Mark Levine v. Bill O'Reilly on Tom Hanks: Was there Anti-Japanese Racism in WWII?

[senyah5]

Bill O'leilly is certified racist idiot

[incomparableguy]

bill o reilly is really a disgusting individual, he never respects his guests or the other side, just a biased arrogant reincarnation of hitler

[bmw200000]

pearl harbor was allowed to happen. we have documentation proving that. gulf of tonkin incident also a hoax. people need to start waking up .

[kishaba1980]

send Levine to Iran....maybe he'll like how the Persians treat jews....that'll give him something to really complain about...

[DecaPierce]

when did alchida attack the united states?

[YoungKoolness17]

now hanks is trying to be a political figure lol

[stienerrecliner]

If you dont like your team get the fuck out of the stadium

[wctvideo]

hahaha,

Way to give the last word Bill!!

[WavesOfTrolls]

the yankees went to war against japan because it wanted japan to starve itself to death and retain their trading post in asia and allow europeans to keep their colonies in asia.

[VitalSigns1]

I never have agreed with Oreilly, but in this case he's right. The war is not race-driven; to say so is absurd and insane.

[setheries]

@VitalSigns1 I don't know the exact quote but I think that Hanks was just talking about the environment that is replete with racism towards Muslims after 9/11 which is much more widespread than anti semiticism. Also they are overtly insulted in my school. I don't think he was saying that is why we started the war (which was apparently officially started because of WMD in Iraq which is just b.s.), I think he was just making a general point about racism in America because of an extremist attack.

[ikenflowe]

Once again Well Do it Live O'Reilly acts an ass. He does not let his guest talk, he speaks to a senerio that Hanks is not talking about, and he says you guys as if Mark was saying what Hanks is proported to have said. Three words: Fuck Bill O'Reilly.

[paladin589]

To say that there is not a widespread anti-Muslim sentiment in this country is to blatantly ignore facts. Just looking at all the talk over the "Ground-Zero Mosque" shows how much Americans currently fear all Muslims. A community center several blocks away from Ground-Zero that happens to be Muslim, and moderate at that, has been turned into something completely different.

[UGLYSTIKCOLIN]

@paladin589 Why would we put a building glorifying the religion that has so many times tried to destroy us in a place where they murdered 3000+++ people?

[elvisionary]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN Because like he said in the video, not all muslim people are terrorists you dumb-minded prick. Terrorists attacked the United States, not muslims.

[UGLYSTIKCOLIN]

@elvisionary Hey dumb minded prick, who were the terrorists? Oh yes, Muslims. You fail. The Muslims throughout history have been one of the most violent religions around. Ever wonder why the Middle East has been fighting with each other for thousands of years?

[elvisionary]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN lol And you think Christianity is any better? Christianity has done a lot of damage itself as well. All religions have. To deny that purely misses the point.

[UGLYSTIKCOLIN]

@elvisionary Yes Christianity is better. It's done its damage sure, but the muslims are a FAR more concerning issue.

Maj. Nadal Hasam, the man who murdered soldiers at Ft Hood. A Muslim.

9/11 Terrorists. Muslims.

2 soldiers killed in Germany. Killed by muslims.

How many radical Christians have you seen running around the world killing people recently? That's right, VERY few compared to the Muslims.

[elvisionary]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN Wow you're thick. If you go way back with another religion like catholicism, you know that Catholics did a fuck load worse than Muslims did.

[MySon89]

@UGLYSTIKCOLIN yes just like tha holocaust and all major wars until now were caused by muslims, oops wait i ment Christians, those get mixed up in my head

[fargonbastedge]

@elvisionary OMG your such a liberal tool. There has been over 10,000 religious sponsored terrorist attacks since 9/11. Do you know how many have been non-Islamic? Only 7... Statically this means that over 99.99% of all religious attacks are Islamic. So dont act like all religions are the same. Im an atheist btw.

Also 92.307%(48 out of 52) of all wars in the past 10 years involve Islam vs {insert your belief here}.

Start thinking with your brain and not your emotions.

[TampaRed]

@fargonbastedge All religions equate some form of archaic dogma with truth. In that regard, they are the same. All religions commit acts of terror, either physical, emotional, social, or intellectual. One religion convincing millions of people that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old is just as detrimental as another religion convincing follows to smash planes into buildings. One kills people, the other kills rationality.

[fargonbastedge]

@TampaRed true, but Islam's body bag count is 1000 to 1 compared to any other religion in the past 20 years and they would love nothing more than to trick gullible whites like you into thinking there jihad on the west (or the world for that matter) is just some natural thing that we should accept?

Also Islamic nations are not very friendly to counter-culture attitudes like yours. Its only Christanty that shelters atheist. But why you view Christanty as an enemy is beyond me? BTW Im an atheist.

[Madawg65]

three words: Fuck Tom Hanks

[Zentz29]

Of course Bill O's pathetic ass doesn't let his "guest" talk for more than a few seconds at a time.

He just loves to hear himself talk.

Bill, you're a pathetic little "pinhead"...

[Zentz29]

@Zentz29 Also, he claimed he was going to give his guest the last word.

Who got the last word again?

[burbonboy]

why does Oreilly think, the only way to become relavant is to appear on his show? This guy is really in love with himself isn't he?

[firthio2]

'I'm sure the internment camps wouldn't happen now'. Guantanamo Bay ring any bells, Bill?

[fargonbastedge]

@firthio2 The ones in there are not americans, but foreign POW found on the battlefield. HUGE DIFFERNECE

[RavingDissension]

The level of discourse in the comments is sickening.

[ImTheSolace1]

when is bill going to die.

[renracer]

@KiooMyAss LOL good we left a damn good impression. Lets talk about what the japanese did to american pow's in slave labor camps and what the taliban do if they catch an American, fuck them. I'm no racist but I'd always keep and eye out when its only one group of people doing the acts deffinately not all nor most but turning a blind eye to it so people dont call you a racist is ignorant. So if you could go back and pull those bastards off those planes you would'nt because thats racial profiling!

[LordChimpKing]

About 10,000 Germans were interned during WWII. This liberal is ignorant as hell.

[bluedemon245]

mark levine defecates on himself when he talks about obama

[ienjoymodels]

hate is always a motivation of war. tom hanks says "we have to kill them all" this is was the truth in the attitude of Americans during that time. however, did we have to kill and intern 2nd to 5th generation american born Japanese.

true it could be said that the war of today and yesterday were because of an attack on american soil. however, the effect of that action led towards hate which fueled our fire to continue the war.

[ienjoymodels]

@ienjoymodels today we do have muslim americans, and indian americans in modern day internment camps where these individuals of american origin are being terrorized and condemned for an act of crime they did not commit. It is the hate that has brought that upon us and not because of retaliation towards a foreign state.

[YouFDCS]

Racism in America?

Wow, No shit, welcome to the real world hippies

the rest of the world is just as racist as America, whether they're against blacks, white or japanese people

It's just the dumb media that brings it up over and over again over pointless crap

[Epminoza]

Tom Hanks doesn't need to believe Tetsuya Takahashi. Tom Hanks is pretty liberal but he still has the patriotism for the U.S. beside Tetsuya has none of it for his own country.

[ttiiyy]

According to the Japanese scholar TAKAHASHI Tetsuya, Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan carried out long-term indiscriminate bombing in countries such as China.

Where's the justice for the victims that died in the hands of the Japanese Army?

Does Tom Hanks believe that?

[ienjoymodels]

@ttiiyy the devastating act that the japanese imperial army has done to the united states and china will always be marked down in history and will never be forgotten.

however, this just reconfirmed the ever growing technique that humans used to separate themselves from other people of similar or dissimilar traits. and also reconfirms the ignorance that we human beings have towards our fellow brothers and sisters.

[ienjoymodels]

@ttiiyy However, Tom Hanks is an american first and most likely believe in fixing the problems relevant in his country first

[samheinwitchkilla44]

are you kidding me? oreilly has stooped to a new low. he should resign, come out of the closet, and publicly admit he sucks cock

[TasiMagyar]

oh yea... two atomic bombs..very humane

[BSUFAN0339]

Go read the Odyssey, differentiating your enemy has been around since the begining of human history. We make the enemey different from us and then it's no longer wrong to kill them. It's how we always play it.

[stama9]

@BSUFAN0339 Demonizing and dehumanizing one's enemy in war is an almost natural psychological defense to justify doing horrific things to others. O'Reilly's dad likely hated "Japs". Hanks has done a lot more research speaking to and honoring WWII vets than O'Reilly would ever care to from his cushy chair hitting on interns. Hanks would debate this imbecile, or Beck, chew them up and spit them out and do it with a lot more class, dignity and sense than they could even dream of.

[BSUFAN0339]

@stama9 you're response was pointless as you have merely reaffirmed my position on this.

[stama9]

yes, sorry for agreeing with you.

[ttiiyy]

Many Japanese claim that Pearl Harbor was just "action against soldiers" and refuse to apologize to us for that.

Yet, they have the nerves to ask us to apologize for using nuclear weapons.

Duh, applying their own logic, isn't that just what happens in a war?

They are fucking hypocrites.

[MIT1369]

@Pablo113 If the Allies had made a landing on mainland Japn conservative estimates were over 1 million US dead and many times that of Japanese. Mostly civilians who were being trained to charge the invasion beaches. Please, research it. Also learn what Terrorism actually is.

[freereason]

What do you call the bombing of Pearl Harbor? Imperial Japan asked for it and the A bomb stopped them! Relocation for Japanese Americans was better than deportation. Despite great odds, they returned and succeeded in making good lives. The whole victocrat mentality was non-existent which probably spared them from being pawns of the left.

[ttiiyy]

@freereason

So many innocent people died in the hands of the Japanese.  Where is the justice for them? Tom Hanks is way to "liberal."

I consider myself as a fairly liberal person, but I can't stand some crazy super left wing people.

[Pablo113]

Is Bill trying to say that the Japanese were TERRORISTS?

What about the A Bomb?? Was that Terrorism? Or the Internment Camps?

[MIT1369]

@Pablo113 What about the bomb. Terrorism? NO. Neither atomic bomb killed as many Japanese as the fire bomb raid on Tokyo. The Japanese were even warned about it. They refused to come to the table. They were beaten militarily yet had the idea that if they caused enough Allied casualties they could get consessions.

[finerbiner]

Dissent is patriotic. As mark Twain said"patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it". All the idiots who say blindly support everything the govt does or you are no patriot are neither patriotic nor in support of American values.

[Shawntbell]

Bil is so smug it makes me want to stab myself in the ears and burn my eyes out.

Anyway, Tom is right that 'some' Americans took a racist view of the Japanese during the war. My grandparents had a half dozen racist Japanese slurs that they used until about 10 years ago.

Either open your mind to more than 2 perspective or go away Bill.

[egkg75]

I hate O'reilly and his ignorant name calling smug ways

[jammiedodger]

Way to pick one comment and blow it completely out of porportion. He's an actor not a damn world leader. Get a grip.

Who actually takes Fox news seriously? They seem so one sided and aggressive

[mrktwn]

The problem is conflating Imperial Japan with Al-Queda.

Not the same thing. Only superficially similar. Only a f***ing moron believes that Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are the same thing. Or even similar.

[egkg75]

@mrktwn I agree, Pearl Harbor was a sneak attack but Japanese reps. were supposed to deliver declaration of war before attack but they f'd up and didn't do it in time.

[Perussaataja]

I just started to appriciate Hanks even more ;D

[SANTORO61]

Tom Hanks is a bloated moron! Not another dime from me sir Stuff the Hollywood idiots.

[olivemike81]

Maybe more people would come on your show Mr. O'reilly if you didn't call people pinheads for not agreeing with you.

[thebrotemarkles]

A real american Hero can discuss what is wrong and admit mistakes that have been made. "The truth" To spend all of your energy defending the right and demonizing the left gets old....Geez! Thanks Hanx for being honest and tellng the truth!

[5959mikeal]

The Japanese deserved eyerything they got, as do Islamic terrorists. Japanese behavior in China and southeast Asia bordered on savagery. I know this info is hard to come by, they hide it in books.

[barbarycoder]

O'reilly is basically saying it's alright to "kill em all." what a sack of shit.

[barbarycoder]

I think what O'reilly is trying to say is we should not tolerate muslims and that we should "kill them all." But he tells us this in a sly condescending way. very cute.

[loetzfan]

I think O;reily is trying to say that Tom Hanks is completely full of shit and since you don't even try to defend Hank's hateful brand of liberalism, I assume you agree with O.

[virginieb20]

Am I the only one who understands his statement as : "The Japanese (military) wouldn't surrender, not would terrorists today, this is why they had to 'kill them all' " ?