Bill O'Reilly, Tavis Smiley And Cornel West Have Fiery Clash Over Wall Street, Poverty

[democracy1st]

Bill O'Reilly welcomed radio host Tavis Smiley and Prof. Cornel West onto his Tuesday show. The resulting dust-up was nothing short of a cable news classic.

Smiley and West have become a bona fide double act, regularly making the cable news rounds. O'Reilly brought them on to discuss the Occupy Wall Street movement and poverty in America. He set up the conversation by saying that the two were overlooking key statistics in their battle against poverty that showed the problem to be as much one of "personal responsibility" as economic injustice. Then, he turned to West.

"Where am I going wrong?" he asked. West said that his "lens" was wrong, and that he was overlooking the widening economic inequality in America. "The oligarchs and plutocrats that you tend to want to promote rather intensely not only doing well but been too greedy!" he said. "I don't think I'm promoting anybody who's doing untoward things," O'Reilly said. "We're talking about chronic excess!" West responded, causing O'Reilly to try to shut him up. "No filibustering here," O'Reilly snapped.

Video:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/bill-oreilly-tavis-smiley-cornel-west_n_1006602.html

[Fuzz]

1. O'Reilly "You can't make an accusation on a hunch". lmao. That's your whole shtick!!!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. "The Hunch goes in, the Hunch goes out..."

:rofl:

[Fuzz]

3. "You can't explain that! You just can't!"

[Scuba]

4. Well, not unless you paid attention in 6th grade science. n/t

[eShirl]

5. makes me nostalgic for Celebrity Deathmatch

[Fantastic Anarchist]

6. Pure awesomeness!

[Number23]

7. "$580 billion, 16% of federal budget, was spent on the poor"

Is that broken down somewhere? I'd really like to see specifically what programs this was spent on.

[butterfly77]

8. West and Smiley...

had me cracking up when they both said whoa!!and threw up their hands as O'LIElly continued lying about wall street..

[democracy1st]

9. 15min version in DU political videos section!