Bill O'Reilly Lashes Out At 'Hateful' Republicans (VIDEO)

Bill O'Reilly took some Republicans to task on his Thursday show, saying that they needed to stop their "craziness," tone down their "hateful rhetoric" and pass a debt ceiling increase.

Speaking to guest host Laura Ingraham from Los Angeles, O'Reilly said he had taken a "moderate" stance on the debt crisis, and he warned Republicans who have so far been unwilling to pass a debt ceiling increase would only be helping President Obama, who he said had taken an "enormous hit" from the debate.

"The only thing that can save Barack Obama at this point is craziness on the right," he said. "...It's not only going to hurt the Republican party, which has already been hurt, but it's going to save President Obama who they hate."

"Exactly," Ingraham said.

"The irony is, the people who dislike President Obama the most...are helping him the most," O'Reilly said. "You've got to stop this hateful rhetoric. Some of the rhetoric is so hateful...it'd spin your head around. You have to say, listen, we're at a point in the history when we have to save the country."

WATCH:

O'Reilly has previously offered to fly down to Washington to personally broker the debt talks. Clearly, no one took him up on his offer.

Comments

[tangerinesong]

09:29 PM on 08/02/2011

This ingrate O'Reilly really thinks he can appeal to centrists. Hey O'Really? Take your act and flush it. He's nothing more than 7 feet of old white man syndrome thinking he's hip. Nothing more grotesque other than his settling out his phone sex issues he has with Mommy. Pound sand O'Really however you and Ingraham were right in saying the Tea Party folks are insane and dangerous but telling the truth for once will win you no fans here in the least. I wouldn’t spit on you if you were on fire and I’m moderate.

[Nuker]

07:58 PM on 08/02/2011

did it suddenly freeze over somewhere?!

[ahornick]

05:34 PM on 08/02/2011

He calls for a halt to the hateful rhetoric. Good so far. Then he explains that it is a strategy that may backfire - Oops

Hey Bill, the answer is that you're suppose to not use hateful rhetoric because it is non-productive, irresponsible, completely undignified for a high level elected official and its just disrespectful to fellow human beings.

But keep working on it you might get it one day.

[johuyik]

05:19 PM on 08/02/2011

Bill O'Reilly is the Voice of Reason??

I must have slipped into another dimension, this can't be the world I was living in yesterday!

[Em Ess]

07:31 PM on 08/02/2011

Don't let him fool you. He's not telling the GOP to calm down out of a genuine dislike of their radical behavior. He's simply telling them to calm down because he thinks the more crazy they show themselves to be, the better chance Obama has to be re-elected.

[windy33]

02:50 PM on 08/02/2011

they don't only hate OBAMA they hate the poor, the elderly, and the middle class. they hate us so much that paul ryan and his side kicks are out to kill off the elderly. plain and simple. it is time for we the people to stand up to them and demand that they give up their government run health care which they love aqnd we pay for and they need to give up their huge pensions that we pay for. it is time they pay for their own as we are made to pay for. we are broke thanks to them and we can no longer afford their entitlements take away ours and we take away yours. by the end of 2012 we will be witnessing the biggest revolution since what the 1930's. GOD HELP US FIGHT THE GREEDY AND THE HEARTLESS

[RTIII]

10:06 AM on 08/02/2011

"Bill O'Reilly took some Republicans to task on his Thursday show, saying that they needed to stop their "craziness," tone down their "hateful rhetoric"

Pot, meet kettle.

...There's also a quote here that reminds me of a Vietnam era saying, rephraised: "We had to destroy the country in order to save it."

[MGWilson]

03:55 AM on 08/02/2011

The new Republican strategy appears to be to take a postion that is so damaging it will implode the country. They do this knowing full well that the Democrats witll compromise to prevent the implosion. Thus, the Replicans always win.

[Bankenstein]

03:10 AM on 08/02/2011

Compassionate conservatism: "Calling him Mao and Mussolini is ok but Hitler is just crossing the line"

[inesison]

01:28 AM on 08/02/2011

Thanks Name for snapping me out of it. Not sure what i was thinking.....must have been those 10 hours on twitter lol Seriously, thanks

[jugglefire]

04:07 PM on 08/01/2011

Said the kettle to the pot.

[hgus]

03:00 PM on 08/01/2011

Yeah, "fair and balanced" and "no spin"

It sounds like Bill O is trying to give Obama haters some advise on how to "hate" better.

LOL

[TheWM]

01:50 PM on 08/01/2011

Not since 1945: http://thewrongmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/08/not-since-1945.html

[thepill]

01:25 PM on 08/01/2011

Is O'Reilly sniffing the demise of Mordor and trying to make himself more appealing to the mainstream?

[hawhite2000]

01:09 PM on 08/01/2011

It is easier to take him seriously when he isn't holding a harpoon yelling, "From Hell's heart, I stab at thee."

[dax49]

12:25 PM on 08/01/2011

This guy is afraid he will soon join beck in limbo- no more big checks, no more loofahs, no more job!