There’s a feud brewing between master and apprentice across the cable news-sphere.
Earlier this week, Bill O’Reilly ripped into Stephen Colbert for lampooning the Fox News commentator’s remarks about income inequality, calling him a “darling of the far left internet” and a “deceiver.”
On Thursday’s edition of “The Colbert Report,” Colbert said he considered himself O’Reilly’s disciple and expressed his dismay over having found himself on the wrong side of his conservative icon.
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“If I thought for one second that something I said hurt Papa Bear’s feelings than I too am hurt and to be honest, a little turned on,” Colbert confessed.