Byron Harris, You Were Dead On

By Robert Wilonsky Mon., May 12 2008 at 11:00 AM

Categories: Media

In a 2004 Rolling Stone profile of Bill O'Reilly, his former WFAA-TV colleague Byron Harris described the Fox-y one as "particularly dishonest, obnoxious, self-centered." Really? No idea. Certainly can't tell from this NSFW Inside Edition clip, making the Interwebs rounds this a.m. And I've seen this before -- on an old videotape belonging to a former O'Reilly colleague who lives in the DFW. I ain't saying he's the one who provided the footage, but I'd like to think he did. --Robert Wilonsky

Update: The YouTube link's dead. But that doesn't mean you can't see the video, right now.

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Here's another great vintage Bill O' moment: A couple of years ago, Edie Brickell invited me to a taping of her appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno". O'Reilly and an Hollywood animal trainer were the other guests on the show. Prior to the taping, I noticed a group of guys who were obviously NBC execs huddled in a corner of the Green Room. Bill and his publicist (who looked just like O'Reilly, creepily enough) were standing on the other side of the room. It was apparent that the NBC people wanted to make his appearance on the show as uncomfortable for him as possible. O'Reilly, who was there to promote his latest book, could tell that something was up when every single production person on the set refused to make eye contact with him. His publicist was lugging around a dozen or so signed copies of the new book, and everyone backstage who was offered a copy refused to take one. (I thought about grabbing one to sell on eBay or something, but I didn't want to be the only person to take one.) Bill assumed that since he was such a media superstar, he would be the first guest on the show. The publicist went apeshit when he found out that the zookeeper was going on first. As the first guest brought out various animals, Bill and publicist were just fuming backstage. "He's running long! People aren't going to watch this!" Then an NBC executive producer came back to the Green Room and said, "We're going to do another segment with the animal guy." If you think O'Reilly looked pissed off on this old Inside Edition clip, you should have seen him while Leno cheerily asked the zookeeper about his zebra. By the time Bill O' finally made it on, his segment had been shortened to somewhere between two and three minutes... and Leno was anything but accommodating when prompted by O'Reilly to plug his new book. It was like something straight out of "The Larry Sanders Show". Edie ended up having more airtime than O'Reilly did.
Way to Go O. . . .Reilly! :-) says: "that O'Reilly one of the biggest "Douche Bags" I've ever seen." Braw! Have we not met yet?
Your linky has removed the vid, but here's a new one, via HuffPo: http://tinyurl.com/4s2klt
"We're sorry, this video is no longer available." Dang.
Now there's a man whose staff has probably teabagged every single item in his office.
Can we post the words "Douche Bag" on this blog? If so I'd like to state that O'Reilly one of the biggest "Douche Bags" I've ever seen.