Bill O'Reilly: I Shoved And Cursed Out Obama Staffer To "Uphold The Constitution"
January 8, 2008 -- 10:05 AM EST // //
Bill O'Reilly is offering a rather high-flown explanation for the incident in which he shoved the Obama staffer in order to get access to the Illinois Senator during a rally in New Hampshire: He did it in the name of freedom.
O'Reilly addressed the incident himself on his show last night, and aired footage of it in the apparent belief that it exonerates him:
"I had no choice, ladies and gentlemen, but to uphold the Constitution," O'Reilly says, adding that his zeal to defend the "freedom of the press" explains why he went on to shove the Obama staffer, shout at him repeatedly, and call him a "son of a bitch."
For these heroics I hearby nominate O'Reilly for an International Freedom of the Press Award, in hopes that his name will be enshrined next to past winners like Christine Anyanwu, who was imprisoned for years for writing inadmissible commentary about the 1993 annulment of Nigeria's democratic presidential election, and Daniel Pearl, who was gruesomely beheaded in Pakistan while investigating the case of the shoe bomber. Congratulations on your nomination, Bill! You deserve it.
Update: John Amato, who had this first, has a fun take on the whole affair.
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