O'Reilly  told his "ombudswoman" to ignore the "pinheads who want
 
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:23:06 -0500

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<p><b>O'Reilly  told his "ombudswoman" to ignore the "pinheads who want you to
try to embarrass  me" </b></p>
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<p>On the November 8 
edition of Fox News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly 
Factor</i>, during his weekly "Dhue Point" segment -- in which Fox News 
anchor Laurie Dhue acts as the <i>Factor</i>&#39;s "ombudswoman" -- Dhue asked: "So 
what do my peeps need to ask you in &#39;The Dhue Point&#39;?" Host Bill O&#39;Reilly 
responded: "No.1, there are pinheads who want you to try to embarrass me. Those 
people come from the 
far-left precincts. Ignore 
them." Dhue then stated: "I&#39;m getting an awful lot of email saying I&#39;m too easy 
on you." Bill O&#39;Reilly replied: "[I]t&#39;s all coming from the haters on the left. 
Just throw it in the garbage." O&#39;Reilly continued: "But the regular folks who 
really enjoy this program, what we want you to ask Laurie is why we do things, 
why we do them. All right? Or &#39;we didn&#39;t really like that.&#39; But not policy 
things, because I&#39;ll deal with that in the mail segment." 
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<p>O&#39;Reilly also said 
that "if you feel strongly about something we do, you didn&#39;t like it, fine, we 
want to know. And if you have a question about why we do it or what the 
situation is, Laurie Dhue is your gal."</p>

<p>From the November 8 
edition of Fox News&#39; <i>The O&#39;Reilly 
Factor</i>:</p><blockquote>

<p>DHUE: All 
right. Last question. We here at "The Dhue Point" obviously want to make this 
segment as highly effective as possible. </p>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: 
OK. </p>

<p>DHUE: 
<b>So what do my peeps need to ask you in "The 
Dhue Point"?</b> </p>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: 
First of all, there&#39;s a couple of things going on with "The Dhue Point" 
everybody should know, because we depend on your questions to Laurie. <b>No. 1, there are pinheads who want you to try to 
embarrass me. Those people come from the far-left 
precincts. Ignore them.</b> </p>

<p>DHUE: 
Yeah. I&#39;m getting an awful lot of email saying I&#39;m too easy on you. 
</p>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: 
<b>It&#39;s all coming -- it&#39;s all coming from the 
haters on the far left. Just throw it in the garbage.</b> But the regular 
folks who really enjoy this program<b>, what we 
want you to ask 
Laurie 
is why we do things, why we do them. All right? Or "we didn&#39;t really like 
that."</b></p>

<p><b>But 
not policy things,</b> because I&#39;ll deal 
with that in the mail segment. All right? But <b>if you feel strongly about something we do, you didn&#39;t 
like it, fine, we want to know. And if you have a question about why we do it or 
what the situation is, Laurie Dhue is your 
gal.</b></p>

<p>DHUE: 
Yeah. And we&#39;re getting very intelligent emails. We&#39;re getting thousands of 
emails. And, again, I&#39;m getting them saying that "you&#39;re too easy on him." But 
I suppose that being seen as easy on you is better than being seen as the female 
Bill O&#39;Reilly, which somebody said I was. </p>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: 
Yes. All right. Laurie Dhue, everybody. She&#39;s very, very tough, and there she 
is. </p>

<p>DHUE: I&#39;m 
tough, but tender. I&#39;m fair. </p>

<p>O&#39;REILLY: 
Tough but tender. Very good. </p></blockquote><table width="100%" style="background: #e8e8e8; 
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