NASHUA, N.H. - Combative conservative Fox News talk host Bill O’Reilly, who usually limits his fighting to verbal attacks, scuffled with an aide to Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama at a New Hampshire rally on Saturday.

O’Reilly had a confrontation with Obama’s campaign travel coordinator, Marvin Nicholson, as O’Reilly tried to talk to Obama after a rally in Nashua.

Nicholson said O’Reilly, who briefly spoke to Obama, was yelling at him to “move” out of the way.

“He grabbed me by the arm with both hands and tried to push and shove me out of the way,” Nicholson told reporters. “I asked him not to push me anymore and he said I was ‘low class.’”

The U.S. Secret Service, who are guarding Obama, intervened and the confrontation ended quickly.  Obama told O’Reilly he would consider giving him an interview after Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary.

The conservative news talk host was following Democrats during the day. He also appeared earlier at a Hillary Clinton rally in Penacook, New Hampshire, and asked a kid in the audience to ask Clinton about her Iraq policy.

When the kid told Clinton that O’Reilly had planted the question, the crowd booed. “Hello, Bill,” Clinton said, telling the crowd to give him credit for showing up.

– Additional reporting by Mark Egan

– Photo credit: Reuters/Jim Bourg