During his “Talking Point Memo” segment on the Wednesday broadcast of “The O’Reilly Factor,” host Bill O’Reilly criticized former Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) for his remarks earlier in the day downplaying the attackers in the Paris shooting’s ties to Islam.

According Dean, it was incorrect to associate ISIS and the Paris attackers to Islam, to which O’Reilly called “dumb.”

“That’s just dumb, dumb,” O’Reilly said. “ISIS recruits fanatical Muslims. That’s who they recruit. They don’t go after flower children from San Francisco. They are not the Moonies. Howard Dean does not know what he is talking about. He is in a state of denial. And there are many, many others like him in America.”

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