Palin isn't the first Republican to reportedly decline an appearance on the show. | REUTERS O'Reilly: Palin won't do my show

The list of people who won’t appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” just got longer.

Bill O’Reilly said Wednesday that former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin won’t come on his Fox News show.


“Sarah Palin won’t do this program. She won’t come on the program because she doesn’t want to mix it up. She doesn’t. She wants to give a speech, and nobody gives speeches here,” O’Reilly said during a segment with Fox News host Howard Kurtz.

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“We invited her on tonight. You’re [here] in her stead. But I don’t begrudge Sarah Palin that. She can come on. She doesn’t come on, she does come on, whatever she wants to do. Okay? Fine,” O’Reilly said.

Earlier this month, O’Reilly said that Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie “won’t submit to an interview.”

“Christie will not. He just won’t do it. So I can’t tell you policy-wise how versed he is because I’ve never seen him under that spotlight,” O’Reilly said in an interview with CBS’s “This Morning.” “He’s going to have to get under it, whether it’s me or somebody else, but he has not come in.”