"we’re still looking for all the veterans sleeping under the bridges, Ed, so if you find anybody, let us know,"
and
"If you know where’s a veteran, sleeping under a bridge, you call me immediately, and we will make sure that man does not do it. Is not there."
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He was going after John Edwards for making an issue of the 200,000 or so homeless veterans. That's a nice group to target Bill.
This little clip from Brave New Films gives the view from the homeless veteran persepective.
This has backfired and now pretty much everyone knows Edwards was right and O’Reilly was wrong. A day later, O’Reilly keeps digging and instead of apologizing insists that Edwards should apologize for using “class warfare.”
More on the story from Jason Links:
"This afternoon in New York City, some of that work will resolutely continue, as a group of homeless veterans - one of the segments of the population of forgotten Americans that Edwards spoke of so often on the stump - will swarm FOX News Channel’s Studios to bring their fight to Bill O’Reilly, the millionaire celebrity host of The O’Reilly Factor. […]
Now, a group from Fitzgerald House, an “organization representing homeless veterans,” plans to bring their fight for recognition to Fox’s doorstep. They plan on visiting the Fox News Channel Studios today at 3:00 pm, and will come carrying a petition signed by 17,000 people demanding an apology from O’Reilly for his ignorance and abuse. In a press release, Brave New Films and Fitzgerald House say thay “have found that it is very easy to locate homeless veterans and are willing to help O’Reilly find them if his desire to help homeless vets is sincere.”
A three minute clip of the situtation here. O'Reilly on the run. He won't meet with them as they go to his Faux news office with a petition with 17,000 signatures.