O'Reilly calls for full body search on co-host, saying she "asked for it"

[Initech]

Here's one from the "all-time classic" conservative idiots file:

O'Reilly called for "a full-body search" on co-host Lis Wiehl; added that she "asked for it"On the November 3 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called for "a full-body search" on his co-host, Lis Wiehl. During a conversation about a recent New York Sun editorial (subscription required) on a lawsuit over New York City's policy of subway bag checks, O'Reilly said: "Would you please -- would you please bring in some security to do a full-body search on ... Lis Wiehl." When Wiehl repeated, "I said my bags, not my body," O'Reilly responded, "Full-body search on Lis Wiehl right this minute. She asked for it." Wiehl is also an author, Harvard-trained law professor, and legal analyst for Fox News.

O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment suit filed against him in October 2004. The November 3 comments were not the first he has made to Wiehl about her appearance. As Media Matters for America has documented, on the October 26 broadcast of his radio show, O'Reilly claimed he was "outraged" about a recent CBS poll on border control and asked Wiehl to protest the network while wearing a bikini. In response to her resistance, he asked her, "Don't you love your country?" and, "Don't you want fairness in the media?" In another instance, on the June 21, 2004, broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly called Wiehl "eye candy" and told her, "You're here because you're good-looking, so I got somebody to look over."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200511070011

[Canuckistanian]

1. I read the transcript, but what was the scene like?

Was Wiehl amused? Going along with the joke?

Or was O'Lielly serious?
If so, then the transcript looks pretty sinister.

[Initech]

3. I dont know, I dont watch that jackass.

[Vanje]

2. What a PIG!

pig!

[MidwestTransplant]

4. This guy trying to take over for Howard Stern?

[Marr]

5. Well, she did ask for it.

When you snuggle up to fascists, you've got to expect the occasional body cavity search.

[Initech]

6. That is true...

[billr]

7. Maybe he's been watching Colbert and thinks it's real?

Border patrol. Bikini. Uh, yeah, makes perfect sense to me.

[Skip Intro]

8. The big mouths of the right - what a bunch of degenerates

I'm surprised orielly can keep his hands off himself long enough to do his show. Meanwhile rush is gobbling pills like sweettarts. But hey, they can tell you all about what's morally right and wrong.

frauds

[alarcojon]

9. Par for the course for O'Harasser