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WATCH What Happens When Bill O’Reilly Absolutely EXPLODES On His Guest: ‘You’re a Hack, Bye!’
For those to whom a good, old-fashioned, no-holds-barred argument is vintage entertainment, Friday’s duel of wordslingers between Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and conservative columnist George Will was a classic.
O’Reilly’s new book, Killing Reagan, offers a different perspective on Reagan’s life and career after the March 1981 attempt on his life. On Thursday, Will took the book to task in his Washington Post column.
The “book’s perfunctory pieties about Reagan’s greatness are inundated by its flood of regurgitated slanders about his supposed lassitude and manipulability,” Will wrote. “This book is nonsensical history and execrable citizenship, and should come with a warning: ‘Caution — you are about to enter a no-facts zone.’”
O’Reilly invited Will on his show to discuss the book man to man. It didn’t start well.
“Let’s talk about the facts,” O’Reilly said. “Fox News hard news chief Mike Clemente told us that you told him you would call me before the column was published. Did you call me?”
“No, and I didn’t promise to call you,” Will shot back. “You have my phone number and if you wanted to call me, you could.”
“I couldn’t care less about it, I didn’t know what you were doing. Are you calling Mr. Clemente a liar?” O’Reilly bluntly asked.
After back and forth over who said what to whom and when, they focused on the main issue — O’Reilly’s book. O’Reilly accused Will of “actively misleading the American people.”
“You are something of an expert on misleading people,” Will responded.
“You are lying!” O’Reilly countered, insisting his book was historically accurate.
Will said O’Reilly’s characterization of Reagan was “doing the work of the left.”
“All of what we write in ‘Killing Reagan’ is true. You’re a hack!” O’Reilly shouted. “You are in with the cabal of the Reagan loyalists who don’t want the truth to be told. ‘Killing Reagan’ is a laudatory book. It praises Ronald Reagan. Yet, you did not call me when you said you would, that’s a fact.”
O’Reilly said there was pressure on him to deify Reagan. He said Reagan loyalists “tried to get the book killed before it was even published.”
“That is a lie,” Will said, as the interview approached is crescendo. “That by the way is a lie.”
O’Reilly had one last line.
“That isn’t a lie and we can prove it and you are a hack! Bye!” O’Reilly said.
h/t: TheBlaze
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-what-happens-when-bill-oreilly-absolutely-explodes-on-his-guest-youre-a-hack-bye/
