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By CATHERINE THOMPSON Published AUGUST 26, 2014, 7:02 AM EDT
Fox News host Megyn Kelly laid out evidence supporting what a disbelieving Bill O'Reilly called the "white privilege theory" Monday night to explain why the black community in Ferguson, Mo. feels justice won't be served in the Michael Brown shooting.
Kelly ran down a list of statistics, including the disparity in employment between blacks and whites in Ferguson and that blacks are three times as likely as whites to be subjected to or threatened with force by police.
O'Reilly then challenged those numbers, claiming Attorney General Eric Holder really held the reins in the investigation into the fatal shooting of Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer.
"I don't know why African-Americans wouldn't have confidence in that," he said. Kelly reminded him that Holder is running a satellite investigation to the primary inquiry being carried out in St. Louis County.
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Kber
(5,043 posts)They are both making more sense than usual.
rurallib
(62,465 posts)day in and day out. At some point even these people have to acknowledge reality.
Mike Daniels
(5,842 posts)It only stands to reason that Kelly will feel compelled to say something intelligent every once in a while just to break the monotony of the BS that usually spews from FOX.
That said Kelly became a national joke last Christmas season when she had a hissy fit over Santa not being portrayed as white so she's got a lot of ground to make up before she can be seen as remotely reasonable.
sakabatou
(42,186 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)Interesting, though, that Ailes would put that view out there.
underpants
(182,950 posts)Just asking
mrdmk
(2,943 posts)Nothing more, nothing less... Down to one word!
Now if you asked me, I would say, 'time to bullshit'!
Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)redqueen
(115,103 posts)than many DUers.