Is This What Happens When You Mention Bill O’Reilly’s Legal History?

“After Bill O’Reilly on Fox News and on the Web called his paper ‘friendly to child rapists,’ Jeff Bruce, editor of the Dayton Daily News replied today, even though he said he knows what happens ‘when you wrestle a pig.’ But this O’Reilly charge was ‘so outrageous and such a distortion’ he felt he had no choice,” Editor & Publisher reports.

According to the Daily News, Bruce sent a reply to more than 1,000 e-mails from fans of O’Reilly’s show. It says: “This newspaper is not soft on child molesters. Just the opposite. Mr. O’Reilly is upset with the newspaper because in an editorial we referred to his own recent legal history in which he was accused of sexual harassment. His producer threatened that unless we published an apology they would resort to their ‘bully pulpit.’ That’s what they’ve done.”