O'reilly talks about lynching Michelle Obama

[Voice for Peace]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/20/bill-oreilly-i-dont-w_n_87616.html

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Racist O'Reilly

[PinkTiger]

2. I'm not certain he meant it that way, but it was a poor choice of words.

We need to be very careful about our choice of words here.

[Voice for Peace]

6. I don't doubt it was an intentionally poor choice of words. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. He'd better be careful!

[dicknbush]

3. I heard this yesterday and it was not how it is being portrayed here

He was using the expression as many people use it to mean attacking aggresivelly without justification. He was responding to a caller who was talkinga about Michele and accusing her of having said other derogotory remarks about America who she said was conveyed to her by a friend. O'Reilly cut her off and said we will take you name and number and you can give us the name and number of your friend and if we can verify this story we will put it on the air ...Otherwise I am not going to go on a lynching party against Obama. He was actuallly defending Michele alot of the show giving her the benefit of the doubt as to why she may have said this and giving her some leeway becasue she is a novice.

THis is an example of the press taking the message out of context.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. It is not acceptable to talk in terms of lynching

whether it was joking, it was not funny!

[Crabby Appleton]

17. You are correct. nt

[Initech]

4. O'Reilly is the one that needs to be lynched.

Racist motherfucker.

[Mags]

5. I think that is awful and he should be fired for it.

[Divine Discontent]

7. saying he doesn't know whether they should go on a 'lynching party'

is still extremely a bad choice of words, and racist when used in reference to a black woman.

[peacetalksforall]

10. This is a perfect example of knowing the context and it reversing a first impression for me.

I assumed when I saw the subject header that he said there should be a lynching party. That's not what he said, if this context is accurate. He could have said tirade - let's not go on a tirade, but he didn't say she whould be lynched. I am not one to defend that bigot or Fox - I can't bear to watch them - but if the context has been accurately portrayed - it's not here - there is not a lot to yell about other than he should have used another word.

[AlinPA]

11. Another case of Fox "News" showing its bigotry. They have to please their viewers.

[stewert]

13. O'Reilly Comments

O'Reilly said it on the radio, not on FOX News.

The comment was not made as part of a joke, but he should not have used the word lynching when talking about a black person.

Recently a female anchor Kelly Tilghman on the golf channel joked that the other young guys on the tour should form a lynch mob and beat Tiger Woods in an alley.

She was suspended for 2 weeks, and she was clearly joking, she said it to Nick Faldo in the context of joking about how you stop Tiger from winning all the tournaments, then they both laughed at her statement, not to mention she is good friends with Tiger Woods.

O'Reilly was not joking.

O'REILLY: You know, I have a lot of sympathy for Michelle Obama, for Bill Clinton, for all of these people. Bill Clinton, I have sympathy for him, because they're thrown into a hopper where everybody is waiting for them to make a mistake, so that they can just go and bludgeon them.

And, you know, Bill Clinton and I don't agree on a lot of things, and I think I've made that clear over the years, but he's trying to stick up for his wife, and every time the guy turns around, there's another demagogue or another ideologue in his face trying to humiliate him because they're rooting for Obama.

That's wrong. And I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down.

[orleans]

12. ARRRGH!

O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels"

Summary: In a discussion of recent comments made by Michelle Obama, Bill O'Reilly took a call from a listener who stated that, according to "a friend who had knowledge of her," Obama " 'is a very angry,' her word was 'militant woman.' " O'Reilly later stated: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200802200001?f=h_latest


WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE! HE WOULD NOT HAVE EVEN THOUGHT TO USE THE WORD "LYNCHING" IF HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A WHITE PERSON, OR ANY PERSON WHO WAS NOT BLACK. I'M SICK OF THESE FREAKS GETTING AWAY WITH USING THAT FUCKING WORD. IF THEY ARE SO NON-PREJUDICIAL WHY DON'T WE EVER HEAR THAT WORD USED IN RELATION TO WHITE PEOPLE?

"I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama ... BUT I'M GOING TO USE THE WORD LYNCHING ANYWAY."

[stewert]

14. I Agree

I agree with you orleans, no white person should ever use the word lynch or lynching when referring to any black person, ever. Even if it is in a joke, you should just never do it, and it is a racist comment.

BTW, I am a 47 year old white guy.

The woman on the golf channel said lynch mob during a joke, and she was suspended for 2 weeks. The comment by O'Reilly was not in the context of a joke, so I consider what O'Reilly said worse.

If she was suspended for 2 weeks, O'Reilly should get a month.

I dont think he should be fired, but he should be suspended, and maybe donate some money to a black charity, and of course give an apology for saying it.

[TahitiNut]

18. I'm reminded of Clarence Thomas whining about a "high-tech lynching."

:puke:

[Hekate]

15. Anyone emailing Faux to protest His Heinousness? nt

[stewert]

19. Hekate

The statement was not made on the FOX News Network.

It was made on the radio, and his radio show is syndicated bt westwood one.

The Radio Factor
Westwood One

www.westwoodone.com/pg/jsp/contactus/corp.jsp

[Hekate]

20. Apologies and red face. I think I try to shut him out of my consciousness. nt

[Booster]

16. When are they going to take this asshole off the air. Enough is

enough.

[DemoTex]

21. Soon.

They have to. Given Bu$h's lecture last week on lynching images.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

22. .. Don Imus' racist remarks got him fired by CBS

remember "nappy-headed hos" ? What's up with this racist O'Reilly twit?