OMG!! O'Reilly uses the word "lynching" re Michelle Obama!!!

[ailsagirl]

Heard this on Countdown last night. As usual, it's getting hardly any play
in MSM.

O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless
there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels"

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802200001

Unless?????????

:wow:

[phantom power]

1. let the dog-whistling begin....

[shraby]

2. You're not hearing much because McCain

is front and center now. O'Reilly is yesterday's news, but should be under fire from the FCC and suspended from his radio program indefinitely for his inflammable words. Someone might just see fit to try to act on them. I hope the secret service is guarding her closely.

[ailsagirl]

4. I hope so, too-- unbelievable...

This is over-the-top, even for that moron O'Reilly...

[my2sense]

13. Only Way To Get

him off the air is to lay this on the front steps of those that advertise on his show.

[ailsagirl]

25. He seems to be coated with Teflon...

:shrug:

[otohara]

19. Oh I Bet Over At Wingnut Radio Conglomerates

they are still raging over this one and not raging on McCain, but the New York Times.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless

there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels"

If A = B, then B = A

"If there is hard evidence that this is how she feels, I want to go on a lynching party."

incredible.

[ailsagirl]

6. Key operative word: UNLESS

[Egnever]

5. Much as I hate Orielly

I don't think this particular statement deserves the attention it is getting.

[sloppyjoe25s]

8. I STRONGLY disagree - I think this is a despicable word

It is NOT the same thing to casusally toss around words like "lynching" when talking about a black woman or man.

It is a sign of a deep underlying lack of racial sensitivity on Mr. O'Reily's part, if not indeed outright racism.

This is certainly on the same level as a Don Imus comment on the Rutgers basketball players.

[Egnever]

9. That is certainly your perogative

I just dont think saying he wouldnt be joining the lynch squad comes any where near calling a womans basketball team nappy headed hoes.

[islandmkl]

14. maybe you should re-read his quote:

O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels"


He doesn't want to...unless

A FUCKING LYNCHING PARTY?? nappy headed hoes?

kind of reverse sticks & stones approach

[ailsagirl]

11. I agree-- and Imus got kicked off the air (though he's back on)

Even Junior recently had some harsh words to say about the subject. Even HE can
talk the talk...

"As a civil society, we must understand that noose displays and lynching jokes
are deeply offensive. They are wrong. And they have no place in America today.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/02/12/bush-denounces-noose-displays/?mod=googlenews_wsj

[Hieronymus]

17. I do.

[LynneSin]

21. Lynching used in reference to a comment used by an African-American woman

Yeah, I'm highly offended this man is still on the air. Did we all just wake up in 1940 Alabama?

[blogslut]

7. Isn't he just delightful?

And that's just the beginning. When Obama is our nominee, little Bill's gonna have an even harder time hiding his racism.

[ailsagirl]

10. Good-- maybe they'll kick him off the air

I can dream, can't I?

:smoke:

[blogslut]

12. yeah

Unfortunately, I don't believe the suits at Fox care what montrous words come out of Bill's yap.

[pansypoo53219]

15. when are they gonna lock

o'really in the loony bin?

[ailsagirl]

16. When Bushco gets its just desserts. In other words...

Never

:grr:

[x-g.o.p.er]

18. Does this surprise you? n/t

[ailsagirl]

22. It was heavily covered on Countdown which seems to indicate

that, even for that ignoramus O'Reilly, it was way over the top...

I guess I'm more surprised that he's still around!!!

[x-g.o.p.er]

26. Oblermann HATES O'Reilly, though, and will

excorciate him at any chance he gets.

Don't know the origins of their feud, but it's gotten to the MTV Celebrity Death Match level.

[ailsagirl]

27. What's not to hate? ;=)

Surely Olbermann isn't the only one who can't stomach BO??

[bridgit]

20. O'Reilly is a mad dog, he's putting himself down with the inertia of his own ill-mind...

O'Reilly isn't exercising his right to free speech that other people have died for...he's abusing it :nopity:

[book_worm]

23. the man is pathological.

[book_worm]

24. the man is pathological.