This is just breaking now. Bill O'Reilly shoved an Obama staffer and then called him low class. Lots of press were there to see it.
Slate's John Dickerson gives his first hand account.
http://www.slate.com/...
Bill O'Reilly proves yet again what a first-class ass he is.
The story is O'Reilly goes out of the press area and gets right up to the protective barriers where the candidates are going to exit the building after a press stop.
O'Reilly's got his whole camera crew and few other folks in his entourage. A few policeofficers are there and deliberately stand by the barrier by the door. O'Reilly starts yelling that they are blocking his shot. So Mr. Law and Order O'Reilly is deliberately in an area he is not suppossed to be and he starts yelling at the police when they try so low-confrotational tactics to remind him of this. The cop moves and then an Obama staffer takes his place. So O'Reilly goes ballistic.
UPDATE
from the AP story, (Slate is so far the only eye witness account, I've seen so far):
Obama staffer Marvin Nicholson, a personal aide always at Obama's side during rope line handshakes, 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.
O'Reilly, interviewed afterward by phone on Fox News, said he tried "to gently remove" Nicholson because he was standing in front of Fox's camera.
"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.
The scene was hard to miss. O'Reilly is about 6-feet-5-inches tall. Nicholson is 6-feet-8-inches tall.
"I told him, 'Sir, I would appreciate it if you wouldn't shove me anymore.' He called me 'low class.' He was pretty upset," Nicholson said.