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Bill O’Reilly To Marc Lamont Hill: ‘You Kind Of Look Like A Cocaine Dealer’

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On tonight’s O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly was talking about immigration reform with Marc Lamont Hill. While posing a hypothetical, O’Reilly said to his guest “Say you’re a cocaine dealer, and you kind of look like one a little bit,” to which Lamont Hill quipped “You know, you actually look like a cocaine user.” Cries of racial insensitivity ensue.

Gawker’s ever dependable Adrian Chen pounced on the charged faux pas:

Dang, O’Reilly, having black commentators is supposed to make you look less racist. Unless O’Reilly was talking about Hill’s spiffy pinstripe suit. Like, how could you afford such a nice suit unless you were selling drugs? That’s probably it.

Hmmm…that could be the case. More likely its an overstatement. But who wouldn’t love watching a smackdown between O’Reilly and Gawker ensue? (By the way, in that battle the smart money’s on Gawker.)

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  • MediaWhore

    Motherfucker, I want more iced tea!

  • dunt

    Ruh roh…

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    Marc is my dealer .,y’all be cool . Marc has his boot on the the throat of the distributor to keep prices down . So . we like him in the ‘hood.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Don’t blame Bill.

    All cocaine dealers look alike.

  • Jelperman

    Falafel Boy’s racism is like Dr, Strangelove’s right arm!

  • AikidoJoe

    I don’t know. Bill may have a point. MLH does kind of look like the cocaine dealer the Jamaican government is looking for down there.

  • Rogue-Comic

    Gawd I wish I got paid to write sh!t like this . . .

  • puck30

    Jelperman says:
    May 26, 2010 at 10:44 pm
    Falafel Boy’s

    Falafal???? Dude, it’s 2010, the best you can come up with is a six year old joke?

  • roxsteady

    Fair and Balanced?

  • roxsteady

    Actually, Hill does look a lot like Cameron Douglas.

  • goodolgil

    I think putting “Ph.D” after his name is actually vaguely racist. Almost all professors have doctorates. Would they include that for a white professor?

    What’d Bush call it? “The soft bigotry of low expectations?”

  • MichelleF

    Colby,
    Give me a break, It was a joke and Lamont said it back to him. He always pokes at his guests that way. Stop trying to make it into something it wasn’t.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kam-Fet/572005492 Kam Fet

    oops.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Colby, I don’t know if you’re a man or a woman…..

    but I do know you have no skill whatsoever in writing headlines!!

  • BBloves

    Are you kidding me? What is even the purpose of posting this headline? The two of them are friends and cut up all of the time…….only a true racist would of taken it any other way.

  • MediaWhore

    Billo went into a black-owned restaurant in Harlem and couldn’t believe no one was yelling “Where’s my cocain motherfucker!”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Daniel-Lauffer/66303476 Daniel Lauffer

    I think this is being blown out of proportion. He’s on the show all the time, Bill was just joshin him.

  • Glenn.Bovine.Merrill

    Billdo looks more like a lecherous drunk of a small hick town.

    Is he going to start soon with his seasonal segments decrying the debauchery of the y’ng ones?

  • Bulletinizer

    When BillO’s right, he’s right. Hill also looks like a pimp, minus the feathered hat and gold tooth.

  • Averreauxii

    Billo obviously said that in jest but what grinds my gears is when he gets his panties in a bunch when liberals mock conservatives in the very same fashion. A good example is the Palin ribbing by liberals. He always says those liberals are being “mean spirited.” You think joking about a black professor as looking like a “cocaine dealer” is mean spirited at all Bill-O? It’s the hypocrisy that annoys me more than anything.

  • The Real Royal King

    Bill never quite cleans up, does he?

  • Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers

    Just a joke people. We have been assured by teabaggers on this board and elsewhere that their thoughts are pure and intentions benign.

  • MichelleF

    BBloves says:
    May 27, 2010 at 2:19 am
    Are you kidding me? What is even the purpose of posting this headline?

    The purporse…..More race-baiting by the left. It’s what they do.

  • The Real Royal King

    Fox News: We proudly pander to Teabaggers says:
    May 27, 2010 at 8:51 am

    Just a joke people. We have been assured by teabaggers on this board and elsewhere that their thoughts are pure and intentions benign.

    Well, that makes me feel better.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    We need to check RRK’s papers.

  • badr

    “You know, you actually look like a cocaine user.”

    DAMN, son! Billy boy is losing it ever since Glenn stole his shine.

  • ex political-media hack

    Best comment from gawker-

    O’Reilly says some stupid shit, but it’s usually about the “issue” as he sees it, rather than the “man” -which is to say, he has a modicum of social intelligence, unlike many of the other repulsive talking heads. He was kidding that the guy looks nothing like a drug dealer. You can tell that the guy didn’t take it as an insult, but as a joke -his retort followed the same formula: “and you look like a drug addict, because haha, no you don’t at all.” In fact, it’s kind of fucked up that in innocuous joke is automatically perceived as insult because the man is black.

  • The Real Royal King

    What would the reaction have been if the humor had been self-deprecating? What if O’Reilly had said, “Hey, I look like a cocaine user, and you look like a cocaine dealer ….” Self-deprecation can be a powerful tool. The great win in the Arizona immigration debate came about as the result of all of those pinto bean Swastikas.

  • notsofast

    I thought Marc sold meth exclusively.

  • writer

    Stereotyping is terrible. We would never see the left, for example, stereotyping large segments of the population as toothless hillbillies living in trailers. Oh, wait…….

  • Fidoohki

    fairest and most balanced of the lot..

  • http://trickletown.vox.com/ Trickletown

    Obviously, in Hill’s case, the PHD stands for “pimpin ho’s daily”.

  • http://none pyrope

    Here’s another instance of some irresponsible puke journalist taking something entirely out of context and trying to start a controversy, in hopes of besmirching the character of the most viewed program among cable TV news channels for years on end. All but the idiot liberals see through this ill-conceived ruse.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joshua-Taj-Bozeman/661000669 Joshua Taj Bozeman

    This is sheer insanity. When the hell did everyone become so whiny and uptight? Get a sense of humor, folks. One has to wonder how on earth this is racist though. Is everything said to a black man automatically racist if it’s negative? I’ve never heard the stereotype that black men are cocaine dealers. Those guys tend to be white or hispanic in movies, TV, popular media, etc. Now, if he had said, you look like a crack dealer, MAYBE…

    Seriously though, people who see racism ANYTIME a comment is directed at a black person. Well, I can only assume those people have some serious issues upstairs, because the world isn’t this awful racist place you think it is. The white man ain’t keeping the black man down in 2010. Someone needs to inform the dimwits of that news flash.

  • Sunnyr

    Bill O’Reilly is such a jerk. He is not known for his sensitivity and is one of the most RUDE people on TV today. I’m surprised he can get anyone except other Fox News employees to appear on his silly show. He is still kissing Obama’s butt in hopes of another interview. Pfft! Fat chance.

  • http://none pyrope

    Since when does sensitivity mean anything? “Kissing butt” HA! I hardly think so. Mr. 0′Reilly must be doing something right, he has enjoyed the highest ratings in cable news for YEARS! If you want to talk about “rude” take a look at Overbite, Mouthews, Madcow, Rat-again, and the rest of the non-contenders.

  • Sunnyr

    Mark Lamont Hill got back at Bill by saying HE looked like a Cocaine USER. Fair and balanced. Good one Mark, you leftist nutwad! ;)

  • Bunny

    I love MLH — don’t always agree with him (or anyone else, for that matter), but he’s engaging, smart, has the most beautiful smile I think I’ve ever seen, and is definitely funny as heck. He will work a joke or crack in anywhere he possibly can.

    He and O’Reilly kid with each other all the time. Same thing when he’s on that late night program (Red-Eye?). He is someone secure enough to make and take a joke and to know when something is said in jest, and he does his fair share of the ribbing, too (ALL in fun).

    Had that been said as a serious comment, it would be extremely egregious. But these two pick at each other like that often. Believe me, MLH is not in the least shy about speaking up, and I haven’t read or heard anything from him to indicate that was anything other than two guys who like to have fun kidding and poking at each other. It’s a big to-do about nothing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Westover/1496648721 Tony Westover

    *LOL* Racial insensitivity? Marc LaMont Hill always jokes about race; he does it tenfold on Red Eye where he’s one of my favorite guests.

    Andrian Chen needs to get a friggin’ job.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jarmaine-Seigler/100001135506481 Jarmaine Seigler

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