Fox’s Rosen Tries to Correct O’Reilly; O’Reilly Snaps: ‘Don’t Be a Pinhead’

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA enhanced interrogation has been referred to in the press as the “torture report.” Bill O’Reilly has been using the phrase too, despite siding with the CIA that taking such extreme measures in the name of national security was the right thing to do.

But tonight, when O’Reilly was asking about potential fallout from the torture report, Fox News reporter James Rosen told O’Reilly he shouldn’t be using that term because doing is would “validate the body of conclusions.”

He started to say, “I don’t think that’s actually representative of…” but O’Reilly jumped in and said, “Don’t be a pinhead, Rosen, everybody knows what I’m talking about.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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