Fox News host Bill O’Reilly wasn’t at all fazed Thursday when a State Department spokeswoman accused him of being sexist.
After O’Reilly bashed agency spokesman Jen Psaki as lacking the necessary “gravitas” for her position, Psaki’s deputy Marie Harf called out the Fox News host on Twitter for being classless.
Harf later expanded on her tweet in Thursday’s State Department briefing, accusing O’Reilly of using “sexist, personally offensive” language.
“I think that when the anchor of a leading cable news show uses, quite frankly, sexist, personally offensive language against the person that shares this podium with me, I think I have an obligation and I think it’s important to step up and say that’s not ok,” Harf said.
“No, I would never say that about a man, would I?” O’Reilly chuckled after playing a clip of Harf’s comment. “Naw, not me! Picking on the ladies.”
The Fox News host then said he invited Harf and Psaki to appear Friday on “The O’Reilly Factor.” Perhaps he extended the invitation to prove, as his colleagues Megyn Kelly and Howie Kurtz said in his defense, that he’s an equal-opportunity critic.
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