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What It Feels Like...

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… To Appear on The O’Reilly Factor

Dee Wampler, 67
In September 2005, this Springfield defense attorney went on the Fox News Channel to talk about his defense of the Cox Emergency Room nurse in State of Missouri v. Leslie Brown, which Wampler went on to win. He has also appeared on The 700 Club and American Family Radio in addition to other national programs.
BY DEE WAMPLER,
AS TOLD TO TIESHA MILLER
 

On The O’Reilly Factor, they put a thing in your ear and hide it behind you. You’re sitting there at KOLR looking just into a camera, but Bill O’Reilly’s coming on talking to ya being real friendly to ya, “Hey Dee, how are you? It’s an honor to have you on my program. Thank you for being on. You’ll only be on about seven or eight minutes.” And I say, “I’m a big fan of yours. I watch your show all the time.”

When he came on the air, he said, “Well counselor, you’ve really fouled this up. You’ve really done this. How do you account for yourself for doing this?” and I’m kinda thinking, “But I, but I thought you were my friend.” You know? At the very end he says, “I’ll give you the last word.” He says that all the time. What you don’t hear is in the ear piece music comes on and gets louder and louder and louder, and you think the music is like on the TV. After 15 or 20 seconds you shut down because the music is getting louder, but the audience doesn’t hear at home, they don’t hear that music. They run that in your ear, so you think that you have 15 or 20 seconds to close out your statements. So when I watched it later on, I thought, “Why didn’t I go on and say some additional things?” And my wife said, “Why didn’t you explain that further?” And I said, “Because the music was in my ear. It was getting so loud I couldn’t hear myself. That’s a little trick, if you will."

"I learned something from that."