VIDEO: Bill O'Reilly, Leaving Gingrich Fundraiser, Hits Community Organizer with Umbrella, Tries to Get Him Arrested

He is a hateful, ignorant, ugly man. Typical creationist and fox employee, more a disease then a person.

And he sells poison and bullish+t for a living.

Pretty much an all around repulsive human being if he is awake at all.

I hope someone's got video running when Bill-O tries his bully crap on someone who's able to sink to his level...and a bit lower.

He's either gonna need hot sauce to add flavor to that umbrella...or some kind of lube to help get out from where the sun don't shine.

Not only assault, but filing a false report to the police is also illegal.

Or club this guy with my umbrella.

Looked more like a stabbing/poking motion to me. I'm sure if the umbrella had been closed he would've opted for clubbing though.

I cannot believe the hatred spewing from this vine. First of all he was NOT at a Newt fundraiser, this happend just a few feet away from the gates of the White House and Bill and this lady were on the way to the White House Media Party. How did someone report or claim he was at a Newt fundraiser?

Also the man running the camera was stopped and questioned by Secret Service, then the discussion with D.C. police about pressing charges.

If this happened the way the video was edited, dont you think they guy would have pressed charges with the police and had Bill arrested for assault?

Now O'Reilly and the report state that the man came running towards them yelling questions. I think I would have swung more than an umbrella if someone was running at me yelling questions out of the dark. Obviously it was aggressive enough for Secret Service to stop the guy and question him and turn it over to D.C. Police.

Also Bill is NOT journalist, he is a commentator. There is a difference as he is not reporting news but discussing news and discussing views with an obvious conservative, right leaning vew.

And before the personal attacks begin against me.......I read, watch, and listen to ALL sides before jumping to a conclusion. I am all for debating an issue, and I welcome open discussion. However I no longer respond to personal attacks or insults in these discussion boards any longer.

Oh, no! Questions! Better jab the guy with my umbrella!

I cannot believe the hatred spewing from this vine. First of all he was NOT at a Newt fundraiser, this happend just a few feet away from the gates of the White House and Bill and this lady were on the way to the White House Media Party. How did someone report or claim he was at a Newt fundraiser?

Forgive me if I don't have much sympathy for someone who breaks their hand on anothers face.

How did someone report or claim he was at a Newt fundraiser?

They didn't. The man with the camera simply asked if that was the case, and got an umbrella to the face for the trouble. What was reported later was that O'Reilly was not at the fundraiser.

Also the man running the camera was stopped and questioned by Secret Service, then the discussion with D.C. police about pressing charges

I'm sure O'Reilly gets as many death threats as anybody else. Enough to warrant a few bodyguards, anyhow.

If this happened the way the video was edited, don't you think they guy would have pressed charges with the police and had Bill arrested for assault?

It's possible he wanted to and was offered an out-of-court settlement to end it there. It is also possible that this man, realizing he suffered no serious injury, decided it wasn't worth the legal battle against a man who can easily afford the finest lawyers in the country.

Now O'Reilly and the report state that the man came running towards them yelling questions. I think I would have swung more than an umbrella if someone was running at me yelling questions out of the dark. Obviously it was aggressive enough for Secret Service to stop the guy and question him and turn it over to D.C. Police.

What Fred said. #4.3

Also Bill is NOT journalist, he is a commentator. There is a difference as he is not reporting news but discussing news and discussing views with an obvious conservative, right leaning vew.

Agreed.

And before the personal attacks begin against me.......I read, watch, and listen to ALL sides before jumping to a conclusion. I am all for debating an issue, and I welcome open discussion. However I no longer respond to personal attacks or insults in these discussion boards any longer.

I promise you that you won't see any such attacks from me.

I cannot believe the hatred spewing from this vine.

Fair recompense for the unending hatred spewing from o'liar for years. You reap what you sow.

First of all he was NOT at a Newt fundraiser, this happend just a few feet away from the gates of the White House and Bill and this lady were on the way to the White House Media Party.

There is no lady shown in the video with him...does she have to walk 10 paces behind or just stay out of frame because he doesn't want anyone to know he's with her? Also...this was filmed outside of the hotel where the gringrich fundraiser was being held, not the White House....seriously...do you think anyone would ask if he just attended a GOP fundraiser at the White House???? And what "White House media party" are you referring to? The only one I know of...the correspondants dinner, was held in the spring.

How did someone report or claim he was at a Newt fundraiser?

He was asked if he was at the fundraiser...since he had just walked out of the hotel where it was being held.

Also the man running the camera was stopped and questioned by Secret Service, then the discussion with D.C. police about pressing charges.

Why would the secret service have anything to do with o'liar? He's not a political figure...he's just a paid windbag. Are you making up this misinformation, or just repeating the things you were told? Is this what o'liar is now saying? That he has secret service protection?

If this happened the way the video was edited, dont you think they guy would have pressed charges with the police and had Bill arrested for assault?

Maybe...maybe not. Too many factors to know what he'll do....not the least of which is being lied about on fox for the next few days/weeks.

Now O'Reilly and the report state that the man came running towards them yelling questions.

As we can see on the video...the man is walking alongside him and asking one question repeatedly. Even if he "ran up" he clearly didn't assault or harm him...he just asked a question. We don't get to hit people for asking questions.

I think I would have swung more than an umbrella if someone was running at me yelling questions out of the dark.

Oh...so now you are saying that o'liar was askeered of him? Please. Don't you get embarassed by your own blatant twisting of the truth? Not even a little?

Obviously it was aggressive enough for Secret Service to stop the guy and question him and turn it over to D.C. Police.

Again....the secret service doesn't protect o'liar. He wishes.

Also Bill is NOT journalist, he is a commentator. There is a difference as he is not reporting news but discussing news and discussing views with an obvious conservative, right leaning vew.

True. The only thing he offers the public...is his admittedly biased and partisan rhetoric.

And before the personal attacks begin against me.......I read, watch, and listen to ALL sides before jumping to a conclusion.

Yet...you still jump to the wrong one. Despite all evidence to the contrary. Weird.

I am all for debating an issue, and I welcome open discussion. However I no longer respond to personal attacks or insults in these discussion boards any longer.

Well that makes it so much easier to say any ridiculous thing you want....just another drive-by poster...spew garbage and refuse to listen or respond to any feedback. Not quite sure how that qualifies as "debating"...but if you can't tell the difference between someone saying your information/conclusion is wrong and a personal attack...then I guess it doesn't matter.

Revolver I appreciate your response and no attacks.

And I suppose I was thinking of it from those threats that he would be a little gun shy with someone running up in the dark. I think I would have been a little frightened for sure. One person (left or right) reacting violently is too many.

But from the other perspective you are right, if no harm he probably would not have the same power attorneys as Bill. However with this video and witnesses I am sure someone would be ready to represent him.

I will choose not to dignify the other posts with a response.

I will choose not to dignify the other posts with a response.

No lady with him, no secret service, not at the White House, no White House media party, video plainly shows him walking alongside and asking a question, not threatening him in any way or giving him any cause for alarm...also shows o'liar being pissy, not scared...pretty much everything you had to say is....um....questionable.

I can see why you wouldn't want to repond to that...I wouldn't either.

O'Reilly relentlessly demonized Dr. George Tiller for several weeks, or possibly months before his death at the hands of terrorist Scott Roeder.

He's lower than pond scum in my opinion. Blood is running in thick freshets from his hands. Bill speaks, and people get killed. It's no surprise that he smacks people around with umbrellas. It's only surprising that he doesn't just blast them out of his way with a shotgun.

. Blood is running in thick freshets from his hands.

Wow. That's the most poetically descriptive insult I've ever seen here on Newsvine. I tip my hat to you!

lol bonos_rama

ThisBusyMonster: Actually, it was at LEAST a year that BillO tried to get Tiller killed.

You have to actually go to the seeded news article to see the video.

I just watched it. It is cut-and-dried. O'Loser assaulted the cameraman.

I suspect there is no video with the story because the video does not support the story. The video does not show the questioner being touched by the umbrella. Go look at it for yourself.

The video does not show the questioner being touched by the umbrella

Yes, it does. There was nowhere else for the umbrella to go. It filled the frame of the camera. When it was pulled away from the camera it was broken. The only object it could have struck was the cameraman.

Are you people being intentionally obtuse about this? If the cameraman takes Billo to court I assure you the jury won't be confused.

I really think that simple assult charges could be filed. Not that that would be anything but a laughing matter to BillO. When you raise yourself to the level that he has, you just kind of watch everything swirl below you. If the tables were turned, it would be breaking news on FOX.

I suspect there is no video with the story because the video does not support the story. The video does not show the questioner being touched by the umbrella. Go look at it for yourself.

I just re-read this and I wanted to comment on how pretzeled-up you had to make your statement to complete it with all of your required conclusions in place. First statement:

"I suspect there is no video."

Just a few words later, "the video does not support the story." So, when you started typing that sentence you suspected there was no video. By the time you got to the end of the video you apparently had knowledge of the video that you were denying the existence of just a few words before, and were concluding that the video did not support the story.

Second sentence comes along, and now you have very specific (and dead wrong) knowledge of the video when you claim it does not show the umbrella touching the cameraman. When the umbrella filled the frame of the camera, it was impossible to be that close to the camera without poking the tip of it right into the person holding the camera. Again, only a complete thunderstruck gob-stopped drooling retard would not understand how obvious and unavoidable that conclusion was. When pulled away, the umbrella was broken from the pressure of being shoved into the cameraman. Again, unavoidable conclusion.

Now again I just have to pause here and recall that you started this turd of a comment with the statement that there was no video. Which by sentence #2 you were debunking with a flat-out lie that only a complete moron would believe.

You end your statement with a demand that we go look for ourselves, at the video you previously denied the existence of, and then lied about.

I guess my question is more of a meta-question. Do you ever @!$%#ing bother to read what you just wrote? Does it ever bother you that even a four-year-old could spot the glaring inconsistencies in your position?

Does it ever occur to you that hopping around like that attacking the story from every angle possible means that your lies and obfuscations end up contradicting each other? And that at the very least you should try to avoid combining two conflicting bull@!$%# statements into one sentence? I mean, could you try to be less obvious?

Thisbusymonster ---- You're funny monster. The video was not attached to the article. You have to go elsewhere and search for it to compare it to the content of the article describing it. Sorry that wasn't clear to you. By the way , despite your valiant attempt to conclude the video shows the umbrella touching the interlocutor, it does not. You can infer it does but it's not shown on the video. The video does not even show at any time the interlocutor. By the way, why the tone and need for profanity? Can't we just reason and discuss without all that hate? Peace

gary, when you click on the green "Read Article" button it takes you to the following:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/video-bill-oreilly-leaving-gingrich-fundraiser-hits-community-organizer-umbrella-tries-get-h

Where you can view the video. Sorry if you couldn't see that. If the umbrella doesn't touch the guy why would Newt apologize in a sarcastic tone like that?

Maggie --- I'm not aware of any Newt apology and have no idea why he would issue one.

gary, my bad...Billo's apology.

Murdoch would just go hire another right wing sicko to take his place.

I pretty much solve problem children here by the big o'le ignore button. Page admins should have more control over blocking though. I wish it was more like facebook where you block a person, they simply cease to exist.

Not knowing Bill is at that stage or not, but it would be nice to have a step up from ignore as total ignore. No posts no comments, nada.

Just wishful thinking out loud.

Well, I actually hope not. Billo belongs as a topic in journalism class in the same way that Klutzy the Clown belongs in a dance class.

In other words, not at all.

School curriculum:

How to Avoid Umbrellas 101

Susan, uh, stay inside all the time?

I thought these Fox news personalities were not suppose to openly support a candidate?

If O'Reilly was not there on official business, he may have some 'splaining to do.

Creepity old Creep.

krounded,

er um, not suppsed to support a candidate? really?

Hannity often campaigns for candidates, along with other transgressions.

Fox should be required to change the name of the network from Fox News to Fox Propaganda, but that might actually increase their ratings.

O'Reilly is a political commentator , just like Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews. They offer their opinion on various issues. They are not hard news reporters who are precluded from taking a side on the matters they report.

I thought these Fox news personalities were not suppose to openly support a candidate?

1986 called. They want their Fairness Doctrine back.

Seriously. Fox News has never been shy about openly backing Republicans and openly attacking Democrats.

O'Reilly is a political commentator , just like Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow is a real journalist. O'Reilly is a mouthpiece. There is a universe of difference.

thisbusymonster ---Who does he support? And, how shy has MSNBC been about openly backing Democrats?

Sponge Bob has a higher rating than BillO could ever dream of. So what's your point? Or do you have one? IMO, Sponge Bob is likely closer to the actual facts than BillO ever is.

And that may be the case on CABLE, but certainly not on network. By the way, he's NOT A NEWSMAN. He's a COMMENTATOR! Newsmen REPORT the news, they don't give their opinions. And they certainly don't give their opinions disguised as fact, especially when those "facts" are completely inaccurate.

By the way, his ratings are dropping like a stone and have been for a while.

I know, I know, all. DNFTT. Sometimes I just can't resist....

What a lucky fellow. I always wanted to be assaulted by a multi-millionaire.

I'd risk a serious ass beating so humiliating and so massive in scale that it rocked my very core -- altering who I was as a human being -- to take just one swing at that swine.

@brim

If you ever watched Fox news and the factor, what you saw was the same thing Fox news does to other people. What any news media outlet should do, interview and confront people to get answers. They didnt do anything wrong in that video clip to prompt that reaction from OReilly.

Advice to the right... when you don't control a dog and it bites someone there are consequences and it may be put down.

Andrew,

Are you crying or do you like getting poked with an umbrella when you get in the way?

Advice to the right... when you don't control a dog and it bites someone there are consequences and it may be put down.

that's funny...Dominating cable news show personality is gonna get "put down". I would put money on a lightning strike before that happens...

Advise to the left, when you antagonize a growling dog

So asking a news personality a question on camera is "antagonizing" him?

I mean, talking to cameras is O'Reilly's job. He is expected to behave like a professional. Not an animal.

And also, is it OK that I just assume all conservatives are growling dogs? I'm down with that, because the right-wing has of late been acting like a pack of howling animals anyway. I just want to be sure we're clear on that so that when I call you folks a bunch of animals it's because you've self-identified as such.

This begs the question...how did o'liar know the questioner's politics? Or is the strategy to attack everyone and trust that anyone on the right will be grateful for any attention from their font of all propaganda and not press charges?

But let's keep this attitude in mind for the future....the one where the right sees themselves as growling dogs entitled to bite anyone they want. The next time someone from the left does something stupid (and they will...people are people) and the right has their panties in a twist about it...it will be useful to remind them that they feel this sort of behavior is not only acceptable, but expected and somehow commendable.

Let us not over look his false statement to the police. If it were you or I we would be in a bit of a pickle. Assault and lying, not good.

This is just silly. There will be no assault charges filed by any district attorney on either side of this tempest in a teapot. Please realize those in the judicial system will not allow it to be clogged by such a de minimus matter as this. There are truly significant legal issues that have first call in our great system of justice.

gary now your just being funny.... you actually believe the legal system only handles high minded matters?

steven --- It would be a waste of judicial resources to handle something as ephemeral and trivial as this non-event. Watch and see if I'm not right and this is not pursued by the authorities. If they do it will only be because of the notoriety of the parties. If these were two average Joes nothing would ever come of it.

Please realize those in the judicial system will not allow it to be clogged by such a de minimus matter as this. There are truly significant legal issues that have first call in our great system of justice.

I agree this will go no where. I am enjoying oreilly looking like a petty fool. That is reward enough.

I am merely questioning your odd idea that our judicial system not clogged by crap.

gary.. why shouldn't it matter that don't matter. It might matter to the guy that got hit. Americans are known for calling cops and suing people. Also what about Bill-O crying to the cop. See to me that it even worst. Bill-O hit the guy and then runs to the 1st cop he sees and cries while the one hit didn't even seek a cop. Bill-O is a freaking coward. and a hypocrite. He sends his hit piece out to do ambush interviews all of the time and brags about it. Has anyone attacked his hit piece like Bill-O did.

While O'Reilly probably didn't file an official report, there are penalties for filing a false police report.

The real reason O'Reilly made that claim to the police officer was because he knew that his actions had been caught on tape.

He was just trying to cover his ass in a preemptive strike.

Did you notice the inflection in O'Reilly's voice when he said "Sorry about that"? That was pure sarcasm! Not an apology!!

I can't stand Bill O, he was accused and settled for sexual harassment, he is an idiot.

Don't turn on his freakin show boycott it and occupy his office. Press charges and get rid of this piece of dog doo doo.

good luck with that...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/cable-news-ratings-top-25-primetime-programs-october_n_1074052.html#s451523&title=1_The_OReilly

October's cable news ratings are out, and Fox News reigned again. The perennial first place network claimed the top eight primetime shows last month.

I can't stand Bill O, he was accused and settled for sexual harassment, he is an idiot.

Then I guess the young reported should consider himself lucky he was poked by an umbrella only.

@!$%# i just sprayed wine all over my keyboard. To funny!

Cheers! :)

Indeed, that was hilarious.

Their time in the sun is coming to an end. They smell the changes coming, and they are terrified that accountability is at hand.

Billo in particular has some things to answer for. And in a post-corporatist world, people like Billo are useless. Without a teleprompter and staff to give him things to read, Billo is an unimportant idiot. While his ego is too big for him to admit this openly to himself, he nonetheless has to be aware that he's a very tiny turd in a very large bowl, and that without the protection and support of the 1%, nobody needs Billo for anything.

That's why he's behaving like an animal. He's frightened.

Responding to a simple question with violence and then illegally trying to press false charges on a fellow citizen by lying about the events.....yes...let's minimize that and make it sound silly and frivolous.

After all, he would have gotten away with it and been on tv whining about how he was attacked by an organizer....and the organizer would be in jail on false charges facing an army of lawyers with deep pockets and a possibly ruined life...if only there wasn't that pesky video showing the inconvenient truth.

The really amazing thing...is he must have known he was being taped...he put the umbrella down to block it....and he STILL thought he was god-like enough to tell any outrageous lie he wanted and have the police act like his personal lap dogs. What a monumental turd.

I wonder if he was bullied in school. This could explain his run for help from the evil reporter problem. Flash backs of swirls and wedges.

I heard the "oh, I'm sorry" too. It sounded VERY sarcastic. Plus, O'Reilly won't answer or address the question before the assault but takes the time to say "sorry". I'm not buying it.

The most telling part is where o'reilly tries to get the other guy arrested for assaulting HIM.

Face it...you can try and "spin" the umbrella any way you want...even though it's nearness to the camera and the cameraman's cry of surprise and pain might make that obvious enough...but you can't overlook the scumbag trying to lay false charges of assault on someone just for trying to ask a question.

but I watched the video and it looked to me that wind could have played a part

Seriously? This is the shine you're trying to put on this turd?

It's not taking. It is very obvious that Billo deliberately jammed that umbrella into the cameraman. The point of it probably hit him in the chest somewhere.

That goofy talking point just doesn't fit in here.

Right, anyone who doesn't follow the mindless, endless drone of conservative bashing has no place here..got it. Got it a long time ago. That's why I laugh. You call him a community organizer. Community organizer is code for unemployed communist thug. You don't talk to them, you just push them aside and go about your business.

dnftt

Was he a community organizer or just a street bum looking for a handout, they are very hard to tell apart.

You call him a community organizer. Community organizer is code for unemployed communist thug

Excuse me, young man. That is MISTER President to you. Show some respect or it is back to the kids' table for you.

Do you have a point?

O'Reilly has it on the end of his umbrella.

Monster, how about you read even the title of the post before you comment. The community organizer in question here isn't the POTUS it is the loser O'Reily tapped with his umbrella and got all you libs into an uproar.

Theophile.. wow. The only one upset was O'reilly who ran to the 1st cop he saw to lie on this man. Now O'Reilly has said on his show that there should be laws for people coming up to people. Guess what too, O'Reilly sends out his people to do ambush interviews all of the time. O'Reilly is a big time coward and hypocrite who thinks that a law should be made just for him.

dnftt