Director of Fitzgerald House demands O'Reilly apology for homeless veterans

Director of charity for homeless veterans demands apology from Bill O'Reilly
Nick Langewis
Published: Saturday February 2, 2008

Carol Gardener, executive director of Fitzgerald House, which provides transitional housing and job placement assistance to homeless veterans, recently appeared at News Corporation headquarters to deliver a petition to FOX News mainstay and The O'Reilly Factor host Bill O'Reilly.
The petition, signed by 17,000 people, demands an apology from O'Reilly over a claim he made that there are no homeless veterans.
"The only thing sleeping under a bridge is that guy's brain," O'Reilly quipped during his January 4 broadcast, referring to part of a speech that former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards (D-NC) gave, dropping a figure of 200,000 veterans sleeping "under bridges and on grates." (The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates 195,000.)
O'Reilly repeatedly joked about homeless veterans, insisting that, even if there was such a problem, there "aren't that many."