“When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.”

— Bill O'Reilly

2006-02-09
Using a Funeral to Make Political Points
The O'Reilly Factor
Fox News
Television
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,184331,00.html
In response to civil rights leader Coretta Scott King's funeral.

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