Bill O’Reilly paraphrases for Bill Maher — and all hell breaks loose.
O’Reilly’s jaw nearly dropped at what Maher said to him. A quick point of the finger later, he moved to “correct the record.”
O’REILLY: “Look, I watch your program, and you’re disenchanted. And correct me if I’m wrong, which I very rarely am, so you probably won’t have to do that. You’re disenchanted with the far left wing of the Democratic Party.”
MAHER: “Yes.”
O’REILLY: “Because you believe that it’s poisoned the well for everybody else, like the congressman [Moskowitz] here.”
MAHER: “Because they never met anything that was counterintuitive that they didn’t love.”
O’REILLY: “Right. So they want to put trans people in here, and they want to do this. And it just dilutes the message that the Democratic Party has traditionally had — that ‘we’re for the workers, we want to improve the lives of the backbone of the country.’ Now you’re into all this fringe garbage that Americans don’t want. I think that’s your posture.”
MAHER: “I wouldn’t put it that way, but go ahead.”
O’REILLY: “Okay, but you might want to rethink because that’s a good way to put it.”
MAHER: “Well, I’m still on the air and you’re not, but go ahead.”
[Crowd erupts]
O’REILLY: “I expected that. So we did a town hall on NewsNation two weeks ago from Kennedy Center — 23 million people watched. 23 million. Okay. You can add up all the HBOs you want. You’re not going to come close. Just want to correct the record.”
REP. MOSKOWITZ: “I have a tape measure if anyone [wants to use it].”
MAHER: “I will check those facts.”
O’REILLY: “Yeah, you check them.”