O'Reilly Wants Proof That FoxNews Is Racist: Read Your Own Columns, Bill

Yesterday on his Radio Factor, Bill O'Reilly tried as hard as he could to come up with something that proved the case those dang smear sites were making. That the Fox News channel is racist. He even brought on the ever brilliant, albeit Fox News consultant, Prof. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a real live African-American, to try to help him.

Problem is, neither Bill nor Prof. Hill ever looked at the "Fox's Quarterback" (Bill's own egoless designation) himself.

In one of the most incendiary columns ever written, "Race And The Presidential Election," Bill O'Reilly sets the race-bait bar to record-breaking ... depths. Short of saying that Barack Obama wants to sleep with your pearly-white daughter, O'Reilly used just about every button meant to alarm his white fans to the fact that Barack Obama is BLACK and that just his running for, let alone becoming, president, could set off race-laced fireworks.

Of course Bill said this wasn't race-baiting as he was just reporting the facts (despite Prof. Dr. Hill's protestations that day), here were just a few comments from Bill's column ...

"Obama seems to be in. Now comes the hard part -- convincing Americans that he is the best choice for president without all hell breaking loose on the race front."

Since when does convincing Americans that a candidate is the best choice lead to "hell breaking loose," unless you want your reader to believe it can?

"Thanks partly to Reverend Wright's now immortal 'the USA of KKK' remark, the race factor has emerged big time in this election. If you don't believe me, just look at the vote in North Carolina and Indiana."

Reverend Wright, Reverend Wright, Reverend Wright. Remember, Bill's just reporting the facts, not READ THE REST OF THE STORY HERE
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[5150]

Ipse dixit, Dixiecrats once was Tweedle-D they R-Tweedledum, if I do say so myself.

[dutt]

Bill O'Reilly is a manipulative bully and a master of spin. He enjoys ambushing his targets and calling them names. When a guest somehow manages to get a word in, he tells them to shut up. As distasteful an individual he is, I don't believe he is a racist (I think one could make the argument that he is a race baiter though). I haven't listened enough to Fox News to come to any conclusion whether it's racist but with such commentators as Hannity and Ingraham I can't really take the network seriously.

[lisakaz2]

Hillarious. There are so many, like his dinner at Sylvia's, that fist-jab baloney, the Baby-Mama thing. Of course, he won't accept any of these. After all, he defended doctored photos of reporters as somehow appropriate for "news."

[MJonly]

The major fear I react to when I think of O'Reilly is the number of people that listen to him.

[Sweetie4Obama]

YES!! You are so right, MJonly. However, I have to admit, I peek in from time to time, only because I like to know what b.s. the other side is spewing. I've also called him a couple of times, and of course, he cuts you off when you prove him wrong. Oh, wait, once, I proved him wrong (on the William Ayers craziness), he had the nerves to give me a "signed copy" of his book. Needless to say, I hung up right after my comment (hmmm, maybe I could have used the book to balance my vanity....nah, don't want that mess in my home). Anyway, back to the original point--what truly amazes me is how many of his listeners eat, sleep, and live by what he says. Wow!!!

[bayside]

Ask a KKK racist then ask a fox watcher. Bet they think alike..

[trinidadgirl]

Mr O'Reilly tries hard to 'come over' as if he is simply reporting facts. ...a transparent technique, that works well with people who just listen on a sublimal level. However the underlying racist undertones, are very much well and alive and are constructed to play well into people's psyche. The problem is that I don't think that he knows that he is innately racist, as he has never been challenged into internalising this 'factor' until the recent focus on the electioons and Mr Obama.
In my book Fox news has become more puerile in its delivery, as well as in the continuum of the daily adnauseum diatribe.
I do not have an IQ of 2 and need more upliftment and elevation from the presenters/reporters on a tv screen.

[JNagarya]

O'Reilly knows he is spewing racism. Stop making excuses for him.

Same goes for FOX. Roger Ailes directs the content of the "news" on FOX, at the direction of Murdoch. The racism is conscious and deliberate.

No less deliberate than the "failure" of the mainstream networks to tell the dirty truth about McSame and the positive facts about Obama.

Clue: FOX, and the manistream media, want McSame as president. That is their conscious choice and effort. And that includes the racism -- whic couldn't be much more overt -- they spew.

[doctorwang]

(very) nicely written!