President Obama was the latest to weigh in on the scandal surrounding host Bill O’Reilly on Saturday, cracking a joke at the Fox host’s expense.
At the Gridiron Club and Foundation’s annual dinner, Obama joked that House Republicans may be plotting a coup.
“Or as Bill O’Reilly calls it, ‘reporting from the war zone,'” the President said, according to the Associated Press.
In recent months reporters have hounded the Fox host over his past reporting and statements.
Questions have surfaced over O’Reilly’s claims to have been in “war zone,” in Argentina after the Falklands War had ended, and having “seen” nuns murdered in El Salvador.
Obama took other shots at conservatives, such as Wisoncsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) for sidestepping questions about the President’s Christian faith.
“Gov. Walker, salaam alaikum,” Obama said.
The AP reported that the president also joked about his age, and the possible effects his GOP rivals are inflicting on his health.
“Coffee really disagrees with me these days, which is why John Boehner just invited coffee to address the joint House,” he said.
You gotta admit, the President has some funny writers working for him who know how to tell a joke. Talk show hosts should snap them up when Obama finally leaves the White House.
Prez taking some well deserved revenge.
O’Reilly will be all pissed off and just as lame as ever.
Many of them already do that…the writers of the Daily Show have written for him before at the Correspondent’s dinner. I’m pretty sure he usually goes out of the usual pool of staff writers to get his jokes written. WH writers are policy wonks…
The picture TPM used here at first led me to believe Obama had said this to O’Reilly’s face to face, during an interview.
I also thought the House Republicans were planning a coup against Obama, not Boehner.
TPM is really going down hill.