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Jan 08 2008 12:00am EDT

Watch O'Reilly Get Pushy with Obama Aide

No one's ever said Bill O'Reilly was a dummy. Well, a lot of people have, but they were wrong.

In the wake of an embarrassing incident in which he shoved an aide to Barack Obama, O'Reilly did the smartest thing he could do last night: He played the full footage of the dust-up on his show and had a rare laugh (or at least a grimace) at his own expense.

(via Gawker)

"All in all," he concluded, "I chalk this up to an overreaction by one Obama guy. And I'm just glad he was four inches taller than I am. Can you imagine the headlines if this was a little guy?"

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