{"id":620,"date":"2007-09-25T12:06:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T19:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=620"},"modified":"2007-12-29T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T10:16:13","slug":"bill-oreilly-surprised-black-people-are-just-like-other-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly: Surprised Black People Are Just Like Other People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"null\"On his radio show last week, Bill O’Reilly regaled his audience with a tale of adventure<\/a> into the Heart of Darkness – Harlem. He was dining with Al Sharpton so O’Reilly thought he should take the Reverend to a place he might be comfortable. They went to Sylvia’s where O’Reilly chowed down on that “soul food.”<\/em> On returning from the expedition, O’Reilly expressed his amazement that the Harlem natives were so similar to civilized folks:<\/p>\n

“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<\/strong>, primarily black patronship.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He couldn’t get over it. It’s almost like they’re human.<\/p>\n

“There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’<\/strong> “<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that, they don’t all cuss when ordering refreshing beverages.<\/p>\n

“…it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness<\/strong> at all.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

People were “sitting there”<\/em> eating food with utensils. It must have been difficult for them to suppress their natural “craziness.”<\/em><\/p>\n

When asked to respond<\/a> by CNN’s Rick Sanchez, O’Reilly claimed it was all a “hatchet”<\/em> job by Media Matters:<\/p>\n

“[T]here was no racial intent in what I said. It was a benign program. We didn’t receive one single complaint on any of our radio stations,”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, of course – A benign program like that, with no racial intent is certainly not going to draw any complaints from his 99.9% white radio audience.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> O’Reilly, defending himself<\/a> from a report by CNN that interviewed patrons of Sylvia’s Restaurant:<\/p>\n

“Now, the black Americans up there, they didn’t listen to The Radio Factor. They didn’t know this was coming from Media Matters. They didn’t know any anything — they don’t know what Media Matters is. They don’t know who Bill O’Reilly is, many of them.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This contradicts his original statement upon visiting Sylvia’s when he said that, “They all watch The Factor.”<\/em> But now that they are critical of him, they are just a bunch of stupid, uninformed yokels who don’t watch TV and can’t think for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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