A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT

January 5, 2008

On Friday in New Hampshire, Bill O'Reilly crossed into a Secret Service security zone around Obama, without permission, and got into a scuffling match with an Obama senior staffer.

O'Reilly later imperiously justified his breach of security by declaring, [1] "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, according to the Associated Press.

The Associated Press noted [2] that the Obama aide, Marvin Nicholson, "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."

It was left to the Secret Service to usher O'Reilly to the outside of the security zone.

According to the AP, earlier O'Reilly was last seen trying to coax an audience member into asking Hillary a question about Iraq.  It's what you call a set-up.

It's like O'Reilly is now openly working for the RNC dirty tricks division.  He has lost all pretense of even appearing to be a respectable journalist.

Obama's aide commented, "I've never seen a member of the press lay hands on a staffer before."

Well, Bill "Loofah" O'Reilly is a hands on kind of guy, we guess, if you approve of roughing people up and phone sex (but that's another story).

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