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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

O'Reilly slams 'Law & Order,' calls Wolf 'despicable'

The Live Feed: Bill O'Reilly went after "Law & Order" franchise creator Dick Wolf on Thursday night's "O'Reilly Factor" telecast, calling the producer a "despicable human being" whose veteran TV drama is "out of control."

O'Reilly can certainly say that "L&O" threw the first punch.

This week's episode of "Law & Order: SVU" featured a character played by John Larroquette talking to a detective and saying, "Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, all of 'em, they are like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate...They've convinced folks that immigrants are the problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a broken health care system..."

O'Reilly said the clip was "defamatory and outrageous" and played clips from past episodes of his Fox News program that showed the host defending "poor people who only want a better life."

Wolf declined to comment. Here's the segment:

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