Bill O'Reilly Surprised At Civility Of Black Restaurant Patrons
By Logan Murphy Sunday Sep 23, 2007 1:41pm
Media Matters: (h/t Sassywho)
Summary: Discussing his recent dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at the Harlem restaurant Sylvia's, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship." O'Reilly added: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.'" Read more...
Because we know BillO's fans are so civilized and polite. You can listen to the audio clip of the segment here.
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EEEEuuuuuu. Frist.
Thank you for that picture - thank you, thank you. You've made my day.
His comments are egregious and I have to say - I was actually amazed at the ignorance he willingly displayed.
Bill O'Reilly actually surprised me by being worse than I thought possible.
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oh wow, it turns out they're human afterall.
typical racist response.
can we take him off the air now.
You see, in Bill's World, all black men speak like gangsta rappers. So who'd pay attention to them if they didn't add "muthaf**kah" to the end of every sentence?
Trittydi @ 2:
You beat me to that comment. :)
as a black person i never order anything at a restaurant without first prefacing it with M'Fer.
Love the screenshot. Got Bill in one of his sunnier moods.
Screaming "MFer" I bet.
just take a look at this bigot .. look at that fucking hemmroid 'head' of his .. someone, anyone, should rush on his tv set and put a whole fucking tube of preparation h on it ... then step back and watch the fun ... would be a great 'commercial' too for the preparation h company in that it would certainly show off how effective their product is ... hey a free commercial ...
No, Billo, the real shock is that you didn't make some "joke" about trading crack for falafel, or maybe some comment about "hope they don't steal my hubcaps while I'm eating dinner, har har."
What a buffoon.
i'm so glad bill o'reilly approves of us black folk. can we take that m'fer off the air now? :p
O'Reilly is no different than Hal Turner or Bill White. It's time his advertisers realized that
Bill you racist twit.
If a restaurant has class it will attract people with class.
If a restaurant has no class it will attract people like you.
Yep, Bill, once you get off Lawn Guyland, you meet a lot of nice people.
And, guess what, you just might learn something as well.
please turn him off.
We never should have let all those Irish motherfuckers in. Or the Krauts. Or Dagos. Nobody without a proper Visa. That would have taken care of the overpopulation. Now, about the Hunkies...
BTW this is the eating establishment that Bill slithered into.
http://www.sylviassoulfood.com/restaurants.html
WTF?
mister mix @ 6:
That was funny!
. . . even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.” . . .
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It's hard to believe that O'Reilly would say such things.
How he can continue to display his ignorance and have a folowing beats me.
I wonder if Bildo's comments are an example of what passes for humor in right-wing land.
Ah well, even if they're not, I'm sure he'll defend them that way.
I can't watch the video - not for technical reasons, I just have a rule about not watching Bill O'Reilly and/or Ann Coulter - so I need to know:
Was O'Reilly serious when he said this? Was he responding to a racist who said something like: "Dinning at a black establishment must have been pretty hairy, huh Bill?"
I mean, he didn't just say this because he was sitting there in the restaurant thinking: "I've got to mention on my show about how well-behaved black people can be." Did he?
I hope they pissed into his food before they served it to him.....
It's not like these comments should come as any kind of surprise. BillO is and has always been a white supremacist. I've said it for years and will continue to do so. He's just getting more obvious with it because he's finding out that he can get away with saying anything he wants on the teevee. Fox would never fire him because he toes the Republican party line.
Fox, the racism network.
Imus is gone. In a just world this would be the end of Bill O'Reilly.
What a racist pig. How can anybody not get what he said? This is one of the hottest restaurants in NY--it's been written up in tons of publications and has gotten rave reviews.
If I owned that place I would have thrown him out on his dimpled arse.
The meistro of lies, the loofah boofah buffoon, O'Reilly is at it again with his bigoted remarks. Doesn't this Loofah Dropping moron have anything better to do with his time?
Why this guy is still on television is beyond me. No one but another bigoted moron would watch him for more than a second - the time it takes for the controller to discard him.
In other words, O'Reilly and the rest of the reich-wingers prove to be out of touch with reality.
Wow, that's just amazing. Aren't you supposed to cover up your innate racism with "code words" that (you think) the scary Black people won't understand?
I love it when white people with irrevocable hang-ups about non-whites try and act open-minded. It's always good for a chuckle. Tip - someone truly open-minded wouldn't be particularly surprised to get great service in a Black-owned and patronized establishment, other than the surprise of getting good service ANYWHERE these days.
Better try the Steamed Macaca next time, Bill. I hear it's in season.
sconset @ 25:
This continues to show what a crass, vile, inconsiderate, inhumane misanthrope Bill really is. He's the epitome of darkness - and is right up there with the Prince of Darkness, Robert Novak.
On the evil meter, O'Reilly beats 'em all.
Jeon Ji-Yung @ 28:
And it takes a racist bigot to even "see" color in the first place, let alone make ugly commentary about it.
Hello BillO. Meet batshit crazy. You two are like one in the same.
There may be 'Great Truth' somewhere in that impenetrable morass....or maybe not....well then again it could be the obverse. Isn't it interesting how there can be the barely observable thread of undying optimism that some people express when referring to Billy that maybe he'll pull his head out of his ass, when the reality is.. who can tell them apart anymore. The experience of existence is not unlike the rapier-like shaft of sunlight sneaking under the shade, stabbing into the Chinese squint of one's consciousness, bringing up some sour mash acidity from last nights frivolities along with the Southern Comfort and Crème' de Menthe highballs, and you know how high yer balls can get with them things. Was that Billy showing the hostess how a blind man counts his change? It's all pseudo-intellectual lack clarity and terminal hangovers, hanging over dangling participles, hanging ten on the edge of a Niagara-like precipice of pedantic verbiage and Vedic arbitrage. That said, I intone words to live by, "Loose Lips Sink Ships"
PIG is the only word to describe this man. Total & unequivocal pig who wallows in his own personal sty.
Is that BORing's imitation of a squirrel eating corn on the cob?
That's what I look like when I take a jalapenos dump.
I once went to a restaurant in a white suburb frequented by Republicans and you know, it was really almost normal. Not one of the guys tried to hit on other guys, or on kids at the next table or anything, nobody bribed anyone, you didn't hear one person there sexually harrasing his coworkers, I didn't hear anyone say "Shut Up!" every few seconds, I mean they were really civil. I was amazed!
mister mix @ 10:
Oh, ok, now I know what that contraction means! :)
Carl Gordon @ 32:
Loose lips do sink ships, that's true. As well, the greatest distance between two points was never reached by conversation (or the written word) - hint, hint.
OH MY GOD, you know I often find myself saying the same things about them colored folks. the other day one pumped gas for me and he didn't even say yes massa. I was stunned. Then, I saw one working at a bank. yes, i know, i know a bank! freaking crazy. these negros aren't so bad as long as they don't live next door.
Weaseldog @ 37:
Don't you have to breathe between them?
Bill-o was just so darn glad he didn't get hit by an errant thrown chicken bone or slip on watermelon seed....
donviti @ 39:
That's what you get for cutting off a Florida cop to the gas pump.
LOL! The average O'Reilly listener thinks Taco Bell's a feast and a trip to McDonald's a monthly 'treat' for the youngens!
I'm guessing Keith Olbermann has tonight's Worst Person in the World all picked out!
Timezone @ 36:
I did hear someone tell the waiter to go F*** himself, though.
Ahh, check out their food menu. They sell Cracker food! :)
No Poke Salat though. That's cool. It grows all over my backyard already.
Amazing.
Timezone @ 36:
That's too funny buddy! :)
ysbaddaden @ 40:
You can just pant.
Damn! He's even more of an a$$hole than I thought.
I guess the idjit was expecting THIS kinda talk (courtesy of "Airplane" and http://sfy.ru/sfy.html?script=airplane_ts
Jiveman1: Sheeeet, man, that honkey mus' be messin' my old lady
got to be runnin' col' upsihd down his head!
Subtitle: GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE
OR I WILL PUNCH HIM.
Jiveman2: Hey Holm, I can dig it! You know he ain't gonna lay no
mo' big rap upon you man!
Subtitle: YES, HE IS WRONG FOR DOING THAT.
Jiveman1: I say hey sky, s'other say I won say I pray to J I get
the same ol' same ol.
Subtitle: I KNEW A MAN IN A SIMILAR PREDICAMENT, AND HE ENDED UP
BEING SORRY.
Jiveman2: Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got
perform' us' down I take TCBin, man'.
Subtitle: DON'T BE NAIVE ARTHUR. EACH OF US FACES A CLEAR MORAL
CHOICE.
Jiveman1: You know wha' they say: See a broad to get that bodiac
lay'er down an' smack 'em yack 'em.
Subtitle: EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE, MAKES A MAN HEALTHY,
WEALTHY AND WISE.
Together: Col' got to be! Yo!
Subtitle: HOW TRUE!
Together: Sheeeeeeet!
Subtitle: GOLLY.
No offence intended, 'cept to the "Big Giant Head"
Come on, there was one difference: they wouldn't serve mayo on white bread. (Thank God).
Fanon @ 44:
LMAO!!!!!!!!
How typical.
ysbaddaden @ 35:
Thanks for sharing.
Someone Imus this asshole.
Sylvia's should have not let him in. White trash like that.
Bill OR is SUCH a flippin' idiot.
Photo Caption contest: Billy O getting his infamous loofah rammed where the sun don't shine! Gotta love it! He's ugly even in repose; this photo takes the cake though and shows his insides as well. Sick, dank, dark, and necrotic!
Let's us not forget that Billo has a black dildo that he allegedly "enjoys" periodically.
Let's us also not forget that Billo was recently bemoaning the "fact" that whites were losing their controlling influence.
Let's us definitely TRY to forget what the implications are for those two little factoids...
Where is Princess to defend her hero?!
WHAT?!? You mean O'Reilly is a biggot? I never would have guessed!!! I bet if he ate at a restaurant owned by a gay couple he would say "I couldn't get over the fact that I didn't see one cock in one mouth!"
..."Hey baby put down the pipe and get my pipe ...UP" - bill-o
I bet he wins another worst person in the world for that one.
Jesus .... and Juan Williams ...
Well... NPR..
Do I have to say anything else?
Yep, O'Reilly's a bigot.
Hollywood Markvs @ 56:
I agree they should have had one table for O'Reilly in the back and all the other tables with signs saying "People Only".
I wonder if Bill's waiter was just as surprised that Bill O' wasn't wearing a white sheet and didn't call him "boy" before and after ordering his food.
mefirst...I'd like to bitch-slap this Mo-Ron
Dahgrostab'ph-r-i @ 64:
And restrooms labeled, 'Men', 'Women' and 'Bigots'?
They should have served him his meal on a chipped plate, for the authentic feel.
Wow! So Blacks are people, too? I mean, once you get them off music videos and TRAIN them to work hard, they can also achieve tolerable cleanliness and diction standards. WOW!! Bush's policies ARE working.
What an absolute idiot O'Rielly is. Merely making a statement like reflects an extremely high level of Bigotry.
What a fool.
Oh common! What a surprise. Billo is a blatant racist and a tool. This is the kind of assinine corporate subsidized racism we have to put up with every single day. I mean really. Billo might have well said "Look at these jigaboos, they know how to use forks..." It's really telling that anyone can even think like Billo in 2007.
Billo has kids, no? His racism will persist with the vile that he must be putting in their heads. He is creating more racism in this world and that disturbs me.
"It takes a racist bigot to even see color in the first place."
That, I don't agree with. I'd change that to "It takes a racist bigot to care about color in the first place." To deny it altogether is dishonest. To look down on someone because of their race is wrong, of course... judge an individual by their thoughts and actions, not by their appearance. But to deny that these people have had different life experiences because of their race doesn't do anyone any favors. To achieve true equality, we must see and acknowledge the inequalities, and you can't do that without taking race into account in some fashion - you can try, but you'll never get the whole picture.
I wonder what Bill could discover in an authentic Mexican Restaurant?
I don't know - I agree with Bill.
Every time I go into a restaurant run by black people, I usually hear conversation like this:
Waitress: So's like you niggas gonna oda a' wut?
Customer 1: shut up bitch! I'll take my time ordrin, you can just go fuck yosef you nappy headed ho. Now, you gonna blow me or wut, bitch?
Customer2: yeah. Fuck you. Bitch.
Waitress: well you stupid ass niggas ain't gotta prayer gettin no kinda pussy from me! So, wutchoo all gonna oda? We gots alotta fine ass shit tonight. We gots fried chicken, we gots watermelon, we gots all kinda shit. So, wutchoo gonna drink anyways, niggas?
Customer 1: Gimme a bottle of Kristal.
Customer 2: Yeah. Kristal. Fuck you. Bitch.
Waitress: now don't go given me no fuckin shit about Kristal niggas - you ain't got 'nuff for a glass a Hennesey you nappy ass muthafuckaz.
Customer 1: Just gimme the Kristal and some chicken bitch, and get on it.
Customer 2: Yeah. Like Homes sed. Kristal. and Chicken. Fuck you. Bitch.
I can only surmise that BillO thinks that is how black people talk all the time. He is such a racist prick, it's unbelieveable. Cuz' I'm about as white as it gets and me and MY HOMIES we talk shit like that all the time....
Not!
Sweet Jebus, make BillO go away...
these people = typo, was supposed to read: "there's people who" as in "...there's people who have had different life experience because of their race..."
This is by no means meant to disparage African Americans, but how many of the kitchen workers do you thing spit into Bill's order? I know I would have.
The net community managed to make our voices heard and the network fired the last foul mouthed black hearted racist in a cowboy hat... that big mouth on radio in NYC.
Why don't we do the same for BILLO?
He has no right on national TV. He is a foul mouthed racist pig.
black americans should be happy. the world now has bill orally to explain to how black americans think and feel. indeed he knows every aspect of black american culture. why just the other day he ate at a black american restarant--actually ATE there.
still tho, i don't think he has a black american friend like colbert.
The sad thing is that he as well as most of these right wing idiots, know very well that the majority of black Americans are as decent as any of them and that this show boating is simply a game they are playing as they use media any kinda way they see fit.
It is lucrative for them to show the dark side of black and brown Americans . This justifies the cheap hateful tactics they use to prevent us from moving forward
After watching 'Goodfellas', I thought that the F-word was used to order at Italian restaurants.
was that Juan Williams?
I know exactly what you mean Bill.
I had a beer at the "Blarney Stone" last week and was surprised that I didn't have a filthy drunken Irish nitwit stagger over and throw up on me,or try to start a fight.Because,you know how THOSE PEOPLE can be...
I haven't read all the posts - but I must not be the first one to have observed that the picture of Billo at the head of this article is perhaps the most evocative one of him I've ever seen. I mean...that's priceless and definitely a keeper...:)
crowdpleaser @ 22:
Or worse :D
“There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’”
I'm sorry, but that's hilarious! I shouldn't be laughing but I am. O'Reilly is such a nut.
Hey,
Only in your world, Bill baby, are people rude. Your atrociousness's is nothing more than wishing there were still slaves on your plantation, so you could sit on the veranda sipping mint juleps talking about how the slaves are lazy. Your show is just trollop and wherever your obscene thoughts are, tell them to that child molester in the confession booth.
Hmmm, let's see...racist...arrogant...paranoid...delusional...rude...just plain stupid and clueless...George Bush?? No, but close. Bill O'Reilly??? YES!!!
And Republicans wonder why a majority of the country, the world, can't tolerate them anymore!
Keep it up, Bill! We love you for the asshole you are - it helps Democrats in the long-run! And while you're at it, talk Cheney into running in 2008! Pleeeeeeeeeeease?????
He is utterly devoid of shame. Soft bigotry from a soft bigot.
Bill, when someone invites you into their community, it's kind of rude to say things that indicate your surprise at its decency.
Does BillO not interact with black people at all? Like ever? Surely even Faux News employs non-gangsta-rapping black people (gasp!) with whom Billo must have interacted. The man lives in one of the largest and most diverse cities in the world. How isolated do you have to be to live in NYC, work for a very large mass communications company, and NOT have any real world daily interaction with people of different races?
And who would ever be so stupid to think that rappers are representative of anyone other than themselves?
God, what an asshole.
apparently, the extent of Bill's knowledge of black people comes from this movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdXdDN2AzIw
Would Bill O'Really ask Colin Powell if he can tap dance
Or ask Condi if it's true about how hot black women are in the sack?
Listen to the actual clip at MediaMatters. His comments in their actual context do not sound as racist as the quotes here appear. This is a good example of how a quote can be taken out of context. Nowhere in this blog entry do we see that O'Reilly was actually comparing behavior to depictions of behavior in "gangsta" rap (a phrase I hate typing. Ew.). The entry makes it sound like he's comparing black behavior to white behavior.
He's saying that when you are with people instead of listening to media depictions of their lives, you see how opposite they are.
Is this still racist? In a way, yes. While he's not saying he's surprised that black Americans are civilized people, he appears to be relating the story as a man who is normally a stranger to black Americans. This is the kind of racism that we have now in America: Blacks and whites are strangers to each other, so we can't help but make stories of our encounters sound a little alien.
By the way, we have the same isolation from each other as southern Christians and north-eastern liberals. Christians and Jews not knowing many Muslims, etc.
So we make assumptions based on isolation and strangeness.
So if O'Reilly is racist here, he is no more racist than most of America, I think.
90 Lord of Karma
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Dont'cha mean this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UPOkIpR0A
I hear they bleed red blood too.
O'Reilly is a bag of much doucheness.
Hey Bill: 1963 called. It wants you to shut the fuck up.
Smack_dav @ 80:
Fettucini?
Racism is surely dead in the US.
Chris Cronin,
I hear what you are saying and thought the same thing. However, I think he did still couch his comments in a racist way. I realize he was trying to relate a "true" story to make his point that all black people aren't gangster rappers, but he did it poorly.
I had dinner at a Japanese steak house last week and not one single Japanese customer was trying to dive bomb my table or cut off my date's head with a samurai sword. I was shocked.
Smack_dav @ 80:
fucking a right it is.
hey ma, canya getme sum of dat fucking sausage!
"He's saying that when you are with people instead of listening to media depictions of their lives, you see how opposite they are."
Sort of like the Fox media portrays the liberals?
"So if O'Reilly is racist here, he is no more racist than most of America, I think."
Perhaps. But racist Joe Schmoe from down