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Bill O’Reilly Explores Controversial Comments In New Jackie Kennedy Interview

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First Lady Jackie Kennedy– perhaps servicing as a thermometer on the public’s demand for non-recent political news– has become the hottest media topic of the week with new interviews surfacing with Arthur Schlesinger. Among her comments therein are some strong words for Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Johnson which, given today’s understanding of those men, may appear shocking. On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly and historian Kenneth Davis discuss the context of her statements at the time.

“For those of you not familiar with Mrs. Kennedy,” O’Reilly opened his segment, “she was once one of the biggest stars in the world.” Given the prominence of her new tapes– also the topic of ABC’s Diane Sawyer special tonight– this introduction may not have been as necessary as O’Reilly thought at the time. The interview with Kennedy includes some strong statements against King, Jr. for his various personal failings and, as Davis explained, rumors about such things as “arranging a otel with prostitutes” which “we know that’s part of the Martin Luther King legacy.” Apparently philandering was not something Kennedy approved of, though many such rumors came out of wiretaps by FBI head J Edgar Hoover placed on King, as he believed him to be a communist.

Besides King, the tension between the President and Vice President Johnson seemed to impact Jackie Kennedy’s opinions as well, something which Davis described as a power struggle between two “men from different worlds.” O’Reilly, citing by way of example the relationship between President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, suggested this conflict in the modern world may be somewhat difficult to understand, especially at the magnitude with which Kennedy and Johnson experienced it.

The segment via Fox News below:

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  • Anonymous

    Every time I hear someone call Michael King Jr a “great man” I get douche chills. The guy was a complete fraud and a degenerate, a man who sent two hookers to the hospital the night before he was killed. Al Sharpton is a better man than Michael King jr. O’Reilly has no clue what he is talking about in this instance. Give Thomas Sowell a holiday, there is a great man.

  • Anonymous

    So…the Reverend liked to screw lots of whores at the same time and then beat them until they needed to go to the hospital. That’s likely the real reason why all the Democrats idolize him.

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  • Texan

    The lame stream media is avoiding this like the plague. The plague, I tell you! One of Obamas hero’s is a pos…SHOCKER!

  • Anonymous

    I’m guessing by the above comments that Bill O’Reilly should now be considered a liberal since he holds MLK in a positive regard.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dane-Jackson/1140902213 Dane Jackson

    Martin luther king jr did have multiple affairs during his life but the whole bit on beating of prostitutes is false, it was made up when the bill came to make his birthday a federal holiday.

  • Texan

    Billdo was removed from my dvr list many moons ago.

  • Texan

    Billdo was removed from my dvr list many moons ago.

  • Anonymous

    Can I equate that to you calling the host of Fox News and Cable News’ number one show a liberal?

    Yes or no will do, Olbysux.

  • Anonymous

    Dane,  We won’t know how much of a degenerate he was until the files are finally released, if ever.  Why are they keeping them sealed for so long?  He is bigger than Jesus in the U.S and the guy was a total scumbag. Michael King jr is a joke.

  • Texan

    Beating up hookers and cheating on their wives is part of their culture.

  • john.kliber

    Hoover didn’t trust King because King liked women and that was a mystery to Hoover as great as that of the Sphinx. Jackie didn’t like King because he reminded her of her husband. Kennedy didn’t like King because King reminded him of himself minus the PT boat.

    I don’t like King cuz he still owes me 50 dollars for a pool game he lost to me in Natchez in 1960.

  • Anonymous

    I know but LBJ was elected plus both Bushs and now Perry is making a run.  Go figure.

  • Texan

    stfu troll

  • Anonymous

    Goodness, gracious!  Oooooooooooo my!

  • Nature Freak

    Interesting interpretation. You may be right.

    “50 dollars for a pool game he lost to me in Natchez in 1960″
    Please tell us more.  Really? If this is true I will be absolutely blown away. Incredible. Tell us more!
    You have met one of the greatest Americans in history. And beat him in pool.

    I apologize if I sound cynical. Tell us more!

  • Nature Freak

    Strong words.

    Show us some links. Please. I doubt you have any legitimate proof whatsoever.

    I realize you are still probably upset over miscegenation.

    Commentators at Mediaite are truly old school.

  • Nature Freak

    Texan aka Juarez, You strike me more of a Theodore G. Bilbo fanboy.

    Billdo bad. Bilbo good.

  • Nature Freak

    LOL!

  • Nature Freak

    This tread reads more like Stormfront than Mediaite.

    WTF!

  • Nature Freak

    Cenxian,
    You actually submitted one of the most decent and ethical comments here on this thread. At least you are not full of hate. All you do is sell stuff online for a buck.

  • Anonymous

    What is so strong about my words? I didn’t use any racial slurs towards Michael King jr, I just stated the truth about him. He’s a plagiarist, a sexual deviant, and he is considered an American icon. You can worship him all you want, you would probably love to be in one of his orgies back then. You have the feel of a poofter.

  • Broadhorizons

    Why does Ms. Kennedy exhibit physical characteristics of a Down syndrome victim? 

  • Broadhorizons

    OMG, she even sounds like she suffered from ankyloglossia. Was she… “special?”

    I’m horrified.

  • Broadhorizons

    OMG OMG. A little research reveals retardation ran in the Kennedy family. Oh God. I can’t continue. What does this mean? Not for the Kennedy’s, but for all the people who adored them? 

    I mean… they worshipped… well, you know… special people

    ::groan:: America. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy????!?!?!?!

  • Anonymous

    Can anyone imagine Jacqueline Kennedy ever giving the time of day to a sputtering, illiterate sleaze such as Bill O’Reilly?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    This has more to do with J. Edgar Hoover vs MLK than anything else.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I don’t know who this Michael King Jr is.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Who is Ms. Kennedy?

  • L_Salazar

    MLK did good things during his short life…However, we are finding that he has been more credit than he probably deserves.  But then again, look at how the left has put people like Teddy (The Killer) Kennedy and Senator Robert (The Klan Leader) Byrd up on the liberal worship pedestal.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I feel sorry for you and all racists like you.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I’m sure he is very upset by that.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    “Their” culture?

    Honkies don’t cheat on their wives? Mark Sanford? David Vitter? Jon Ensign?

    Honkies don’t beat up women? I bet that comes as a big surprise to 10,500,000 White women each year.

    George Wallace and Bull Connor had nothing on you.

  • Ralph

    O’Reilly missed the most important thing about John Edgar… he captured plenty of stuff about King’s heterosexuality, but not a word about Communism, which was the FBI’s worry.  And no one has ever suggested that King fathered children outside or before his marriage (we hear that stuff about Jefferson all the time).

  • TruDat

    The racism card; how original of you.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    If the hood fits, and it most assuredly does with Jeff Merrill ….

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    If the hood fits, and it most assuredly does with Jeff Merrill ….

  • Anonymous

    “For those of you not familiar with Mrs. Kennedy”? Does blubbering Bill think his audience is a group of 2nd graders? Oh, right…they are.

  • Anonymous

    “For those of you not familiar with Mrs. Kennedy”? Does blubbering Bill think his audience is a group of 2nd graders? Oh, right…they are.

  • Yukon Jack

    If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had said nothing else in his life, the fact that he placed a person’s content of character ahead of that person’s color of skin, it would put him miles ahead of many others, who are held in high esteem. Democrats should pay attention and heed those words.

    Anyone who considers the promoter of lies, such as Al Sharpton, better than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. needs his/her historical glasses and his/her own eyes taken to the optometrist.

    If 0bama had 1/100th of Thomas Sowell’s brain, he would be a fair competition to Elmer Fudd.

  • Texan

    Wanna compare stats? Thought not…troll.

  • Yukon Jack

    Dead or alive, a brainless Barbie Doll is a brainless Barbie Doll.

    She must have been great in the bed since a philandering tomcat like JFK considered worthy to marry her.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dane-Jackson/1140902213 Dane Jackson

    A judge ordered that the files are to be released in 2027. He had his flaws yes but it does not take away the great work that he did fo America and what he has contributed for this country. It would seem as if he id only a joke to you based on the baseless of rumor of him beating woman, which of course is false.

  • Rio

    I don’t believe 41 or 43 cheated on their wives, Perry, I don’t know.  Kennedy and LBJ broke all records, in and out of the WH; they compare to no other president, making MLK look like an altar boy.

    =====================================

    If “The Kennedy Imprisonment..A Meditation on Power” by Garry Willis is correct, Jackie knew of the constant flings and affairs, she wanted money and position and ignored the cheating, her father’s behavior was identical.  In her second marriage, it was the same, money and position except Ari didn’t cheat.   If the author’s research is true, Jackie Kennedy should be the last to throw stones.

    The release of these comments makes me wonder, was ol’ Jackie a racist?

    http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/664923/first_of_jackie_o._tapes_released_with_racist,_anti-feminist,_catty_statements/

  • Rio

    The philandering never stopped and Jackie knew it, I don’t think he was looking for any one woman that was good in bed, he was more interested in quantity.  It was a game with his father, Teddy and brothers-in-laws, Robert was the prude that remained faithful; he and Ethel created quite the brood in all that time that was mistress free. lol.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You and other racists don’t do so well when you pull out your rulers, so I’ll give all of you a Mulligan.

  • Anonymous

    Tells you a lot about mediaite, and the audience it writes for . . .

  • Anonymous

    ‘Beating up hookers and cheating on their wives is part of their culture.’

    I personally find your choice of language a little too restrained Mr Texan with a Beard. On the other hand, it might give the impression to others that all Tea Party/Republicans are cowardly knuckle dragging Neanderthal bigots, which I’m sure some will wear as a badge of honor.

     …Wear it with pride. 

  • Yukon Jack

    “HONKIES”????

    Is that any better than niggers??

  • Yukon Jack

    You have some nerve to call others racists!!!

  • Anonymous

    Jackie said MLK was a sexual pervert, the night before his “I have a dream speech” he had a bevy of women over at his hotel room for a sex orgy, was drunk at JFK”s funeral and mocking the Catholic service.

  • fanofgrendel

    The second marriage was magic. Her kids could kiss their onasssis.

  • fanofgrendel

    and Jackson — Rev. Jesse that is.

  • Anonymous

    Oh my, don’t ever leave home without you own personal race card.

  • fanofgrendel

    If it weren’t for LBJ and Jimmy Carter, all Democrat Presidents since Woodrow Wilson cheated on their wives. Jimmy lusted in his heart. LBJ’s chief aid sniffed jock straps in the locker room. Obama doesn’t count because Edwards serves as stand-in.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    I liked the interview. Would like to read the book.

  • Anonymous

    MLK a phony?

    Obviously, she was a racist!

  • Anonymous

    Wrong! JFK and the Kennedy’s knew what kind of person J Edgar was and still they had negative opinions of MLK as Jackie shows in these recordings.

    Don’t act as if suddenly the Kennedy’s were ignorant of politics.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I know you don’t but do you have articles to back that up?

    J Edgar Hoover was arguably the most powerful man in Washington for nearly 4 decades. He was put there by Calvin Coolidge and served under at least 6 presidents (including 3 wars). He wasn’t an elected official and VERY good at his job. He had dirt on everybody and used that info for his own purposes. His fear of communism would make McCarthy’s look like a passing hobby. He believed MLK to be a communist and tracked him (without congressional approval or warrant, but he wasn’t going to bring this to a court of law) and his activities. He found nothing about communism, but found out a lot of unsavory details. He went so far as to meet with MLK and show him his work and demand that he step out of public life and commit suicide. King refused, so the public defamation began. When King was shot, the FBI went out of their way to release said information to the US to believe that the assassination was a good thing.

    Now where do you think Mrs. Kennedy got her information from??

    Also (according to your wife, she talks when she sleeps) Hoover was a flaming transvestite. He was so flaming you could light a cigarette off of him. But thats another story…

    Here’s the link…

    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NSA/Vendetta_MLK_LS.html

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I know you don’t but do you have articles to back that up?

    J Edgar Hoover was arguably the most powerful man in Washington for nearly 4 decades. He was put there by Calvin Coolidge and served under at least 6 presidents (including 3 wars). He wasn’t an elected official and VERY good at his job. He had dirt on everybody and used that info for his own purposes. His fear of communism would make McCarthy’s look like a passing hobby. He believed MLK to be a communist and tracked him (without congressional approval or warrant, but he wasn’t going to bring this to a court of law) and his activities. He found nothing about communism, but found out a lot of unsavory details. He went so far as to meet with MLK and show him his work and demand that he step out of public life and commit suicide. King refused, so the public defamation began. When King was shot, the FBI went out of their way to release said information to the US to believe that the assassination was a good thing.

    Now where do you think Mrs. Kennedy got her information from??

    Also (according to your wife, she talks when she sleeps) Hoover was a flaming transvestite. He was so flaming you could light a cigarette off of him. But thats another story…

    Here’s the link…

    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NSA/Vendetta_MLK_LS.html

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Michael “Martin Luther” King was not only a plagiarist and a whoremonger, but was also a communist and was trained at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, TN., to agitate and cause trouble.

    King was insistent that people be judged on the content of their character, and that’s all Jackie-O was doing when she spoke about him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShbhepwieA

  • Anonymous

    Shows how ignorant you are about Michael “Martin Luther” King, Jr.

    You don’t even know his real name.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IShbhepwieA

    TNB

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I normally don’t speak like this but you are a moron, troll, and must have a serious inferiority complex. Reading your disqus posts, you appear to be almost a parody of some inbred racist moron. It must be sad living in the world you live in. I pity you.

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