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Nicole Belle on Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 8:48 AM - PDT
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Senior Black Correspondent Larry Wilmore does the hard-hitting journalism you won’t see on any other news show: he dines at Sylvia’s, the Harlem restaurant that sparked O’Reilly’s infamous words.
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WAITRESS: I’m going to bring you an iced tea, is that all right?
WILLMORE: Iced tea doesn’t interest me. I can go to Tavern on the Green if I want iced tea. I come to Sylvia’s for motherf#@king iced tea.
Filed Under: Bill O’Reilly, Racism/Bigotry, The Daily Show/Jon Stewart
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AWESOME!!!!!!
I think it was the “O’Reilly Factor” that also led to the boycott of the “Minority Debate” by the leading GOP candidates.
These guys are awesome. O’Falafel: delusional, sexual harasser, racist. If the guy weren’t doing so much money with his hatred and rants, you’d have to feel sorry for him.
Ok
We get it.
Bill O’Reilly is an ass ( an apparently clueless racist ass)
Can we get back the end of Habeas Corpus, Iraq (Move On discussion notwithstanding)
Walter Reed, Blackwater, Iran etc etc.?
“i coulden’t get over the fact”
why bill, cuz your racist?
that quote alone does him in.
I couldent get over the fact, that they acted normal.
Baby steps for some.
For Bildo it’s one step foreward two steps back.
“Walking on two legs…”
This segment nails it. Think Bill O is going to smear TDS now?
J.T., this is very much about all of those things and more. It is only due to the power of the right wing propaganda machine that they have been able to so damage our country. It is only by discrediting and destroying this machine that any progress can be made in repairing the damage.
Damn, that plate of food looked good. Since it’s almost lunch time, all I could think about was the food.
Jesus’ General does a good post on this BillO subject today. He says he went into an Irish bar and it wasn’t at all what he expected. It’s funny.
You know, despite the comedy, the real tragedy in all this is that Bill O still has a show. He’s still on the air and absolutely no one will tie his feet to the fire over his grotesque and obscene racist crap! For all the PC pansies out there in america you’d think they could drive the likes of an O’Reilly, Beck, and Limbaugh right into the toilet! Seems they’re just as pathetic as Bill O & company.
“and they don’t accept bling”
ROFL
Great motherf#@king clip. I lauhged so hard i almost pissed myself. Thank you C+L that made my motherf#@king day.
SpankyTheMonkey @ 10:
The real tragedy is that 1) “people” are actually defending O’Racist, and 2) O’Racist just won’t admit he went over the line and instead is blaming everyone else….typical reich-winger
And I can’t get over the fact that I only agree with the left 90% of the time. If some of you people took the trouble of actually listening to the audio you’d know it’s hardly any sorts of racist. As much as I hate O’Reilly and I love to see him fired for this, it’s kind of pathetic if that would actually happen because it is clearly taken out of context. And for all the terrible vile things O’Reilly has said and done it would be stupid if this dishonest smear of him would be the thing that hurts him most. TDS, left-wingers. I expect better of you.
pissed off patricia @ 9:
One nice thing about living in Mississippi is I can get that kind of food almost everywhere. Probably why we’re the most obese state in the country, but I’m not sure it’s not worth it.
I think I might go get some fried catfish and turnip greens for lunch. And sweet motherfucking tea.
van der Geest @ 14:
Are we funded by Soros and moveon?
van der Geest @ 14:
What is it that is “clearly taken out of context”?
van der Geest @ 14:
So, being surprised that a black restaurant is just as civil as a white restaurant is not racist? ROFL. You mean O’Racist claiming he was surprised that no one was asking for “mother f**king iced tea” isn’t racist as well. ROFLx2 Thanks for the chuckle.
Yeah, keep spewing O’Racist’s talking point that you need to listen to all three hours of his show to get his [racist] context.
Dr. Matt @ 16:
Are they the only left wingers? Besides I admire Soros and have no beef with moveON.
I don’t mean to use left-winger as an insult because on the american scale ot things I’m about as liberal as you can get.
van der Geest @ 19:
It’s a compliment to call someone a left-winger. But these obtuse labels like “TDS left-wingers” and “moveon democrats” is pathetic.
Dr. Matt @ 18:
Just go to media matters I believe they have the clip. It’s closer to 3 minutes than 3 hours but the picture becomes pretty clear before that. And don’t paint me as an O’Reilly fanboy. Personally I’d have him jailed for his influence on Iraq and in my country (Netherlands) he would be a janitor because our people aren’t dumb enough to buy his shit.
Awesome. The clueless nitwit doesn’t even get it. What he does get, is that his numbers are driven by fearful white people who are very guilty about their complicity in race and class suppression.
J.T. @ 4:
Also, can we find out just what our US Border Patrol agents are doing assigned to the new base on the Iranian border.
van der Geest @ 21:
I have listened and read the entire clip and it’s still racist. Don’t speak for others in that you think we haven’t listened to the entire clip.
I head that the owner of Sylvia’s has publically taken offense at O’Really’s faux-pas, but since her last name isn’t Jackson or Sharpton the MSM aren’t bothering to count her.
Dr. Matt @ 20:
It’s a compliment to call someone a left-winger. But these obtuse labels like “TDS left-wingers” and “moveon democrats” is pathetic.
Notice the comma. I was calling the comenters left wingers and was also referring to TDS. I’m a left winger myself.
Even if you accept that O’Dumbshit wasn’t expressing a deeply profound personal epiphany and he was just leading his listeners/viewers along an enlightening path then wouldn’t that be saying a little somepun somepun about his audience in that they need to be educated that black people are, you know, human…and decent? Somebody’s unfathomably ignorant.
Nice goin’ O’Dumbshit.
This a muth#erFU&^%# funny ass post.I mean Ive been laughing like a mu$^%**&.I mean can you believe there they pay with u.s currency?
Could it be that the waitress, Angel has never heard of Bill O’Reilly?
Perhaps it is the staff at Sylvia’s that is willfully negligent of the angry white-guy culture that leads our country.
Oh, how far we have yet to travel…..;-)
I heard.
That was hilarious! Thanks!
van der Geest @ 14:
Then, please, tell us what the context is or how we should view it. When I first heard the comment absent of any commentary… my thought was: Bill’s an idiot, and I can’t believe he can get away with saying that on the air. Granted, it is a flippant remark and in poor taste. Bill’s ignorance is revealed that he doesn’t know people can be people no matter what color their skin may be.
van der Geest @ 21:
I spent a year in Holland, and I was surprised that the Indonesian restaurants didn’t serve dog meat at all! See, that’s racist, no “context” needed.
jimmiraybob @ 27:
Are you referring to me? Because I’m not going to argue with you that O’Reilly’s main audience is probably a bunch or right-wing christian bigots but that’s not really what this is about is it?
Gee, Bill, I don’t want to blow your mind or anything, but I worked at a company where all the technical guys were black. Yes Bill, really! And more astonishing still, they were a great bunch of guys, some of whom I am still friends with! Wrap your head around that, if you can.
Bill, please, obscurity beckons. Heed its call.
so I’m thinking maybe the only view of the black community that O’R get is from cops and the latest Chris Rock HBO special….guess that’s why he was surprised….O’R ought to try the Jay and Silent Bob Strike back game….gotta drink everytime they use the f-bomb….that’s an Irish game isn’t it?
ThunderMonkey @ 32:
I listened to most of the segment posted on mediamatters and while I was at first convinced this was racist my mind changed on that. To me it seems his only remarkable comment were the wording of “I couldn’t get over the fact” and if you listen to the entire clip I think you’ll come to the conclusion that that is at worst a fruedian slip. I listened to this yesterday and lost interest when I concluded it wasn’t racist (I guess I was dissapointed). You can listen to the clip yourself (will only take a few minutes) and come to your own conclusion I’m not going to to your work for you. Cheers I’m out.
van der Geest @ 14:
I am from Alabama originally and I promise you that it shows how Bill O is racist, or maybe just misguided by his steretypes of what he thinks black people should be. I grew up in a black neighborhood for a while as a child so, I actually have experienced being around black people and don’t have pre-conceived notions and stereotypes in my head. Bill O is no better than the types of people who truly argued the point (I swear) that there were ni**ers and then there were black people and there was a difference.
Before meeting with Sharpton, I bet Bill O’s only contact with black people was when he watched re-runs of Amos and Andy.
LOL! Daily Show has gotten back on track recently.
I loved the expose on Hillary’s impromtu laughing also.
Billo sucks.
Now that that’s settled….has anyone seen this?
Apparently Saddam Hussein offered to surrender before the Iraq war!
bob, this was actually known about before shock and awe. It was understood that Saddam had offered to go into exile, and that Saudi Arabia had agreed to allow him there. Then, it was all quietly forgotten about.
I listened to the clip again… and I came to the conclusion that while the comment isn’t racist, Bill is.
steve davis @ 41:
no kidding…
My question is : how is this any less an outrage than Imus’
comment , for which he was taken down hard ?
Answer : Because everyone is scared shitless of Rupert Murdoch, whom Billo hides behind .
We don’t see to much of this O’reilly person up here in Canuckistan. Hate speech laws make it largely unshowable since too much editing is required. Also poverty makes his key demographic (stupid people) unlikely to have the required television hence the economics of putting him on cable are not viable. Besides, we still have all the PeeWee Herman reruns to catch up on. Still I thought I’d better YouTube the dude so as to understand the commentary. I must admit I was very impressed. He didn’t talk like a leprechaun, he wasn’t completely drunk in most of the clips (as far as I could tell) and although he cut off any guest liable to speak the truth, he did not sucker punch, kneecap, or car bomb any of them.Perhaps he was adopted.
iraqconcilable @ 45:
For the most part, yes. Problem is Bill was just pointing out his abject ignorance about people of another race, Imus called a team of mostly black women, “Nappy headed hos”