Bill O'Reilly says racist thing, claims he can't be racist bc he has black assistant

[DetlefK]

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/04/11/o%E2%80%99reilly-tells-trump-blacks-are-ill-educated-and-have-tattoos-their-forehead%E2%80%9D%C2%A0-%C2%A0/209869

BILL O'REILLY (HOST): How are you going to get jobs for them? Many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads and I hate to be generalized about it but it's true. If you look at all the educational statistics, how are you going to give jobs to people who aren't qualified for jobs?

http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/04/11/bill-oreilly%C2%A0supports-his-claim-he-doesnt-know-any-racists-pointing-out-he-has-black-assistant/209870

O'REILLY: Yeah, see, I don't see that in my world. And my world is a fairly expansive one. I don't know any racists. I don't know anybody, on either black or white people, who don't like, like our staff here is integrated, and my assistant is black, she's been with me for 25 years. I just never see this.

[uriel1972]

1. Some of my best friends are...

Conservative bigots

[surrealAmerican]

2. You can't even parody this guy, this is so far over the top.

"I don't know any racists."

[baldguy]

3. I bet the assistant has to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

[Dustlawyer]

9. I bet he even says that his assistant is "One of the good ones!"

[edbermac]

4. Bill is no racist!

He's a wife beater and a sexual harasser but he's not a racist.

[EdwardBernays]

5. I've seen the inverse of that here

one of the loudest Clintonites claimed she'd never vote for Bernie, because he doesn't have enough black staffers... and that the number of black staffers Hillary had made her more popular in black communities...

Now, that sounds racist to me, but what do I know?

[Democat]

6. Go back to the primaries forum with your Democrat bashing

This is a thread bashing right wingers, not Democrats.

If you prefer right wingers, go to a pro-Trump forum where you belong.

[EdwardBernays]

8. lol

if you think being anti-racist is being pro-Trump you GREATLY misunderstand what Trump stands for.

And - I note - that your attempt to shut me up and move me along, while very common on DU these days, isn't hugely Democratic either.

If you don't understand that self-criticism is a KEY part of growth, well... there's nothing I can do to help you.

[frylock]

19. This is a thread bashing hypocrisy.

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. AND yesterdays reporting of Hillary's part in that skit was justified by some here because Mayor

deBlasio's family is bi-racial.

(Edited to add: oops wrong forum)

[Nitram]

10. It's a common strategy among right wing racists in the media.

Employ an African American assistant. Cf Neal Boortz.

[lame54]

11. so did slave owners

[boobooday]

12. Remember when

Ann Coulter said, "OUR blacks are the good blacks?"

They don't even want to buy a clue.

[Thespian2]

13. One needs only say Bill O'Reilly

to bring the image of a wealthy asshole minus numerous brain-cells to mind...unfortunately, he has a wonderful message for the over-65 population...support the 1%...

[tclambert]

14. "He's right over there. Hey, boy! fetch me a falafel!"

[underpants]

17. I almost falafel my chair

[LiberalArkie]

15. It was funny growing up in South Arkansas wen integration was taking place.

The wealthy liberals saying "I am not racist, my maid and yard boy are N*****rs" whereas the conservatives naturally said "Just them them back where they came from".

Things really haven't changed much, just the words.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. I am willing to bet that Bill O'Reilly knows a lot of racists.

[tblue37]

18. Remember how surprised he was that the people at a black restaurant were acting

like human beings:

Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "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." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' "

http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/09/21/oreilly-surprised-there-was-no-difference-betwe/139893

[Initech]

21. For some reason I now want to go to a restaurant where someone says "mfer I need more ice tea".

[Initech]

20. If you have to actually work in the conversation that you're not a racist, you're a racist.