Because literally everyone else on Fox has done it already, Bill O’Reilly tonight weighed in on President Obama swiping at Fox News for its coverage of the poor. O’Reilly admitted he has no problem with the president going after Fox, because if he really does have a “beef” with the network, O’Reilly wants to know about it.
He argued that Obama should know better and that it’s “a lot easier for the president to demonize Fox News, which tells the truth, than it is for him to stress personal responsibility.”
For the record, in the forum where Obama made those remarks, he only briefly mentioned Fox and also talked at some length about personal responsibility in the black community.
The focus of O’Reilly’s segment, however, was not on the overall critique of Fox, but on NYT columnist Charles Blow calling him personally out on the subject. O’Reilly angrily denounced Blow as a smear merchant taking him out of context over what he’s said about poor people.
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