O’Reilly Continues Fight with State Dept.: They’re Trying to ‘Intimidate’ Me

Bill O’Reilly opened his show tonight with a lengthy response (following his brief laughing last night) to State Department spokesperson Marie Harf for calling him sexist over criticisms he made to one of her female colleagues. O’Reilly said this use of “hateful rhetoric” is an obvious intimidation tactic. And he even went so far as to assert that John Kerry himself signed off on Harf’s tweet.

O’Reilly said that he only criticized Jen Psaki because she “prefers to dodge and weave” questions from the press and he gets “personally insulted” by that. He called Harf’s comments “ridiculous” and showed a clip of him being equally harsh on male Press Secretary Josh Earnest. O’Reilly declared that “smearing people is unacceptable,” especially coming from people representing the U.S. government.

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Tea partier Scottie Neil Hughes agreed with O’Reilly, but Cathy Areu told O’Reilly there actually was a problem with what he said. While he himself isn’t a sexist, Areu said O’Reilly sounded sexist and his entire commentary about Psaki was cringeworthy, especially when he called her “that women.”

O’Reilly insisted multiple times that he is equally harsh on men, and said, “This is an intimidating tactic used by some women to shut men up for criticizing them.”

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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