Bill O’Reilly Tells Fox Hosts To Stop Hyping The ‘Latte Salute’ (VIDEO)

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As the hosts of “Fox and Friends” discussed the conservative outrage over President Obama’s “latte salute” Thursday morning, Bill O’Reilly swooped in to defend the president.

Fox played a clip of Obama saluting two Marine with a cup in his hand while stepping off of Marine One on Tuesday, which has been dubbed the “latte salute.”

“Latte salute,” O’Reilly said chuckling.

“I know a lot of people don’t like President Obama, but once in a while, you gotta cut him a little slack,” he said. “He didn’t mean anything malevolent about it.”

Host Steve Doocy wondered if people should at least be upset that Obama was holding a styrofoam cup.

And Elisabeth Hasselbeck was still pretty upset about it.

“But you understand why it’s bothering?” she asked.

O’Reilly said he realized why people were upset, but he added that, “in life, you don’t sweat the small stuff.”

Watch the video via Fox News:

H/t Huffington Post

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