# 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:** 2
**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, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/21 "2008-01-06T18:43:41Z")
Hell, at this point, even the Freepers are calling him out. ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/22 "2008-01-06T20:00:33Z")
I am seeing Olbermann, sound asleep, his eyes suddenly are wide open as a ‘Joker’ smile forms on his lips. Can’t wait for ‘Countdown’ tomorrow. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/23 "2008-01-06T20:45:30Z")
[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] And so [clean](http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/), too. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/24 "2008-01-06T23:49:33Z")
[Video](http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvpWxm8ziE), this is only the aftermath though. It seems to miss the action. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/25 "2008-01-07T00:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] And so [clean](http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/), too. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] Funniest _tu quoque_ ever! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/26 "2008-01-07T00:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=flight] [Video](http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvpWxm8ziE), this is only the aftermath though. It seems to miss the action. [/QUOTE] Yet, Senator Obama duly shakes his hand and greets O’Reilly. So sorry, Bill, that the days of being a bellignerant doofus are over for your past gravy-train existence. Time to get past that crap. ---
**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 7, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/27 "2008-01-07T00:26:34Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Yet, Senator Obama duly shakes his hand and greets O’Reilly. So sorry, Bill, that the days of being a bellignerant doofus are over for your past gravy-train existence. Time to get past that crap. [/QUOTE] Wow! O’Reilly was willing to _touch_ him? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/28 "2008-01-07T01:05:08Z")
Wow. I _want_ to go all outraged over O’Reilly, or gleeful that he’s embarrassed himself so, but for some reason, I just can’t. I’m too busy shaking my head. It’s just too bizarre. ---
**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 7, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/29 "2008-01-07T01:27:15Z")
Just watched the linked video. What a completely self-centered arrogant prick. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/30 "2008-01-07T02:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=Shodan] And so [clean](http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/biden.obama/), too. Regards, Shodan [/QUOTE] Hee hee hee… I keep picturing Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder- “See, it’s coming off!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/31 "2008-01-07T02:48:32Z")
O’Reilly must not have found the rally as “surprisingly civilized” as [a Harlem restaurant](http://mediamatters.org/items/200709210007), evidently. Maybe if he’d asked the M-F’er in his way for more iced tea? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/32 "2008-01-07T02:58:16Z")
I read that many Obama supporters at the rally were asking Billo about falafels and loofahs and whatnot. The man is a walking punchline. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/33 "2008-01-07T03:05:44Z")
Was he drunk? I don’t know what happened between him and the “staffer,” but when Bill repeatedly yelled “hey Senator” while he could see Obama was with other people, that looked pathetic. I did that once, I tried to get the attention of a celebrity who was tied up with other people, when I was about 12. I didn’t shout though. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/34 "2008-01-07T03:07:28Z")
[QUOTE=saoirse] I hear he eats with silverware, too. [/QUOTE] I hear Bill doesn’t like being around sharpened silver objects. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/35 "2008-01-07T03:24:07Z")
[QUOTE=Guinastasia] Hell, at this point, even the Freepers are calling him out. [/QUOTE] What’s a “Freeper”? A press freedoms advocate of some kind? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/36 "2008-01-07T03:48:05Z")
A member of the Free Republic website and forum. They’re famous for being blindly conservative in the face of facts. ---
**Author:** ![flight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbce88/32.png) [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/37 "2008-01-07T04:33:14Z")
There are two oddly polarized Freeper threads on this. In one, everyone agrees that O’Reilly is a dick, though it mostly seems to be from some apparent slight the site received from him at an earlier time. Little mention is made of Obama. In the second everyone blindly agrees that O’Reilly must be in the right, and that the Obama campaign likely staged the whole thing for attention. Neither thread seems aware of the other’s existence. In both cases, the discourse is sub-literate with most posts contributing nothing more than a new way to stretch a pun on the name of one of the parties involved. Makes me appreciate what we have here. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/38 "2008-01-07T06:21:16Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Wow! O’Reilly was willing to _touch_ him? [/QUOTE] Wow! Obama was willing to _touch_ him? Seriously though… every once in a while something happens that is so funny by itself that the Daily Show just shows the clip, then cuts to Jon Stewart who says, “Really. The jokes just write themselves,” then they move on. This was great timing for such an event. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/39 "2008-01-07T16:07:19Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] Was he drunk? [/QUOTE] Well, if he was, at least he’s not an illegal alien trying to drive. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/40 "2008-01-07T16:27:37Z")
[QUOTE=Tapioca Dextrin] I hear Bill doesn’t like being around sharpened silver objects. [/QUOTE] No, O’Reilly isn’t a ‘werewolf’, he’s a ‘dipshit’. I’ll bet this was a calculated attempt to get a rise out of Obama supporters. If I was Obama I would hire Michael Clark Duncan to attend his gatherings and follow O’Reilly around. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485.md?page=3)