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!”
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.
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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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.
