President Obama’s recent appearance on Zach Galifianakis’ fake interview show, “Between Two Ferns,” has sent many right-wingers and D.C. centrists toward their fainting chairs, pearls firmly clutched in hand. In their telling, Obama’s participation in the online series imperiled the “dignity” of his office. (The president is only allowed to be funny when his audience is a bunch of elite journalists, it appears.) Of all the silly reactions from the right, however, none were quite as unintentionally humorous and bizarre as that of Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. During his show on Tuesday night, the frequent sayer of silly things claimed that while he had no issue with the White House using humor to promote Obamacare, sitting down with a comedian, as Obama did, is just something Abraham Lincoln, one of Obama’s heroes, would never have done…* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from ELIAS ISQUITH / Mediaite: http://www.salon.com/2014/03/12/bill_oreilly_abraham_lincoln_wouldnt_have_done_between_two_ferns/