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Saturday, February 2, 2008

O'Reilly refuses to meet Homeless vets

O’Reilly Hides from Homeless Veterans
by via Mike Hall, AFL-CIO
Saturday Feb 2nd, 2008 10:17 AM
Saturday, February 2, 2008 : Bill O'Reilly, the bombastic, belligerent bully of Fox News, apparently doesn't have the backbone to meet with a group of folks he claimed really don't exist?homeless veterans. Last week, we told you about O'Reilly's delusional claims that homeless veterans don't exist, even though Bush administration figures show that on any given night, there are about 200,000 former service men and women who are homeless.
O’Reilly Hides from Homeless Veterans
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by Mike Hall, Feb 1, 2008

Bill O’Reilly, the bombastic, belligerent bully of Fox News, apparently doesn’t have the backbone to meet with a group of folks he claimed really don’t exist—homeless veterans.

Last week, we told you about O’Reilly’s delusional claims that homeless veterans don’t exist, even though Bush administration figures show that on any given night, there are about 200,000 former service men and women who are homeless. Given the facts, O’Reilly eventually grudgingly admitted there might be some homeless vets, but it wasn’t really much of a problem.

Yesterday in New York City, a group of homeless vets tried to meet with O’Reilly. They wanted to present a petition signed by 17,000 people demanding an apology and an acknowledgment that homelessness is a serious problem among veterans who served our country.

The veterans marched to the Fox News offices where O’Reilly shoots his show. O’Reilly didn’t show up. Instead, a Fox flunky appeared, offering to deliver the petition, because after all, they didn’t have an appointment with his Foxship.

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If you click on the link there is a video on the site, I have a question for the Fox news people where do they expect homeless people to watch Fox news most cardboard boxes or bridge underpasses aren't wired for cable and if they were I doubt the men and women would be watching Fox news if they were......