“Late Show” host Stephen Colbert thought Bill O’Reilly’s impression of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was so bad that he asked the Fox News host if he was having a stroke.
“Trump and Sanders are really the same guy, they just change their facial expressions,” O’Reilly posited on Monday night.
To which Colbert replied, “I’ve never seen them in the same room at the same time.”
“Trump and Sanders are the same guy because they’re tapping into the anger of the voter who feels they’re getting hosed,” O’Reilly said. “On the right, they don’t like the fact that there’s an open border, they can’t solve that problem. That ISIS’s beheading Americans, nothing really happening to ISIS.”
Then, O’Reilly took a risk and did a Sanders impression while describing the left.
“On the left, they feel the economy is run by the billionaires! And I’m going to solve that! It’s rigged!” he said.
“I’m sorry. Did you just have a stroke just now?” a worried-looking Colbert asked. “What’s happening?”
“I want to make sure we have EMTs standing by,” he added.
Watch below:
If you’re keeping score that’s Colbert 2,436 - O’Reilly 0
It’s a risk for Bill O’Reilly anytime he tries to imitate a human being.
On a serious note, this interview contained more of the David-Brooks-esque equivocation we’ve all come to love lately, trying to paint both Trump and Sanders as two sides of the same coin.
So let me just see if I get this straight. One man thinks he can call Bill Gates to get the internet shut down, or that he can deport 11 million people in any kind of timely or legal manner, or that women using the bathroom is disgusting, or that he could theoretically shoot someone on the street and not only get away with it, but be even more popular because of it.
Meanwhile, the other man says we can provide free tuition to state schools, which is something they do in several countries already successfully, and which is something the US government has already done for millions of people over the last half-century+ with the G.I. Bill.
How are Trump and Sanders “the same” again?
remember who said it…
His best shot would be to imitate an angry blowhard imitating O’Reilly.