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HAH,
"blatant assault on press freedom".

You have freedom of speech all you want, but if you're gonna be a dick, or report things wrongly, don't cry when someone is unhappy.

Secret Service officials separated O'Reilly and Obama aide Marvin Nicholson after the Fox News Channel personality grabbed Nicholson on a post-speech rope line in a high-school gym here. According to a witness, O'Reilly reached with two hands for Nicholson -- who at 6-foot-8 had a slight height advantage over O'Reilly -- because he stood between O'Reilly's cameraman and Obama as the newsman called out for the candidate's attention.

"He started pushing me and telling me to get out of his shot," Nicholson told reporters afterwards. "Then he said I was 'low-class.' "

"He called me 'low-class' after he started shoving me," Nicholson clarified.

O'Reilly, interviewed afterward by phone on Fox News, said he tried "to gently remove" Nicholson because he was standing in front of Fox's camera, the Associated Press reported.

"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.

Link.

Whoa, Susie's in MiniThink!

Susie wrote:

O'Reilly is more full of crap than all the septic tanks in Texas combined. He's complaining about other people's hatred? That's the funniest thing I've heard all day.

It's fine to say he's full of hate.
When has he damaged another persons or corporations property?

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Bratboy -

If you really think it was only Ron Paul's supporters involved - I'm sorry, but I seriously have to disagree.

resedit wrote:

Crap like this will win the Republicans the next election.
The left needs to seriously check their hate.

Wait. I thought FOX News was supposed to be Fair and Balanced™, not associated with the Republican party.

And I didn't know that Ron Paul supporters were part of the left.

resedit wrote:

Crap like this will win the Republicans the next election.
The left needs to seriously check their hate.

That's absurd, at no point does O'Reilly even suggest that "the left" was behind the attacks on Fox vehicles.  I wouldn't be surprised if it was the Ron Paul supports, as there's YouTube out there of RP supporters being pretty rowdy towards Fox News.



Seriously, stop reading Newsmax....

the article wrote:

O’Reilly says the anger towards Fox is due to the network’s ratings success, which has created “a bitterness unprecedented in the U.S. press.
...
“So it comes as no surprise that Fox News, which gives equal time to conservative thought, is despised by many in the liberal press."
...
O’Reilly added: “Note that the GOP candidates haven’t played that game, appearing on ultra-liberal MSNBC and every other news network.”

Anger towards Fox News because of a cable networks ratings ?  "Equal time" to conservative "thought" ??  "MSNBC is "ultra-liberal" ??


Dude, you're totally Steve Colbert-ing us, aren't you ? 

resedit wrote:

The press was denied access.

Where?  Where was "the press denied access?"

O'Reilly shoved a staffer out of the way because "no one on this earth is going to block a shot on "The O'Reilly Factor."  My god, educate yourself on the situation before you start regurgitating O'Reilly's nonsense verbatim.

JakeTheTall wrote:

Dude, you're totally Steve Colbert-ing us, aren't you ? 

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Don't you sometimes feel like you're eavesdropping on Res and Bratty's pillow talk?

Can't you just feel the love!

robco wrote:

FauxNews isn't the press. It's an extension of the neocon, PNAC machine that's smurfing up this country. Fair and balanced my ass.

So it is OK to limit their freedom because you deem them not to be the press.
That's a very dangerous line of thought.

BratBoy - if O'Reilly has the events wrong, do you have a link explaining how it really went down?

What you provided is the testimony of the person blocking the access to the press. What I have is the testimony of the person who's access was blocked.

There are two sides to every story.

Do you really think it was coincidence that a 6'8" Obama aide was between the Fox camera and the shot? Do you not take yourself out of the way of a camera when you are blocking someone's shot? I do - and I would think that would be pretty standard for any aide of politician at a media event - yet there was a 6'8" aide to Obama between Fox News and their shot. Coincidence? I think not.

resedit wrote:

BratBoy - if O'Reilly has the events wrong, do you have a link explaining how it really went down?

Obviously....I linked to one above.  It says "according to a witness."  I also offered your O'Reilly's own words, where he asserted "no one on this earth is going to block a shot on "The O'Reilly Factor."

What you provided is the testimony of the person blocking the access to the press. What I have is the testimony of the person who's access was blocked.

There are two sides to every story.

No, I offered the words of a witness.  Additionally, you can go onto youtube and watch video of O'Reilly pushing the man.

Do you really think it was coincidence that a 6'8" Obama aide was between the Fox camera and the shot? Do you not take yourself out of the way of a camera when you are blocking someone's shot? I do - and I would think that would be pretty standard for any aide of politician at a media event - yet there was a 6'8" aide to Obama between Fox News and their shot. Coincidence? I think not.

Are you asserting that O'Reilly suffered a constitutional violation of the press?  That the First Amendment requires that the view of a politician must be unobstructed by his staffers at a campaign rally?  Further, are you asserting that the proper response was for O'Reilly to push the man and call him "low class?"

Take a stand, if that's the case. 

Any luck finding any reference at all to this supposed "vandalism" of Fox News equipment?  I couldn't come up with a single story.

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 and shoved him, another eyewitness said. Nicholson, who is 6'8, said O'Reilly called him "low class."

"He grabbed me with both his hands here," Nicholson said, gesturing to his left arm and O'Reilly "started shoving me." Nicholson said, " He was pretty upset. He was yelling at me."

Secret Service agents who were nearby flanked O 'Reilly after he pushed Nicholson. They told O'Reilly he needed to calm down and get behind the fence-like barricade that contained the press.

Link.

The funniest thing about the newsmax article is this description of "attacks on Fox that border on violence."

The only substantiated account of "violence" involves an act carried out by O'Reilly.

resedit wrote:

The left needs to seriously check their hate.

Matthew Shepard.