Posted 1:07 PM by Scoobie Davis

Bill O'Reilly, Karl Rove, and Accountability
January 2005: Here's what Bill O'Reilly said when I asked him about Joshua Green's reporting that Rove started a whisper campaign that a political opponent was a child molester:

Alright. Well look. If that's true--and I don't know the case. If that's true, then Karl Rove is to be chastened. If that's true. I'm not going to stick up for Rove. I don't know him. I talked to him twice in my life for less than 30 seconds each. But if that Atlantic Monthly article is true. . .I mean, I can't accuse Rove of doing anything at this point in my career, because I don't know. I know they were very nasty to McCain in South Carolina--that was horrible. I don't know who did that. I don't know whether that was Rove or that was the South Carolina Bush people. Whoever did that was disgraceful. But alright it is a legitimate point of discussion.

January 2009: O'Reilly offers Rove--whom he calls a "stand-up guy"--a place to hide: "Now, if you need a place to hide out, we have it here at the Factor. We have all kinds of tunnels and places we can put you."