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O'Reilly Says There Was No "Racial Overtone At All" To Claims That Obama's Birth Certificate Was "Phony"

April 28, 2011 9:59 pm ET

From the April 28 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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Previously:

Right-Wing Media Kick Off 2012 Election By Defaulting To Race-Based Attacks

Sorry, O'Reilly: Fox Has Long Been A Home For Race-Baiting Attacks

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    • Author by Andy Kreiss (April 28, 2011 10:04 pm ET)
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      Not to racists.

      OT, but related, anybody else had the email forwarded yet from some anonymous "joe" trying to call the long form BC a "cut & paste" ?

      I got it today, pretty funny, it's this rambling, folksy "just your friend writing to you" piece of crap that seems to be built on a merger /name change of the hospital the president was born in, and hoping the wingnuts aren't bright enough to figure out that Kenya actually existed before it won its independence from England.
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      • Author by Conchobhar (April 28, 2011 10:38 pm ET)
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        Also OT Andy, but I just wanted to inform you that, while there are lots of Paddies, as far as I can ascertain there are no O'Reillys, Hannitys, Gallaghers, Quinns or Cunninghams in my family tree.
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        • Author by worrierking (April 28, 2011 10:51 pm ET)
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          I can say the same. I've got friends with those surnames, but no blood relatives.

          I will admit that a branch of my family that split off to a border state (Union & Secessionist border, that is) fifty years ago seem to have become full blown birthers, gun loons and Fox news fanatics.

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          • Author by Andy Kreiss (April 29, 2011 12:31 am ET)
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            Don't feel too bad, WK. I didn't know this while he was alive, but putting the pieces together I gathered that part of the reason the old man moved out west was we have some Birchers in the Big Apple.
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        • Author by Andy Kreiss (April 29, 2011 12:29 am ET)
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          I'll take your word on that, Con. I've dated some O'Reilly's, I've got a buddy named Quinn, and I have some Cleverpig in-laws. One of my favorite local bars is a Gallagher's, but I think I'm all clear of any Hannitys.

          On the flip side, if Soledad or Conan are related to me, they ain't copping to it.
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      • Author by sonnyjames (April 29, 2011 8:04 am ET)
           
        LOL
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      • Author by manofmystique (April 29, 2011 8:43 am ET)
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        For Bill to admit race played a part in the Birth Certificate fiasco means he would have to change the way he "report" News and politic. Bill has no intentions of changing his bigoted ways. Bill want to play dumb. Bill want to continue to defend racist behavior.. and Bill want to continue to attack the black President without being accused of being a racist himself.

        Make no mistake about it, Bill O'Reilly is a BIGOT.
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    • Author by draftedin68 (April 28, 2011 10:05 pm ET)
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      And the good Mister Mo-fo-ice-tea is an expert in this area.

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    • Author by ThomasJH268 (April 28, 2011 10:05 pm ET)
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      Well he would say that, after all, he had Laura (what the heck is wrong with my voice) Ingram who, as we know from earlier today, has no qualms about attacking anything that is Obama including his children (took a page from Cmdr Pill Popper's book)
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    • Author by loonz (April 28, 2011 10:07 pm ET)
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      There has to be some underlying reason why these people believe what they believe without any evidence to back it up. The only thing I can come up with is racism.
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      • Author by Boswell (April 28, 2011 11:28 pm ET)
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        sure isn't logic, facts or evidence
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      • Author by CAL (April 29, 2011 12:14 am ET)
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        Exactly. It's not racism at all......says the racist. This absurd statement is nothing more than echo chamber damage control, and the standard patting himself on the back that is Billo's specialty. These people need to own exactly what they are. Prostitutes turning cheap tricks to recieve a paycheck from the FOX Racist Propaganda Network.
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    • Author by MidnightWriter (April 28, 2011 10:17 pm ET)
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      Bullsh!t, Bill-O.
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      • Author by Bongo Fury (April 28, 2011 10:43 pm ET)
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        This shirt coming from a non journalist that got to interview the leader of the free world. Franken put this fool to the mat and yet he continues his splotchy disinformation. Screw pride, Billdo needs some dignity.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (April 28, 2011 10:50 pm ET)
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      To Billo a white person must have tortured and killed six black people in order to be considered racist.
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      • Author by worrierking (April 28, 2011 10:52 pm ET)
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        Correction:

        To Billo a white person must have tortured and killed six black people and got caught in order to be considered racist.
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        • Author by IRONY 101 (April 28, 2011 10:57 pm ET)
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          I stand corrected...good catch.
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        • Author by pete x tp (April 28, 2011 10:59 pm ET)
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          I think said murderer would also have to admit to his/her crime as well.
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        • Author by manofmystique (April 29, 2011 11:29 am ET)
             
          Correction:

          To Billo a white person must have tortured and killed six black people and got caught than confessed he hated black people in order to be considered racist
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      • Author by terrapin53 (April 29, 2011 10:34 am ET)
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        absolutely correct on that Irony. If you are not clubbing a black guy, or making him sit in the back of the bus, or turning a fire hose on him, then it is not racism in Billo's world. I heard on Hannity's radio show Wednesday some guy saying since Obama's father was not an american, Obama is not a natural born citizen and in no way did Hannity try to correct that thinking. You could just hear the animosity from that caller and that his whole real problem was Obama being black, but using this natural born citizen crap to mask his racism, but he didn't do very well at it.
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    • Author by gg (April 28, 2011 11:20 pm ET)
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      O'Reilly "Calling somebody a racist, anybody, without proof beyond a reasonable doubt a vicious hateful thing to do"
      Yet when Glenn Beck called Obama a racist who hated white people, where was O'Reilly? Hiding with his head in the sand! And every time Beck came on his show did Billo ever call him on it? NO.
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    • Author by Ribelin2000 (April 29, 2011 12:16 am ET)
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      I can't believe the lengths the conservatives will go to defend Donald Trump. Trump is like the real-life Gordon Gekko; nothing more than a greedy, dishonest, orange-faced parasite who, in my opinion, represents everything wrong with big business in America. And the fact that Republicans actually want this yuppie piece of feces to be President says an awful lot about their true nature.

      One more thing: if, heaven forbid, Trump actually does become President, he will probably make Dubya look like Abraham Effing Lincoln.
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      • Author by papa bear3 (April 29, 2011 12:53 am ET)
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        . . ."The Mob will truly have its first President", as spoken by Hyman Roth in Godfather 2
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    • Author by mcnairbo6573 (April 29, 2011 12:22 am ET)
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      O'Reilly's full of it. Always has, always will.
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    • Author by NintendoWii (April 29, 2011 3:39 am ET)
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      So how come Mr. Obama has been the ONLY President to face questions over his birthplace? Why not the other 43 Presidents before him?
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    • Author by Die troll die (April 29, 2011 7:16 am ET)
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      No "Racial Overtone At All"

      Right Billo...and there was no sexual overtone when you offered to rub Andrea Mackris down with a falafel.

      Do you really think you have any credibility left (except with your fawning right wingnut acolytes)? Moron. Take your "Peabody" and park it with your Peabrain pinhead.
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    • Author by broose007 (April 29, 2011 7:56 am ET)
         
      I imagine that it's possible to be a birther and not be a racist..... but all racist are birthers... every single one of them.
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    • Author by BlackMako (April 29, 2011 8:01 am ET)
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      As usual, I have to ask what either of those tight skirts knows about this issue. FOX is a parade of appeals to false authority.

      And I have a straightforward question for the conservatives and whoever else cares to jump in: If this is not about race, then what is it about?
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    • Author by terrapin53 (April 29, 2011 8:24 am ET)
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      In O'Reilly's world there is no racism in this country.
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      • Author by heididad1417 (April 29, 2011 8:54 am ET)
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        Yeah, just like there's no such thing as a homeless Veteran. But to give him the benefit of doubt, there aren't very many Republikan reps who are Veterans so they don't spend alot of time looking into that.
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    • Author by David2012 (April 29, 2011 9:19 am ET)
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      Bill O'Reilly is a human sneer.
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    • Author by shaggles (April 29, 2011 11:14 am ET)
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      I think sometimes we on the left are a little too quick to accuse the right of racism but probably not in this case.
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    • Author by NiceguyEddie (April 29, 2011 12:27 pm ET)
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      There is no explanation for any aspect of birtherism than racism. period.

      There are only two reason this is happenening: Black skin and an African name.

      That's it.

      If you're a birther, you're a racist. There's no way around it.

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      IMHO
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    • Author by papa bear3 (April 29, 2011 1:05 pm ET)
         
      . . ."No Overtones" from people without any sense of tone, they are deaf to tone, they are pre Anne Sullivan Helen Kellers when it comes to tine, look what they trot out as humor
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    • Author by Lizinbklyn (April 29, 2011 1:11 pm ET)
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      SOOOOO, basically . .

      Both of Bildo's [cough] Culture Warriors DISagreed with him . .
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    • Author by chrisgodawgs (April 29, 2011 5:22 pm ET)
         
      Kudos to the two ladies Billo interviewed in this segment. Even tho one is a Repub strategist, even SHE admitted there was racism involved here. I give both of them some credit. Billo...c'mon man. Anyone who STILL doesn't believe Obama was born in America after providing the long form is CLEARLY racist imo.
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    • Author by Kllgg (May 01, 2011 12:18 am ET)
         
      Bill O'Reilly is the guy who was shocked that a restaurant full of black people were behaving themselves. So, of course he never thinks things are racist.
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