Politics

Yes, Lincoln Would Have Done ‘Between Two Ferns’

HISTORY LESSON

Bill O’Reilly attacked President Obama for making a viral video, saying the Great Emancipator wouldn’t stoop so low. History proves the opposite.

It was said with all the certainty that defines the Master of the Cable News Universe.

“All I can tell is you is Abe Lincoln would not have done it,” Bill O’Reilly said Tuesday night.

“It,” of course, was President Obama’s appearance on Between Two Ferns, the Zach Galifianakis-hosted Web show that...

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