On the November 8 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, during his weekly “Dhue Point” segment -- in which Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue acts as the Factor's “ombudswoman” -- Dhue asked: “So what do my peeps need to ask you in 'The Dhue Point'?” Host Bill O'Reilly responded: “No.1, there are pinheads who want you to try to embarrass me. Those people come from the far-left precincts. Ignore them.” Dhue then stated: “I'm getting an awful lot of email saying I'm too easy on you.” Bill O'Reilly replied: "[I]t's all coming from the haters on the left. Just throw it in the garbage." O'Reilly continued: “But the regular folks who really enjoy this program, what we want you to ask Laurie is why we do things, why we do them. All right? Or 'we didn't really like that.' But not policy things, because I'll deal with that in the mail segment.”

O'Reilly also said that “if you feel strongly about something we do, you didn't like it, fine, we want to know. And if you have a question about why we do it or what the situation is, Laurie Dhue is your gal.”

From the November 8 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

DHUE: All right. Last question. We here at “The Dhue Point” obviously want to make this segment as highly effective as possible.

O'REILLY: OK.

DHUE: So what do my peeps need to ask you in “The Dhue Point”?

O'REILLY: First of all, there's a couple of things going on with “The Dhue Point” everybody should know, because we depend on your questions to Laurie. No. 1, there are pinheads who want you to try to embarrass me. Those people come from the far-left precincts. Ignore them.

DHUE: Yeah. I'm getting an awful lot of email saying I'm too easy on you.

O'REILLY: It's all coming -- it's all coming from the haters on the far left. Just throw it in the garbage. But the regular folks who really enjoy this program, what we want you to ask Laurie is why we do things, why we do them. All right? Or “we didn't really like that.”

But not policy things, because I'll deal with that in the mail segment. All right? But if you feel strongly about something we do, you didn't like it, fine, we want to know. And if you have a question about why we do it or what the situation is, Laurie Dhue is your gal.

DHUE: Yeah. And we're getting very intelligent emails. We're getting thousands of emails. And, again, I'm getting them saying that “you're too easy on him.” But I suppose that being seen as easy on you is better than being seen as the female Bill O'Reilly, which somebody said I was.

O'REILLY: Yes. All right. Laurie Dhue, everybody. She's very, very tough, and there she is.

DHUE: I'm tough, but tender. I'm fair.

O'REILLY: Tough but tender. Very good.