O’Reilly Calls High Schooler A “Pinhead”

Last week, Bill O’Reilly called high school junior Jesse Lange a “pinhead.”

Update: 3:12pm: Fox News did not remove O’Reilly’s remark from subsequent airings of the segment.

Lange was asked “not to quote the incendiary parts from The O’Reilly Factor For Kids… but the book was the perfect counterpoint to O’Reilly’s thinly constructed premise,” so Lange couldn’t resist. Here’s what happened:

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