Think Progress's managing editor Amanda Terkel claims she was harassed by one of Bill O'Reilly's producers attempting to score an ambush interview with her on March 21. O'Reilly was upset over a March 1 TP blog post by Terkel, which discussed a speech O'Reilly was scheduled to give at an Alexa Foundation fundraiser for rape victims. In that post Terkel mentioned controversial comments O'Reilly made during his radio show in August 2006 about about an 18-year-old woman who was raped and murdered.
The ambush interview with Terkel was aired on The O'Reilly Factor on March 23. In that segment, O'Reilly claimed that Think Progress and NBC news deliberately tried to cause pain and suffering for rape victims the Alexa Foundation was attempting to help. He also called Terkel a "villain."
Read Terkel's side of the story and watch the ambush interview here.
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