O'Reilly opposes "clustering" of not only gays -- but Mexicans, too

[NNN0LHI]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200707310003?f=h_latest

During the July 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly asserted that "despite the heated rhetoric" regarding immigration, "most Americans ... don't want to hurt any poor Mexican people. ... {T}hey want to know who they are. They want to know where they are, what they're doing. They don't want them clustering in neighborhoods and changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood."

As Media Matters for America documented, O'Reilly has previously expressed concern over the "clustering" of gays and lesbians in public places. On the July 11 edition of his program, while discussing a gay pride event hosted by the San Diego Padres at Petco Park, O'Reilly argued that it is "insane" to "cluster" gay men and lesbians during a "hat giveaway for any kid under 12." O'Reilly claimed that the problem with the event was "focusing in and putting more homosexuals into an area." On July 12, O'Reilly responded to a viewer email pointing out that "kids are around gays every day" by stating, "But not thousands of them, sir. That can be confusing to children."

Just as O'Reilly did not explain how many gay people a child can be around without becoming "confus{ed}," he did not clarify how many Mexicans it takes to "chang{e} the tempo of the whole neighborhood."

From the July 30 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: The only reason the federal government would allow a situation to descend into the chaos that it's in is because big business profits from it. And the economy profits from it. And they look the other way.

But, you know, look, I think most Americans, despite the heated rhetoric on this issue, most people watching us right now, Mr. Bermudez, don't want to hurt any poor Mexican people. They don't want to hurt them.

You know, they want to know who they are. They want to know where they are, what they're doing. They don't want them clustering in neighborhoods and changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood. They don't want certainly crimes being committed by people here illegally. That can't happen. That's got to be zero tolerance there.

[yardwork]

1. How does O'Reilly feel about American troops committing crimes in Iraq?

Zero tolerance for that?

[pepperbear]

4. or the crimes being committed against returning troops? n/t

[VLC]

7. Or the clustering of Americans in Iraq?

How many does it take to confuse the populace and change the neighborhood?

[Forkboy]

2. He needs to be clustered into a rubber room with all his yobbo fans.

[JacquesMolay]

15. Agreed. This one is just loony.

...n/t

[Dukkha]

3. you mean clustering in front of Lowes and Home Depot

two sponsors that DROPPED your sorry ass!

[Mythsaje]

5. I'm sure people weren't crazy about the O'Reilly's "clustering"

way back when either.

Shutup Bill.

[frylock]

17. we can't have these irishmen clustering together..

it's very confusing for the children.

[Mythsaje]

20. All that drunken partying and what not.

So bad for society.

Deja-freakin'-Vu

[TlalocW]

6. My neighborhood has become heavily Mexicanized since I bought my house 8 years ago

It doesn't really bother me because
1. I like Latin culture - one of my degrees is in Spanish
2. I don't interact that much with any of my neighbors anyway as when I'm at home, I tend to want private time
3. The only times I've seen cops show up in my neighborhood is to deal with white people doing something wrong

TlalocW

[NNN0LHI]

8. I have seen the police in my neighborhood on official business twice in 20 years

Both times it was to get the state cop who lives out here to quit beating his wife so much.

Don

[SoCalDem]

23. Ours too.. and the ONLY thing I hate about it is when my across the street neighbor

plays mariachi music loud enough to rattle my windows,..but then I hate it when my friend blasts C&W in her car..and when my son blasts rap in his car...

Our neighborhood has ALWAYS been mixed with every type of person you could imagine.. hell , we even have a "mental health care home" across the street ..(nice to know on a stressful day :)..)

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Well, hell yeah! Minorities are supposed to be minorities!

Let em cluster, and the first thing ya know there's more of them there than of real people!

[baby_mouse]

10. What on EARTH is WRONG with this peculiar man?

What's he talking about? It's acceptable, presumably, for "normal" people to cluster, naturally.

Jesus. He's just deep down petrified. Like a little rabbit.

[AspenRose]

14. What's wrong with him? That's easy

His show is a CLUSTERf***. That's only part of what's wrong with him.

[kskiska]

11. He's against Mexicans "clustering" in neighborhoods

but then he and others like him complain that these people just don't "assimilate" the way they're supposed to. How can they assimilate when people like him don't want them to live near them?

[me b zola]

12. Ooh, I want to play the cluster game!

I don't think that rich people should cluster in small gated neighborhoods. I think that rich people should integrate & assimulate themselves within mainstream American society.

So Bil-o, when are you going to stop clustering and assimulate?

[tomg]

13. I have a few questions for Bill

If we have X number of people( the number that Bill would say constitutes a "cluster") and they are Mexican and gay, is it a "gay cluster" or a "Mexican cluster." I mean, do they get to choose? Is it the immediate situation? Can they double dip - say there is a gathering supporting immigrant rights and a group of gay Mexicans are marching in solidarity. Which are they? A Gay cluster or a Mexican cluster.

And just what are the final results? Are straight people confused ( because the cluster is "gay"), or has the tempo of the neighborhood changed ( because the cluster is "Mexican"). Or, God, forbid, are we confused and the tempo changes.

I used to work in a crisis center talking people through very bad acid trips. O'Reilly makes the most severe cases look absolutely lucid. What a shit head.



edit: typo

[DrDan]

16. well - I tend to agree with him as it applies to right-wing

talk show hosts.

I want to know who they are, and where they are, and what they are up to, and who they are talking to.

I think they should all be tattooed or branded and should live in a well-guarded dormitory in the far reaches of some wilderness. That way we could prevent this scourge from spreading any further.

[baby_mouse]

19. We should chip them.

We should also permanently wire bugs into their jaws so we can administer electric shocks whenever they lie.

[DrDan]

21. well . . . . that would mean continuously administered shocks, wouldn't it?

[Bucky]

18. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How does he feel about the clustering of fucks in the White House?

[Richard Steele]

22. O'Reilly seems to be confused by clusters of TV cameras.

"Cluster" in this case being defined as "one or more". :silly: