Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is still trying to defend himself from his controversial (some would say racist or racially-tinged) comments about black people when he went to a New York restaurant with the Rev. Al Sharpton and discovered black people were civilized.
All this time later, O'Reilly still finds a need to defend himself against his idiotic comments and then try to turn himself into the victim and in essence accuse black people of being crybabies.
Here is what O'Reilly said, as documented by
Think Progress, during a recent episode of his Fox News show:
O’REILLY: Now, Juan, in a serious vein, and we talked about this with the infamous Sylvia deal a couple of ago, a few years ago, I, and many other white journalists, now don’t do nearly as many reports on African-Americans or their problems, because we don’t want to be put in a situation where our opinion is taken out of context, rammed down our throat as Media Matters and all these other sleazeoids do. So unless it’s a big thing, if it’s an optional thing where I used to do it, I’m not doing it anymore. If I go to Sylvia’s restaurant, a primarily black restaurant, very fine in Harlem, I’m not going to say anything about it anymore, which is not good for Sylvia’s because she got a lot of good publicity from that.
This is false. There is nothing wrong with white journalists reporting on black people. Many true journalists (O'Reilly is not a journalist, but is instead a right-wing commentator) can objectively talk about black people without it being poisoned by a far-right bias. The problem with O'Reilly is that he talks down to black people, lectures them about how irresponsible he sees them as being, badmouths black icons, tells black people who they should admire and who their heroes should be and so on and so forth.
Then he tries to pat himself on the back by talking about how much he did for Sylvia's.
O'Reilly crying about someone else taking him out of context is laughable since he frequently does it to his targets.
Finally, Bill O'Reilly calling Media Matters for America "sleazoids"is like O.J. Simpson chastising someone for being a bad husband.
