A furious Bill O’Reilly got into a shouting match with Alan Colmes about Al Jazeera on O’Reilly’s Tuesday show.
O’Reilly started by showing footage of guests on Al-Jazeera making what he said were anti-Semitic and anti-American statements. He then brought on Colmes and his right-wing counterpart Monica Crowley to discuss the channel.
Colmes said that the distinction between a channel and its guests was an important one, and that Al Jazeera has been a thorn in the side of Arab governments across the Middle East.
“I would think a populist like you would support Al Jazeera,” Colmes said to O’Reilly.
“Are you crazy? Are you nuts?” O’Reilly said. “I’m not taking the side of an anti-Semitic, anti-American network!” He noted that Colmes was Jewish. “The people who run that network would do violence to you,” he told him.
Crowley said that “the far left” supports Al Jazeera because it is “essentially anti-American.” This outraged Colmes. “That’s disgusting,” he said. “That’s sickening!”
O’Reilly and Colmes then started shouting at each other, with O’Reilly saying that there was no balance to what was, in his view, a constant stream of objectionable statements on Al Jazeera.
(Source: HuffingtonPost.com and Fox News)
