David Corn Just Compared O'Reilly's Electoral College Defense To Apartheid.
Last edited Wed Dec 21, 2016, 03:21 PM - Edit history (2)
Corn was on O'Donnell's show and his comment was in context of following a clip of O'Reilly spewing against those who want to abolish the Electoral College. O'Reilly was speaking in racial terms, not just rural/urban and ended by saying that to abolish it threatens the "White Establishment".
It seems like Republicans are finding hard not to go Full Monty on the White Supremacy thing. O'Reilly's final summation is astoundingly inflammatory. And Corn was on point invoking South African Apartheid. Especially in light of the unconstitutional Voter Suppression going on in Republican controlled states.
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said efforts to abolish the Electoral College system are “all about race.”
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O’Reilly claimed Democrats wanted to campaign only in cities where “the minority vote usually goes heavily to the Democrats,” effectively “neutralizing the largely white rural areas in the Midwest and the South.”
"Very few commentators will tell you that the heart of liberalism in America is based on race," O'Reilly said. "It permeates almost every issue — that white men have set up a system of oppression and that system must be destroyed."
O'Reilly said that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, and to some extent nominee Hillary Clinton, peddled the idea that "so-called white privilege bad, diversity good."
"The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with," he said.
Summing up his argument, O'Reilly said: "The left wants power taken away from the white establishment and they want a profound change in the way America is run."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/311291-oreilly-hidden-reason-for-abolishing-electoral-college-is-all
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