Bill O'Reilly gets into shoving match with Barack Obama aide"

Bill O'Reilly gets into shoving match with Barack Obama aide
BY MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT

Saturday, January 5th 2008, 5:15 PM

NASHUA, N.H. � Big Mouth gets physical.

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly shoved an aide to Barack Obama during a campaign event this morning in Nashua, prompting the Secret Service to intervene and instruct the TV personality to cool it.

The incident at Nashual High School North unfolded shortly before noon as Obama chatted with voters, just three days before New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary.

"(O'Reilly) was just a crazy person," a photographer who witnessed the altercation told The Daily News. "He throws a complete fit, and then the Secret Service came in."

~snip~
A woman in the crowd, who witnessed who witnessed the incident, exclaimed, "I'm never going to watch that man again. I don't believe this!"

More:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/01/05/2008-01-05_bill_oreilly_gets_into_shoving_match_wit.html

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DesertRat

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Sun Jan-06-08 01:53 PM
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9. KO is going to be great tomorrow night!

:rofl:

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applegrove

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Sun Jan-06-08 02:00 PM
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10. Fox News is obviously suffering from being ignored by the Democratic slate. I say

keep it up. Fox News doesn't deserve any cooperation from the left.

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mzmolly

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Sun Jan-06-08 03:06 PM
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11. They're getting punchy huh?

:evilgrin:

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