We Love America More Than Anyone

of course bill doesn’t know what the problem is. he’s the epitome of ignorant white america, who just can’t believe that the coloreds are so polite and well-behaved. of course he thinks he’s being persecuted, because in his mind he wasn’t being an ignorant racist. he was just patting them on the head for good behavior. what’s wrong with that?? and now, doing what the white republican male does best in this country, he’s playing the victim. poor fucking bill again. if only we knew what he was trying to say, we’d realize he’s just a really good guy who loves the blacks.

or, as digby put it:

He thinks he is being very open minded and un- bigoted by revealing to the world on his important radio show that he’s discovered that black people are just like everyone else. The problem, of course, is that only a racist thinks that this is big news.

here’s that context, again, for those who need refreshing:

During a 35-minute discussion about race relations last Wednesday on his syndicated “Radio Factor,” the pugnacious host repeatedly decried “demeaning” portrayals of African Americans, particularly in hip-hop videos. To illustrate his contention that such images provide a false impression of black culture, he recalled having dinner with Sharpton at Sylvia’s, a famous soul-food restaurant in Harlem:

“I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City,” he said. “It was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks [and has a] primarily black patronship. It was the same. And that’s really what this society is really all about now here in the U.S.A. There’s no difference.”

He later added: “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘[Expletive], I want some more ice tea.’ It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there ordering and having fun and there wasn’t any craziness at all.”

On the same program last week, O’Reilly also described going to an Anita Baker concert at Radio City Music Hall at which “the blacks [patrons] were well dressed.” He added, “This is what white America doesn’t know. They think the culture is dominated by Twista, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.”

that bill doesn’t get why a lot of people find all of that extremely offensive just proves what an ass he really is.

that the right-wing, hand-in-hand with the mainstream media, is allowed to portray mediamatters as a “left-wing smear site” (among many other adjectives) for simply having the audacity to post the words of right-wing hacks as they were said and written verbatim, just proves what a fucked up media we have in this country.

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