Stewart, O'Reilly Face Off Over White House Rapper

Jon Stewart accepted Bill O'Reilly's challenge and the pair debated rapper Common's White House appearance on last night's O'Reilly Factor. O'Reilly insisted that it was a mistake to have invited a rapper who "celebrates" a cop killer to a White House poetry night, while the Daily Show host maintained that Fox had hypocritically inflated the issue, Mediaite notes.

"There is a selective outrage machine here at Fox," Stewart said, noting that Bono was invited to the White House despite having written a song about Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents. O'Reilly said that anybody invited to a White House poetry event should be "almost unimpeachable." Presidents have better things to do than book their own "poetry slams," Stewart responded. (More Common stories.)