Bill O'Reilly: Jon Stewart is the 'Smartest Guy in Entertainment Current Affairs ... an Honest Guy' (VIDEO)
Things got meta on 'The O'Reilly Factor' (weekdays, 8 PM ET on Fox News) Thursday when Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham discussed an interview O'Reilly did with Jon Stewart the night before. Ingraham wasn't impressed with Stewart's performance."Jon Stewart looked like the sad clown," she declared. "He just kind of seemed sad ... He didn't even get in the shots on you that I thought he'd get."
"I thought (Stewart) gave as good as he got," O'Reilly replied, disagreeing with Ingraham.
"I think Stewart is the smartest guy in the entertainment current affairs business," O'Reilly continued. "He smarter than all of the others, and he's an honest guy."
It's not entirely surprising that O'Reilly would stick up for Stewart so strongly, as the two seem to genuinely enjoy the respectful sparring they engage in when they appear together. In fact, an O'Reilly/Stewart show would be pretty terrific TV. (They just couldn't call it 'Crossfire.')
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