Bill O’Reilly Uses Chick-Fil-A To Play The Race Card

Bill O’Reilly is suddenly very concerned about freedom of expression. That is, if you’re the homophobic business owner of Chick-Fil-A. If you’re a university professor or president or a woman speaking out on behalf of contraception coverage in health insurance or a liberal television talk show host? Not so much. Well, OK, hypocrisy is nothing new on Fox News. But using the Chick-Fil-A controversy to race bait against African Americans may be a new low for the “no spin zone.”

O’Reilly first brought up the Chick-Fil-A controversy in his Talking Points commentary last night and then he followed that up with a debate about it. In that debate, O’Reilly suddenly left his “it’s facism” argument to play the race card.

O’Reilly made the following statement that he we know he pre-planned to include because he had video ready to roll:

Alright, here’s what I want now. I want the mayors of Boston, San Francisco and Chicago to boycott African Americans . You know why? Roll the tape.

O’Reilly played clips of an African American pastor criticizing gay marriage and President Obama for supporting it. But, as O’Reilly surely knows, there’s a big difference between a pastor making a statement on religious grounds and the head of a national fast food chain contributing big bucks to a political cause. Nevertheless, O’Reilly continued with his phony, race-baiting analogy – under the cover of playing the victim:

You’re not going to hear a word out of (the mayors) based upon that reverend’s point of view… Why?... This is a double standard.

The implication was clear: Conservatives get pilloried for their views, African Americans get a pass because of their race.

Sadly, the supposedly liberal guest, talk show host Dave Rubin, seemed to miss the guise. But not Daily Caller’s Michelle Fields. She jumped in to say, “Because they’re gonna need their votes!”

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Ellen commented 2012-08-04 01:53:41 -0400 · Flag

I can vouch for Bob Roberts’ liberal cred.

Bob Roberts commented 2012-08-03 17:58:29 -0400 · Flag

Uh Richard S., I was being sarcastic in my previous post. O’Loofah was playing the race card in his Talking Points segment, when he has said many, many times on his show that only liberals and Democrats play the race card, not good, God-fearing conservatives. I added the word fascist in because O’Loofah has been throwing it around with abandon lately.

If you have read any of my previous postings about O’Falafel’s show, you would realize I would never refer to a liberal or a Democrat as a fascist, because I am both of those, and a progressive to boot. Sorry you didn’t pick up on my sarcasm.

zaglossus commented 2012-08-03 13:39:48 -0400 · Flag

How can so much fried chicken be consumed at these “eat-in’s” and, from the photos I’ve seen, not a black in sight!

Richard Santalone commented 2012-08-03 10:20:06 -0400 · Flag

From Visitor 55’s comment:

“First, in PA, OH and FL, President Obama is ahead in the pollsâ¦by a lot!”

And remember: no Republican presidential candidate has ever won the White House without winning Ohio — and in addition, it will be IMPOSSIBLE for Romney to win in November if he doesn’t win Florida. Is it any wonder why Herr Rick Scott (i.e. the Nazi skinheaded governor of FL) is trying to duplicate the stunt Cruella de Harris (i.e. former FL secretary of state Katherine Harris) got away with in 2000?

Robert Urban commented 2012-08-03 09:52:18 -0400 · Flag

Boycott African Americans? No Bildo. He is a Reverend so we should boycott Church.

Visitor 55 commented 2012-08-03 08:39:45 -0400 · Flag

@mlp – Yep. And yesterday was a very bad day for racist neocon/teabaggers like POS borally.

First, in PA, OH and FL, President Obama is ahead in the polls…by a lot!
Second, an adorable little blah girl won the gold in gymnastics at the Olympics, fairly beating out her all- white competition.

So, what’s the first thing the FoxGOPTV pukes and right-wing hate radio assholes do? They somehow try to make President Obama look bad, any way they can, because they know they can’t make pile of shit Etch-a-Sketch Rmoney look good.

Richard Santalone commented 2012-08-03 07:43:49 -0400 · Flag

@Bob Roberts Excuse me Bob — it’s obvious to me you DO NOT really know the TRUE definition of fascism. It’s painfully clear you’ve really OD’d on Jonah Goldberg’s version of “Mein Kampf”, i.e. his book “Liberal Fascism”. In my honest opinion, this is nothing but a ranting and HATE-FILLED collection of rightwing propaganda that shows the ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF HATRED AND CONTEMPT pampered and privileged conservatives have for working class folks (including me).

Bob Roberts commented 2012-08-03 00:52:44 -0400 · Flag

I thought only fascist liberals and Democrats played the race card.

Grrt Will commented 2012-08-02 22:25:49 -0400 · Flag

Not all Liberals espouse censoring and taking away the rights of a bigot who happens to own a restaurant chain. I know I certainly don’t. Michelle Fields needs to calm her over-active head & neck and zip it, because she not only look a fool, she act a fool.

Brian M commented 2012-08-02 22:25:29 -0400 · Flag

…the only ones who are remotely fascist are the anti-gay crowd. Every fascist movement has started with an “other” that is debased and made to be thought of as less-than-human, which is exactly what the pro-CFA crowd is doing to gays.

Brian M commented 2012-08-02 22:23:45 -0400 · Flag

For being a History teacher, O’Reilly’s understanding of Fascism is pretty piss-poor.

mlp ! commented 2012-08-02 22:10:10 -0400 · Flag

As the Obama re-election becomes more a reality, the Fox ALL-STARS find it increasingly difficult to ‘maintain’ their base.
Hold on to your hats, hounds….it will get even crazier!!

Richard Santalone commented 2012-08-02 21:40:27 -0400 · Flag

From truman’s comment:

“Bildo is credible, but he is certainly not the masterbaiter that KKKlannity is.”

I wouldn’t be so sure about that. Remember what he did with Andrea Mackris?

;^)

truman commented 2012-08-02 20:19:23 -0400 · Flag

Bildo is more in his comfort zone when he is spewing out his homophobic tirades or anti-choice hatred. As a race baiter, Bildo is credible, but he is certainly not the masterbaiter that KKKlannity is.

mj - the same one commented 2012-08-02 19:52:31 -0400 · Flag

@Aria Prescott: the answer is yes — to both.

Bill O’Reilly? Isn’t he the guy whose boycott of France was so successful, as he himself noted in The Paris Business Review?

Seems these rightwingnuts are all for boycotting when it suits their needs — but, let somebody boycott a fast food joint they like or one their fellow wingnut noisemakers {Beck, Limpballs}, and suddenly they whine about how boycotting is “socialist” and “a threat to free speech” . . .

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Aria Prescott commented 2012-08-02 19:06:10 -0400 · Flag

Um, I have to ask, officially and on the record:

Was O’Reilly jealous of how much attention Hannity’s racism gets? I only ask because that’s the only reason he would say something like this.

Either that, or he’s been hanging around Beck too long.

Gooch X commented 2012-08-02 19:05:17 -0400 · Flag

Only a racist a$$hole would think this comparison makes any sense. A black person spoke against gay marriage therefore we should boycott black people…? …is he insinuating that all black people are the same? …or that they all share the same brain? Dan Cathy is white…are people calling for a boycott against all white people? I happen to know a lot of gay black people…how does that fit into O’Reilly’s equation? If Dan Cathy was a black man, I still wouldn’t eat at his establishment. And, for the record, I don’t plan on ever attending this pastor’s church. In fact, I’ve been boycotting church most of my life.

Lakeview Greg commented 2012-08-02 18:59:17 -0400 · Flag

There is a very real and tangible undertone of pure hate running through the crowds there judging by what I have seen and read. Soooo many prefacing their comments with, “I have nothing against gays but…” Yeah, they do have things against us, otherwise they would not have felt the need to preface their statements. Frankly, it scares the beJesus out of me.