The Five Hits Oprah’s Race Remarks: Way More ‘Wackos’ on the Left Than the Right
Which political party has the greater share of “wackos”? If you ask Fox News’ The Five, that honor belongs to the Democrats. The show turned to recent comments from Oprah Winfrey and Oliver Stone in an attempt to show how liberal Hollywood has made it impossible for the right to criticize President Barack Obama without being called “racist.”
Beginning with Winfrey’s comments about the “disrespect” Obama received because he’s an African-American, Andrea Tantaros said, “I’d love to ask her this question. If somebody like President Obama was working at her company Harpo, and had done something the equivalent of Obamacare at Harpo, do we think for one second Oprah would keep him employed, white, black or anything?” She added, “The beauty of Oprah was she didn’t play the race card in her career. She created a product everybody wanted to buy. President Obama created a mess that nobody wanted to own including himself.”
“If disrespect means racism,” Greg Gutfeld chimed in, “then how can you explain George W. Bush? Who I think was the beneficiary of more disrespect than Obama ever encountered as president?”
For another example, the show looked at comments director Oliver Stone made about white Republicans operating as if they were living in an “apartheid state” in America. “There’s no outrage about that?” Tantaros asked, expressing outrage. “He can just label white people as being bad and Republicans as racist and get away with it?”
“Don’t you think this is a huge reach we’re playing here?” Bob Beckel asked his co-hosts, questioning the whole premise of the show’s opening segment. “Oliver Stone? Is he supposed to represent the Democratic Party, the left? I mean, come on. This guy, we don’t pay attention to this guy. I didn’t even know he was still alive to be honest with you.”
“No matter who it is,” Eric Bolling responded, “we’ll roll a soundbite of a lefty saying something as ridiculous as Oliver Stone says or as Oprah says or as Bill Maher says, and it goes on and on. And you say he doesn’t represent the left. Well who the hell represents the left?”
“I think there are a number of wackos on both sides, there’s just more on your side,” Gutfeld said to Beckel.
Meanwhile, Dana Perino argued that when a “big star” like Winfrey says something, it has a lot more cultural weight than words from “some two-bit congressman or state representative in North Carolina.”
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