Thats not what O’Reilly said. He noted there were a couple of ‘right wing nuts, just like there are always a couple of far left nuts’ at rallies for either side.
“Some of these tea party people are nuts! They are! They’re crazy!”
He also goes on to say they're loonies, if you look at the video. Ten percent? He highlights the loonies here, which probably makes him the left's darling, and makes Jon Stewart's statement that he's the only sane voice on Fox understandable. Fact is, in any crowd, there's going to be some "loonies." Why bring it up, unless he's trying to smear the Tea Parties.
That, plus both Beck's and O'R's flat refusal to consider the eligibility issue, makes me distrust virtually anything else they say.
O’Reilly said that 10% of the Tea Party were were real loons. That’s more than a couple.