Reply #14: O'Reilly

[stewert]

O'Reilly made the statement on the radio factor, not on FOX News O'Reilly factor.

O'REILLY: You know, I have a lot of sympathy for Michelle Obama, for Bill Clinton, for all of these people. Bill Clinton, I have sympathy for him, because they're thrown into a hopper where everybody is waiting for them to make a mistake, so that they can just go and bludgeon them.

And, you know, Bill Clinton and I don't agree on a lot of things, and I think I've made that clear over the years, but he's trying to stick up for his wife, and every time the guy turns around, there's another demagogue or another ideologue in his face trying to humiliate him because they're rooting for Obama.

That's wrong. And 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 that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down.

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No white person should ever use the word lynch or lynching when referring to any black person, ever, no matter what context. Even if it is in a joke, you should just never do it, and it is a racist comment. The statement O'Reilly made was not part of a joke, and he should not have used the word lynching when talking about a black person.

This statement from O'Reilly is just one more racist comment that shows a history and a pattern of racist statements.

Recently a female anchor Kelly Tilghman on the golf channel joked that the other young guys on the tour should form a lynch mob and beat Tiger Woods in an alley.

She was suspended for 2 weeks, and she was clearly joking, she said it to Nick Faldo in the context of joking about how you stop Tiger from winning all the tournaments, then they both laughed at her statement, not to mention she is good friends with Tiger Woods.

O'Reilly was not joking. The comment by O'Reilly was not in the context of a joke, so I consider what O'Reilly said worse. And if she was suspended for 2 weeks, O'Reilly should get a month.

I dont think he should be fired, but he should be suspended, and maybe donate some money to a black charity, and of course give an apology for saying it.

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