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Tony said:
I am not racist.
O'Reilly is racist.
Therefore, your statement cannot be true.
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I am not racist.
O'Reilly is racist.
Therefore, your statement cannot be true.
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Tony said:
I'm not assuming anything, I didn't even mention black people. Who's the racist now?
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FYI, I know for a fact that the "Best Men" are black. 
I just don't see a racist hosting a fund-raiser for inner city kids.
O'Reilly claims he gives all the money raised from selling Factor gear to charity. Anyone know what charities he contributes to?
He also had an atheist on his show a while back and gave him a platform to speak his piece. O'Reilley was non-confrontational during that segment. He told the guy he was fighting an uphill battle, though, or words to that effect.
O'Reilly claims he gives all the money raised from selling Factor gear to charity. Anyone know what charities he contributes to?
He also had an atheist on his show a while back and gave him a platform to speak his piece. O'Reilley was non-confrontational during that segment. He told the guy he was fighting an uphill battle, though, or words to that effect.
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Yeah you are, you're assuming he's not talking about a white guy.
Yes, because the article sites his remark as being racist.
Like I said, you assume only people other than whites steal hubcaps.
This is simply a strawman.
Try not to hurt your brain by reading a little.
http://misery.blogs.com/misery/2004/05/oreillys_whos_l.html
This was a racially insensitive remark. O'Reilly was emceeing an event featuring the "Best Men," a group of sixth-to-eighth-grade African American boys. When the group was delayed getting onstage to perform a lip-synced rendition of the Four Tops standard "Reach Out (I'll Be There)." O'Reilly ad-libbed: "Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps."
Yes, because the article sites his remark as being racist.
Like I said, you assume only people other than whites steal hubcaps.
This is simply a strawman.
Try not to hurt your brain by reading a little.
http://misery.blogs.com/misery/2004/05/oreillys_whos_l.html
This was a racially insensitive remark. O'Reilly was emceeing an event featuring the "Best Men," a group of sixth-to-eighth-grade African American boys. When the group was delayed getting onstage to perform a lip-synced rendition of the Four Tops standard "Reach Out (I'll Be There)." O'Reilly ad-libbed: "Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps."
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I just don't see a racist hosting a fund-raiser for inner city kids.
I do, it's good PR.
O'Reilly claims he gives all the money raised from selling Factor gear to charity. Anyone know what charities he contributes to?
Not sure, but it's good PR.
I do, it's good PR.
O'Reilly claims he gives all the money raised from selling Factor gear to charity. Anyone know what charities he contributes to?
Not sure, but it's good PR.
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So I guess it's not self-evident that O'Reilly is a racist. So, I will downgrade the claim that he's a racist from fact to opinion
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Luke T. said:
It depends on the words and the deeds.
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Tony said:
Your silly attempt at playing semantics with me won't work. Try arguing points instead of words.
Also, the first article uses "racist slurs" in the title.
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Luke T. said:
He has said quite a few "racially insensitive" remarks.
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Tony said:
You aren't the brightest bulb, are you? The title of the first article I posted was "O'Reilly's Racist Slurs--in Context "
Oh, and the article states "According to the Post report, some of the conservatives in the audience were aghast at the seemingly racist crack. But if anyone was shocked by O'Reilly's apparent racism, they haven't been paying much attention".
Looking a little farther down O'Reilly's charity page, we find that not only was he a one-time host of a Best Friends shindig, he supports them financially:
It's possible he had some familiarity with the people there and so the joke was not as insensitive as it sounds to outsiders. He might have even known the singers and made the joke understanding it wasn't even a remote possibility they were stealing hubcaps.
Following a link in the ken's blog link, we find a Washington Post story:
It's possible he had some familiarity with the people there and so the joke was not as insensitive as it sounds to outsiders. He might have even known the singers and made the joke understanding it wasn't even a remote possibility they were stealing hubcaps.
Following a link in the ken's blog link, we find a Washington Post story:
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Tony said:
Racially insensitive = Big Dumb Jerk (my interpretation only, of course)
And FWIW thaiboxerken, up above he was quoted as using the term coyotes, which is a common term for people who are paid to take illegal immigrants into the USA. So nothing there--as for the use of wetbacks, see defintion above.
I do my best to avoid O'Reilly, not because he is racist or fundamentalist or anti-atheist. I do it because he is a loud, overbearing bully of a spin-artist without much to redeem him (at least on TV, he may well be nice to his mother and give to good causes).