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Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warriors Talk Muslims, Jews, And Strippers

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Hey, remember that meme from the past few weeks that Conservatives and Fox News were stoking anti-Muslim sentiment by harping on that whole Mosque thing? Well, don’t worry about it! That’s right, Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warriors were on the case to explain how that whole thing was completely overblown because, guess what? Americans hate Jews more! Yay!

Yes, O’Reilly brought out a 2008 study from the FBI that showed that, at the time, way more hate crimes were committed against Jews than Muslims. While those are certainly fascinating figures, especially considering, as O’Reilly pointed out, Antisemitism is usually considered more of a European problem, it really has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation at hand. Seriously, if people are worrying that anti-Muslim crimes are going to happen in the future because of talk that’s happening now, why would it help to show that, two years ago, Americans beat up a lot of Jews? Seriously, that’s one of the most bizarre arguments I’ve ever seen.

Fortunately, Tamara Holder was on hand to point out that recent figures show an uptick in anti-Muslim crimes. Of course, O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson quickly reminded her that those figures were from CAIR which is made up of a bunch of “Arabs.” Yep, Muslims have nothing to worry about.

And then, to help make this one of the best Culture Warriors segments ever, Carlson and Holder went on to defend strippers’ right to protest outside of churches. Man, this was an awesome segment.

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  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    This is the Factor segment you write about after Bill got punked in an earlier Mosque debate?

    Oh well, it sure was funny when that moron Gretchen backed herself into a corner and had to admit Americans hate Jews.

  • blurgh.

    “They know it was a far left guy.”

    No, “they” don’t.

  • Big Eddie

    Bill’s looking out for the stripper folks . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d345hSCoOo0

  • Azarkhan

    “Americans hate Jews more! Yay!” Jon Bershad

    Oh Jon, you’re such a hoot!

    BTW, attacks on Jews in Europe by Muslims have sharply risen. It turns out that not all Muslims are as enlightened as Jon Bershad.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    There you go. Religion does nothing but breed hate into people on both sides.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    Not a very good segment. It was so bad, it was almost like watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

  • CosmosDan

    I think a personal demonstration of exactly what they mean by strippers is in order. Talk about ratings.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Antony-Dupuy/1194612935 Antony Dupuy

    You know, for such smart people, they really are lost.

    Anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic hate crimes in the modern era are primarily driven out of opposition toward Israel and general anti-Israel sentiment from the left. While Buckley drove out the Birchers and stubbornly forced American Christian conservatives to embrace Judaism, the doctrine of modern liberalism has as its centerpiece the idea that Israeli foreign policy was born of a Zionist conspiracy and thje Jews are racist, murderous thugs who kill Palestinians and steal land, and that the villainous, psychotic fundamentalist suicide bombers are “real” victims.

    A real world example of liberal anti-semitism:

    http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/06/la-quinta-america-and-%E2%80%9Cbeat-the-jew%E2%80%9D/

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ruth-Gretzinger/596613915 Ruth Gretzinger

    this column really borders on offensive, but I’m going to go with uninformed instead.

    it’s not just that a “bunch of Jewish guys got beat up a couple years ago,” it’s that anti-Semitic hate crimes are regularly, year after year, about 10 times what anti-Muslim crimes are. the big increase in Muslim hate crimes after 9/11 had it all the way up to…481. it’s way down from there. Jews, on the other hand, “get beat up” at a rate of about 1,100 a year.

    hahaha. funny. what a moron.

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  • Moderate

    Burnnotice says:
    September 1, 2010 at 9:41 pm
    “There you go. Religion does nothing but breed hate into people on both sides.”

    Europeans and German Americans that I have known hate the Jews for their work ethic and success more than religion. The Arabs that I have known wanted to kill the infidel Zionist Jews because that is the way it has been for 1500 years.

  • Moderate

    “figures were from CAIR”

    CAIR is never honest about anything.

  • notsofast

    Big_F-ing_Deal said:
    Oh well, it sure was funny when that moron Gretchen backed herself into a corner and had to admit Americans hate Jews.

    Yes, they found that the Jews were hated by Muslims.

  • fallenchicken

    IMO, every church should put strippers on its front lawn. It would be a great way to counter football season.

  • NORBIT

    WOW!

    I haven’t been following the Ca. Senate race, but after just watching Fiorino CRUSH Boxer on a C-Span debate, BOXER LOOKS LIKE A GONER!

  • Azarkhan

    Malmö, Sweden’s third-largest city with a population of roughly 294,000, including fewer than 800 Jews, reached a turning point of sorts in January 2009 during Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. A small, mostly Jewish group held a demonstration billed as a peace rally but seen as a sign of support for Israel.

    The demonstrators were attacked by a much larger mob of Muslims and Swedish leftists. Police seemed unable to stop the violence.

    “I was very scared,” recalled Jehoshua Kaufman, a Jewish community leader. “Scared because there were a lot of angry people facing us, shouting insults and throwing bottles and firecrackers at the same time. The sound was very loud. And I was angry because we really wanted to go through with this demonstration, and we weren’t allowed to finish it.”

    Alan Widman, a non-Jewish member of the Liberal Party who represents Malmö in Parliament, said simply: “I have never been so afraid in my life.” The demonstrators were eventually evacuated by the police.

    http://www.stltoday.com/news/national/article_851d10bd-1210-5e72-9cb2-74b9882fe08e.html

  • Cecelia

    It’s not a “bizarre” argument at all.

    “Seriously, if people are worrying that anti-Muslim crimes are going to happen in the future because of talk that’s happening now, why would it help to show that, two years ago, Americans beat up a lot of Jews? Seriously, that’s one of the most bizarre arguments I’ve ever seen.”

    CAIR (and is it really “bizarre” to question a source with such a weighted interest) has said that there’s an “uptick” in crimes against Muslims RIGHT NOW, rather that “in the future” (as YOU just describe).

    This suggests that people opposing Park 51 should keep their opinion to themselves or else foster violence, WHAT DO you attribute to antisemitic violence, since we have been at war with people who are Muslims for greater than two years.

    Could it be that leftwing criticism of Israel that fosters such actions in certain people who opportunistically look for reason?

    Could it be that people in the minority will always “sadly” be vulnerable to such things.

    Could it be too that such factors should not be used in order to stifle the speech of people who harbor even a tactic disapproval of certain religions or the actions of certain nations of particular faiths?

    Oh, yeah.

    The only person more willfully clueless about all this, is you, Jon.

  • writer

    It’s really difficult tucking a dollar bill into a burqa.

  • juan

    Everything the Slobbering Obama Statist JourNoList Media reports is Liberal and OVERBLOWN!

  • http://SailRabbits.com Magister

    Bill O’Reilly said (1:20):
    You have this controversy. A New York City cabdriver gets stabbed by some nut, but it had nothing to do with politics by the way, the nut was a far left guy.

    Personally, I think that just as the term “mosque” has grown more broad over recent weeks, the word “politics” may be getting redefined to just a narrow scope.

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    I do believe that the U.S. is a warrior culture. rather than trying to work things out we are quick to jump and grab our pitchforks and chase out the bad guys. We as a nation do not rally behind human rights movements unless there has been violence to capture our attention. we love blood and we love war.
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  • Texas John

    What does it take for Americans to realize that muslims are intending to take over America – just like they are doing in many European countries?
    I, for one, do not like, appreciate, or condone “immigrants” that believe in wiping out our way of life!
    Stop coddling and call a “spade” a spade.

  • The Real Royal King

    Moderate said:
    “figures were from CAIR” CAIR is never honest about anything.

    Well, there is that matter of Michael Wiener’s a/k/a Michael Savage’s lawsuit which got kicked out faster than the prostitute who entered the Baptist Church Sunday morning, and quicker than the Baptist preacher’s “comfort” on Sunday afternoon.

    THE INAUGURAL SPEECH – JUST ONE OF BECKERHEAD’S LIES,
    FROM LAST SATURDAY’S DIMWIT AND HERETIC RALLY,
    EXPOSED TO US ALL, THANKS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES,
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  • The Real Royal King

    writer said:
    It’s really difficult tucking a dollar bill into a burqa.

    Actually, I should think it very easy. What is difficult is tucking a US $1.00 bill into the waistline of the Gretch’s slinky and skanky dress. Not much room there.

    THE INAUGURAL SPEECH – JUST ONE OF BECKERHEAD’S LIES,
    FROM LAST SATURDAY’S DIMWIT AND HERETIC RALLY,
    EXPOSED TO US ALL, THANKS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES,
    SOON, WE’LL NEED A SPREAD SHEET FOR AN ACCURATE TALLY.

  • The Real Royal King

    Cecelia said:
    Could it be that leftwing criticism of Israel that fosters such actions in certain people who opportunistically look for reason?

    You surprisingly easily fall into a typical radical rightist trap of its own making: Confusing Jews, a religious and/or ethnic group, with Israel, a gouvernment. You seem too bright to do that so easily. Is this another example of your intellectual dishonesty?

    THE INAUGURAL SPEECH – JUST ONE OF BECKERHEAD’S LIES,
    FROM LAST SATURDAY’S DIMWIT AND HERETIC RALLY,
    EXPOSED TO US ALL, THANKS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES,
    SOON, WE’LL NEED A SPREAD SHEET FOR AN ACCURATE TALLY.

  • The Real Royal King

    To follow up Gretchen, a bit: Who was that stuttering moron on F&F this morning? He was filling in for Il Douchey. I’m not sure I have ever seen anyone on television less articulate. He stammered and stuttered through everything he said, every question he asked.

    THE INAUGURAL SPEECH – JUST ONE OF BECKERHEAD’S LIES,
    FROM LAST SATURDAY’S DIMWIT AND HERETIC RALLY,
    EXPOSED TO US ALL, THANKS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES,
    SOON, WE’LL NEED A SPREAD SHEET FOR AN ACCURATE TALLY.

  • The Real Royal King

    Texas John said:
    What does it take for Americans to realize that muslims are intending to take over America – just like they are doing in many European countries?I, for one, do not like, appreciate, or condone “immigrants” that believe in wiping out our way of life!Stop coddling and call a “spade” a spade.

    Indeed, when I went to Fishermen’s Mass this morning, traffic was backed up in front of every mosque I passed, and when I was walking down the sidewalk, I had to keep pushing aside men in turbans and women in burqas. Afterwards, I stopped for a breakfast taco whith chorizo, but the taco wagon had gone Halal. Why isn’t O’Reilly covering this?

    THE INAUGURAL SPEECH – JUST ONE OF BECKERHEAD’S LIES,
    FROM LAST SATURDAY’S DIMWIT AND HERETIC RALLY,
    EXPOSED TO US ALL, THANKS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES,
    SOON, WE’LL NEED A SPREAD SHEET FOR AN ACCURATE TALLY.

  • writer

    King, I think the ‘jaws of life’ would be needed to tuck a dollar into Michelle Obama’s panties.

  • SpineCrusher

    wow, they just showed their disdain for Muslims!!

    They won’t acknowledge a report because it was created by a Muslim organization…have you ever heard them do the same if it came from another religious organization.

    WoW!

  • SpineCrusher

    Moderate said:
    “figures were from CAIR” CAIR is never honest about anything.

    why, because they’re Muslim?

    bigot!

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

    Completely intellectually dishonest opinion column… but this is friggin’ Mediaite, what else should I expect?

    Yes, quoting past records of reported hate crimes on Muslims is relevant, Bershad. The mosque-defenders claim that America is an anti-Muslim country. If America were supposed a country so committed to anti-Muslim bigotry, there would be a past record of it. But as this study shows, the number anti-Muslim hate crimes compare to all religion-related hate crimes is really insignificant. Hell, there are ten times more cases reported of anti-Semitic hate crimes!

    This goes to show that the Islamaphobia invented by the mosque-defenders is just that — an invention.

    And yes, CAIR’s numbers should be taken with a grain of salt — and no numbers were actually presented. CAIR clearly has a vested interest in an increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes. The fewer hate crimes against Muslims, the less relevant CAIR is.

  • chatmandu002

    SpineCrusher says:
    why, because they’re Muslim?

    bigot!

    There it is…. the “B” word……

    Some idiot had to use it…..

  • Sidebar

    Actually, isn’t it possible that the number of crimes against Muslims are being underreported? Is it not possible that a number of the crimes might have been registered as “race-based” crimes rather than “religion-based” crimes?

    As for O’Reilly’s apparent discrimination… does anyone know if he would accept statistics from the Jewish Anti-Defamation League? Or maybe someone should ask him if only non-Muslim groups are allowed to judge whether a crime is anti-Muslim? Maybe only whites are allowed to judge discrimination against blacks?

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Shroomer/100000482001361 Dave Shroomer

    looking back on this event ,it is good to see that as much as they (o rielly ‘s nazi s) try to create support for israel and portay the muslims as evil doers there remains hatred for the jews . as the 96% of all media is controlled by jews it must be that the truth (about allah) is being discovered by the ignorant, blind followers of evangelical christians .

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