Jeremy Glick ( author ) The Jeremy Glick interview as seen in Outfoxed -- Top-left : Jeremy Glick speaks about his interview ; top-right : Bill O'Reilly tells Glick to `` shut up '' ; bottom-left : O'Reilly cuts Glick 's mic and gestures for security to take Glick out of the studio ; bottom-right : O'Reilly criticizes Glick the next day , claiming Glick used `` vile propaganda '' Jeremy Matthew Glick is an author and activist , best known for his appearance on The O’Reilly Factor on February 4 , 2003 . Glick is a co-author of the book , Another World Is Possible , and should not be confused with another Jeremy Glick , a passenger on hijacked UA flight 93 . In early 2003 , Glick signed his name to an advertisement that protested United States-led military action in Afghanistan and compared the deaths from the attacks to fatalities incurred in prior U.S. military actions . O’Reilly found this “surprising” given that Glick’s father , Port Authority worker Barry Glick , was killed during the September 11 , 2001 attack . O'Reilly invited Glick on his show , and the two engaged in a heated argument ( see External links below for transcript and video ) . Appearance on The O'Reilly Factor Glick began the interview speaking about his underlying beliefs with regard to the advertisement that he signed . O'Reilly responded stating `` I do n't think your father would be approving of this '' and `` I do n't think he 'd be equating this country as a terrorist nation as you are '' . Glick responded `` my father thought that Bush 's presidency was illegitimate '' and that he himself was not stating America was a terrorist nation . When Glick explained why he felt it was immoral to invade Afghanistan , O'Reilly stated , `` I do n't want to debate world politics with you '' . The following exchange then took place : GLICK : The reason why you care is because you evoke 9/11 ... O 'RE ILLY : Here 's why I care . GLICK : ... to rationalize ... O 'RE ILLY : Here 's why I care ... GLICK : Let me finish . You evoke 9/11 to rationalize everything from domestic plunder to imperialistic aggression worldwide . O 'RE ILLY : OK. That 's a bunch ... GLICK : You evoke sympathy with the 9/11 families to rationalize your narrow right wing agenda . O 'RE ILLY : That 's a bunch of crap . I 've done more for the 9/11 families by their own admission -- I 've done more for them than you will ever hope to do , so you keep your mouth shut . O'Reilly told Glick that he had a `` warped view of this world and a warped view of this country '' . O'Reilly noted that Glick `` did not support the war in Afghanistan [ ; ] [ he ] was against it '' . Glick clarified that he had no desire to `` brutalize and further punish '' the people of Afghanistan . O'Reilly then stated : `` ... who killed your father ! Who killed your father ! `` to which Glick answered that the people who hijacked the airplanes killed his father , not the people of Afghanistan . When O'Reilly pointed out that the `` al-Qaeda people '' were trained in Afghanistan , Glick responded by stating that their training was made possible by then CIA -director George H. W. Bush and that the United States is ultimately reponsible . As Media Matters for America noted , Glick was incorrect in his claim that George H.W. Bush was CIA Director when U.S. support was allegedly given to anti-Soviet Afghan forces . George H.W. Bush was CIA Director under Gerald Ford -- such support did not occur until the subsequent Carter administration , under CIA Director Stansfield Turner . O'Reilly then stated , `` Man , I hope your mom is n't watching this '' ; as Glick continued to speak , O'Reilly told him to `` [ s ] hut up . Shut up '' . Glick responded `` Oh , please do n't tell me to shut up '' . To which O'Reilly said that he was ending the discussion `` in [ sic ] respect for your father , who was a Port Authority worker , a fine American , who got killed unnecessarily by barbarians ... `` Later on , O'Reilly ordered his staff to turn off Glick 's microphone , terminating the interview . Post-show controversy According to Rolling Stone , Glick has claimed that during a commercial break he baited O'Reilly by leveling insults about O'Reilly 's show . Glick alleges that O’Reilly , during the commercial break , told him to “get out of my studio before I tear you to fucking pieces ! ” . O’Reilly returned from the commercial break saying “I have to apologize . If I knew that guy Jeremy Glick , was going to be like that , I never would have brought him in here , and I feel bad for his family . I really do.” O’Reilly has since stated on at least three occasions that Glick remarked during the interview that George W. Bush orchestrated or had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks claiming “Glick was saying without a shred of evidence that President Bush , and Bush the elder , were directly responsible for 9/11” and “He came on this program and accused President Bush of knowing about 9/11 and murdering his own father.” . See also Bill O'Reilly controversies Fox News Channel controversies External links Transcript of Glick’s interview on The O’Reilly Factor ( posted on an anti-O’Reilly site ) Video of Glick interview Video of Donahue interview References Not in Our Name Press Release ( Note : this website incorrectly states that the interview occurred on February 4 , 2002 ) Media Matters to America Coverage of O’Reilly’s statements about Glick Categories : Year of birth missing | Living people | American political writers 