Brit Hume visited The O’Reilly Factor last night for what purported to be a preview of President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight. But, as is almost always the case with Fox when the subject is Obama, the real purpose seemed to be a pretext for taking shots at him. In this case, Hume suggested that President Obama is more interested in "income equality" for those 47% takers than in creating a good environment for the makers.

After suggesting that the only reason President Obama won re-election was because of the “great job” he did getting out the (takers’) vote, Hume said:

Will (Obama) make the long-awaited, finally make the long-awaited pivot to the economy? The buzz in Washington over the weekend has been that he’s going to pivot to the economy… because it’s still weak. I’ve had a suspicion for a long time, Bill, that this president isn’t really, is not really very interested in or by the economy. I think he doesn’t really fully understand it. I think that he’s much more preoccupied with equality of opportunity or even equality of income and with social justice than he is with the growth of the economy. And if the economy’s bumping along at one or two percent growth, that may be good enough for him and I don’t think he’s going to go out of his way and adopt any policies that aren’t completely comfortable with him to try to boost the growth and I think that’s a big issue that will haunt him and his party for some time.

O’Reilly didn’t disagree. He said he  “would be surprised” if Obama spends a lot of time on the economy “because he’s got the guns and the immigration stuff right where he wants to have them as far as hammering the Republicans on them.”