{"id":5924,"date":"2011-12-08T19:58:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2011-12-08T19:58:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T03:58:04","slug":"bill-oreilly-gets-occupied-brandishes-a-lethal-umbrella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly Gets Occupied &#8211; Brandishes A Lethal Umbrella"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The senior eminence of Fox News, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, demonstrated yesterday just how tender his thin skin is. O&#8217;Reilly was surprised by a chance encounter with a <em>&#8220;fan&#8221;<\/em> who wondered whether he was attending a fundraiser for Newt Gingrich (he wasn&#8217;t). But the encounter got a little out of hand when O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s inner bully emerged.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8cwjZ2v8cMU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about this episode wherein O&#8217;Reilly physically assaults someone who did nothing more than ask him a question, is that this is a tactic that O&#8217;Reilly has championed for years. It was O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s own producer, Stuttering Jesse Watters, who was so often dispatched by O&#8217;Reilly to ambush unsuspecting folks in an attempt to embarrass or harass them. When criticized for this cheesy debasement of journalism, O&#8217;Reilly steadfastly defends it as rooted in the proud historic tradition of Mike Wallace and 60 Minutes (it&#8217;s not).<\/p>\n<p>However, subjected to the same sort of reporting that he favors, O&#8217;Reilly proves that he can dish it out but he can&#8217;t take it without lashing out and whining to a nearby law enforcement officer. And as the video shows, the only person who engaged in potentially unlawful violence was O&#8217;Reilly himself. He deployed his umbrella with such force that he broke it.<\/p>\n<p>On his Fox <em>&#8220;Spin Zone&#8221;<\/em> program tonight, O&#8217;Reilly sought to portray the curious citizen as a threat who was <em>&#8220;armed&#8221;<\/em> with a cell phone camera. O&#8217;Reilly said that the man was <em>&#8220;running at [him] in the dark, screaming.&#8221;<\/em> Of course the video tells an entirely different story. And for some reason O&#8217;Reilly didn&#8217;t bother to play the video. I wonder why.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly followed his self-serving defense with a discussion of the event with a former police detective. The two of them brazenly misrepresented the video that they refused to play. Clearly they didn&#8217;t want the audience to know what they were talking about. And, of course, his guest absolved O&#8217;Reilly of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>At one point O&#8217;Reilly conceded that he and his minions have used the same tactic to get interviews, but he lied by asserting that if a subject asked them to leave they would do so. Here&#8217;s some pretty conclusive evidence that that was not the case:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6FQ-V1Tj2As\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So what we&#8217;ve learned from this is that O&#8217;Reilly is a liar, a bully and, like most bullies, a coward. It&#8217;s too bad the fellow who suffered the wrath of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s umbrella doesn&#8217;t have his own TV show to set the record straight. However, if any of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s friends watched the video, they now know <a href=\"http:\/\/shar.es\/o87qH\" target=\"_blank\">what to get him for Christmas<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The senior eminence of Fox News, Bill O&#8217;Reilly, demonstrated yesterday just how tender his thin skin is. O&#8217;Reilly was surprised by a chance encounter with a &#8220;fan&#8221; who wondered whether he was attending a fundraiser for Newt Gingrich (he wasn&#8217;t). But the encounter got a little out of hand when O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s inner bully emerged. 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