# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/41 "2008-01-07T16:48:38Z")
> [@](#): > > "I told him, ‘Sir, I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t shove me anymore.’ He called me ‘low class.’ " Nicholson said. Yes, Bill. You reek of class. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/42 "2008-01-07T17:09:45Z")
[QUOTE=hotflungwok] 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. [/QUOTE] I think it was more of an attempt to rile Obama staffers. O’Reilly had his “low class” quote all ready to whip out and whip it out he did. Only the staffers didn’t rise to the bait. And did he actually shout “No one blocks a shot for The O’Reilly Factor!”? Who does he think he is, Patrick Swazye? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/43 "2008-01-07T17:19:37Z")
[QUOTE=DoctorJ] As long as they’re quick about bringing his motherfucking iced tea, anyway. [/QUOTE] Don’t you mean iced tea and lemonade? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/44 "2008-01-07T17:31:08Z")
The Secret Service guys are pretty subtle. There were probably two or three with fingers on triggers at the first sign of a dustup. O’Reilly, of course, had no idea how close he came to his dream of dying on camera. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/45 "2008-01-07T17:43:06Z")
In the first part of the video, you can see a very nervous man next to Barack Obama. His eyes are scanning the crowd, and his hand keeps starting to reach inside his suit coat. What do you suppose he does for a living? ---
**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 7, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/46 "2008-01-07T17:51:28Z")
I have a feeling that O’Reilly had actually tried to move on Barack himslf that he (O’Reilly) would have been tazed or shot before he got within 5 feet. ---
**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, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/47 "2008-01-07T18:31:19Z")
::imagining Dildo, er Billo, screaming, “Don’t tase me, bro! Or M-F’er! Whatever it is you people call each other!!” ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/48 "2008-01-07T18:32:55Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] The Secret Service guys are pretty subtle. There were probably two or three with fingers on triggers at the first sign of a dustup. O’Reilly, of course, had no idea how close he came to his dream of dying on camera. [/QUOTE] BillO and I have the same dreams? I thought I’d find it disturbing, but it’s actually oddly comforting. -Joe ---
**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 7, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/49 "2008-01-07T18:33:41Z")
I wish the writer’s strike would hurry up and end because this incident has SNL written all over it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/50 "2008-01-07T19:28:45Z")
[QUOTE=Don’t fight the hypothetical] Don’t you mean iced tea and lemonade? [/QUOTE] Mmmm, a Tiger Woods. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/51 "2008-01-07T19:46:14Z")
[QUOTE=Merijeek] BillO and I have the same dreams? I thought I’d find it disturbing, but it’s actually oddly comforting. -Joe [/QUOTE] Oh, we ALL dream of Bill O’Reilly being shot on camera. Or off camera. (D’oh, was that out loud?) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/52 "2008-01-07T20:30:18Z")
[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] Behind Bill O’Reilly’s receding hairline there is no scalp. There is only another asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/53 "2008-01-07T21:35:43Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Oh, we ALL dream of Bill O’Reilly being shot on camera. Or off camera. [/QUOTE] No. No, we don’t all dream of Bill O’Reilly being shot, on or off camera. Face chewed off by badgers, now… ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/54 "2008-01-08T18:35:54Z")
O’ Reilly should just as well should paint a bull’s eye target on his splotchy face. When I was in college, a friend of mine went to DC over the summer to explore the city and the surrounding areas (history major). Reagan had just spoken at some downtown function and was just beginning to come out of the building to his limo (and no, this was not the assassination attempt). My friend who was naïve about the real world wanted to get a much closer glimpse of the president. So he started running towards the limousines. Wanna guess what happened? All the Secret Service agents turned and looked at him behind those shades. He told me that he literally froze in cold sweated terror—wondering if he was going to be shot. After a long 5 seconds, all of the agents except for one turned away. He walked more slowly with a body language that suggested that he wasn’t meaning any trouble, sir… As some of you maybe aware the United States Secret Service has a counter sniper squad. This I’ve known and seen when the president’s futzing around outside in the DC area. An acquaintance of mine who worked in the White House during the Reagan administration told me of being present during one close call. He was in the secret service command post, bantering who knows what when a sniper called out that there was a kid running around the roof of a building (it was some city on the east coast—I don’t remember which). The roof was right by a the route of a presidential motorcade that was rapidly coming down the street. The snipers and the command post were in the middle of trying to decide which sniper would be given permission to fire once a clear shot was lined up. In the meanwhile, the USSS was trying get a unit to the roof of said building to apprehend the suspect. It was literally at the last second, before the motorcade came in view of the building, that one USSS sniper called out an abort recognizing the gun was only a toy. The kid was about 12 years old. The most chilling part about the story is the code phrase he told me they used to issue the whack the target: “Pink Mist”. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/55 "2008-01-08T18:50:43Z")
O’Reilly showed the footage from his camera on his show last night. It looked like the guy was trying to block their shot. He had a smirk on his face the whole time. ---
**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 8, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/56 "2008-01-08T18:58:19Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] O’Reilly showed the footage from his camera on his show last night. It looked like the guy was trying to block their shot. He had a smirk on his face the whole time. [/QUOTE] So what? ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/57 "2008-01-08T19:08:00Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] So what? [/QUOTE] Nobody blocks an O’Reilly shot! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/58 "2008-01-08T23:06:15Z")
Not even Shaq? ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/59 "2008-01-08T23:48:08Z")
My favorite part of this tape is how rough, tough O’ Reilly turns into Joan Rivers when he’s within touching distance of Obama. SENATOR! ::menace:: SENATOR! ::grumble:: Tthat’s low class! Son of a Bitch! Grrrrr! {Obama walks over} ::voice tenor ascends:: Senator! Big fan! How is your wife! I love you! Come on the Factor! ---
**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 8, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485/60 "2008-01-08T23:50:18Z")
Why does anyone even try to debate O’Reilly anymore, rather than just tell him to shut the fuck up? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-oreilly-crashes-barrier-assaults-staffer-at-obama-rally/432485.md?page=4)