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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:41 AM
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Bill O'Reilly Reacts to Imus Firing
Everyone's favorite anchor baby interviews the Lord of Loofahs on Imus and racism back in the day:

Billo: "I think the bottom line on this, Michelle, is when the Rutgers college basketball coach gave the press conference and got it across to every American how painful the remarks were to her and her student athletes, that was the tipping point.

Then NBC and CBS could no longer justify just a suspension. So, technically, that's what happened. The woman was so eloquent, the Rutgers basketball coach was so eloquent in defining how painful it was. And the remark itself was so egregious, in the sense that it had no context, and it basically reflected a guy who, as everybody has reported, has been really make lot of money doing this kind of stuff for a long period of time."


Good thing those players and that coach were "eloquent" - huh Bill. So if patrons of that Harlem restaurant manage to be "eloquent", then Fox should fire you?

A little creepy foreshadowing at the end:

MALKIN: A lot of people think that this is a pile-on now. Do you get the sense that people are sort of fed up with all of the constant apologizing? Is there going to be a backlash against the backlash?

O'REILLY: No, I think it's over. I think, tonight, it's over, certainly over for me, as far as Don Imus is concerned. I think there's a karma thing in play here. I think, over the years, Don Imus has hurt a lot of people. And this is the end for him.


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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:52 AM
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1. a couple more blasts from his past:
Edited on Wed Sep-26-07 08:53 AM by FLDem5
http://mediamatters.org/items/200704120010

In a February 27, 2006, conversation with a caller about the disproportionately few jobs and contracts that have gone to locals in the rebuilding of New Orleans, O'Reilly said: "he homies, you know ... I mean, they're just not going to get the job."

On the September 13, 2005, broadcast of The Radio Factor, O'Reilly claimed that "many of the poor in New Orleans" did not evacuate the city before Hurricane Katrina because "hey were drug-addicted" and "weren't going to get turned off from their source." O'Reilly added, "They were thugs."
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 09:06 AM
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2. O'Reilly claims his remarks were taken out of context and criticism of him is a "hatchet job."
See? If Bill O'Reilly calls someone on their words, it's just good reporting from the "no spin zone."

If someone calls O'Reilly on his words, it's a "hatchet job."

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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 09:10 AM
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3. That old adage "never spit in the wind" comes to mind....lol.
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TheUniverse Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 09:18 AM
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4. I would say that Don Imus's comments were much worse though.
This is probably not the end of Billo
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