In a recent interview to promote his new book on Presidents, Bill O'Reilly praised Barack Obama, calling him the hardest-working modern President.
O'Reilly certainly didn't seem to like Obama when he was occupying the White House. At the time O'Reilly was the top pundit on Fox News and would tell his listeners what a horrible job Obama was doing with every chance he would get.
The Conservative pundit sat down with News Nations Leland Vittert to talk about his book, Confronting the Presidents. When the topic came to the 44th Commander in Chief, O'Reilly claimed:
"We were very fair to Barack Obama in Confronting the Presidents. We had a good relationship with Obama. I knew what he was doing it, and why he was doing it. And he wasn’t, in his mind, or in my mind, damaging the country. I didn’t think he was damaging the country at all. Obama is the hardest working modern President."
The former Fox News star then continued:
"I didn’t agree with his mass spending tactics because I don’t think that works in the long run for the working American. Can’t raise taxes the way these guys want to raise them on the Democratic side. But I don’t think Obama was a bad president at all. In fact, you could put him in the good category because he uplifted a portion of the population that needed to be uplifted, people of color."