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Bill O'Reilly: Jon Stewart is the 'Smartest Guy in Entertainment Current Affairs ... an Honest Guy' (VIDEO)

by Jeremy Taylor, posted Sep 24th 2010 4:05PM
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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Julie

Patty said: WHY DO LAURA FEEL THAT SHE HAS TO STROKE O'REILLY THIGH FOR HIM. HER TEETH LOOKS LIKE SHE ALREADY HAS DONE THE OTHER DO...ANYWAY, SHE IS A FAKE HUMAN-BEING ONLY ON FOX TO MAKE THE
MONEY...BECAUSE, SHE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL SHE IS TALKING ABOUT.************************Patty, why don't you go back to school and take Grammar 101 over again. Why do, She don't, Her teeth looks, Bill O'Reilly thigh? And you say Laura is dumb? Geeeeeeez! You don't even know what I'm talking about, do you?

September 28 2010 at 6:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bg

i glad to hear that mr. o'reilly admits that j. steward is starter than dennis miller. ROFLOL

September 27 2010 at 1:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BP

O'reilly is pretty smart when it comes to propping up his show and doing what Rupert Murdock tells him to. A good example is O'reilly condemning "birthers". It's obvious that Obama is good for Fox's business because Hussein and his comrades provide a never ending source of incompetence for Fox's commentators to criticize. The ethical thing to do would have been to go directly after BO's lack of qualifications for the office of POTUS and dump him before he got elected.
Rupert Murdoch isn't a conservative, his only belief and religion is money, power, money.

September 27 2010 at 12:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SickofMichael

Who is Laura Ingram?

September 27 2010 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eg

Kudos to Bill for being honest and speaking his mind and not falling into the same 'he is liberal so he must be evil' game that Laura and so many of the other Fox pundits express (and the liberals often express of the Fox pundits as well). I enjoy when stewart and o'reilly interview one another as they both seem smart and to respectfully engage one another with intelligent debate. There needs to be more of this and less of the type of over dramatization Laura and so many other pundits sprew forth.

September 27 2010 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
SickofMichael

I'm so glad that Jon Stewart is having a rally in WADC to show the world that the embarrassing, ignorant, hateful tea bigots are a VERY small minority and don't speak for 98% of us!!!!!!

September 27 2010 at 12:25 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tom

pay attention to exactly what Bill said: "I think Stewart is the smartest guy in the ENTERTAINMENT current affairs business" O'Reilly is actually ONLY giving stewart credit for knowing about celebrities and pop culture and/or being only an entertainer himself. O'Reilly is actually taking a jab at stewart in a very clever way! LOL

September 27 2010 at 12:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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dyno2000

The Entertainment current affairs business and not news is what Fox, O'Reilly and Beck are all about. Bill at least admits that he is an entertainer, unlike the LOL "Fair and BS" network.

September 27 2010 at 12:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Welcome Al

What's with all the bashing?? If anyone here actually saw the exchange between Stewart and
O'Reilly, it was clear they are two intelligent and savvy guys. At one point Stewart even mentioned O'Reilly was part of the elite, by earning a degree from Harvard. Ingraham is no slouch, having been the editor of her school newspaper at Dartmouth, and Notes Editor of Law Review at Univ of Va Law School. She then went on to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice. That doesn't spell dumb. She has disagreed with O'Reilly a number of times. If your opinion was shaped by one brief exchange, either your bias is so entrenched or this is simply over your head...

September 27 2010 at 11:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pd39

I watched Bill and Jon. The real shame is that most of you posting here don't have the same respect for self and others that those two show every time they are together.

September 27 2010 at 11:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
B....

Laura Ingram has no credibility and is nothing more then an opinionated vapid douchebag

September 27 2010 at 11:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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