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Feb 01 2008 12:00am EDT

Bridge-Dwelling Vets Pay O'Reilly a Visit

Remember back when Bill O'Reilly implicitly offered to let homeless veterans crash on his futon and share his ramen? Well, it turned out he was only being so generous because he didn't believe said homeless veterans existed -- and guess who had a problem with that?

Yup: homeless veterans.

Anti-Fox provocateur Robert Greenwald got 17,000 of them to put their name to a petition demanding an apology, and yesterday they turned up at News Corp. headquarters in hopes of presenting it to O'Reilly in person. Here's the video of them getting denied entrance:

The irony of the whole thing is that attacking someone as a callous enemy of patriotic servicemen is exactly the kind of thing O'Reilly would love to do to Keith Olbermann given half a chance.


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