This week on “HuffPost Live,” former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) attacked Fox News correspondent Bill O’Reilly as a “right-wing mouthpiece” who “distorts consistently for the right-wing.”

Frank said, “He’s also a bully. I’ve had shouting matches with him. You have this problem when you go on his show. He starts being abusive and inaccurate. Either you fight back and you look like as big a boor as he is, or you sit there and let him get away with it. So I chose boorishness over passivity.”

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