Bill O'Reilly Shoves Obama Bodyguard - Video!

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Trying to ask Barack Obama a question along a crowded rope line, an agitated Bill O'Reilly shoved Obama's 6'8" bodyguard and shouted "Move," the New York Times reported today. He also called him an SOB, and said, "That's really low class, pal."

When Obama made his way over, he coolly explained to O'Reilly that other people required his time too. Obama comes off as a prince; O'Reilly was, well, to quote himself: "low class."

On Slate, eyewitness John Dickerson reports that O'Reilly may have been on edge in part because of the reception he'd been receiving from Obama supporters, who catcalled him - creatively:

A number of people shouted falafel, the word O'Reilly used in a racy set of telephone conversations with a young woman he was trying to seduce as he described a shower they might take together. He meant loofa, which is not a Middle Eastern delicacy but a bath item.

The Dickerson item is pretty hilarious. The Slate correspondent confesses to having his own moment of unprofessionalism: shouting "Grow up!" at O'Reilly during the scuffle.

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