O'Reilly went after Rather on his podcast — while also mocking other pundits as "one of the reasons
I don’t really miss" being on cable news! Former anchorman Rather, who resigned from CBS in 2004 in a "fake news" scandal, had called President Trump "a grade-schooler" for saying Andrew Jackson could have stopped the Civil War if the American hero had been born "a little bit later."
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“Dan Rather, who knows very little about history, and others go out and they hammer Trump like he’s a moron,” said O'Reilly — adding: “Trump was right!” The former FOX host went on to declare: “Andrew Jackson would not have tolerated any secession movement at all...These morons that you see on cable news, just turn them off. Just turn them off because you are never going to get an honest story!”
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