Bill O’Reilly was on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon Tuesday and the Fox News host had a message for the Republican candidates: stop whining about the debates.
Just the night before, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow had the same message.
Fallon asked O’Reilly what he thought of the CNBC debate and O’Reilly was very tough on the moderators.
“It was a disaster for CNBC because you can be tough — and you should be, any moderator should be tough on these people because they want power over all of us, so you really have to put them through their paces,” O’Reilly said. “But when you’re openly hostile then it becomes as Cruz said, ‘a cage match,’ and then people get uncomfortable and you don’t get enough information coming out, and that was the mistake the CNBC people made.”
But O’Reilly said that candidates should speak up if they think they’re being treated unfairly.
“If you think you’re being treated unfairly, you got a microphone let them have it,” the Fox News host continued.
He said part of the appeal of Donald Trump is that he says what he wants to say during the debates.
The Fox News host also said that the reason Trump and Ben Carson are doing so well in the polls is because the Republican primary voters are so angry that they’re looking for an avenger as much as a presidential candidate.
Watch the Fallon clip below:
