Fox News host Bill O’Reilly came to President Obama’s defense Wednesday night after Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) suggested that the President was sexist toward Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) while criticizing her views on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.
“In perhaps the strangest political story of the year, the President finds himself being attacked by the far left for criticizing Sen. Elizabeth Warren,” O’Reilly said. “Of course this whole thing’s insane. It’s a political disagreement. There is no sexism involved.”
O’Reilly then said that the suggestion that Obama was sexist shows how attacks against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be interpreted during the 2016 presidential campaign.
“This is a preview of what we’re going to see in the presidential campaign. The militant feminists and their enablers are firmly in Hillary Clinton’s camp. So, if Mrs. Clinton is criticized, believe me, the sexism deal will be all over the place,” he said. “Rather than debate that situation on its merits, the far left does what it always does — attacks personally.”
Obama and Warren have been trading jabs for the past few weeks over the TPP. In an interview published on Saturday, Obama criticized Warrens views on the trade deal and said that “Elizabeth is, you know, a politician like everybody else.”
On Tuesday, Brown said that Obama would not have called Warren by her first name if she were “a male senator.”
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended Obama’s comments and said that the President calls many senators by their first names.
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