O'Reilly to African-Americans: "The far left is using you here"
During the September 26 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, responding to a caller's claim that "I don't hear the outrage from African-Americans that they get used a lot" by "media outlets," Bill O'Reilly asserted: "Yeah, you're right, but I don't think they know. I don't think they know. But it's an excellent point you're making." O'Reilly later stated: "The more exposure we can get to this, the more black Americans we can reach ... and say to them, 'They're using you. The far left is using you here.' " O'Reilly was discussing a growing controversy over remarks he made following a dinner with the Rev. Al Sharpton at a Harlem restaurant. On the September 19 broadcast of his radio show, as Media Matters for America documented, O'Reilly said: "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship."
On the same September 19 show, as Media Matters noted, O'Reilly also said: "I think black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves. They're getting away from the Sharptons and the [Rev. Jesse] Jacksons and the people trying to lead them into a race-based culture. They're just trying to figure it out: 'Look, I can make it. If I work hard and get educated, I can make it.' "
Earlier in his September 26 broadcast, O'Reilly had asserted that "selective sentences were taken out" of that discussion on his September 19 program "by Media Matters, a vicious, vile outfit, far left, and then used to try and brand me as a racist. Isn't that nice, huh? Isn't that nice?" O'Reilly's co-host Lis Wiehl later stated: "And the fallout is, is that no white person is going to want to bring up any kind ... of racial issues at all in this country. We can't have a dialogue about it."
O'Reilly later said: "There is no greater danger to the far left in America than Bill O'Reilly. I am the greatest danger. I am their worst nightmare -- and they are going to do anything and everything to destroy me, or try to. And it's a war. It is a war."
From the September 26 edition of Westwood One's The Radio Factor with Bill O'Reilly:
O'REILLY: OK. We're talking about the controversy surrounding my remarks to Juan Williams and Lis Wiehl, who's here right now. We were dissecting why racism exists on the white end of the spectrum. We pinpointed the fear factor, demonstrated my grandmother as being the example of that, and then went in to a discourse that white America is not that different from black America.
In fact, there is very little difference in the mainstream of it now. As Dr. [Marc Lamont] Hill [Temple University education professor] pointed out, the circumstances are different but not the lifestyle and not the attitude that most African-Americans are not gangster rappers, they don't do this. And in the course of a hour conversation, we illustrated that and then selective sentences were taken out of that hour conversation and -- by Media Matters, a vicious, vile outfit, far left, and then used to try and brand me as a racist. Isn't that nice, huh? Isn't that nice?
WIEHL: Nice, very nice.
O'REILLY: Yeah, and then CNN, of course, bought into it and because of ratings reasons -- and they got killed, too, by the way.
WIEHL: And the fallout is, is that no white person is going to want to bring up any kind --
O'REILLY: Yeah, well, and that's --
WIEHL: -- of racial issue at all in this country. We can't have a dialogue about it.
O'REILLY: -- it's the Joe Biden-Barack Obama discussion all over again.
Let's go to [caller], in Alton, Illinois. Hi, [caller]. How are you doing?
CALLER 1: I'm doing great today, Bill. I listen to you everyday on the radio --
O'REILLY: Thank you.
CALLER 1: -- and I watch your television show. I'm an African-American, 38 years old --
O'REILLY: Hmmm-mm.
CALLER 1: -- and I think they selected phrases to make you sound that way.
O'REILLY: Of course.
CALLER 1: Because when I heard it on the radio this morning, I said: "There's no way Bill O'Reilly meant what they're trying to paint here." However, had I not watched your show every night and listened to your radio station every day, I probably would have had a different opinion.
O'REILLY: That's right.
CALLER 1: I probably would have felt upset about it also.
O'REILLY: And that was the strategy, [caller]: Get the people who don't know O'Reilly -- demonize him. And that has been the strategy for the past, you know, five, 10 years. But I appreciate your honesty, and I appreciate you listening and calling and telling me that. But that is the strategy on the far left.
The far left knows I'm kicking their butt. I'm hammering them. Culture Warrior, huge success. Goes into their precincts, exposes them. There is no greater danger to the far left in America than Bill O'Reilly. I am the greatest danger. I am their worst nightmare -- and they are going to do anything and everything to destroy me, or try to. And it's a war. It is a war.
Savannah, Georgia, [caller], go.
CALLER 2: Hey, Bill. How are you?
O'REILLY: Good.
CALLER 2: I wanted to talk to you about the -- the biggest problem I have is media outlets using an entire race of people to try to harm Fox News and one of Fox News' employees or spokesman, and I don't hear the outrage in that. I don't hear the outrage from African-Americans that they get used a lot.
O'REILLY: Yeah, you're right, but I don't think they know. I don't think they know. But it's an excellent point you're making, [caller]. If you are for border security, you are anti-Hispanic. If you are against gay marriage, you are a homophobe. If you say anything that departs from the far-left orthodoxy, they will demonize you as a bigot. That is the strategy. And when CNN and NBC News buys into the strategy and is a carrier of it, then you have what you have right now in America: a corrupt media.
And that's why this is good -- because the more exposure we can get to this, the more black Americans we can reach, [caller], and say to them, "They're using you. The far left is using you here."
Really? I thought african americans are thinking for themselves. I had no idea we were putting words in Whoopie Goldbergs' mouth, or into the owners of Sylvia's mouth, or every other minority who weighed in on the subject. Wow, I never knew how powerful I was until just now. Bow to me, you pagan heathens! I rule!
Bill's on to us. He's figured out our get-rid-of-O'Reilly game plan; Give him enough rope to hang himself.
"They're using you. The far left is using you here." he pleads with shovel in hand. This statement proves he doesn't believe his own words: "I think black American's are starting to think more and more for themselves."
See ya Billy, and good riddance.
Is it that he doesn't know, or doesn't care that he may have actually offended some people? Just because some black people weren't offended doesn't mean none were. Personally it didn't bother me what he said, it just showed me his mindset, what he really thinks about black people in general. Oh right we're all the same, so just because Juan Williams, wasn't offend, no one else should be either.
Thank GOD Bill now realizes that some blacks think for themselves.... now if we can just get the other 95% of whites to do the same...
correct that, you mean 99% of white republicans, right? I'm a dem and I get it...
And if Bill O'really thinks posting transcripts of his OWN words is 'the loony left using you', he..., well..., he is an idiot.
How lucky for African-Americans that Bill is there to point out things like this to them!
It's almost like he thinks of them as children...
Sooo then O'Reilly follows up being patronizing and condescending to black people in general by telling them basically look you are too dumb to know but let me help you out here. You are being used. The man is an amazing peice of work. Good thing for black people that they have Bill O'Reilly to look out for their interest.
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My god how did I as a 73 year old African American woman survive without Bill. I mean my life has becomes soooooo different since I did as Bill suggested and started thinking for myself.
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Pearlene you're sooo right, we simply couldn't figure out that the left wing was using us without Bill help. *rolls eyes*
Pearline, if you ever get the chance please tell Billo what you really think (for yourself) and see how much he appreciates your independence. ;>)
Bill,
When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGING!!!!!
The more you say about this incident, the more YOU SHOW how PATRONIZING and CONDESENDING you are. The SAD thing is that YOU DON'T KNOW you are. So you keep digging a deeper hole for yourself.
"If you say anything that departs from the far-left orthodoxy, they will demonize you as a bigot. That is the strategy."BO
Isn't that cute? As if his commentaries are ever meant to just be reasonable criticism. The dude is a flamethrower and he brings these confrontations on himself.
But really Republicans like O'Reilly don't care about people, any people, their first worry is about manipulating any situation for their own personal gain. So instead of saying , oops my bad, I offended people, sorry. BillO instead has to make this his crusade for the greater good...of himself
I would suggest that Bill should get his jaw wired shut.
But somehow I don't think that will stop his stupidity.
Another stupid and condescending comment from this idiot. I can't believe I use to watch his show.
Oh Bill,
You are not our worst nightmare. You are just a small part of the greater nightmare that is currently running the country.
Good lord, now AA's have to listen to The Factor to find out how the far left is using them?
I thought O'Reilly said AA's are finally starting to think for themselves.
Billo: And that's why this is good -- because the more exposure we can get to this, the more black Americans we can reach, [caller], and say to them, "They're using you. The far left is using you here."
So, Bill, you don't want this controversy to die down. You want to reach black people to to let them know that the far left is using them. In your mind then, I guess black people are too stupid to think for themselves without your help.
I remember, way back in High School, telling this girl that the (very nice) guy she was dating was using her.
I really wanted to f her.
"...the (very nice) guy she was dating was using her."
HBL, I have a confession...I was that nice guy, and I was using her. I just want you to know, though, how badly I felt on the countless occasions she and I had sex. ;>)
"There is no greater danger to the far left in America than Bill O'Rielly. I am the greatest danger. I am their worst nightmare-- and they are going to do anything and everything to destroy me, or try to. And its war. It is war." - Bill O'Lielly
So... the die is cast, & we once again find ourselves peering into the gaping maw of war.
Only, this will be like no war we've ever seen before. It will be far worse. This time Bill O'Lielly HIMSELF will be leading his Faux army of hellish minions into battle, & who could ever hope to stand up to such an apocalyptic onslaught of over-paid sycophants, snarling talking heads, & viciously chattering keyboards?
This will likely make the War on Christmas look like... like... well... Jeez, let me think... uhhh, like... well, like something that only a loud-mouthed neocon chickenhawk might take a weird sort of martial pride in, but still not NEARLY as bad as THIS war will be!
Man... what a f*cking putz.
For our sake, let's just hope and pray that Billo doesn't recruit the same White House neocon crew to conduct his "war" who planned and executed the Iraq war. We all know how successful that war has been. And I know the Iraq war has been a success...I heard that on FOX.
I was upset with O'Reilly until I listened to the entire hour with Juan Williams. I got the impression that he was defending blacks and that the mainstream are no different than any other group of people.
deeper and deeper he steps in it
As a person of color and a Democrat. It is the far left who is destroying the people of color communities. They make excuses for crime in our community. Groups like the ACLU prevent our communities from policing our communities. The left promotes the destruction of our communities.