Bill O’Reilly Defends Jon Stewart After Laura Ingraham Calls Him “Sad Clown”

Bill O’Reilly had Laura Ingraham on the Factor tonight to discuss a host of topics, and Ingraham was her usual outspoken self – especially when it came to President Obama’s backyard tour and Jon Stewart’s much-publicized appearance on O’Reilly’s show last night.

We’ll admit Ingraham got in a good line when she said of Obama’s “backyard conversation” tactic, “Build the fence, built the fence higher!” (Shouldn’t that be “Complete the dang fence?”)

But just as interesting was when the topic turned to Stewart: Ingraham had her fun at his expense, too, but she was also met with some pretty vigorous defense defense of the man…from O’Reilly. And Ingraham agreed to an extent re: Stewart, despite her (misguided) criticism of Stewart’s upcoming rally as “derivative” of Glenn Beck’s (“parody” and “derivative” are different concepts).

Video of the O’Reilly-Ingraham exchange below. You can’t say they don’t know how to produce an entertaining segment.

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