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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (14635)	1/7/2008 4:45:17 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 25737

Yep. Time reveals all. (And I'm thinking that some Moose pasture in Canada fronting on the Arctic Ocean... could become a great long-term investment. :-)

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (14635)	1/7/2008 4:55:06 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

O’Reilly Involved in Shoving Match at Obama Event <Calls someone a "Son of a Bitch" and shoves them, at a campaign event, and the Secret Service intervenes....> By Jeff Zeleny UPDATED January 5, 2008, 3:08 pm thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com A Secret Service agent, center, intervened after Bill O’Reilly, of Fox News, shoved Marvin Nicholson, the national trip director for the Obama campaign. (Photo: Jim Bourg/Reuters) NASHUA, N.H. – After a rally for Senator Barack Obama here today, a brief tussle ensued between Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and a campaign aide for Mr. Obama, which created enough of a stir for the Secret Service to get involved. Mr. O’Reilly, who had attended a campaign event earlier for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, sought to get Mr. Obama’s attention along a rope line. With cameras rolling, Mr. O’Reilly was trying to shout a question to Mr. Obama. But according to a photographer who witnessed the scene, Mr. O’Reilly grew agitated when he couldn’t get close to the senator. Barack Obama spoke to Mr. O’Reilly after the tussle. (Photo: Jim Bourg/Reuters) “Move,” he shouted to Marvin Nicholson, the national trip director for the Obama campaign, according to witnesses. Photographs of the incident show that Secret Service agents intervened after Mr. O’Reilly pushed Mr. Nicholson. The Obama campaign, which like most of its rivals, is typically a fairly buttoned-up operation when it comes to aides speaking to reporters. But the campaign seemed eager to discuss this incident, sending Mr. Nicholson to the press area of the gymnasium here. Soon, he was surrounded by cameras and reporters. Mr. Nicholson, who served as Senator John Kerry’s body man four years ago and previously worked as a bartender and golf caddy, smiled as he answered questions from reporters, including one from the Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun Times. She asked him how tall he was. “6-foot-8,” Mr. Nicholson replied. Updated \| 7:10 p.m. Ron Mitchell, a producer for Mr. O’Reilly at Fox News Channel, offered this response by e-mail: “Mr. O’Reilly was not in the front of the rope line. When Mr. Nicholson was asked to move away from the camera’s position, he declined. When the camera changed position, Mr. Nicholson moved to stand in front of it again.'’ “We would very much appreciate it if you could add those facts to your story,” Mr. Mitchell said. Blog comments: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (14635)	1/7/2008 8:05:50 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

O'Reilly Tangles With Obama Staffer January 05, 2008 3:29 PM blogs.abcnews.com ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: When candidates are working the rope lines after their events, it’s common practice to see reporters yelling questions at them as they are greeting voters. But, after Sen. Barack Obama’s event in Nashua it was a reporter, FOX’s Bill O’Reilly, who got in a tete-a-tete with Obama’s National Trip Director, Marvin Nicholson. O’Reilly was trying to get access to Obama, who was unknowingly just working the rope line about ten feet in front of them. Nicholson, standing 6 foot, 8 inches in height and a veteran of Senator John Kerry's, D-Mass., 2004 campaign, was standing next to Obama, as his job calls for, and thus blocking O’Reilly’s cameraman from a clean shot of Obama. So O’Reilly took things into his own hands…literally. He maneuvered around the steel gate barricade, yelled expletives at Nicholson, and called him "low class." In an interview after the incident, Nicholson said, "He grabbed me with both arms and tried to push me out of the way." Secret Service then stepped in and told O’Reilly to get back. After the commotion, Obama shook hands with O’Reilly. Nicholson, however, said he’d never seen anything like it. "I've never seen a member of the press lay hands on a staffer before." January 5, 2008 \| Permalink \| User Comments (145)