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Bill O’Reilly And Marc Lamont Hill Clash Over Charges Of Racism Against The GOP Candidates

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On Thursday night’s O’Reilly Factor, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly excoriated Miami Herald writer Joy-Ann Reid for criticizing Mitt Romney over giving an impoverished black woman a wad of cash on the campaign trail. “The governor helps a woman out. The woman appreciates it very much and there you have this pinhead from the Miami Herald saying that it’s a racial stereotype.”

RELATED MSNBC Guest: Romney Giving Money To Woman Played Into ‘Patronizing Stereotype Of Black People’

“Well, I don’t want to call her a pinhead,” responded guest Marc Lamont Hill. “What I will say is I slightly disagree with her. I don’t think that Mitt Romney’s decision to give her money was bad in and of itself. What else do you do? If he ignores the woman or tells her to get a job he would be blasted for being cruel to the poor as he has been for the fast few weeks. How does the story get taken up? There’s a very old narrative woven by Republicans equates poverty to race. They darken the face of poverty to make it marginal and irrelevant to people. That’s the issue and that’s how the story has been taken up and it’s also about Mitt Romney’s own history with killing jobs. I mean it’s great for him to have this largess personally as a president if he policy that does the opposite then what good is an individual act?”

“Let’s get back to the issue at hand. This person from the Miami Herald could not, could not, all right, even give credit in such a simple, charitable act because of her racial animus, I believe and political fanaticism. why else? Look, why else?” O’Reilly pressed. “I guarantee if I went to your class and explained to your class what romney did, even at Columbia University, 95% would have said just what you said, it was an act of charity and it was a good thing. Not that person! I’m getting real concerned with the level of hatred toward political candidates. it does cut both ways, there is no doubt.”

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  • Anonymous

    i really agree with the anchors of msnbc on this issue on how romney’s decision to give money was racially motivated.

  • Moderate

    Liberals never understand individual charity, they see it as government responsibility. Their parents never read them the story about the good Samaritan.

  • http://twitter.com/KingMike33 That’s Sir Eli

    Thought Republicans didnt believe in “hand-outs”? lol That would have been the perfect opportunity for Mitt Romney to show his Economic Plan; he could have gave her a job! lol Thats what people need. And how did she even get in there? I dont believe anything about that situation. I think they sent the whole thing up. Paid some crazy looking black woman to walk in there and ask for money and i think it was racially driven. And telling people that they are poor because they dont have any work ethic is disgustingly racist!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Has Bill EVER seen any racism?

  • Anonymous

    Liberals DESTROYED poor and minority communities. Look at cities like Detroit and New Orleans and other cities across the nation. Once these cities become exclusively Democratic they become hell holes and it is Liberal’s fault.

    Liberals please explain why cities that are heavily Democratic are the worst in the nation?

  • Henry Wood

    Like many conservatives, Bill Orally only sees racism when he can accuse a black or brown person of being racist.

  • Anonymous

    Meanwhile Liberals see racism all the time, even when none exists, because Liberals are racists. Liberals see the race of person first over anything else.

  • Anonymous

    So people should NOT give money to a person if they are black?

    That is racist.

  • Anonymous

    Individuals giving their own money to people is different than the government forcing people to give money for programs that don’t work, have no oversight,  and cripple people.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    You’re either stupid or naive.

    Notice how Romney promptly mentioned the lady he gave money to in a speech.

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/mitt-romney-namedrops-woman-he-gave-cash-to-during-stump-speech/

    How cool is that?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tim-Malone/100002475802402 Tim Malone

    Sheeeet, da GOP gotz to do a betta job of reaching out to black folks cuz we be just as good as dem european folkz. Yeah, we aint got no ancient Rome or Greece, we aint built no empires, da cities we make-up the majority of are all hellholes like Detroit and Newark and we mo likely to smoke crack, have children out of wedlock and commit violent crime than any other race, but we aint no different than them book learned western european crackas.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Charity and a responsible security net in society are two different things.

    Do you think the Right will ever figure that out?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Yawn.

    I almost want to see President Obama lose JUST to stop having to hear the Right cry ALL THE FREAKING TIME!

  • Anonymous

    You are both stupid AND naive.

    Giving money to someone is not racist.

    Unless you see race as the main factor for everything.

  • Anonymous

    Los Angeles is not a heavily black area, but you sound like a typical racist Liberal. Like most Liberals you assume poor means black…which is racist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    I don’t think its racist, but I do think it is pandering and a resume enhancer for a man how has a issue of not appearing human.

    I doesn’t have to be a racist move to be a cheap move.

    But either way I am sure you’re ok with it.

  • Anonymous

    Will Liberals ever figure out that their programs have failed the poor.

  • Anonymous

    Well lets hope he does lose.

  • Anonymous

    Los Angeles is not a heavily black area, but you sound like a typical
    racist Liberal. Like most Liberals you assume poor means black…which
    is racist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    To who?

  • Anonymous

    Apparently you are too stupid to have read the 1st post and my 1st response.

    carry on you baboso.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Yes, you’re Right, the programs have failed because there are still poor people.

    If the programs worked there would never be any more poor people.

    Yes, that makes a lot of sense.

    I know you didn’t say that is why the programs failed but I doubt you will give me any real data on the programs to justify your claims.

    So…….

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    OK.

    What part of “I DON’T THINK” don’t you understand?

    I am obviously rolling around in the mud with a pig.

  • Anonymous

    Actually they have failed. All you have to do is look at cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans. They have been run by Democrats and have they gotten better or worse? Even when the US was going through good years those cities plus other Democratically run cities have gotten worse.

    The teachers unions give heavily to the Democratic Party and our students have performed NOT better, but worse. USA has fallen from the leader in education around the world. It is now lower than many other countries yet we pay more for our education and per student than many of those countries.

    This is because Liberals now run those unions and cities and have destroyed them.

  • Anonymous

    Antonio, you wrote;

    “What part of “I DON’T THINK” don’t you understand?”

    Oh I understand that you DON’T THINK, that is the problem with Liberals…they don’t think.

    …and as for “rolling around in the mud with a pig” please don’t bring up your own dating experiences and sexual preferences into this debate.

    ;^)

  • val smith

    Right-so when Newt says Obama is the food stamp president he’s talking about all the poor white people.

    Exactly.

  • Anonymous

    @ Antonio

    Tu eres un baboso…ja.

  • Anonymous

    Well who is getting the most food stamps and welfare in the country? white or black people?

    If you are implying that it is black people….you are a racist.

    Apparently, when you hear “food stamps” YOU think of black people….that means you;re a racist.

  • Anonymous

    Why is it when Liberals hear the word “food stamps” they automatically think of black people?

    my, my, it appears the real racists are those on the Left.

    But then again Liberals voted for the OPENLY RACIST Barack Obama;

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XPaSSUR_Y

    Now Liberals, explain why you voted for someone who is this openly racist?

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

    You must be black.

  • http://twitter.com/HighlyRandom Highly Random

    was that picture REALLY the only picture of the woman they could find? bug eyed with her mouth open? it makes her look like a kook

  • Anonymous

    Well if you notice that is how the Liberal media works.

    Anyone on the right or any person who supports conservatives the media, including mediaite, has to show a terrible picture, and I can even prove it;

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-five-greatest-gaffes-rick-perry/

    It’s a JournOlist thang.

  • Anonymous

    why do so many white people continue to blast blacks, blacks in america have been thru enough. White people leave black folks alone, stop talking about them. 

  • Anonymous

    Another Liberal racist…How does giving money to some racist? How are “food stamps” a black thing? How is being a janitor equal black? How is calling Juan Williams “Juan” racist? How is booing someone racist (John King was booed tonight)? How is disagreeing with Obamacare racist?

    Only in the mind of brain dead Liberals is that black.

    Prove it is not.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/NTL3E4RLSV5G7GCZII4GAGMSOQ James

    Having a bigot like O’Reilly on opining on racism is like Chris Christie being an expert on anorexia.

  • Anonymous

    Funny how Liberals never noticed that Barack Obama is an OPEN bigot racist?

  • Anonymous

    I am a person of color….now explain why cities that are in turmoil are run by Democrats. Explain why the teachers union supports Democrats yet our educational system is in disaster, yet we pay the most per student.

    Now explain that?

  • Henry Wood

    This is where I miss all the conservatives who were banned from mediaite for making white supremacist comments…

  • Anonymous

    Bill O’really thinks he’s an expert on everything from abortions, guns,rappers, and now the inner city kids  code word for black kids. He continue to generalize blacks, every chance he gets. People should stop getting on this show to debate him he’s racist to the core and no matter what anybody says he will never change. HE may be rich but he but he seems mad, sad, angry, and negative all time. 

  • http://twitter.com/TommyBennett Tom Bennett

    Change the system.

  • Anonymous

    Nwet and Romney surrogate?

  • Anonymous

    …Bless his heart.

    That will get the African American vote with this act of minded kindness…

  • Anonymous

    Racism doesn’t exist to Bill. He will never admit it if it smacked him on his flat hiney

  • Anonymous

    What part was racist?

  • Anonymous

    prove it…it is that easy.

  • Duke Chesnut

    My, My, MY; What tolerant discourse we have here tonight. The dept. of Education was created in 1977 under Carter,  We have poured Billions into education,and yet our test scores remain the same.
    However, in the urban areas, which is hard to gauge because so many drop out before 11th grade when the SAT orACT is administered, test scores have declined to a point that administrators in some districts have resorted to cheating or gaming the system, so lower scores do not cause a drop in federal money. Once again the chase for fed funding has cheated urban kids out of meaningful school reform. 

  • http://twitter.com/ukobserver Israel Parper

    If this is the case then how do you explain Wisconsin?

    The worst job growth of all States in the US and run by republicans?

    Th first comment to you was correct, you are either naive, obtuse or schooled in Texas because this strategy is well known and was talked about fully by Lee Atwater:

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

    You think is was just by random Gingrich talked about going to the NAACP and tell them to demand “Jobs not Foodstamps”? 

    It’s a fact that the majority of people on foodstamps are white but would you see him go to CPAC and make the same speech? 

    Most inner city school custodians are minorities. You think he would choose a poor white school in Nebraska to make that point about kids doing those jobs? Nah, he knows his audience and he knows howe they think which is why the old “Welfare Queens driving around in Cadillacs” worked.

    It’s also interesting that you point to the cities of Detroit and New Orleans   as examples of poorly run places yet fail to mention that THE STATES THEY ARE IN ARE RUN BY REPUBLICANS WHO PROVIDE THE BULK OF THE FUNDING.

    But that would not work with your narrative would it?

     

  • http://twitter.com/ukobserver Israel Parper

    How about the complete clusterfuck that is No Child Left Behind?

    Another Orwellian republican idea that did the opposite of what it was meant to.

  • http://twitter.com/ukobserver Israel Parper

    No, he’s inferring (look it up, it’s the right context) that NEWT GINGRICH is saying that all people who get food stamps are black and Gingrich was saying it to an audience he knows believes it too.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, that’s what I was hoping for.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not a hand out. Pretty sure I got a vote or 2 out of it.

  • Anonymous

    If I beat Obama, I got a feeling these right fringies will cry about me!

  • Anonymous

    If you’re a person of color, you must have done evil to the Nephites.

  • Anonymous

    Lala3, I see you’re upset about something. If I give you $10,0000 will you please shut up?

  • huffnnoccupyn

    What else could Romney have done? Well, he could’ve given her a phone number to call to ask about one of the many recently-created open positions at any company that Bain recently acquired, because that’s what Republicans are all about … creating opportunity.

    I just hope that woman is ready to move to India.

  • Anonymous

    One word; UNIONS…who btw are behind every Democrat.

    uh…how long has Wisconsin been run by a Republican majority? Then the Democratically controlled Democrats can go back to ruining Wisconsin.

    States are different than cities and here is why.

    The majority of counties in California voted Republican in the last election. But crumbling cities like Los Angeles have a large population and vote Democratic.

  • Anonymous

    prove it.

  • Anonymous

    I’m surprised Bill’O has Dr. Hill on as much as he does because Hill makes Bill look like a buffoon 90% of the time.

  • Dead_Air

    Lala3 = Latin2

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    WOW! You don’t have a clue. Go back to sniffing glue.

  • Anonymous

    You have no idea what your talking about. This was a total racist action. Read the analysis done by Joy-Ann Reid when she appeared on msnbc. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-romney-giving-money-to-woman-played-into-patronizing-stereotype-of-black-people/

  • Anonymous

    For those who dont think what Romney did is racist…do yourself a favor and check out the analysis by Joy-Ann Reid when she appeared on msnbc.  http://www.mediaite.com/tv/msnbc-guest-romney-giving-money-to-woman-played-into-patronizing-stereotype-of-black-people/

  • Anonymous

    Why would you want that…OBAMA has already improved our country so much. What we need now is OBAMA to stop pandering to the right and go full LEFT to heal this country.

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

    O’Reilly himself used the term ‘wetbacks’ on the air.
    yeah, there’s someone who can discuss racism with credibility.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clark/100000610136790 Arthur Clark

    Life has failed you, because you’re a vile unabashed bigot. Who seeks stories like this to show your true colors and while sharing your misinformed dribble.. You present straw man arguments and highly edited you-tube clips, just to prove what a wretch you are.

  • Anonymous

    Fun fact, did you know that Chinese by an large are white supremacist?

    Ditto Filipinos, Ditto sub-Himalayan Indians. Ditto Saudi Arabians.

    And judging by what you write, you are too.. a person or color or not

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KV4RFCL74WV652VV43U3GDPAEY Stephen W

    Marc Lamont was the biggest racist on that show.  It is a shame that our young people are being educated by people like him.  This guy, as well as people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and others , spend their entire lives fighting a race war.  They are very much like the North Korean government, spending their entire lives being in a war with other nations, a war environment that only exists because of them.      Now there is racism all over the world.   But Newt Gingrich suggesting children could learn a work ethic by taking small jobs in a school is not a racist statement.    Neither is Romney handing this woman money.     Liberals want the poor to stay poor and remain on the government dole, conservatives want to provide means for self improvement, that’s not racist.  

  • Anonymous

    Ahhhh…good old Lamont. Leftist ‘dog-whistle’ always at hand, Mr. ‘Thasssssss Racissssss!’ played true to form. “Lookit meeee! I’m a Pee-H-Deeeeeeeeeeee! I’m talkin’ faster than you so you can’t keep up wit Meeeeee!”

  • Anonymous

    Hill is just another phony that pretends to be offended by anything a republican says. O’Reilly made Hill look like the fool he is.

  • Anonymous

    I still have your apology letter deadair…lol

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Bill O’ Reilly also likes to give woman money, a whole bunch of money not to sue him for sexual harassment!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UIUTYRY4RUDL2KNY63S3DF5HWE Ironhenge

    What don’t you republicans understand about this? We liberals are furious because we can’t have successful citizens giving their own money to the poor out of some crazy notion of compassion or freewill. It must be taken from them by government first and then handed out by Obama the great giver and social master….uhhh caretaker of the poor.

  • Anonymous

    Great assessment dude….way to follow the narrative the liberal media tells you to follow.  You do know the women followed his campaign bus and approached him looking for the help right?
     
    What in your mind, would have been the appropriate response from Romney to show both compassion without being racist?  I cant wait for your answer.

  • Anonymous

    No your programs have not failed becasue there are still poor people, your programs have failed because they effectively create more and multi generational poor people…

  • Anonymous

    FNC IS Fair and Balanced.

    O’Reilley has more guests of liberal view on ONE Factor, than all of MSNBC shows have guests with conservative view, combined, in a year.

    Pardon the hyperbole! 

  • Anonymous

    If it’s OK from Obama, why is it racist if a hand-up comes from Romney?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ojd13kZlCA

  • Anonymous

    I spent a lot of volunteer time, on various locations, mostly after natural disasters, to help victims of those disasters to recover. I met people who similarly responded, from all parts of the United States and Canada.

    I can say with clear conscience – although, admittedly, only anecdotally – that my fellow volunteers were at least 90% conservatives/Republicans.

  • Anonymous

    They DO NOT want poverty ever end!

    If there was no poverty, there would be no further use for such free-loading, millionaire poverty pimps as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ben Jealous, Tavis Smiley, etc.

    Not that there is any use for them even now. 

  • Anonymous

    To the best of my recollections – and I have been watching “The O’Reilley Factor” since 1997, Bill has never called anyone, black or white, a racist.

    That kind of name-calling is the exclusive quality of a liberal scoundrel.

    Examples provided upon request.

  • Anonymous

    “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND”

    Dreamed up and conceived in the hellish mind of the gratefully and much-belatedly departed late Ted Kennedy and reluctantly supported by President G.W. Bush.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Dear Moderate: You have just contradicted yourself both supporting and against giving to someone in need from one who has excess.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Isn’t it true that the only State that has failed is the bankrupt California, run by a Republican.

    Isn’t that an indisputable FACT.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    so the couple of dollars Mitt gave her will completely and totally change her life? Is that what you are saying? The money Mitt gave her will buy her a masters degree, pay her rent for 5 years and get her completely out of poverty.

    Wow, Mitt sure did give her a lot of money.

    Hypocrite much?

  • Anonymous

    Jerry Brown is not a Republican. He is the current Governor of California. Nice lie though.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Wow. I feel really glad that you have never had to experience the torture of racism.  Since you have never experienced it you believe it does not exist. And that in itself is absolutely wonderful.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    A latino that doesn’t believe in racism. Can’t be true, Juan.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    HA!

    What about the CHARGES OF RACISM against Marc Lamont Hill? – and the rest of his Race-Baiting, faux-”academia” smear merchants?
    Using the Dem standard, it seems Hill always has something nasty to say about one white person or another, so he must be a racist!

  • Anonymous

    The Dept of education was created in 1867.  

  • Anonymous

    Romney really can’t win, can he? 

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure some of Bill O’s best friends are black!

  • Anonymous

    Well the amount is insulting. Willard is reportedly worth $300 million and he gives this woman a  measly 50 bucks. That’s like me walking up to a homeless person and scraping the gum off the bottom of my shoe and handing it to him.

    I bet Romney will make sure he counts this as a charitable donation on next year’s tax return.

  • Duke Chesnut

    MY bad. Actually DoE signed into law Oct17, 1979 by Jimmy Carter as a Federal agency. Before that each state had a dept of education.  Wiki it,

  • Anonymous

    What ammount exactly, should he have provided to bring this to a “non-insulting” level?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    He would give a lot more of his money out if he were such a saint lol.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    well Neworleans was under water and a republican president just sat by for a few weeks and did nothing for them. They’re schools funding had to go towards rebuilding most likely. If Democrates were the reason all these ideas that shjould of worked to help the poor and uneducated get educated then most teachers would be republican and not democratic. Democrates are not the ones who want to get ride of most the funding that goes to our schools so we can have a bigger defence budget, take away all extracerecular activities  for what? defence budget. :P

  • Anonymous

    Some people know how to hide their racism…..O’Reilly is one of them…..but they make little Freudian slips which they think others can’t see…..like going into a black restaurant and being astonished that there are no stereotypical black people there..come on O’Reilly, you’re a man of the world, educated, and urban…..You see black Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, postmen nurses, bankers……the list goes on all the time……you know they don’t look and act the way you said…..you are deliberately putting them down…..you are being racist and you know it……We know it too…..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    your just jealous cause you could never be such a playa like Al Sharpton.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    wars cripple people.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    50 bucks, thats a weeks worth of weed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    i see both liberals and conservatives throw the word “racist” around on this site like it’s the hottest chick in an orgy.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    someone has to clean up all the stinky shit repubs make.

  • Anonymous

    http://www2.ed.gov/about/overview/fed/role.html
    No, they it was just an act to establish the DoE as a Cabinet level agency.  It was already partially Federally governed.  
    http://www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/pdfs/pubpres/BriefHistoryofUS_DOE.pdf 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    you had a friend “Love my country” on this site the other day who said the most racist comment i’ve seen on here thus far. ” 80% of black people with food assistance leave their children to fend for themselves.” sounds like a dumb uneducated fat white republican to me.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, like Wall Street, Goldman Sachs…..

  • Anonymous

    That’s not true…..

  • Anonymous

    I’m praying he wins…..

  • Anonymous

    Since – unlike Sharpton the phony “Reverend” – I have self-respect, I don’t lie, and I  never profited from the misery of others, I would never want to be anything like this piece of human garbage.

  • Anonymous

    Where does Lala live/…..In Never Neverland…..

  • Anonymous

    Hey I live in Los Angeles…..it is not destroyed…..I wouldn’t live anywhere else…..this is God’s country…..Under Democratic leadership, we thrived and did well…..However, under Arnold Swarcheneiger,.i know it’s spelled wrong, we went downhill……He was a Republican…..Boy, we had to get rid of him…..Now, under Jerry Brown,things are looking better……He’s a Democrat…..The same with Obama,…..things are looking up……He’s fixing George Bush’s mess…..the Republican

  • Anonymous

    And some people like you, for instance, are too stupid to hide their obvious racism. The only thing they can do is calling others racist.

    If you enter an establishment that you never entered before, and see something you did not expect to see, wouldn’t you be you surprised?
    Would you deserve to be called a racist if you dare to say that you were surprised by what you saw? Would you be offended if some jerk called you racist because you did not know enough not to be surprised? Should you deserve to be called racist because you were not politically correct enough to acquaint yourself with the customs of the establishment you just entered?  Would you be content if some ignorant jerk called you racist, because you had the honesty to express your surprise?

       

  • Anonymous

    Most politicians don’t carry a lot of money around with them, they use credit cards or get money from their handlers if they need it.

  • Anonymous

    “No Child Left Behind” was conceived in the sick and diseased terminally rotten mind of Ted Kennedy and reluctantly and signed into law by the liberal President, G.W. Bush.

  • Anonymous

    When kids get the same resources, have the same environmennts,and quality teachers,they do comparatively well.  There are always differences in skills and abilities but that is to be expected.  We are not all the same.It is not about the money.  It is about expectations.  I’ve worked somewhat with the schools and my own children and I’ve never seen a child who didn’t want to learn.  They start the day they are born don’t stop till they die.

  • Anonymous

    Everybody thinks they’re better than everyone else……

  • Anonymous

    See what I mean’…..

  • BooBoo Bear

    Boasting about giving money to the woman kind of goes against what the Bible teaches.Don’t know what the Book of Mormon teaches on the subject though.

    *By boasting about the gift, or doing so in public means that he will not be rewarded in heaven for gift.

  • Anonymous

    I”m not a typically racist Liberal…..I’m an atypical Liberal…..I live in a heavily Black area of Los Angeles…..and I don’t assume poor means Black…..reason being I come from a heavily white area in Massachusetts which looked like a mini United Nations…..We had French, Polish, Italians, Irish, Jewish, and some others in my neighborhood and in my school…..and they all were poor…..b ut I didn’t know that because we seemedall the same…..

  • BooBoo Bear

    Liberals actually know a bit more than you. Liberals care more about their heavenly reward than receiving “praise” on earth for giving. Read your Bible..You might learn something.

    Also of note for you…Muslims are the same way. They will not boast on how much they give, either.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Nelson/1217836625 Jim Nelson

    Dr. Hill sees everything through the prism of race.  As such there really is no reason to listen to his logic.  Regardless of the scenario, he will turn it into a racial issue.  Bill O’Reilly, please find another guest for these stories.

  • http://www.facebook.com/matttwain Matt Twain

    I have no doubt that the GOP has their fair share of white racists.  They vote conservative, and they vote GOP.  It’s really that simple.  Just look at the comments from Newt regarding African Americans on food stamps, when a HUGE majority of food stamp recipients are WHITE.  How lovely then that a Newt supporter later on would praise him for putting that “uppity” black dude Juan Williams in his place.  With that said, I see Romney doing more to fix the image that he’s a rich S.O.B. who doesn’t give a rats ass about the Middle Class and the poor in this country, which is why I don’t necessarily see a strong racial motivation behind what he did.  And as his opponents continue to hammer him on this taxes, his past with Bain, and his family wealth, he’s gonna have to do what any politician would do in trying create an image that would completely counter what Romney is all about, which is wealth and power.

  • Anonymous

    Giving money is not racist…..Food stamps are not a Black thing…..Most Janitors are Black because they don’t have the skills for high paying jobs…..It depends on how you say it…..John King was booed because of the question he asked…..Obamacare is an attempt to make healthcare affordable for everyone not just for those who are rich, but for those who are poor, black or white…..

  • Anonymous

    Prove it!

  • BooBoo Bear

    This is actually a Reply to Todd above. True the current Governor of California is a democrat. But the Legislature of the State has been run by REPUBLICANS that had refused for years to pass tax increases. The only “tax increases” that we passed was what I called the “Meathead” tax increase on Cigarettes of 50¢ a pack. *I call it the “Meathead” tax since it was thought up by Rob Reiner from All In The Family fame. Then the other tax increase was to have the Indian Gaming Casino’s to pay tax. *The state could have also ended the tax exempt status on the purchase of million dollar yachts, but the Republicans refused.

    *The former Governor was Arnold Schwarzenegger a REPUBLICAN who also refused to raise taxes on regular citizens.

  • Anonymous

    Why should O”Reilly be surprised? Does he live in a bubble? Does he have any black friends or acquaintances? Do the black people he knows use bad language andbehave boorishly in public? This is 2011. Black people are everywhere. They are doctors, lawyers, judges etc. You mean to tell me he thinks they all act like street people. He knows better. That was not honest surprise…..that was tongue in cheek racism and even you know it. O”Reilly is smarter than that.

  • david r

     Oooooh.  MSNBC…. good
     Oooooh.  FOX…. bad

  • BooBoo Bear

    I think you’re getting Alzheimer’s “No Child Left Behind” was conceived/proposed by George W Bush (1/23/01) in the House it was sponsored by Boehner (R-OH) the Senate version Judd Gregg (R-NH) and yes Ted Kennedy. But it was not conceived by Kennedy like you are saying. It was based on school reform instituted by Bush while Governor. Since Ted Kennedy wasn’t in Texas.. I think you should figure out that he wasn’t the one who conceived of it.

  • BooBoo Bear

    I think you’re getting Alzheimer’s “No Child Left Behind” was conceived/proposed by George W Bush (1/23/01) in the House it was sponsored by Boehner (R-OH) the Senate version Judd Gregg (R-NH) and yes Ted Kennedy. But it was not conceived by Kennedy like you are saying. It was based on school reform instituted by Bush while Governor. Since Ted Kennedy wasn’t in Texas.. I think you should figure out that he wasn’t the one who conceived of it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIXF2QUIO456WI3K3JDRFL3QKY Bret

    you saying you don’t lie proves your lieing right there. Your a Human therefore you lie throughout your lifetime.

  • huffnnoccupyn

    Yeah, I kinda guessed that after putting together the content with the name.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    “There’s a very old narrative woven by Republicans equates poverty to race.”

    Actually, it’s Democratic welfare policies enabling the behavior (72% Fatherless households) that leads to generational poverty – black Americans are simply more represented than other groups in that demographic.

  • Anonymous

    Guess Romney flip-flopped on welfare!

  • Anonymous

    No doubt there is truth in the percentage of POOR blacks vs. whites. There simply wouldnt be a reason to even expect there to be more whites who are poor, in terms of percentages. The point many intelligent black and white -and other races of course- are trying to understand is the GOP’s obvious ability to paint “poverty” as a majority black issue. I mean I KNOW WHY because its obvious, but its just strange and sad that it works. DONT MESS WITH MY MEDICAID is not a sign a black guy was holding, however government poverty related policy (such as medicaid) is shaded very dark and its primarily a GOP thing to do. Its just strange primarily because it works. Even your post is much more interested in pointing out “black poverty” figures, instead of just understanding that poverty is colorblind. IF we somehow magically removed every black person from the Government Breast, we would STILL have a large number of impoverished who need some sort of help because MOST of them arent “as portrayed”. But, if you paint poverty BLACK its very easy to convince a certain crowd to put you in office, pretty much to their own demise -as has been illustrated for nearly 20 years.

  • Anonymous

    Your first sentence is a show stopper.  If you can’t see the bias in a large part of the media as a whole, and Fox in general, you have a bent antenna.

  • Anonymous

    Absolutely.

  • Anonymous

    exactly

  • Anonymous

    No no, they are “white” supremacists. Get it? They believe wholeheartedly that the white race is superior to ALL other races including and especially their own race

  • Anonymous

    Will the liberals ever figure out that a “plantation ” has been created by the Fed Gov’t. The dependency created is so severe ,those receiving these handouts are as enslaved as any at any time in the history of the world. Sucking the Gov’t teat equates to enslavement of the sucker!

  • Anonymous

    Sorry to say tolstoy your a drone. If you believe what is said on msnbc your not only a drone but your also a close minded bigot. 

  • Anonymous

    What you’re saying is somewhat true, White Supremacists do think they’re superior, but other races think that also. Take it from an old lady who has intermingled with other ethnic groups, some blacks think they are superior to other blacks; some Hispanics think they are better than other Hispanics; Hitler and the Jews are another example. Once, when working as a nurse’s aide, a Caucasian lady dying of cancer in a charity ward asked me to move her bed away from a Jewish lady, also dying of cancer, because of prejudice. That’s why I say, everyone is prejudiced to a certain extent, but that does not mean it is right. We should work to overcome those prejudices and work to accept others as equal human beings having the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That is what makes America unique.

  • Anonymous

    That is NOT, I repeat, NOT WELFARE!  That is what people do when they see a need an fill it.  It’s a lot different from TAKING from people  in order to REDISTRIBUTE “wealth,” which is actually not wealth, it is people’s livelihood.  It’s what puts food on their table and gas in their tank.  It’s what pays their bills on time and sends their kids to college.  But NOOOO!!!. A person giving someone something out of the goodness of their heart, out of compassion for someone’s need, is twisted into what you call a flip-flop on welfare.  I HOPE you get this message loud and clear because you are part of the problem and there will soon be a CHANGE!!!

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    who smokes 50 bucks of weed? its 5 bucks a week, one splif on friday after work. so she’s good for about 2 1/2 months

  • Anonymous

    “bubbas in WV” ?  If that’s not racist or sterotypical, I don’t know what is. He’s such a hypocrite.

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