Bill O'Reilly showed the entire segment where he turns into a bully and gets all physical with an Obama staffer and then later calls him an SOB. Bill
January 6, 2008

Bill O'Reilly showed the entire segment where he turns into a bully and gets all physical with an Obama staffer and then later calls him an SOB. BillO completely became unhinged. (rough transcript)

O'Reilly: Hey stop blocking the shot pal, you're blocking the shot. Don't block the shot, got it! No you're not, you're doing it on purpose. (Unhinged) Don't block the shot---got it! Don't block the shot. Get him out of here.

Q: Sir, you do not want to do that.

O'Reilly: We have a right to be here to shoot the shot. You sonofabitch.

Q: I'd appreciate if you (garbled)

O'Reilly: Yea, that’s really low class pal. That’s really low class. And everybody in the world can see it. Senator...

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Clearly the guy blocked his camera dude's vision, but does that warrant O'Reilly to start shoving Nicholson? Marvin actually showed a ton of restraint because he easily could have responded after O'Reilly laid hands on him. Bill, this wasn't your studio---OK--and you don't get to attack people. It's a simple concept to grasp.

And everyone knows how your show sandbags people all the time, so if I was Obama's staffer, I wouldn't have given you any access either. Your past behavior precedes you. And you lied on FNS when you said you gently moved him out of the way and were cordial.

O’Reilly: Some guy comes over, he’s about six foot eight according to the press reports and he stands in front of the Factor camera. So I asked him fairly nicely, “you’re blocking our shot, sir, you need to move a little bit. …so I had to gently remove him from that position. No scuffle, I just moved him from the spot.. I might have called him an SOB, that’s possible, nothing more than that...

(I don't know if that was the Secret Service keeping BillO off of Marvin Nicholson.) Funny you should bring up the Constitution as a defense because if this had been a Republican event---the Secret Service would have handcuffed you----arrested you and carted you off to jail for assault. Who knows, they might have tazed you, bro!

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