Chris Hayes Mocks O’Reilly’s ‘Blatant Islamophobia’ over Bergdahl’s Dad

This week Bill O’Reilly has repeatedly asserted that Bowe Bergdahl‘s father looks Muslim, and has not backed down from that assertion. And on MSNBC last night, Chris Hayes joined in the mockery of O’Reilly’s “blatant Islamophobia.”

O’Reilly contended that it’s wildly inappropriate for Bergdahl’s father to look Muslim, with the beard he’s sporting, and speaking in Pashto while he was at the White House. Hayes played clips of O’Reilly’s musings (as well as Sean Hannity‘s) and said, “The blatant Islamophobia here is eclipsed only by the sheer ridiculousness of the argument.”

Hayes proceeded to mock O’Reilly by wondering if he considers the Duck Dynasty guys, ZZ Top, or The Dude to be similarly Muslim-looking. And he ended with a sharp dig at O’Reilly, the author of a number of historical books.

“If Abraham Lincoln and Jesus Christ have inappropriate Muslim-looking beards like this, then someone needs to look into the guy who wrote two sympathetic books about them. I’ll be waiting for the Factor investigation.”

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

And you can watch the full segment here:

[h/t HuffPost]

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