O’Reilly Hits Back at CNN Guest and Anchor over His Bergdahl Dad Commentary

Bill O’Reilly has repeatedly observed this week that Bowe Bergdahl’s father looks Muslim and hasn’t backed down from it. A CNN guest took a shot at him over it, and anchor Carol Costello didn’t dispute any of what he said, so O’Reilly went after both of them on his show Thursday night.

Rolling Stone‘s Matthew Farwell told Baldwin O’Reilly’s comment was “disgusting” and said O’Reilly hasn’t done anything dangerous in his life. O’Reilly shot back that he’s “either uninformed or a liar,” cited his past reporting career, and blasted Costello, saying she “obviously doesn’t know what she’s talking about.”

Laura Ingraham told him that if the liberal media doesn’t target people like them, “they’re gonna have to actually speak about what this means for our country” and they can’t have that. She agreed that it was “odd” and “bizarre” to hear Bergdahl’s father speaking Arabic and Pashto in the White House Rose Garden.

O’Reilly called Farwell a “pinhead” and charged that Costello “has an ethical obligation as a journalist to challenge that kind of stuff,” before mocking her for just letting it slide.

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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