# Bill O'Reilly crashes barrier, assaults staffer at Obama rally **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485 "2008-01-06T07:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/1 "2008-01-06T07:03:04Z")
Bill O’Reilly continued on his slide towards gibbering insanity at an [Obama rally today](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gyXVIfZ2F2CTuuxH3_93vuTP-ywwD8TVUGT80). He showed up a rally at a high school in New Hampshire with a camera crew in tow and charged the rope line. > [@](#): > > But it was after Obama’s speech that O’Reilly threw some elbows. And not so figuratively either. > > Obama staffer Marvin Nicholson, a personal aide always at Obama’s side during rope line handshakes, said O’Reilly yelled at him to get out of the way of his cameraman’s shot. Nicholson said O’Reilly came around the waist-high barricade separating Obama from well-wishers. > > “Then he grabbed me with both of his arms and tried to push me out of the way,” Nicholson said after the campaign agreed to make him available to reporters. > > 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. > > “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. O’Reilly was ordered back outside the rope by the secret service. I didn’t know he had a divine right to tell staffers where to stand at political rallies. This guy is fucking nuts, man. I would love to see him go to a Huckabee rally and try to shove Chuck Norris around. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/2 "2008-01-06T07:27:38Z")
I seem to have botched the damn thread title. If a mod happens to pass through here could I get them to remove the first appearance of the word “assault” in the thread title please? * * * Done --CKDH ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/3 "2008-01-06T07:47:37Z")
My guess is that Papa Bear’s move was calculated to incite a like response from Obama’s staff that he could then exploit. Love the quote about no one blocking a shot for “The O’Reilly Factor.” “No one puts Baby in the corner!” ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/4 "2008-01-06T08:10:35Z")
What a chronic douchebag. It’s fun to see him meltdown. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/5 "2008-01-06T08:11:45Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I seem to have botched the damn thread title. If a mod happens to pass through here could I get them to remove the first appearance of the word “assault” in the thread title please? [/QUOTE] No worries, **Dio.** I submitted a “report this post” of your request for intervention. Anyway, I doubt the Huckabee campaign would have any interest in making an august personage such as B.O. stand with the unwashed masses of the MSM. Although, I agree, it _would_ be quite something to watch ol’ Bill face the prospect of confronting Chuck’s third fist (the one he hides in his beard). ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/6 "2008-01-06T10:22:14Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Bill O’Reilly continued on his slide towards gibbering insanity at an [Obama rally today](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gyXVIfZ2F2CTuuxH3_93vuTP-ywwD8TVUGT80). He showed up a rally at a high school in New Hampshire with a camera crew in tow and charged the rope line. O’Reilly was ordered back outside the rope by the secret service. I didn’t know he had a divine right to tell staffers where to stand at political rallies. This guy is fucking nuts, man. I would love to see him go to a Huckabee rally and try to shove Chuck Norris around. [/QUOTE] Dude, the man is a Journalist. :rolleyes: He was doing God’s work. That practically makes him a missionary, or a priest, or Jesus Christ’s pushy brother. Don’t tell me you’re the one person on earth who doesn’t acknowledge the divinity of Bill O’Reilly. We need a smiley that makes the little air quotes around words that we don’t really mean, for example _Journalist._ They could look like little fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/7 "2008-01-06T14:58:46Z")
Maybe O’Reilly will have dinner with Obama and find out he’s just like a _normal_ politician, and doesn’t constantly scream _motherfucker_ at all his staff. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/8 "2008-01-06T16:42:38Z")
I can’t wait to watch Keith tomorrow night, and hear what he has to say. _rubs hands together with glee_ ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/9 "2008-01-06T16:48:37Z")
I’m sure he’ll paint himself as a victim in this. But at least he revealed another side of himself in this incident-- O’Reilly as _paparazzo_! ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/10 "2008-01-06T16:54:29Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Maybe O’Reilly will have dinner with Obama and find out he’s just like a _normal_ politician, and doesn’t constantly scream _motherfucker_ at all his staff. [/QUOTE] I hear he eats with silverware, too. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/11 "2008-01-06T16:58:25Z")
Had it been me, I’d press charges. But I’m petty and spiteful like that. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/12 "2008-01-06T17:13:52Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] O’Reilly was ordered back outside the rope by the secret service. [/QUOTE] And just why were the Secret Service guys so slow in reacting that the asshole was able to get within touching distance of the staffer? ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/13 "2008-01-06T17:23:12Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] This guy is fucking nuts, man. I would love to see him go to a Huckabee rally and try to shove Chuck Norris around. [/QUOTE] NASA might like that, too. One roundhouse kick and he’d be on the moon, Alice. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/14 "2008-01-06T17:31:50Z")
_“No one on this earth is going to block a shot for The Factor”??_ Jesus on Rollerskates, he has just set it up so at every rally they’ll try to spot which is the Factor/FNC cameraman and quickly send their fattest, tallest buddies to stand in their way! ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/15 "2008-01-06T17:33:02Z")
So he’s reverting back to his Inside Edition days- how pathetic. “No one gets in the way of an O’Reilly shot” indeed :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/16 "2008-01-06T17:36:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Maybe O’Reilly will have dinner with Obama and find out he’s just like a normal politician, and doesn’t constantly scream motherfucker at all his staff. As long as they’re quick about bringing his motherfucking iced tea, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/17 "2008-01-06T17:39:35Z")
> [@](#): > > And just why were the Secret Service guys so slow in reacting that the asshole was able to get within touching distance of the staffer? SS protection for candidates isn’t much like SS protection for the President. At the Edwards event I went to a while back, if there was a SS presence I didn’t notice it, but you certainly could walk right up to him or any of his staffers. I wouldn’t have expected them to intervene until O’Reilly got confrontational. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/18 "2008-01-06T17:43:25Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] And just why were the Secret Service guys so slow in reacting that the asshole was able to get within touching distance of the staffer? [/QUOTE] Hell, the SS guys would happily throw staffers into the path of a bullet aimed at the candidate. It’s not their job to protect staffers. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/19 "2008-01-06T17:51:16Z")
They should have built the barrier higher. Predators will always attack if they get the chance. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/20 "2008-01-06T18:07:53Z")
Jon Stewart must be positively salivating at this point. So much to talk about, so little time… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485.md?page=2)