O’Reilly Producer Refuses To Comment After ‘Stalking’ TV Critic Who Refused To Comment
O’Reilly Producer Refuses To Comment After ‘Stalking’ TV Critic Who Refused To Comment
After viewing Bill O’Reilly’s now-infamous meltdown with Geraldo Rivera, Denver Post TV critic Joanne Ostrow wrote an April 7 column describing O’Reilly’s outbursts as “a new low in what passes for modern political discourse.” She added that O’Reilly had “spewed racist bile.”
O’Reilly responded on the April 9 edition of The O’Reilly Factor, calling Ostrow “dishonest — flat-out dishonest — and a far-left ideologue.” O’Reilly didn’t stop there. After Ostrow declined to appear on The Factor, O’Reilly sent his producer, Porter Berry, to Denver, where he snuck up on Ostrow in a supermarket parking lot and interrogated her on camera. (Colorado Media Matters has video of the exchange.)
During the exchange, Ostrow asks Berry why he is “stalking” her “in a parking lot” to get the footage. Berry denied the claim, saying “I’m not stalking you. We called you and invited you to come on the program, so — because we want to get an explanation.”
When contacted by the Denver alternative weekly Westword, Berry refused to comment on his ambush tactics:
What does Berry say to Ostrow’s assertions? Zip — and his silence comes with a serving of irony. When reached on April 16, he claimed he couldn’t speak without permission from Fox News’s media-relations branch. “I’ll do anything they tell me,” he maintained. Requests to interview both Berry and O’Reilly were then submitted to a Fox spokeswoman, who phoned back to say, “We’re going to take a pass.” Was it hypocritical for the two men to criticize Ostrow for not standing up for her actions when they rebuffed inquiries about theirs? The spokeswoman didn’t retort on the record — but she did request that her name not be printed. (No problem, ma’am. Happy to preserve your deniability.)
The next day, Berry agreed to personally ask the spokeswoman for permission to speak. He apparently got nowhere, and an e-mail to O’Reilly went unanswered.
So, O’Reilly and his staff “criticize Ostrow for not standing up for her actions,” but then when asked to justify their own actions, they balk and hide behind Fox News’ corporate policy.
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Bill O couldn’t put up, so I guess it’s time for him to SHUT UP.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:34 pmThat’s our Billo. No Hair and Unbalanced.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:38 pmWhat would I have to do to be interviewed by O’Rielly’s guerilla journalists?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:45 pmCall him a nasty name?
Wonder what I could do to get interviewed by O’Reilly’s guerilla journalists?
April 19th, 2007 at 5:47 pmCall him a nasty name?
Heck, I’ll even meet them at Wild Oats, they wouldn’t have to stalk me………
First comes the stalking, then comes the harrasing phone calls with dildo in hand.
Oh, Bill-O.
-GSD
April 19th, 2007 at 5:47 pmOOPs, I goofefd up
April 19th, 2007 at 5:47 pmTotal hypocrite–what a coward!
April 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pmIOKIYAR.
Oh, I forgot — Bildo’s an “Independent”.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:48 pmwell there’s a shocker. Hypocrisy is what these people eat for breakfast
April 19th, 2007 at 5:49 pmIsn’t it about time someone waits for billo at home and pulls the same stunt, day after day! Fly me to New York I don’t have but nothing but time on my hands,I’ll wait that sissyfied,chickenhawk out! I believe my background as a Marine (Nam ‘67-’68) would be fully qualified, to wait that horses ass out! I know how to use my mouth and a video cam at the same time,I”ll become his shadow,without stalking him,just using his way to get a interview! Send Porter Berry out I’ll interview him also,in a polite way!
April 19th, 2007 at 5:54 pmOstrow did a really good job for being ambushed in a parking lot. Bet O’Tooly’s sorry he went down that road unless he’s too dumb to see how she dissed him.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:55 pmOf course they have a double standard. What’s new?
I’m surprised the lady didn’t call the police on her cell phone about being stalked and harassed in the parking lot.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:56 pmMaybe TP could send out a cameraman to stalk D’ Neilly. I’m going to bet that chickensh!t calls the police in a heartbeat. He is such a p*ssy.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:59 pmStop the Lies.
Ok so a guy refuses to comment on how he forced someone else to make a comment on something they refused to comment on.
Get a life FOX.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:00 pmDild O’Reilly is a very small man.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:01 pm‘Nuff said!
Bill, I hope you and all the pukes at faux news are the Imus’s to get let go.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:01 pmSee ya
I can’t believe that a spokeswoman (acting in her official capacity, not as a whistleblower or whatever) is be granted anonymity. That’s pretty pathetic reporting if you ask me.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:03 pm“It’s ok for us to decline an interview but not someone else. That’s fair and balanced.” - Faux News
April 19th, 2007 at 6:05 pmUh, when you call someone and they turn you down, then you follow them around and harass them, that’s stalking, bud.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pmWhat I want to know is how they found Ostrow. Did Billy hire a private investigator to track her down? Or was it the famous “Fox Security” that found her? Pretty sleazy.
And by the way, I notice Billy still hasn’t had David Brock from Media Matters on his show. I thought when people criticize Billy, they have to go on his show to face him. Brock has asked several times to go on Billy’s show to criticize him and Billy won’t put him on. What a punk O’Lielly is.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:10 pmWhy didn’t they just call Fox Security on her?
April 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pmSomebody should approach O’Reilly at a grocery store parking lot with a camera and a microphone just to see what happens. I would LOVE to watch that on YouTube.
April 19th, 2007 at 6:20 pmI can’t believe O’Tooly (thanks for that one, Shane!) would even show this clip on his show. His flunky looked like a flustered idiot who didn’t even have an argument to begin with.
Ostrow: 2. O’Reilly:0
April 19th, 2007 at 6:21 pmI thought Ostrow’s comment/comeback was pretty funny about Oreally being jealous of Imus… tht was laugh out loud funny!
April 19th, 2007 at 6:47 pmShe syhould have maced him!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 6:51 pmOops…meant should have maced him!
April 19th, 2007 at 6:52 pmIraqVet: “She should have maced him.”
Now, that would have been funny and it would have been the top YouTube video for weeks.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:04 pmKind of reminds me of why Michael Moore did to Heston in “Bowling for Columbine”
April 19th, 2007 at 7:05 pmThis is the first time that I have agreed with Bill O. Illegals need to be deported.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:06 pmBob, in what way is this comparable to what Moore did in Bowling for columbine? I don’t get the connection. Moore phoned Heston and asked him for a personal interview, which Heston granted. Moore did not stalk Heston and surprise him in a parking lot.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:12 pmHeston is my Prezident.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:15 pm“I’ll do anything they tell me,†he (Berry) maintained.
I’ll bet!
April 19th, 2007 at 7:30 pmLet’s see
Mr. Heston I would like to talk to you about the NRA and gun control.
Turned to
Isn’t the NRA responsible for what happened at Columbine?
He changed the entire premise of the interview. We all know Moore has made a living out of his “guerilla” style.
Ambush is ambush.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:32 pmIt’s a pretty tortured connection, Bob, since Heston knew Moore was coming and who he was and Ostrow was stalked and confronted by surprise in a parking lot, but I see your point. There was a bit of an ambush during the interview. But, keep in mind that it was because Heston took the initiative to go right into the Columbine community and ridicule the people there who thought there should be some kind of controls only days after the tragedy.
April 19th, 2007 at 7:46 pmComment by Bluedog49 — April 19, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
He went to an NRA event that was scheduled way in advance of the Columbine tragedy.
http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html
April 19th, 2007 at 8:01 pmWrong. Moore had an interview setup. When he started asking questions Heston didn’t like, Heston threw him out. Not even slightly the same.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:34 pmThe other difference with the Michael Moore situation is that Moore went himself. He didn’t send someone else to do the confrontation like that chump O’Lielly did.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:38 pmSpudge Boy at #36
Well said.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:42 pmWrong. Moore had an interview setup. When he started asking questions Heston didn’t like, Heston threw him out. Not even slightly the same.
Comment by Spudge_Boy — April 19, 2007 @ 8:34 pm
Heston is a filthy ape who couldn’t debate a paper bag unless he could turn its mic off!
April 20th, 2007 at 12:20 am#13
He would kick your ass easy.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:12 am#23
Ostrow is a wimp for not going on the Factor to apologize for saying O’Reilly spewed racist comments. I saw the exchange between O’Reilly and Rivera, and he did say anything racist. She is a LIAR. In case anyone here missed it…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPuGuaZTx8
If anyone tried to turn it into a debate about racism and play the BS race card, which it absolutely wasn’t, was Rivera.
Ostrow: -20. O’Reilly:0
April 20th, 2007 at 1:26 amThat means —– they’re hypocrits??!! No, can’t be.. Can it?
I’m shocked. SHOCKED!!!!
April 20th, 2007 at 5:06 amI fail to see how someone upset that aliens are invading our country is racism. How did this country get so off step that when someone speaks about criminals invading our country, we label them racist. You would think the politics would stop when we are discussing removing criminals that are costing our country tons of money and costing our poor their jobs. I guess only the repugs care about this stuff while the libs believe it is racist to keep criminals out of our country.
April 20th, 2007 at 9:22 amMatt, I realize now you are the rookie intern at TP - could you ask your sensitive mentors if they would actually assign you to real story to cover….
April 20th, 2007 at 2:38 pmRoger - Getting angry about ILLEGAL immigration is NOT racist - unless you’re a progressive. Remember when the Spaniards were busy invading Mexico- they were just helping the Indians. Too bad they didn’t arrive sooner and spare the human sacrifice victims……
Toodles…….
April 20th, 2007 at 2:41 pmThis just the same old Crap, From Fox. They ambushed the Mayor, of Virginia Beach, at her home. Cowards !! how come, they don’t go after the Bush administration, about illegal immigration. Nooo, they would rather go after some Mayor, Who could’t Deport someone if she tried. I wonder where Bill O’reilly spent his time during the Viet-Nam war. Big talk, Big Coward
April 20th, 2007 at 4:38 pmRE: Comment by frenchfries
Not hypocrites but hypercrites.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:05 pmBill O did not say anything racist by objecting to the presence of undocumented illegally ensconsed people who. He did express that he had been misrepresented by a story written by Ostrow and he did apparently have her ‘ambush interviewed’ (He will probable regret that because, she won. I don’t like Bill O and I don’t much like Geraldo either but I, myself am fair and balanced.
April 20th, 2007 at 10:41 pmAt least Bill wasn’t stalking her with a Falafel….
April 21st, 2007 at 2:44 amO’Reilly was one of many men that majored in Education during the Viet Nam War Era. Those men were given exemptions from the draft. If you care to check it out, once the war was over he (O’Reilly) quit teaching, going back to college to seek a degree in another sector. Also, if you will notice he makes frequent notices that he has been in “combat situation”. He covered a couple of encounters as a reporter but hints to his audience that he was a soldier not just a reporter..
April 21st, 2007 at 6:30 am#49
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:48 amBig Bad Bill’s war record is kind of like his Peabody, or whatever he claimed to have been awarded. I saw his defense of that patently false claim and it was pathetic.
Read and think, good people. Who slandered whom first? Unless you welcome being labeled/libelled a “racist” — as Ostrow did O’Reilly — the first explanation owed is clearly expected to come from Ostrow. Until I read her explanation for why a TV-critic (sic) is even qualified to form a judgment on who is and who is not a racist, I have to ridicule her and her obstinate, hatred-blinded minions.
April 24th, 2007 at 9:46 amBill O’Reilly likes vibrators. In his butt.
April 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pmBill O’Reilly is popular because hes against the self-loather himself, George Soros. The people are wise to the pollution of the election system by Soros’s money and influence. The wise people in this country dont want socialism, Open Borders, legalized marijuana, and surrender to Al Qaeda
May 6th, 2007 at 12:13 amYour post’s very good. I like it.
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