What? What did I say? It was a compliment!
Once again, Bill O’Reilly showed himself to be….well, who we all thought he was; pretty arrogant and ignorant. I’m tempted to use the R-word, but you know how seriously I take that word (hence the annoying avatar). I’ve defended Billy more often than I’d like to admit. Despite himself, he’s just right sometimes. Just a few weeks ago, I defended him to all my liberal friends who called him racist for ranting about VA Tech inviting Nas to rap at their memorial concert. Nas’ albums include words of not just violence, but gun violence and chantings of “kill kill kill” and “murder murder murder.” Bill was right.This was a memorial for victims of gun violence. He shouldn’t have been there.
Now Bill is just wrong…and kind of stupid. Based on these comments (below) he made on his radio show about being in Sylvia’s restaurant in Harlem, a place known all over the world, I’m assuming he expected to be served on the floor next to a group of thugs playing Bid Whiz while his waitress would have curlers in her hair and one of her illegitimate babies on her hips when she asked him, “What the f*$# U want to eat?”
“[W]e went to Sylvia’s, a very famous restaurant in Harlem. I had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful. They all watch The Factor. You know, when Sharpton and I walked in, it was like a big commotion and everything, but everybody was very nice. And I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.”
Key words here being, “I couldn’t get over the fact that…”
By “we” he means Al Sharpton, who is probably pretty embarrassed for bringing him there at this point. They’re kind of two sides of the same coin to me, but Bill is going to get (well deserved) hell for this one. My favorite line is “They all watch The Factor.” So he is also delusional.
Talking Points Memo: O’Reilly amazed by civility in Harlem restaurant
The Village Voice: Bill O’Reilly Shocked that Sylvia’s Harlem Restaurant is Normal
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5 Responses to “What? What did I say? It was a compliment!”
Bill’o is a national embarrassment. More puzzling- why does this bloviating ignoramous have the top-rated cable news show by a mile??? Who’s listening and agreeing in silence?
We had a post a few days ago musing about why the GOP is losing minority voters. This kind of mentality, which pervades a very large and dominant portion of the GOP, is why. Its the kind of racism I accused Newt Gingrich of some time ago, and a responder wanted proof. Its hard to get proof because you have to wait for them to stick their nose into another world and watch the expression on their face as they come out stunned that its not that different from their own.
Opie and Anthony riffed on this this am. Point they made- it would have been more noteworthy had BO ( cuz we know he stinks) been at a Van Halen concert -with half the audience being black Americans and made these kind of statements. This on top of the White supremacists in La. jumping around doesn’t help the cause for racial harmony in any way shape or form.
Well, if you’ve seen how tacky Fox’s real news show is…does it still show little rockets and planets (or was it Sputnik?) momentarily at the viewers and shoot out dumb sound effects between each news story? The last time I happened to see a television and see Fox on it (I was in a waiting area while getting some work done on a motor vehicle), the word ALERT was flashing brightly on and off — for well over an hour.
Fox is the tackiest. Fox was the first to show gimmicky graphics and have stupid sound effects in broadcasts of football games, more than ten years ago if I remember.
It makes me glad I watch television only by accident.
“More puzzling- why does this bloviating ignoramous have the top-rated cable news show by a mile???”
Because what appears on TV is mostly decided by people that watch TV. And people that would mostly likely desire good quality TV tend to not watch much TV in general. Hence, Jerry Springer is a legend, while good informative shows are harder to find than a politicians conscience.