bill o'reilly hates black people (or media matters is full of it)

scary. for once, i may actually agree with bill o'reilly. i know, i'm surprised, too. but, you see, o'reilly made some comments. and then media matters picked up on. they wrote an article. other people (nbc, cnn, alternet, etc.) picked up on their article and wrote their own. or they just passed it off as fact. and it goes on and on and on.

o'reilly is a bigot.

well, maybe he is. i don't know. what i do know is that media matters is guilty of yellow journalism. they butchered what he said terribly. they took comments completely out of context. hey, o'reilly's probably guilty of the same thing at times. but here, he's being smeared. and, i've got to think it's for publicity and to back an agenda. it's not for the sake of truth.

listen to the segment. the segment is 35 minutes, but i think all that was lifted was in the first 7-10 minutes. maybe another one is later, i can't remember. try your hardest to forget who is speaking and just listen to what is being said. you won't agree with everything. but, you should agree that it's not what is being attributed to him.

i'm not saying this excuses everything that o'reilly has done or said. heaven forbid that. but, it's not here now. here's a cut and paste of media matter's own summary:

Summary: Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "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." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

uhhh, that's a piss poor summary. condensing 35 minutes into 3 sentences using out of context quotes is hardly a summary. especially that last line. there he's commenting on rap, not on blacks or black culture in general, literally seven minutes later in the segment. he references back to his previous restaurant story, saying how the cultural presentation of blacks is being dominated by rappers rather than normal, upstanding people like he met at the restaurant. and frankly, i wouldn't be surprised to hear snoop, luda, 50, etc. saying "m-fer, i want more iced tea." not every rapper. but it definitely fits the character of some.