O'Reilly: I'll Pay Legal Bill for Dead Marine's Dad

Court ordered man to foot protesters' costs
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 31, 2010 6:25 PM CDT
O'Reilly: I'll Pay Legal Bill for Dead Marine's Dad
Bill O'Reilly.   (AP Photo)

Bill O’Reilly is opening his checkbook for the father of a Marine killed in Iraq after a court ordered him to pay the legal fees of protesters he’d sued for picketing his son’s 2006 funeral. “That is an outrage,” the Fox host said yesterday of the news that an appeals court overturned an $11 million award for Albert Snyder, then tacked on $16,500. “I am not going to let this injustice stand.”
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