TOLEDO, Ohio – Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, introducing Barack Obama at a conference center here, told a crowd of more than 3,000 that they could help bring favorite Democratic bogeyman Bill O’Reilly to tears on Election Day.
Ohio is a key swing state, and Brown told the crowd that if they voted and made sure their friends and neighbors did the same, they could go home after the polls close, “sit down in a big, comfortable chair – maybe you bought a big, wide, wide flat-screen TV so you can watch election returns and you can see, when you see these election returns on these wide screens, you can see people’s sweat, you can see tears a little better, all that.”
At about 11:30 pm, he told the crowd, they should switch over to Fox News, the network on which the right-leaning O’Reilly hosts a top-rated talk/news show.
A chorus of boos erupted from the crowd. Fox, of course, is vilified by many Democrats, who believe it favors Republicans. Obama himself has gone after the network at times.
“No, no, bear with me here,” Brown shouted, as boos continued raining down. “No, no, you’ll want to do this. You don’t like Fox, but sometimes Fox has gotta do the right thing, so you’re gonna watch Fox,” he continued.
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