Fox anchors fire back at Wright
O'REILLY, HANNITY | Conservative hosts target of funeral sermon
Conservative Fox News talk show hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity hit back at Barack Obama's retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Monday for his weekend comments criticizing them at appellate Justice Eugene Pincham's funeral.
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the church pews, Rev. Jeremiah Wright's back again," said O'Reilly.
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O'Reilly has bashed Wright since video surfaced three weeks ago of Wright's sermons criticizing American foreign policy as contributing to the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, including such controversial quotes from Wright as, "God Bless America? No, God damn America!"
O'Reilly and Hannity have blasted Wright as "anti-American" for those comments.
"Come back on the program, Rev. Wright," Hannity dared.
Coming out of his retirement Saturday to preside at Pincham's funeral Saturday, Wright said Pincham's faith wasn't the "you're either with us or against us" variety. "Fox News can't understand that. Bill O'Reilly will never get that. Sean Hannity's stupid fantasy will keep him forever stuck on stupid when it comes to comprehending how you can love a brother who does not believe what you believe," the Sun-Times reported Sunday.
On his Monday night show, O'Reilly said, "I don't think he likes me very much . . . [but] I don't know what his beef is with me."
O'Reilly's guest commentator Marc Lamont Hill of Temple University told O'Reilly that Wright's beef with him was that O'Reilly misrepresented his criticism of American foreign policy as criticism of America.
"I have heard you say people [who disagree with you] don't love America," Hill said.