Bill O'Reilly and Jon Stewart Reunite for Debate on 'The Daily Show'

Many online have criticized Stewart's decision to host O'Reilly on the show. Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson, who sued Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in 2016 for sexual harassment, has also criticized the decision. Named “The decision is ‘incredibly outrageous… The fact that O’Reilly is back on a platform to promote the idea that bad men get revenge and brave women continue to be punished,’” journalist Yashar Ali books that “there was no reason to give” [O’Reilly] “Platform” unless he is asked about the accusations against him.

On Tuesday night's episode, which did not mention the allegations, O'Reilly said he and Stewart “can disagree without hating each other,” before joking: “Now, I really hate him, but I don't show it.” Stewart responded: “You handle it well.”

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O'Reilly criticized “The View” for starting its coverage with the fact that the shooter at the Trump campaign rally was recorded. republican.

“Look, you and I are both somewhat ossified practitioners of the sometimes confrontational, sometimes provocative rhetorical arts,” Stewart responded. “And we’ve made a really great living pushing these envelopes. Now it’s like, Hey, these other people need to stop… Shouldn’t the argument be that we need to start arguing with each other in good faith?”

O'Reilly defended criticism and “robust debate” in politics, but said the “difference” is that “bigots on the left and the right want to see their opposition destroyed, they want to hurt them.”

Stewart said he did not disagree with O'Reilly's comments but claimed that “there is a sense [on the right] “They didn't do it and that's the business of the left.”

“How can we have a conversation about rhetoric if we can’t even agree — if there are illusions like ‘they’re just really’?” Stewart added.

Throughout the clip, the two also exchange sarcasm, including when O'Reilly mentions his “job as a journalist,” to which Stewart responds: “Oh, when did you get that job?”

They also discussed the presidential records of Biden and Trump, with O'Reilly citing economic and social issues he blamed on Biden, while Stewart blamed Trump for the large deficit and high spending on tax cuts. Stewart also mocked O'Reilly's suggestion that Trump's actions during the January 6 uprising “haunted him every day since,” and took issue with O'Reilly's suggestion that Trump would have had a big lead in the polls otherwise.

O'Reilly and Stewart have repeatedly clashed over the years: most notably, in 2014, they discussed the issue of white privilege after the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, by a white police officer.