FOX News' Bill O'Reilly Vs Jon Stewart (VIDEO) Common Controversy

FOX News Channel's Bill O'Reilly and Comedy Central's Jon Stewart have battled it out over the White House's decision to invite rapper 'Common' to a poetry reading, despite his open support for two cop-killers and his celebration of Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, a member of the Black Liberation Army who was convicted of killing a New Jersey State Trooper in 1977.
Jon Stewart poked some fun at O'Reilly over his stance on the issue, also taking a shot at many conservatives who are upset over President Barack Obama's invitation to Common to a poetry reading at the White House. "I'm not saying he's promoting cop killing," O'Reilly says. "Celebrating a cop killer, yes."
Stewart counters, "What I think he's doing is not celebrating, but honoring someone he thinks was wrongly convicted of cop killing. I think he believes she was convicted unjustly."
O'Reilly shot back, "That's fine. And if Common, who wasn't even born when this crime took place, thinks that based on nothing because the evidence is overwhelming, he's entitled as an American to do that."
"The President of the United States though, takes him into the house, thereby validating him. Come on, that was a bad decision."
"It elevates him as a poet or whatever. Do you know how many poets would have liked to be there?"
Stewart comically and rightly countered O'Reilly's points by pointing out that Bono, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen have all written songs about convicted killers - all of whom have been to the White House.
He also tells O'Reilly he's got "mad love" for him that he's something that shoots right into his "a*s."
Bernie Goldberg later came on the show and both O'Reilly and Goldberg praised Stewart as a "smarter than most" liberal who is also very funny. And that he is.