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O’Reilly: Will President Obama’s African-American Outreach Include A Cameo On Soul Train?

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President Obama is launching a new outreach program to African-American voters, a strategy that temporarily left Bill O’Reilly asking questions on his program today. What kind of events would African-American outreach entail, he asked guest Marc Lamont Hill, “is he going to be on Soul Train?” Hill, taken a bit by surprise, then had to explain that Soul Train was not an accurate understanding of black culture in 2011, adding “you know you’re going to be on Media Matters for that one.”

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The discussion on tonight’s Factor began far from the world of early disco music, with discussion of a column Hill wrote on the Republican infatuation, as he saw it, with candidates who appeared anti-intellectual. “There’s always a smart candidate,” he argued, beginning with Newt Gingrich as the paradigm, but “Republicans don’t pick the smart candidate.” He continued to explain that Republicans “beat up on guys like [Sen.] John Kerry for speaking French,” which O’Reilly found to be an insufficient article, using President George W. Bush as a counter-example, as a graduate from Ivy League schools. “His grades were two standard deviations below the norm,” Hill replied.

O’Reilly then shifted gears to President Obama’s African American outreach initiative, asking, “what does that entail, going on Soul Train?” Hill, laughing, replied “you know you’re going to be on Media Matters for that!” an objection to which O’Reilly replied that it was a “popular show” that he “really liked,” since The O’Jays were “one of my favorite groups.” “No, it’s not!” Hill corrected (in O’Reilly’s defense, Soul Train was on until 2006, but probably stopped being relevant a decade or two before that, since Don Cornelius wasn’t even around at some point). Hill then explained what actual outreach in the black community means, which includes “going into communities, talking to everyday people… making sure people are registered to vote,” as well as holding meetings with certain leaders in the community.

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O’Reilly concluded the segment asking whether Soul Train was still on the air (no), and exclaiming that he “loved” the show– which, given that his go-to commercial music is often a surprise combination of obscure disco hits and he claimed his Blackberry wakes him up with disco music in the middle of the night during the mail segment last night, is not a difficult claim to believe. “You’re going to get mail on this!” Hill teased at the end of the segment.

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  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    RED ALERT ALERT! Get the dog whistle out! Bill O is a RAAACISSSTTT!!!!!! Get to dog whistle!

  • Anonymous

    In The News – Springhill Group Counselling

    This doesn’t make any sense. all the words 

  • Michelle

    Well duh!! Of course he will be on Media Matters AND Mediaite, because they don’t give a crap about being honest.  They traffic in baseless smears. 

  • http://24ahead.com/ 24AheadDotCom

    It’s good to see BOR mocking MMFA for being trivial little scroungers, but it would be better if he’d do something like have a segment where he shows how they lie and mislead (which I’ve exposed in dozens of comments I’ve left there over the years).

    As for black outreach, maybe Obama could start by explaining these shocking charts and do something about them:

    24ahead.com/n/10849

    Obviously, Obama could care less about that, and it’s not very likely that BOR is going to hold him accountable for it. And, it’s a fact that the TPers or OWS aren’t going to hold him accountable for it either.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder why the average age of a Fox News viewer is 146 years old?

  • Henry Wood

    Well this ought to bring out the best in our conservative commenters here.

    Get these mf’ers some iced tea!

  • Anonymous

    LOl at Soul Train. What decade is this guy in. Dude is so out of touch.

  • Gloves B. Donahue

    Hill and Bill are funny together.

  • Anonymous

    I see Bill’O, like Trump, has a good relationship with “the blacks.” 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    Here we go again. Another provocative outreach program designed with the words “Black” at the forefront. Anyone not convinced Obama has been the most racially divisive president in modern history is politically asleep at the wheel. Lib outrage in 3….2……1

  • Anonymous

    Bill is right.  If you want to reach out to the Black community then what first comes to mind is their talent for dancing.
    Second and third being basketball and being in prison.

    Nailed it, Bill.

  • Henry Wood

    The president has been racially divisive by virtue of the fact that he is black.  This has forced shrill racists to expose themselves by making oodles of racist statements.

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’Reilly just as well could have asked if Obama would be serving watermelon, and you would have been just as impressed.

  • Anonymous

    I  suppose Rachael Maddow could ask Gingrich or Romney about their outreach to the Republican base “what does that entail, going on Hee Haw?” (off the air since 1992).

  • labman57

    O’Reilly probably believes that a fundraising luncheon designed to attract African-American donators should feature fried chicken and watermelon.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    What kind of depraved moron reaches out to people based on the color of their skin and then out of the other side of his mouth says skin color don’t matter? O’Reilly could’ve been a lot tougher and Obama would’ve deserved it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Hemmer/1061080208 Adam Hemmer

    Racist much, Bill? Sheesh.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a Republican. You hate black people. Who cares?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    It doesn’t matter whether the charts are good or bad, it will be blamed on white racism somehow. Hilda Solis is depraved – she should be placed on a ship outside the 12 mile limit and given a pair of binoculars.

  • Anonymous

    Good Lord, get a sense of humor. This was not offensive. The Comment about going on Soul Train was just as silly as the Obama Campaign Team deciding to not actively campaign for the white working class vote. Seriously, O’Reilly has said worse than this. Grow up.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    And forced Obama to be in an anti-white black version of a KKK church for 20 years – gotcha.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Said without a trace of irony though the irony is thick. Nailed your coffin.

  • Ricci Dats Me

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7fJ6jAOVU THE ONLY BLACK POLITICIAN WHO SHOULD WOULD BUT WONT be on Soul Train is? The guy from YESTERDAY and YESTERYEAR.. HERMAN CAINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    You’re projecting your own stereotypes onto strangers.

  • Grimmy

    BILL O’RACIST

  • Joke Scareborough

    Couldn’t be more transparent, can they?

    The segment was actually very lighthearted and entertaining as Bill and Hill were both tweaking each other in an uproarious manner.

  • Joke Scareborough

    Hmmm…
    Does this comment say more about you than it does about O’Reilly?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    You left out the “MF’n Ice Tea” from Sylvia’s in Harlem.

    –Cobra

  • Dead_Air

    Bill was never the same after he found out they canceled the Lawrence Welk Show in 1982.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Of course he’s racist – BillO’s a guy who used the term ‘wetbacks’ on air to refer to Mexicans. 
    But this is actually more of an example of BillO being a typical out-of-touch, aging boomer whose pop culture knowledge never evolved past the Ford administration.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    How dare those durn lib’rul sites quote conservatives verbatim!

  • Henry Wood

    Do you know anything at all about the history of the KKK, Jimmy?  Oh wait, you’re a conservative…

    How many crosses did Jeremiah Wright burn? How many white people did he lynch?

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    You’re absolutely right, Michelle. O’Reilly wasn’t belittling the black community by suggesting you can pander to all blacks on a dance show (blacks love to dance, right?) instead of suggesting that they are, like any other group, organized by intelligent leaders for common political purposes achieved through savvy and hard work. Not at all… I mean, it wouldn’t sound racist if Al Sharpton said you could appeal to all white Americans by simply hitting the trailer parks after a Nascar race, right? 

    I don’t think O’Reilly actually intends to be racist, but the point is he belittles the black community in a way he doesn’t belittle his own, so obviously it rubs people the wrong way. Remember when he was “surprised” that a restaurant in Harlem wasn’t full of thugs? What a revelation. 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwIyGRHF1Eg&feature=related

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    Bill is actually a stalwart defender of the black community. He even went on the radio to inform the rest of America that a “black restaurant” was “no different” from a white one. What a “surprise,” he said. No thugs. Really amazing. Maybe one day, like an explorer of old, he’ll venture into a black family’s home and tell us all of the details of how these people live. What a guy. 

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    I don’t think watermelon is popular in Kenya.

  • Anonymous

    If you seriously think relating “Soul Train” to Obama has zero racial undertones, then it makes sense that you vote republican. 

    If Jon Stewart attributed Herman Cain to Soul Train, I’d say the same thing – regardless of my political affiliation.

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    They would actually have to go on Mr. Maddow’s show. For that to happen Mr. Maddow would need viewers and not an Adam’s Apple.

  • http://twitter.com/artislifeisart Nora

    His comment means he has a sense of humor.  Do you?  Also means he’s got O’Riley pegged.

  • http://twitter.com/artislifeisart Nora

    James learns everything he knows from Fox News.

  • Anonymous

    Bill loved the black guy that tap danced.
    btw…how come Hannity always has country acts on his freedom shows??
     CONSERVATIVES ONLY LIKE COUNTRY?

  • Anonymous

    Obama should ask Cain how to reach out to the black community..he was gang busters with that…LOL

  • Henry Wood

    I think your sarcasm detector is on the fritz, Jimbo.

  • Anonymous

    The stupid people always prove my points for me.

  • Anonymous

    You’re really spinning that situation. Listen to the clip in context. (He was eating with Al Sharpton that day …. if what O’Reilly said was racist, Sharpton would’ve been all over him) 

  • david r

    I really like Hill.  He kicks BillO’s butt.  O’Reilly is good natured about it.  Bill is a little behind times.  Soul Train?  LOL.

  • Anonymous

    You realize that you are perpetuating a false stereotyping by bringing up a watermelon reference, do you not? AKA – you’re the one being a bigot. 

  • david r

    Perfect

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    What exactly was your point other than to blow your dog whistle for the other white liberals to start chanting RACIST RACIST!

  • Anonymous

    So many people don’t understand that a lot of what O’Reilly says is tongue-in-cheek. Guarantee so many of you didnt even watch the clip, you just read the headline without any context of the quote .

  • Anonymous

    What was your point other than proving that you are a racist by lying about Obama being a Kenyan?

    Please try to remember that you are a Republican, and all Republicans are stupid racists. You don’t have the capacity to realize when you are saying blatantly racist things.

  • Anonymous

    As you know, I just proved that the Soul Train reference is on par with the  Watermelon references.

    The reason you lied is because you are a Republican, and all Republicans are systematically trained to believe and say precisely the opposite of the truth.

  • Anonymous

    Typical stereotyping by this highly paid bigot. O’Reilly is a typical Long Island racist. I grew up having to deal with dirtbags like him all the time. Ignorant as the day is long. The island is filled with bigots like him. They’re really vile.

  • Anonymous

    What a sad little ideologue you are…

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    …which didn’t happen…so…yeah…..

  • Anonymous

    Why do you hate black people so much Trevor? 

  • Anonymous

    I just state facts. You are a Republican, and all Republicans have been systematically trained to reject facts.

  • Anonymous

    You are a Democrat. You have been systematically trained to view the world in groups instead of individual merit. 

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    Because Trevor’s party invented the KKK.

  • Anonymous

    Not only are you projecting, but you’re using what I said about you to do your projecting. You’re like a world record projector or something. Nice work.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get it… why is there a TV station called ‘The BET Network’ (Black Entertainment)? Shouldn’t liberals be crying that this is racist since it implies that all blacks find the same thing entertaining? Or could it be that black culture is more often associated with hip-hop, R&B, rap, and soul moreso than other cultures? 

    So many people (in our idiotic politically correct society) instantly cry racism whenever a reference to racial culture is made. Our cultural differences is what makes America great, and creating false outrage over what OReilly said (which was obviously tongue-in-cheek) only perpetuates racism. 
    Get a grip and don’t be so sensitive… there are REAL problems in the world! 

  • Anonymous

    Let me ask you: Do you think that the BET (black entertainment) Network is racist? Based on your logic, doesn’t it imply that all black people find the same TV shows, movies, and music entertaining? 

    I think you are creating false outrage and ignoring obvious cultural differences that are nothing to be ashamed of. Soul, R&B, and HipHop are more often associated with black culture, right? OReilly was simply making a joking reference to that, albeit the joke could have been in better taste, but he wasn’t being explicitly racist. Please, stop creating false racism outrage. There are so many more important things to worry about and playing the race card is counter-progressive. 

  • Anonymous

    So you see how stupid projection and blanket generalizations are yet you still make the same, tired charge about the GOP in all your posts. Your ideology is not the product of some immaculate philosophy, to be honest. I think you take yourself way toooo seriously.   

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    What if a station titled “White Entertainment Television” was owned by black folk? 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD7VO9ZVX5Y

  • Anonymous

    Don’t give the idiot higher ratings by caring about his supposedly clueless comment; we all know he just said that to get some publicity.  He thrives on people thinking he’s outrageous and ignorant.  After all, that both appeals to his target audience and attracts new outraged viewers at the same time.

  • Anonymous

    That was actually a reasonably insightful comment about Republicans not picking the intelligent candidate, but I have to laugh at the idea of Mr. Gingrich being either intelligent or intellectual.  Granted, a certain percentage of Republicans seem to genuinely think he’s intelligent, but that’s either due to their ignorance of the candidate and the issues, wishful thinking, or perhaps their own stupidity.  Hopefully not the latter …

  • Anonymous

    I prove what I say about Republicans. Republicans have a long, proven history of racism and other forms of bigotry. You use it to attack black people. You use it to sell wars. You use it in every single one of your campaigns. There’s no mystery here.

  • Anonymous

    You do realize that O’Reilly is just baiting us all, and some of the people crying racism are just trolling right back, don’t you?  He’s such a troll that he actually belongs on Mediaite!  LOL

  • Anonymous

    My point exactly. O’Reilly makes one little comment and the blogosphere goes crazy, with tons of people screaming RACIST!!!

    BET is on 24/7 perpetuating racial stereotypes about blacks and no one gives a crap.
    The reason for false liberal outrage: Bill O’Reilly is on FOX News.

  • Anonymous

    Dancing is a mating ritual.  All species do it as a means of attracting the opposite sex.

  • Anonymous

      What’s wrong with that?

  • Anonymous

    No, not a racist…just a dinosaur that has no clue that soul train went away about 4 decades ago.

  • Anonymous

    I’m not outraged.. I only call it like I see it. Please don’t pretend to understand my logic. You’ll fail every time. I couldn’t have stated my opinion any simpler. 

    You said O’Reilly was only joking? Since when did he turn to comedy? Then you go on to say “He wasn’t being explicitly racist”. In case you don’t understand history.. explicit racism hasn’t existed en masse since the civil rights era. Keep defending Fox News.. it makes you look reeeal smart.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think he’s a racist.

    I just think he’s from a different generation.. and seems to be trying hard not to sound rationally insensitive like the vast majority of his generation

  • LJB57

    Obama’s a muslim racist, most people who voted for the Bum are racist,
    the rest were just incredibly stupid.
    Just read some of the nonsense coming out of the liberal swishes
    that populate this silly site. 

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    “…*couldn’t care less…”  Fixed.

  • Anonymous

    To be fair, he also is friends with Ted Nugent. 

  • Anonymous

    Bill is like Gingrich always portrays themselves as great intellectuals or historians with their numerous books.But in my humble opinion they are not as smart they imagine.I am being presumptuous here but I never seen any smart people trying to prove their superior intellect unless they  have a complex of inferiority toward smarter people then them.
    Before someones come to Bill defense think about the offensive ideas that are circulating thanks to his moronic input such as the “War on Christmas”.

  • Anonymous

    You’re on Mediaite too…

  • us995

    he should do a 57 state apolology tour for sins

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Maddow?  That’s very, very, fcking funny.  Like that line hasn’t been used before. That’s about as comical as inbred hillbillies not liking barn yard erotica 

  • Anonymous

    I heard the clip and what the motherfcker said was racist.  It was racist to think that all resturants that cater to the “Black” community are  an example of bedlam.  There are many, many resturants where “Black” people go about their business in a civilized manner.  That’s one of the things that I fcking hate about the Anglo-Saxon.  You bitches don’t know all of us, but you think that you do and you say stupid shit like what Bill O the Clown and the Adulterer with his “poor kids don’t see people going to work, blah, blah, blah.

  • Anonymous

    Its not a stereo type that the Anglo-Saxon doesn’t keep using.  I mean how many derogatory e-mails have been passed by CONservatives that referenced watermelons and Obama?

  • Anonymous

    We’ve been trained by countless reTHUGlican political ads like the Willie Horton and the Harold Ford Jr. Playboy ads

  • Anonymous

    Don’t mind him.  He’s your average, stupid ass, redneck, cracker

  • Anonymous

    To be washed down with grape soda and a basketball game to work it off

  • Anonymous

    Kinda of evens out all of those anti-black churches of yester year that used the bible to approve of segregation

  • Anonymous

    Are you in a fcking time loop?  You keep saying the same asinine thing over, and over, and over and over

  • Anonymous

    I get so sick and tired of you Harvey Milktoast motherfckers complaining about that bullshit network, BET.  Ask yourself what was it that facilitated Robert Johnson creating BET?  It was the fact that MTV wouldn’t play music videos of “black” groups.  Now, to asnwer your question about BET, that was the worse thing that has ever happened to “Black” people.  Johnson was more concerned about making a buck then to support positive programming that was made by people of color.  As far as that Fox News clown is concerned, he was just throwing red meat to his audience, most of whom believe the stupid shit that most Anglo-Saxons believe.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what the whole topic of going out to get the black vote was about. The campaign has made it a focus to not actively seek the white working vote as much as the younger and minority vote. This was just reported on the past couple of days.

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/barone-obama-pursues-poor-not-white-working-vote/241026

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JC25VZ7V3BAAPNJ5C3R3YIP3WI j

    Liberals are a shallow ultra-sensitive obnoxious bunch. 

  • Anonymous

    Not only is she on here, she’s on here after being banned. How far do you have to fall to come crawling back to a website, which you supposedly hate, that unceremoniously tossed you to the curb? It takes a real lack of pride to come crawling back to Mediaite on your hands and knees.

  • Anonymous

    The Soul Train comment, as pointed out already, is more remarkable for just how out of touch it is. I find this to be the problem with a lot of people who want to comment on Black Americans. They are as out of touch as Bill, never have been in touch, and likely never will be in touch, yet they want to offer their opinions from the outside.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    Don’t forget Rush.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super
  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    I don’t think anyone is actually “friends” with The Nuge.  I think even the most Yosemite Sam-type Republicans feel obligated to acknowledge and “like” him.  Everyone has to be nice to the crazy uncle, especially when he’s packing more firepower than the Marines.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    You cite an article by Barone.  What does he say?  
    “Has Barack Obama’s Democratic party given up on winning the votes of the white working class? Thomas Edsall, the longtime Washington Post reporter now with the Huffington Post, thinks so.”
    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/barone-obama-pursues-poor-not-white-working-vote/241026
    So lets look at Edsall.  I’m curious…
    “It is instructive to trace the evolution of a political strategy based on securing this coalition in the writings and comments, over time, of such Democratic analysts as Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira. Both men were initially determined to win back the white working-class majority, but both currently advocate a revised Democratic alliance in which whites without college degrees are effectively replaced by well-educated socially liberal whites in alliance with the growing ranks of less affluent minority voters, especially Hispanics.”
    http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/
    So far, we have Barrone describing Edsall who is explaining Greenberg and Teixeira.  Lets go to an original source…
    “My new report…as generated a lot of comment, much of which focuses on the alleged need for the Obama campaign to “abandon” the white working class…But this more reflects what commenters wish to believe about the Obama campaign than what the report actually says. In reality, we do not argue that the Obama campaign needs to choose between, say, white working class and white college graduate voters, or between states like Ohio and Virginia. These are false choices.”
    http://www.npr.org/2011/12/06/143193131/new-republic-why-obama-doesn-t-need-to-choose

    If that isn’t convincing… perhaps this is.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY5ehI6GxVc

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Larson/1589499840 Eric Larson

    Just like to say that Dr. Hill tells race jokes all the time on Red Eye. Does that make him a racist. Come on people get a clue. The only reason that is thought of as racist is becuase of the PC world we live in. He was making a joke and trying to be hip. He failed but thats all it was.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Larson/1589499840 Eric Larson

    Did you have a problem when Stewert did an impresion of Cain and made him sound like a sterotypical Song of the south black man??

  • John Jacobjingleheimerschmidt

    See, that’s the thing: you guys don’t even realize when you’re being racist. You think if you’re friendly to a black dude’s face, it’s good enough. But this is a case when O’Reilly was clearly, clearly being condescending to blacks as a group by overtly saying it’s surprising that they eat at normal restaurants, just like whites. That’s such a “no shit” comment that only shows that O’Reilly at least half expected the place to fit some black stereotype. That sort of attitude comes out in all sorts of ways that translate into real consequences in life, and people see that as racism, which it is. It’s like if O’Reilly were a cab driver and he told a black customer, “Oh, you’re great, really surprising, I thought you were going to rob me.”

    By the way, my “like” of your comment was accidental. 

  • Anonymous

    …and the goal is to make that solely their problem, and not ours.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WGWKC5OG2ZITS24U6YMNM5M7NE Joe

    o_t_GOP    you need to pull your head out of OBs arse and be your own man…hows that for racism…..go listen to MLKs speach again…maybe this time you will get it!!

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly knows exactly what he’s doing and saying. Helping to spin a little controversy. He love playing the Devil’s Advocate.

    Hence Marc Lamont Hill saying ‘You know you’re going to be on Media Matters for that one.’

    Republicans thought Herman Cain was going to be their African American Outreach. Cain will be lucky, if right now, he can Outreach his wife.

    O’Reilly likes to have a bit of a tease…

  • Anonymous

    Al Sharpton didn’t have to be all over him because Bill’O did enough damage himself by being surprised that a black restaurant was like any other.  He was astonished that patrons weren’t screaming and violently demanding their Motherfn’ tea from the waitresses.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t get it!  Why is there a network called The Country Network (TCN).  Shouldn’t conservatives be crying that this is racist since it everyone knows most country singers are white?   

    Bill O’reilly is so out of touch.  Not all blacks watched Soul Train when it was on and it’s now been off for years.  Meanwhile I wonder if Newt will consider doing outreach of Real Housewives of Atlanta.  

      

  • Anonymous

    He makes subtle racist comments all the time though.  It still irks me that he  went after Ludacris causing his to lose his Pepsi deal, but he never went after M&M and others.  He has never gone after Ted Nugent, who has made many outrageous statements may directing violence toward the President.   

  • Anonymous

    I didn’t know this site allows posting by the Grand Wizard of the KKK.  I guess B F D stands for Bigoted Fascist Dickhead.  I’m quite sure Bill would not want your endorsement.

  • Anonymous

    The GORP (Grand Old Racist Party) formally known as the GOP is reaching out to Hispanics since they’ve insulted them for the past several years. The conservative party is very racially divisive and prefers to cater mostly to it’s southern white base.  

  • Anonymous

    When the Klan and their supporters in the Jim Crow government establishment wanted to put an end to the attempted enfranchisement of African American voter they didn’t bomb Little Richard Concerts, dance Parties or attack Discoteques instead they bombed churches, political rallies, and marches. They targeted groups like SNCC and CORE, not the temptations, or the Supremes. They assassinated leaders like Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X, not lead singers like James Brown, or Sam Cooke. Even the Klan had enough sense to know where African American would flock to seek enfranchisement.   
    For nearly more than a century the American political establishment has known the likes of a myriad of political organizations headed by African Americans. Organizations such as NAACP, The Urban League, National Black Caucus, National Bar Association, Sigma Phi, Pi International, United Negro College Fund, General Board AME Church, BAMPAC, 100 Black Men, Black Millionaires mentoring program, Black Women for Obama, Coalition for Peoples Agenda, International Democratic Movement, National Action Network, National Coalition for Justice, Nationalist Black Leadership Coalition, UNIA-ACL,
    Out of so many appropriate organizations to suggest reaching out to can anyone (Aside from BillO) honestly suggest that the Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation on earths best option in rallying African American votes is to “Go on Soul Train”
    I think that Bill knew was quite conscience of the racial undertones of such a comment and thus tried to backpedal in a joking way luckily for him his guest had thick skin and didn’t walk off the set leaving Bill with a empty slot of 10 minutes in which he would have to explain himself. If he was joking it was in poor taste and the professor saved his skin by rolling with it.

  • Anonymous

    Rachael is more man than youll ever be and more woman than youll ever have

  • Anonymous

    have you heard Rush do Jesse Jackson or Sharpton or even Pres. Obama..do you have a problem with that?

  • Anonymous


     

  • Anonymous

    I would like to read some if these racist jokes he tells all the time

  • http://twitter.com/eshowman Friday Foster

    I am sick of the of the fools who constantly use the same old  ”White Entertainment Television  line. BET was founded because MTV refused to play black music.    Actually BET has always had white owners & is now in white hands completely. Sheer ignorance, just like O’Reilly.

  • http://twitter.com/eshowman Friday Foster

    Black people do complain & criticize BET all the time. More Black women watch Lifetime & Vh-1 than BET. Since you have actually done anything other than spout ignorance, I am not surprised that you did not know that.

  • http://twitter.com/eshowman Friday Foster

    Was that the rough draft of comedy sketch? Will you be using it to do some white outreach?

  • http://twitter.com/eshowman Friday Foster

    Yeah the generation that burnt crosses, planted bombs in churches and lynched black people.

  • LJB57

    Non sequitor, that does not compute…Error…end of line.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s talk about something more important instead, like the e-mails just released today by the DOJ today confirming that the obama DOJ was intentionally and illegally selling guns to the Mexican drug gangs with the intention of using the crimes committed with those “American weapons” to attack the second amendment. Subversion of the constitution anyone? Are there trials, convictions, perhaps executions for being accessories to murder and treason in order here? What would your opinion be if it had been a Republican admin that had done this and caused the death of U.S. agents and HUNDREDS of Mexican nationals?

  • Anonymous

    Teapublican Spam!
    Thank you sir, may I have another

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s a muslim racist, most people who voted for the Bum are racist.

    I understand it was the KKK vote that put him “over the top”.
    Ironic, isn’t it.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    It’s nice to meet you as well Mrs. Foster! BET was founded to make a profit.
    “A major part of his formula: Keep costs low and find inexpensive ways to provide programming. Rather than pursue lots of expensive original work, Johnson mostly aired already produced music videos and reruns of sitcoms such as The Jeffersons and Benson. He didn’t, it would be fair to say, get a warm reception from critics, who accused him, among other things, of aiming too low. But BET’s audience loved the fare. ”
    BET did not always have white owners.
    “Armed with just a $15,000 bank loan and a $500,000 investment from cable magnate John Malone, Johnson created a 24-hour programming service aimed at African Americans. By 1991, BET had risen to become the first black-controlled company on the New York Stock Exchange. It later went private, before being sold to media giant Viacom in 2001 in a deal valued at nearly $3 billion.”
    I included a clip from “Hip Hop, Beyond Beats and Rhymes” because it hits the right note on the issue. Media play to stereotypes that sell… stereotypes that are lazy but profitable.
    I hope you have a blessed day!

    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/10/01/330571/index.htm

  • Anonymous

    You are uncomfortable with facts that go against your programing I see.http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31...

  • LJB57

    Not really since the KKK was founded and is controlled by the democrat party it’s not surprising at all.

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