Today Show on O'Reilly/Media Matters- Part II

[inolamax]

For MediaMatters to present this to IT'S ((Left Minded Thinking Viewers)) is an Attempt to Smear Bill O'Reilly.Simply a F A C T ..!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bill is righ!!! The fact that they put this on their site is a hit job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deke1]

media matters is a joke, and ALWAYS takes things out of context

[matthewjpr]

sorry to say, media matters is right here. But ONLY because, there was room for interpretation in O'Reilly's report. It was a negative comment only because there was room for interpretation for it to be negative. But kudos to media matters to simply presenting the matter...

[Sharpe3884]

Beck doesnt even bother to address mediamatters videos of him anymore - i think beck even realizes he is an insane person on the air right now and cant even fight his own critics because he knows how ridiculous he sounds every day. At least billo would fight back because he didnt act like an insane asylum escapee every night like beck does.

[Myschly]

This still gets me riled up.

"Hey guess what! I was sitting alone on a subway train with 2 black guys, and after I was surprised they didn't rob me, I listened in on their conversation... I was pretty darn surprised when I heard them having an intelligent discussion, without using curse-words or saying 'ax' instead of 'ask'... I mean, there really isn't as much a difference as one would think".

The intent may be "we're the same" in the end, but it's clearly offensive, prejudiced, and racist.

[Gladius314]

No. Sorry but you can't throw words like 'predudiced' and 'racist' out there all willy-nilly. What gives you the authority to decide such things? Is Sodomayor offensive, prejudiced or racist? Name calling like that doesn't help race relations in America. The only way we move forward is if the left gets off its horse and starts being real.

[Myschly]

A) Yes, I can. It is MY opinion, and everybody knows it. I am not representing anybody but myself and MY opinion.

B) Sotomayor has nothing to do with this. She said "with the richness of her EXPERIENCES would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who HASN'T LIVED THAT LIFE.". You see, she's bringing in life experience, and not just "race".

C) If I assume that a restaurant with a lot of black people in it will be exactly like a racial stereotype, isn't that prejudiced?

[Gladius314]

A) Well of course you CAN, but you SHOULDN'T. You're not going to heal old wounds by throwing fresh stones at innocent people.

B) Sotomayor thinks being Latino gives someone, not just her, a qualitatively superior edge in judicial rulings. She's buying into the, guess what, STEREOTYPE that latinos live tougher lives and can therefore have more empathy. That's a dangerous and stupid assumption.

C) Bill O'Reilly was being sarcastic. He was ridiculing the people who feared the stereotypes.

[Myschly]

A) Well I think the wounds are healed by the fact that there are white people who don't care about "race" (aka ethnicity), and fight for the "black cause".

B) Did you or did you not read the quote? Note the words I put in higher case. She spoke at a UC Berkeley School of Law symposium titled "Raising the Bar: Latino and Latina Presence in the Judiciary and the Struggle for Representation.", and she mentioned "Experiences". That's not just talking about "race" from out of the blue.

C) Really?....

[lebroniznumba1]

a typical day in the life of bill o'reilly... saying something stupid and blaming the ppl that report it.

[jays2474]

A typical day in the life of Media Matters.Smearing conservatives.Well wait,to be fair let me ask you this.After what you have learned about this comment months later,do You feel it was taken out of context?

[rwallace3034]

Media matters does everything that they can to try and attack conservatives. It's interesting that this organization never attacks liberals, but they attack conservatives daily.

[Johnblz00]

chris matthews gets attacked all the time he won an award for being the most factual incorrect journalist one year after O'reilly

[bennybob1001]

the complete unedited recording of this conversation can be found on orielly's website. rather than believing smear sites like media matters go listen to it yourself

[tml240]

LOL UNEDITED.

like how he edited out "you son of a bitch" at the Obama rally.

yes. edited. seriously, I'm not a SP or lefty like he points out to be, but O'Reilly is an ignorant egotistical smart fag

[sorryseed]

you idiot. He didn't EDIT out "you son of a bitch" he CENSORED IT with a bleep because it was unacceptable language to put on air. You still knew it was there, and that he said it. To EDIT something out would have been to replace it with silence and try to play it off like it was never said. The strong language had to be BLEEPED.

[tml240]

how about that Normandy thing? didn't the transcript get changed as well? ya

[grubbro]

No matter his intent, Matt, Billy Boy should have at least apologized for any misinterpretation about his comment. However, with respect to how he has reacted to crittisism about the comments, one expression comes to mind "Thou dost protest too much."

[grubbro]

Look Matt, Billy Boy's comment was not "there is no difference between this restaurant and any other restaurant", his exact quote was "I COULDN'T GET OVER THE FACT that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York...", hence suggesting amazement.

[srambo529]

wtf? I heard his comments and he clearly went into the restaraunt thinking that people would be screaming and swearing and rioting who knows, but he was surprised that they were acting like normal people in a restaraunt. He made assumptions based on race and was surprised that those assumptions were false.

[miatoday]

its funny that AFRO americanos go crazy over the stupid Irish ass, when they should be concered about the Mexicans that are pushing them out of Jobs, Homes ect... by illegal immigration.

[Hez1337]

"Bill O: "HEY LOOK EVERYONE! I'M EATING AT A BLACK RESTAURANT AND LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT!"

Yeah, thats basically the gist of it.

[popsceneblur06]

If you cannot see the racism in what O'Reilly said then you are either blind or need a lesson in the English language.

[budavol]

Bill O'Reilly is, in the inimitable words of Camille Paglia, a "squinty-eyed dork who thinks he's John Wayne".

His grandstanding and self-promotion, such as his brandishing the fact that he treated Al Sharpton, is yet more evidence of this insufferable blow-hard's m.o.

[airuok]

Joe Watkins, Juan Williams, Bill Cosby & even Rev Al Sharpton are all celebrated black men who defend Bill O'Reilly. I guess they're all racists too...eh?

[acidpimp]

Long story shot, Bill-O's a closet racist.End of story.

[Mendelson]

Bullshit.

[airuok]

C'mon people...where's your common sense? Do you really think this was O'Reilly's first time around sophisticated blacks? There was obviously a bigger point he was making that we didn't get to hear. If you want the truth listen to the interview in its entirety. There is a plethora of educated blacks defending Bill for a reason...common sense.

[sarcastom]

Bill O: "HEY LOOK EVERYONE! I'M EATING AT A BLACK RESTAURANT AND LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT! YOU'LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT I SAW AND WHAT I DIDN'T SEE! SEE, I CAN BE PROGRESSIVE...I CAN HANG WITH THE BLACK FOLK...I BEEZ IN DA HOOD...I BEEZ UP IN DIS BEEATCH YO!"

[sarcastom]

Within the context of the audio and the phrasing with inflection, I guess O'Reilly doesn't have black friends. When, to his amazement, there were none of the stereotypical black behaviors, it screamed prejudice. He has lived on this planet for many years and still had preconceived notions of what he would find, dining at a black restaurant WHEN he decided it was time (and with Al Sharpton) If he had gone alone and or not MADE A POINT OF IT, he wouldn't be branded this way.

[duhCider]

Matt Lauer DEFENDING Bill O'Reilly ON THIS ONE???? Un-freaking-real!!! C'mon Matt elevate yo' game, baby. O'Reilly's comments would make Archie Bunker blush.

[airuok]

This controversy has exposed ignorance...not racism.

[Banghouse]

Right on target with that comment.

[goldnchyl]

Racism is ignorance

[airuok]

claiming racism at every turn is ignorance.

passing judgement with only half the story is ignorance. i've experienced REAL racism, this was media terrorism & every ignorant person in america ate it up.

[upconstruct]

O'Reilly hates to be accountable for his tainted statements and hates even more being wrong.If people are embarrassed by what they say then they should explain themselves or appologize not berate the messenger.

[exweez]

this media matters guy doesn't know the difference between defending yourself and an attack

[ymmudu]

Reached for further comment Bill said" You know, those traitorous Democrats are once again persecuting me and mischaracterizing what I said. Obviously what I meant by my comment is that the Negroes aren't as shiftless as everyone thinks. The problem here is that the left-wing loonies just hate America and are very, very bad. Everything wrong is their fault"

[puck30]

Joe should have asked the Media Matters hack how come they have never posted anything about Keith Olbermann.

The left's Mr.Perfect!

[klarkke]

Media Matters is nothing more than a tabloid online rag run by hacks. Pure garbage, plain and simple.

Media Matters exists to feed Keith Olbermann nightly talking points.

[Missy5537]

Typical language from a Fox hater. Sorry you're not able to carry on a civil conversation, rickyah.

Even the Media Matters guy said it was not racist, but he felt that O'Reilly was surprised by the behavior of blacks. Even Lauer is siding with O'Reilly here.

Clean up your language, rickyah.

[rickyah]

ITS BECAUSE BILL O'REILLY IS AN ASSHOLE! He is a racist ASSHOLE. Fuck him.