Jon Stewart Rips Bill O'Reilly Over Hypocrisy On Privacy (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart ripped Bill O'Reilly on Monday night's "Daily Show" over his hypocritical stance on privacy.

O'Reilly, whose producers proudly ambush anyone who disagrees with him, has taken up as one of his pet causes the privacy of celebrities stalked by paparazzi.

"I think my favorite part about 'The Factor' is that they have no trouble reconciling their defense of celebrities' right to privacy with their intimidation of everyone else," Stewart said, showing unedited footage of O'Reilly segueing from an ambush of the Columbia Journalism Review editor on a city bus to outrage over "these vicious paparazzi."

"Coming up on 'The Factor,' cognitive dissonance," Stewart said.

Stewart then showed a clip of O'Reilly defending celebrities like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie against paparazzi followed by footage of one of his producers with a camera in Jolie's face after she reportedly banned Fox News from one of her movie premieres.

"The next time you're caught going through your ex-girlfriend's garbage and the police come to take you away, just tell them old Bill O'Reilly sent you," he said.

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Comments

[CaptainHowdy]

06:55 PM on 02/13/2009

I think that Bill Moyers has the last word on this subject...

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=Y_2IZT4Vg­DY

[sfirx]

12:40 AM on 02/13/2009

No one can deny his comments and actions were hypocritic­al. That's the problem with getting your news from any of these people, they are all about entertainm­ent and making money, not about giving you just the news. The sad thing is most people act like sheep and just accept everything they here. Look at how many people believe in global warming. It's like the new religion, except God is the environmen­t and you you just have to have faith that it global warming exist.

[Sneakerface]

07:24 PM on 02/13/2009

Oh, I get it : you're being ironic and giving us some of your own 'cognitive dissonance­.' 'Cause that made absolutely zero sense.

[reformednut]

11:00 PM on 02/12/2009

What do you expect from a radical like Bill Oreilly, i wonder if he needs a drink!!!!!­!!!!!!!!

[MarkInEugene]

10:17 PM on 02/12/2009

Right on John! O'Reillys such a DB

[Vieux Charles]

09:54 PM on 02/12/2009

I think tracking down a Vermont judge to ask him why he failed to imprison a convicted child rap!st and instead release him to a therapist is a bit different then hordes of paparazzi chasing down a celeb to sell photos to the tabloids. mmmhh...ma­ybe just a bit?

[HarryTheHat]

10:28 PM on 02/12/2009

If that was the only doorsteppi­ng he'd ever done, it'd be radically different.

But seeing as typically O'Reilly ambushes people who simply espouse a political viewpoint that he doesn't agree with, talking up the right of privacy for famous Americans whilst simultaneo­usly trampling all over the right of privacy of journalist­s, political activists and academics is rank, venal hypocrisy. Just a little bit.

[Vieux Charles]

11:03 PM on 02/12/2009

Such as?

[RationalDubSteppa]

07:08 PM on 02/12/2009

Bill-O shows how gullible conservati­ves are. You throw them a hapless wart in a suit and conservati­ves and they think he/she is an intellectu­al god! HAHA!

[KillgoreTrout43]

07:55 PM on 02/12/2009

Learn to write sentences.

[kennydarter]

02:43 PM on 02/12/2009

talk about a guy who's full of hypocrisy and hate.
http://hat­eonme.com
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=Ie37ciAOO­Q0

[blahblog]

02:18 PM on 02/12/2009

How do you define facts? When Fox hunts down people on the street, they are following leads, usually gossip or headlines, they are still hounding them in their private lives, rather than setting up an interview and respecting their privacy. It's just Fox can't understand that they are acting like a tabloid by ambushing people. Celebritie­s included (did you not watch the end, U2009?)

[Vieux Charles]

11:06 PM on 02/12/2009

According to O'Reilly every person he's ever "hounded" turned down an opportunit­y to be interviewe­d.

[twitsted1]

12:19 AM on 02/13/2009

According to the paparazzi every person they've ever "hounded" for photos turned down an opportunit­y to be photograph­ed.

[CaptainHowdy]

06:44 PM on 02/13/2009

Yeah, well that's their right... isn't it? Are they obligated to do an interview with O'Reilly?

[U2009]

01:35 PM on 02/12/2009

Is this show supposed to be funny? I suggest that they try again.
Taking pictures for no reason other than sell magazines is one thing. Interviewi­ng someone to get specific facts is something completely different.

[brrichter]

02:25 PM on 02/12/2009

If you were smart and understood the subject matter, yes, it was funny.

[Sneakerface]

07:35 PM on 02/13/2009

O'Reilly and his ilk don't "interview­...to get specific facts." An interview presumes consent on the part of the interviewe­e. "Don't bother me, I don't want to talk to you is not giving specific facts to Bill O'Reilly's inquiring mind.

[Soberduud1]

12:03 PM on 02/12/2009

Hypocracy is alive and well ... and renting space at FIXED News. Bill needs to let that cut under his nose heal ...

[David Thomas 2]

11:33 AM on 02/12/2009

wait, I thought Bill O'Reilly WAS a comedian! huh? Isn't fox news just a comedy channel? nobody actually believes that right? I mean, it's just for laughs right? right? All this time, i've been giving fox news huge ups for comedic value...

[Obama and me]

10:57 AM on 02/12/2009

It is so sad that anyone watches Bill O'Reilly, he is a farse and a joke, at best he has and always will be a tabloid journalist­, spewing garbage at the American people, we can only hope his ratings go down and Fox dumps his lying butt.

[PWM]

02:21 PM on 02/12/2009

He represents the dark side of the American character.

[elr50]

07:39 AM on 02/12/2009

You know the media is in trouble because we get our news from a comedy network and our comedy from a (so called) "news" network. Certainly doesn't say much about the intelligen­ce of the American public.

[mamacat]

05:08 AM on 02/12/2009

Bill O'Reilly - the low-hangin­g-fruit on the comedy circuit. When one can't find anything else to make fun of, there is always that dependable fall guy, O'Reilly.

[2008CaliforniaFan]

02:43 AM on 02/12/2009

The Hypocrisy of it all is H I L A R I O U S Jon. I see all the Billbo supporters taking a whack at you here but then they think making ra_ci_sts song parady's about ethic groups is just the funniest thing in the world.
GOP thinkers feel 'entitled and privileged­' ... how dare we put a mirror up to them so that they have to look at themselves­. Maybe they don't like what they see...?

One of the B E S T Shows ever Jon.

[Sneakerface]

07:39 PM on 02/13/2009

It was a great one - but that's why The Colbert Report is even better. The whole show is partly a (sometimes thinly disguised) parody of O'Reilly, but don't tell the conservati­ves. Then again, it is completely over most of their heads anyway.