“But now, that’s not rewarded,” he continued. “That kind of detente where two people look at life differently isn’t rewarded. The haters get the big money, and so that’s what you have, and I think all Americans have got to hold the corporations accountable.”
The former pundit famously made his bones as the irate host of “The O’Reilly Factor.” Despite his own history of sowing division on Fox News, O’Reilly seemed to suggest it was liberal media’s fault for America’s hostile political climate.
“You can’t do anything about the guys in the basement … these conspiratorial nuts, you can’t do anything about that,” he said Tuesday. “But you can say to corporations, ‘You better knock this stuff off. You better stop calling people racists and Nazis and this and that.’”
Trump was speaking at a Pennsylvania rally when a lone gunman made an attempt on his life.
“We don’t know what caused him to do that — we knew he was a miserable kid who was bullied and all of this stuff ... but we don’t get into, ‘Oh he’s a Republican!’” O’Reilly said of the shooter on Tuesday. “That’s the first thing they said on ‘The View.’ The first thing they said!” (It was not the first thing they said.)
“Stop it,” he added. “That does nobody any good.”
Stewart pushed back, reminding O’Reilly, “You and I are both somewhat fossilized practitioners of the rhetorical arts .... and we made a really spectacular living pushing those envelopes. It seems now, to say, ‘These other people should stop...’” he trailed off, to applause.
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Trump was speaking at a Pennsylvania rally when a lone gunman made an attempt on his life. 
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