O’Reilly’s comments
Published by Mike Stark September 25th, 2007 in Uncategorizedugh. i hate writing this post.
o’reilly’s an ignorant ass. in his effort to make a point about the stupidity of racism, he embarrassed himself.
a lot’s been written about his latest comments, but really, the full story - the entire context in which his comments were made - well, he demonstrate his own extreme ignorance and benign racism.
but his comments do not demonstrate active, malicious racism…
should he be fired? hell yes. should he hold political office? hell no. is he deserving of scorn? hell yes.
but not for this.
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Why is it that pretentious white boys like yourself feel it necessary to tell the black folks how and what to be offended at?
Who is the racist here?
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you, Mike….While O’Liely’s overall discussion DID posess a positive spin, Bill-o’s error is that he is unable to even recognize that he is guilty of a more subtle and demeaning form of racism, known as the soft racism of low expectation.
To walk into a Harlem restaurant and be “pleasantly surprised” that people were NOT acting to your expected stereotype is demeaning, and downright stupid.
What was Bill-o’s expectation? Was he expecting to walk into the “Filet o’ Soul” scene from the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die”? Did he think he would sit at the table only to have the arms of the chair clamp around his wrists and the wall spin around placing him face-to-face with Yaphet Koto (or Reverend Jackson???)? Or was his mental picture the “Dexter Lake Club” bar scene from “Animal House”?
To remark about your surprise that you didn’t witness the stereotypical things you EXPECTED to witness is blind racism. It is the act of that expectation which proves the true content of his soul, not the context of the overall discussion.
he should be held to account not just for his ignorance, but for his behavior after the fact. i think his being clueless and disrespectful is a given and his shtick, but to blame george soro’s mediamatters (heh) as distorting is hilarious. also, racism is racism, whether malicious or not.
I agree that is it racist; I just make a clear distinction between racism with malice and racism that stems from ignorance.
The longer he goes without apologizing though… well… I may be persuaded… When you have it explained to you and aren’t humble enough to learn the lesson… well, there’s something about willful ignorance here. It’s too damned bad we’ve got so many Juan Williams’ out there providing cover for him.
Ultimately, none of this will hurt O’Reilly… at least with his audience. He managed to play the vicitim of Media Matters, the lib media, etc. His followers (many of whom are dying of old age) will rally around their boy.
But what if he had played it differently? “You know what folks, when I expressed suprise at how nice it was, and how it was no different from an Italian restuarant in a white suburb.
“It was eye-opening for me. Because, while I’ve met black people in my life — Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Colin Powell, and so forth, I’ve never really spent any time around black people. I guess my attitudes were shaped by prejudices.
“From now on, maybe I should be more careful about making presumptions about a person’s character based on that person’s skin color. It doesn’t necessarily mean I’m going to change my politics, or what I say on my radio and TV show, but it does mean that I have to think about my attitudes.”
Bill-O had an epiphany, and could’ve grown from it. All he had to do is admit that maybe he was wrong.
But we know THAT’S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN…
Old, fatboy-Stark said:
“It’s too damned bad we’ve got so many Juan Williams’ out there providing cover for him.”
You mean the “Happy Negro”? I won’t be holding my breath waiting for you to condemn CNN for airing that racial slur against Juan (TWICE).
But, just for fun, let’s look at what the NUMBER THREE person for the democratic presidential nomination (John “Silky Pony” Edwards) said this week:
“pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African American male population in America – they’re all gonna be in prison or dead.” Nice.
Of course there’s always the NUMBER ONE person running for the dem’s, Hillary Clinton:
“Mahatma Gandhi “ran a gas station down in Saint Louis.”
And NUMBER FOUR in the polls, Democratic Senator Joe Biden:
“You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent.”
But, please- don’t forget former Klan leader and the Democrat’s “Conscience of the Senate” Robert Byrd:
“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
and this gem:
“I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state …. The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia …. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va …. I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities.”
…but, somehow, Bill O is the racist.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - P L E A S E - keep this up until Nov. 08!
Between you loons and MoveOn, the Republicans are ASSURED of taking the White House. Its because of folks like you that there have only been THREE Democrats elected president during the last FORTY YEARS!!!!
Methinks poor FFRANK has been listening to a little too much Hannity.
Frank? Think you could drop us all a note when you return from fantasyland?
Very condesending Jeff, thanks for not addressing the acutal SUBSTANCE of the post.
Liberals: DO AS WE SAY… NOT AS WE DO.
No, Frank…each of the quotes you posted are stock Hannity….selectively edited, and totally void of context. That’s Sean’s trick, and people like you lap it up like pablum. Any thinking person is already aware of that fact, so your argument LACKS any substance whatsoever.
Open your ears and listen boy, you can even hear the gaps in his edits.
See you on election day, Frankie…I’ll be the one handing you a crying towel.
Yes, Jeff-boy; they are stock quotes.
Stock quotes from those oh, so tollerant liberals.
Again, thanks for addressing the actual SUBSTANCE; but, what do I know? I’m just a “Happy Negro” according to CNN.
BTW- Yes, I’ll see you on Election Day.
Here is what the 2008 Democratic nominee is likely to be for-
ABROAD: ensuring defeat in Iraq and permitting a nuclear Iran.
AT HOME: more illegal immigration, higher taxes, more government control of health care, and more aggressive prosecution of the war on smoking than of the war on terror.
So, PLEASE keep running on that!
“John ‘Silky Pony’ Edwards”? And you whine about “slurs”, condescension and racist quotes from an antique Dixiecrat who didn’t become a Republican as soon as Lyndon Johnson’s signature was dry on the Civil Rights Act of 1965. What kind of “Happy Negro” are you anyway, Frank? They taught you to write, didn’t they? Too bad they didn’t teach you to think, while they were at it — or at least, not to hate.
Hey, forget it! I know I’m wasting my cyber-breath on you. You gotta run … it’s almost time for Rush, innit?
Hillary (Ghandi ran a gas station) Clinton and Joe ( 7-11 /Obama is CLEAN and articulate) Biden and John “Silky Pony” (all young blacks will be in jail or dead) Edwards are Antique Dixiecrats? WoW.
By the way, if you can explain how describing the Breck Girl’s hair style is “racist”, please do.
Democrats:
*Taking your hard-earned money (tax increases for welfare programs)
*Killing babies (abortion on demand… even for minors)
*Discrimiating on the basis of race (affirmative action)
What a party!
GO HILLARY!
As I said, See you on election day, Frankie…I’ll be the one handing you a crying towel.
No, Frank, Byrd was the antique Dixiecrat, and you know it. You think you’re being clever, but you’re just showing off your “gotcha” mentality. as if that added “substance” to your remarks.
“By the way, if you can explain how describing the Breck Girl’s hair style is “racist”, please do.” Slur, halfwit ~ I said SLUR. Not “racist” — just nasty, hateful slander.
And if explaining anything to you were possible, Frankie-Poo, I might have a go at it. But everything you say here proves it a forlorn hope.
You guys should just run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president.
He’s more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like your base, he’s more macho than John Edwards, and he’s willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question — unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won’t debate on Fox News Channel. He’s not married to an impeached president, and the name “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” is surely no more frightening than “B. Hussein Obama.”
Frank, do you actually use an A.M. radio to pick up your marching orders, or do the voices eminate from within your head? I’m serious…do you even realize how thoroughly bat-shit crazy you really sound?
Hey, Jeff-Boy- if the burka fits…
(and no, I take my marching orders from Soros and MoveOn… screw General BETRAYus!)
Frank: “COO-coo….COO-coo….COO-coo”
Frankie, I see a padded cell somewhere in your not-too-distant future son…I HIGHLY suggest that you consider swearing off the Hannity while there is still some rational little bit left in your tiny lizard brain.
NO BLOOD FOR OIL!
BUSH IS HITLER!
BREAST NOT BOMBS!
H A L I B U R T O N !
CHAVEZ IS GOOD FOR POOR PEOPLE!
…did I miss anything from today’s MediaSplatters Jeff-boy?
Frankie,
Here are a few questions for you to ponder in that little lizard brain of yours:
1.) Why do you hate the majority of your fellow Americans?
2.) Who is teaching you to hate a majority of your fellow countrymen?
3.) Do you even understand what historians tend to call people who preach hatred of their fellow countrymen?
For your own good, I suggest you consider toning down the rhetoric a notch, boy. I hate to be the one to tell you, but you are really beginning to sound quite screechy and unhinged.
My God, It’s worse than I thought….not only is poor frankie addicted to hannity, he’s also a follower of that blithering idiot, Mark Lavin.
I pray for your tortured soul, frankie…I really do.
Jeff-Boy:
1) You can’t pray for my soul… democrats/liberals don’t believe in God
2) The “majority” of Americans have only elected a democrat for president 3 times in the over the last FORTY years… so, technically, I LOVE the majority of Americans
3) Its Levin - and I’ll take him, Hannity, Rush, and any other “wingnut” over the baby killing, tax-raising, race descriminating smear merchants like MoveOn and MediaSplatters.
But, here is a question for YOU-
If the DEMOCRATS picked General Petreaus, and
the DEMOCRATS voted UNANIMOUSLY to confrim him,
HOW did he “betray” us?
Look, I’m sorry that all three of the top dems running for Prez are against gay marriage and front runner Hillary! (by 30-40 point margin) is all for continuing the war, but don’t take it out on me!
Squiggy,
It appears that like most red-meat neo-clowns you are far too stupid to realize that Levin is nothing more than a low-rent Grover Dill to Sean Hannity’s Scott Farcas….a half-assed toadie to a half-whit bully.
I have to give little markie props, though… I DID love his voiceover work in the movie “Mars Attacks” (Ack-ack-ack….ACK-ACK-ack-ack).
As for the remainder of your tripe, I can’t wait to see you at the polls on election night, son…It’ll be just like when y’all got your asses handed to you in the 2006 cycle. You were overconfident, and underprepared for the royal smackdown you received.
Don’t fret though, little piggie…You see, on election night, I’ll be the smiling face offering you and your kind complementary crying towels, …unlike you, at least we progressive liberals ARE truely compassionate.
Make that FOUR times, pinhead…No matter how much you twenty-three-percenters hate to admit it, the MAJORITY of Americans also elected Al Gore….Bush won on Electoral votes.
Jeff-Boy- oooooh… you got me, If ONLY Gore had won TENNESSEE - you know, his HOME STATE; the PEOPLE WHO KNEW HIM BEST?
Then he would have won.
Sorry you’re still living in the past,
Did I mention that there has only been 3 Democrats in the White House in over FORTY YEARS!?!?
F-O-R-T-Y Y-E-A-R-S
Yes, Frankie…you did mention your Hannifact. You mentioned it twice. Sean repeats it to you every day…drills it into your lizard brain. He does it because it’s all you have. Your kind HAS to rely on the past, Frankie. That’s because the past is all you have. You HAVE to live in the past because today, all the “heroes” of your neo-conservitive movement are either dead, disgraced, in jail, or on the way there.
All hail Tom Delay! All hail Duke Cunningham! All hail Newt Gingrich!
Great group of leaders you got there, boy!
Frankie’s so predictible, next thing out of his mouth will be to tell us all what a saint Ronald Reagan was, like we all didn’t live through his failed presidency.
Keep living in the past, frankie…that’s all you have left.
I’ll keep my eye on the future…that’s where we are headed.
Hey, Frankie! I got an idea that your pals on the far right loon-a-sphere would really rally behind!
Your current presidential field of contenders sucks so ferociously that you need a new hook for that old-timey republican base to sink their dentures into….what do you think about;
Let’s dig up the Dutch!
Why don’t you get a shovel and a big fuckin’ sheet of plastic, and we’ll go pull Reagan’s fettid corpse out of the ground and run that!
It works for your kind on so many levels! Reagan’s just as responsive and animated as he was for the last half of his second term…and he’s rested and ready!
C.mon, frankie…it’s a great idea SURE to get the Hannity endorsement!
I can see the bumper stickers now; “Dutch ‘08…don’t mind the smell.”
What’ya think, frankie?
Jeff-Boy said: “Great group of leaders you got there, boy!”
Do you REALLY want to go down a listing of DEM “leaders” like William “the refrigerator” Jefferson? Really?
BTW- you don’t need to dig up Dutch when you’ve got Robert KKK Byrd - at 102, he fits the bill. And as far as “old-timey republican base to sink their dentures into”, I’m sorry that we adults aren’t as cool as you and fat-boy Stark. You guys ROCK!
Any other MediaSplatters/MoveOn talking points you want to get out today?
BUSH HATES CHILDREN
BUSH IS HITLER
H A L I B U R T O N !
GO HILLARY!
(you’re the Republican’s best hope!)
Repeats. (yawn)
Gee, Frankie….With Demonici, there are now FIVE, count ‘em FIVE! repugnican senators throwing in the towel this election cycle!
Around my parts, we call that rats jumping off a sinking ship.
Damn, the first Wednesday in November 2008 is going to be a gloomy day for your kind.
I suggest you stock up on the prozac.
Thats rich saying that I repeat, Mr. HANITTY, HANITTY, HANITTY!!!
By the way, didn’t the dems win control of BOTH houses last year?!?
***WHY are we still in Iraq?
***WHERE’s my universial health care?
***HOW COME my minimum wage hasn’t increased?
Oh yeah, the dems are spineless morons who can’t do anything- even when THEY ARE IN CONTROL!!!
GO HILLARY!
(you’ll win it for us yet!)
We won control, but not enough for a fillibuster-proof and veto-proof supermajority (what…did you sleep through fifth grade civics? Oh…my bad…I forgot…you are a hannitite…Reason and logic are not in your skill set). Republicans still have, and repeatedly exercise, the abilility to block reasonable legislation to effect these changes. By the way,
Most sane Americans recognize this, frankie…and that’s why the Democratic party are going to take even more seats from your side in ‘08.
Believe me, I know you don’t like it, but it is what it is.
Frank,
Go home. Here’s some directions for you –> Nutjob Central
Frank,
Do yourself a favor and remove yourself from the gene pool.
Good one, Kevin- brief and to the point.
Good little, liberal.
Frank, No shit….I’d like to meet you someday…That way I could accurately describe to other people what a walking,talking rectum really looks like.
B.T.W….Current polls show that you 23%ers are now down to 18%. That’s less than one in five people in this country who are still “true believers” that dubbya is the second coming.
Sightings of your kind are becomming rarer than bigfoot.