Just when you think Bill O'Reilly cannot stoop any lower, he finds a new way to limbo.
Condensed version of Bill-O: "Who could ever imagine that an African-American would have the same dreams and hopes as myself".
Ugh, such ugglieness of personality. You are right LM, this one needs to be broadcast near and far.
I'm still predicting that O'Reilly will someday pull a Morton Downey Jr. on us. Instead of a swastika, he'll carve an image of Ludacris into his forehead.
When I first saw the Bill-O story, I thought it was satire, if creepy satire. I thought, "no one could be that dumb, that ignorant, that racist."
I stand corrected.
Why does this man get to broadcast shit? Why does he get paid serious $$$$ for his bigotry?
Bleh!
I thought he was a cheap bastard by taking Al to Sylvia's instead of dropping a few hundred on him at Tavern on the Green.
I love Sylvia's but as you say, LM, he'd better take Al and Jesse with him if he ever wants to dine there again. Hell, Al should have given him a tour of just how Harlem is going through a renaissance and there is nothing "SuperFly" or "The Mack" about it.
Bloviating douchebag...:-(
Bill: "There wasn't any kind of craziness at all."
"Except, some of the darkies couldn't suppress their happy, happy, instincts to bust a buck-and-a-wing right on the restaurant floor, and 6 of them were slain in a minor altercation over who got the biggest slice of watermelon."
No shit! I expected his little "Lookit how broadminded I am!" screed to wind up with:
"And I didn't see anyone paying for their meal with food stamps...and no welfare mammies pulling into the parking lot in Cadillacs, either. See how well 7 years of republican- controlled government is working?"
Christ, what a dickhead. WTF is Sharpton doing hanging with this asshole? Doesn't he know there's a war going on?
“"Except, some of the darkies couldn't suppress their happy, happy, instincts to bust a buck-and-a-wing right on the restaurant floor, and 6 of them were slain in a minor altercation over who got the biggest slice of watermelon."
It's almost impossible to parody as he's that out of his mind with racist animus. If you slipped your passage into his actual words, it wouldn't skip a Goddamned beat.
“"And I didn't see anyone paying for their meal with food stamps...and no welfare mammies pulling into the parking lot in Cadillacs, either. See how well 7 years of republican- controlled government is working?"
Probably was said in bteween-segment patter. Straight-up.
“WTF is Sharpton doing hanging with this asshole? Doesn't he know there's a war going on?
He's not as big as he used to be, but it's clear that Al doesn't miss too many “free” meals when they're offered. 
(But seriously, Rev. Al is such a celebrity there, taking a lot of his important “Summit” meetings at Sylvia's, and I'm pretty sure he's always comped by the owners. Leave it to Bill to not know that he was “buying” a guy dinner who hasn't paid for one up there in 15 years.
Unless he did know, and cheaped out in his offer to “treat”. Waitaminnit... )
It will be of interest to know that the FDA as part of the "war on drugs" is hounding and harassing doctots who specialize in pain medication on the grounds that they are prescribing "too many" narcotics, which they define as being more than the average prescribed by all other doctors. The pain doctors are being threatened with criminal and regulatory prosecution.
LM, when I saw this on DKos I was waiting, just waiting for your take on it. Oh, the deliciousness of the takedown.
I would expect O'Reilly gets to see a lot of fallafel and collard greens in the months to come, regardless of what he orders at restaurants. Or, as you mentioned, far, far worse.
Instead of a swastika, he'll carve an image of Ludacris into his forehead.
Or one day he'll be on his TV show with a big poofy perm claiming he was "assaulted" by a bunch of stereotypical gay men. ("They forced me to submit to this hairstyling ritual of theirs! And when they were done, {SOB!} they said my necktie was 'just atrocious'!")
Bennet:
I think you've got the wrong comment thread. Not to worry, though, I said something very similar myself in Doc's pain-management thread.
I would expect O'Reilly gets to see a lot of fallafel and collard greens in the months to come, regardless of what he orders at restaurants.Yep, falafel with a side order of soapy loofa.
What a load of asshattery. Is he on Oxycontin too ?
“Is he on Oxycontin too ?”
It aint the “Oxy”. It's the Ortho-“doxy”.
...resurfacing from correcting papers.
I lived in Harlem between 2004-2006.
Whenever I walked down its streets, I knew I was walking down streets and occupying rooms that Renaissance writers and artists had walked and may have lived in.
I knew that a church used to house the famous Lafayette Theatre, and where the original luck tree, the Tree of Hope which now graces "Showtime at the Apollo," used to stand at a median.
Whenever I walked into the Schomburg, I looked down at my feet where Langston's ashes are entombed.
And I knew that on the corner of 7th and 125th Street, Jimi Hendrix had tried to rock everyone at a free concert.
I've been to Sylvia's a few times...most notably their fine Thanksgiving feast.
I've seen white folks at Sylvia's, too, greasing as we used to call it. Nobody was suspicious, or acting the fool, or wondering whether they were going to get capped or jumped between mouthfuls. Those plates were smoking, and the conversation was flowing.
But what the fuck did that Irish a-hole expect?
Lawd save me from this m-f right here. I'm sure Geraldo must have had a private tizzy about this episode. I wouldn't doubt that he's been to Sylvia's, too. He must be wondering whether it indeed is worth all this idiocy.
(Sharpton must have been laughing his ass off. Privately.)
I've seen the late Jim Jensen and Beverly Sills in there. Saw Doc Severinsen in there. Paul Simon, Vera Wang, and Danny Aiello—all of 'em as you say, “greasin” on the grub.
I've been in there so often, they don't even ask me what I want anymore (The sauteéd chicken livers with peppers and onions).
O'Reilly's sick fantasies about the place as some sort of rejected “In Living Color” skit where people toss chitlins' and hot lead at each other...I swear, makes me wanna pull a Dan Rather “What is the frequency, Kenneth” on Bill-O should I ever run across him in town.
Although, I'll probably go :
“Where's my iced tea, MOTHERFUCKAH?” before making him bite some curb.
I take this verrrrry personally. My dad ran a restaurant in Harlem for a time, and when I think of the anal-retentiveness of his level of care in how the food was presented, and how the staff acted, and came across—his level of professionalism he demanded at his little place...O'Reilly's pigeonholing of Black eating establishments as fried-fish sandwich vending “buckets of blood” just sets me off something fierce.
Next time I'm up there—early next week—I'm gonna ask some of the people up there about this. I have to.
I hope it's not just black people who spit in his food from now on. If I was still working in restaurants I would do it in a heartbeat.
Hell, even if he went to frickin' MacDonalds someone would make sure he had some real "special sauce" on his Big Mac.
isn't it funny how people who find O'reilly's shtick abominable don't get the underlying themes of the Jena 6 case?
I'm finding that more and more in my life travels.
Again, LM, thank you for on the money insight.
If only your kick ass words of wisdom and could lead to this weasel being banished to Iraq for the rest of his lifetime.
Thanks, such a tasty post. Found it via your comment at FDL late nite. Thanks much.
Well, my husband and I went out for Chinese food on Sunday, and they made a mistake with my husband's order. But amazingly, the waiter did not bow ingratiatingly and say comically, "Me so sorry! Me so sorry!"
Seriously, how much more of an asshole could Mr. Falafel be?
Get serious. Bill O' will be treated like a king every time he saunters in to Sylvia's.
BTW - That shite they call southern style cuisine and serve up to the touristas is so far removed from real southern cooking it ain't even funny.
LM; thassit.
Bill, like all these assholes, has such an irony deficiency, that, in HIS mind, the line between snark and reality simply doesn't exist.
If three full-on Harlem boyz, strapped and wired, DID come by his table in Jolsonesque blackface, strumming banjoes and singing "Old Black Joe", in smartass preparation to giving him a beatdown that wouldn't whoa, O'Reilly would smile like the idiot he is, and compliment them on their "natural" talent for entertaining.
'Leave it to Bill to not know that he was “buying” a guy dinner who hasn't paid for one up there in 15 years.
'Unless he did know, and cheaped out in his offer to “treat”. Waitaminnit...'
Oh, crap, LM--you just know O'Lielly expensed it anyway! 
“Where's my iced tea, MOTHERFUCKAH?” before making him bite some curb.
And thanks for the best laff I've had (so far) today!
So, Bill's a tactless, pompous ass. Doesn't mean he's a racist. His hyperbolic word choices are more indicative of his generation than of his alleged racism.
Seems the leaders of the black community are simply looking for reasons to be offended and raise teakettle tempests so that their "cause" isn't forgotten among the myriad of other causes we're bombarded with daily.
The black leaders claiming affront and racism the loudest are by far more bigoted than Bill, looking for the worst possibly interpretation in absolutely every comment and action.
Before anyone starts calling me a racist for not saying "African-American" rather than "black", keep in mind that Africa's a big continent and Egyptians, Libyans, Moroccans and other super-Saharan countries are not of the same racial background as those American citizens who feel the need to set themselves apart with some sort of a hyphenation.
Only the credulous and willfully deceitful would buy into this deliberate smear. You clowns would walk a mile to be pretend to be offended...you wouldn't acknowledge the truth if it were sitting on a plate under your nose, as long as it exculpts anyone to the right of Ward Churchill. You're all jumping on O'Reilly like the useful fools you are, "reacting" to an obvious smear job. But hey, don't let context and the African-American interviewer who was actually involved who is defending him change your narrow little partisan minds. You and Media Matters and CNN and all the other left-wing sheep have invented a straw man so you can bleat to eachother about how unjust life is. What a collection of liars and fools you all are.
"So, Bill's a tactless, pompous ass. Doesn't mean he's a racist. His hyperbolic word choices are more indicative of his generation than of his alleged racism.
Seems the leaders of the black community are simply looking for reasons to be offended and raise teakettle tempests so that their "cause" isn't forgotten among the myriad of other causes we're bombarded with daily."
"Tactless" is the euphemism racists and their apologists fall back on to absolve themselves of being tagged with the damning moniker of racist. Of course he's tactless. A tactful bigot wouldn't have said what O'Reilly did. Neither would a smart one. so, add idiotic into your adjective list for Bill-O.
And the "but-but his generation!" defense will not wash. The man was 10 years old in 1960...a teenager in the midst of the Civil Rights movement's peak. He came of age in the time of alleged racial enlightenment. 13 years old when Dr. King gave his "I Have A Dream"? speech. Bullshit is called. Bullshit is upheld.
As to the "let's obfuscate by dragging 'Black Leaders' into this", remember--Al Sharpton was up there hangin' with Bill-O, and he's vexed about what Bill said later, but he's pretty much giving him a pass on it, as did Jesse Jackson. They held fire somewhat as O'reilly is a media contemporary and peer. It was the online reporting that blew this up big. There have been no marches, or choruses of "We Shall Overcome"
The clown was shocked that Black people weren't shouting "motherfucker" across a restaurant, and that Black people wore suits to an R&B concert. Tactless? Pompous? Stupid? How about adding "wedded to negative, racist stereoytypes". and shocked when he finds them to be untrue? The bid waddles on webbed feet. It quacks too.
It would appear to be a duck. "Quack"
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"But hey, don't let context and the African-American interviewer who was actually involved who is defending him..."
Juan..bwa-ha-ha-HA!-W-Williams? Oh, Jesus! The same Juan Williams the Bush administration tried to force NPR into using as an interviewer for a hagiographic puff-piece?
Oh, my God! Bwa-ha-ha-HAAAA-"cough!", Oh, God. Sorry. Had to laugh when you pointed to Juan--Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-HA-HA-HA!-Williams, who sits there every Sunday on Fox letting Brit Hume rub his head for good luck? Oh-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-HAAAA!
Oooooooh..."hagiographic." You must be an intellectual! And open-minded, too; just like all liberals, even when they're making patronizing comments about people who have different opinions. Wait, oh, Juan Williams is a liberal too, but one of the few who can speak honestly about race. That must upset your narrow little view of the world: A black man who is willing to take a stand against the left-wing commitment to permanent victimhood. Must. Attack. His. Character. Imply. He. Is. Uncle. Tom. And. Say. White. Man. Rubs. Head.
*sniffs*
Shiiiiit... I thought we got rid of all them trolls the last time they stunk up the place.
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