Oooops, O'Reilly Goes There

[AnnInLa]

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/oreilly-goes-th.html


O'Reilly Goes There

A pretty staggering exchange on O'Reilly just now. O'Reilly had African-American Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill on the show. O'Reilly went into Colbert mode at one point, saying that when he thinks about a metaphorical "Joe Six-Pack", he has no race in mind: "The immediate image that comes to my mind is a guy of no color," O'Reilly said. Try that for a second: imagine a man of no color. Then this staggering quote from O'Reilly to a black professor:

"Man, I'm glad I didn't have you in school, boy. I would have gotten a D."

Boy? Did O'Reilly just call a black professor a "boy" on cable television?

[MadBadger]

1. I'm not sure Until I hear it. He could have been saying....boy, I would have gotten a day

[mediaman007]

2. Intended or not, it couldn't happen to a more appropriate individual.

I think we're talking Worst Person here!

[qazplm]

3. I hate Orally as much as the next guy

but come on. That was clearly a boy as in oh boy, not as in you boy.

[UTUSN]

4. Just like when he said "Wetbacks" when he meant (Coyotes).

"Coyotes" is the Spanish slang for traffickers in undocumented immigrants. "Wetback" is in the category with the N-word, for the immigrants themselves.


It very well might be that ALL Catholic school alums far away from the Southern border (add Tweety, the BUCHANANs, BARNICLE, and all of the preponderantly Irish-Americans in a long list among the pundit world) feel that the Brown people are JUST VERY ALIEN to them and to their vision of what the U.S.A. is.


So "wetbacks" was a misspeaking that was a reflection of a poor grasp of the CONCEPTS and unfamiliarity, but funny how THAT word came so trippingly off the tongue instead of any other, suggesting that it was more FAMILIAR to him.


Yes, his use of "boy" might have followed along the same lines.

[Fluffdaddy]

5. Ditto. Come people, we don't have to make up shit against BOR