When O’Reilly was finished speaking about how careful we should be with what we say about the war because it affects the troops, no one clapped. However after Letterman basically said the same thing as O’Reilly, the whole audience seemed to agree and clapped. As the interviewed progressed, O’Reilly seemed to be shutting down Letterman every time he spoke bad about the war — without any evidence to back his claims up — and therefore he attempted to change the subject. One time he said “lets go back to your little red and green argument”, referring to O’Reilly’s “War on Christmas”.
Letterman felt strong about “grieving mother” Cindy Sheehan, in fact at one point he said “Holy Christ, Holy Christ” when referring to O’Reilly’s disdain for her. However, Letterman eventually agreed with O’Reilly when the latter brought up Sheehan calling terrorists in Iraq, “freedom fighters”. By the end of the argument, Letterman became more friendlier with Bill O’Reilly when he knew that he lost the argument.
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