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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Bill O'Reilly: Racist

Usually, BillO keeps his xenophobia thinly-covered, but frequently it shines through for all to see.

Last year, there was his stupid discussion of his experience eating at a black-owned restaurant in Harlem:
"There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "
And let's not forget his use of the term 'wetbacks.'

Now there's this.

From his June 10,2008 TV broadcast (via Media Matters):

While discussing ninth-grade students at a school in New Jersey who were suspended for distributing topless photographs of their classmates, Bill O'Reilly stated, "But it's an amazing amount of kids involved with this -- 20 -- in an affluent school district. This isn't, you know, the inner city; you would think that these kids would have some kind of a values system."
BillO will no doubt claim that 'smear merchants' are distorting him again.

The transcript doesn't lie.