Bill O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence...
By John Amato Tuesday Feb 19, 2008 12:31pm
I got a tip on this yesterday and passed it along to Media Matters. Michelle Obama has been attacked over a recent comment she made by the right wing the last few days about being proud of America. She was targeted as being unpatriotic even by McCain's wife. Well, you knew it was only a matter of time before "lynching references" would pop up when discussing Obama's campaign.
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O'Reilly: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels"
In a discussion of recent comments made by Michelle Obama, Bill O'Reilly took a call from a listener who stated that, according to "a friend who had knowledge of her," Obama " 'is a very angry,' her word was 'militant woman.' " O'Reilly later stated: "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down."
Just recently a reporter from the Golf Channel apologized to Tiger Woods for using the word "lynching" when talking about his play on the tour which resulted in her suspension. An editor was also fired.
O'Reilly has a history of racially charged remarks. He took a lot of heat for his callous description of the behavior of African Americans eating at Harlem's Sylvia's restaurant not too long ago. Will Juan Williams swoop in to try and deflect criticism from BillO this time too?
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Frist to lynch Billo !
While this ain't the best choice of language, I think we're missing a perhaps larger issue here, which is that BillO appears to be inclined to defer rash judgment and grandstanding here.
Certainly not what I would expect from someone who typically takes material out of context to suit his point. Mrs. Obama's point (which I heartily agree with) would seem to present ample opportunity for blowhards to flip out.
And that, friends, is a good thing to see.
Told ya.
So who's calling for HIS job. Where y'at Sharpton?
It's sad that we're in the 21st Century and this country
still behaves like it's the 18th Century. Grow up America!
when oLIElly comes out as a black person,
thenhe can talk about "evidence"...
Turk, the big issue is that the blowhard is a biggoted ass. He has a history of being wrong about his facts and even when it's proven he refuses to admit it. Such as his statement that American troops shot German prisoners at Malmady. The exact opposite is true and when it was pointed out to the moron he still would not recant his statement.
"..unless there's evidence"
*sigh*
Or... possibly LOL? or even WTF??
nah...
...*sigh*
(disclaimer: nothing will happen to billo as a result of this)
lynching: the illegal execution of an accused person by a mob...
this type of hate-speech, and its history in slavery and with racist groups like the KKK, does NOT cause the reichwing to recoil in shame and embarrassment. No, in fact it is the opposite, they seek this type of discourse. this is one reason WHY the reichwing flocks to billo. subtle, racist, hate-speech is music to the ears of many a republican.
Today on the Tom Hartmann Show... Tom and a caller discovered that the audio of the Michelle Obama clip has been edited .... someone tried to edit out the word "really".... as in really proud of my country....
So is anyone surprised that Pravda News is a white supremacist/bigot network? It's the network all the rednecks watch. The good thing? The country, well the sane 75%, have tired of it all. Faux News will be a voice screaming in the wilderness come general election time.
Jesus wept, he doesn't even bother to hide it anymore, just out in the open, untrue.
I don't think America is a bad country, but is certainly flawed. It has many substantial flaws. Of course, in Falafel's world, this country is perfect, and the people who are trying to destroy it are secular-progressives.
O'Reilly is going to pay for this one. Where is it that it's comfortable to use these references almost on a daily basis from O'Reilly and others? O'Reilly is not stupid. He knows exactly what he is saying. Pathetic and disgusting for this point in time.
This is nonsense.
It took 400+ plus years of slavery on the North American Continent for a man like The Right Reverend Doc Marty King Jr. to finally emerge.
Michelle Obama was all of 3 years old when he was assassinated in April of 1968.
It's been another 40 years since King's death for a man like Michelle Obama's husband to come along that even has a serious shot at the Presidency like he does.
All the wing-nuts out there that have anything to say about her comments about having Pride in America today because of her husband need to take the above set of facts into their heads before they open their retarded little potty-moufs.
They can all up and bite me.
~Nyc
"...but once we get that evidence, I got a rope handy, just sayin'..."--B.O.
This is going to be a LONG eight months.
But that's the only kind of party BillO enjoys, a lynching party (as long as falafel is on the menu, too).
Just where do you keep that white sheet anyway?
The big issue is the use of lynching. He could have used any term but he picked that one. Like Hannity he will get his "white" ass all upset that a black man and woman would have an opinion that is different then to thank us "wp" of America for giving them a chance.
Injustices never require evidence.
Wait till the Right Wing really gets going after Obama.
It will be obvious then this isn't the Country any sane person would want to live in.
15 John F A Says: “…but once we get that evidence, I got a rope handy, just sayin’…”–B.O.
This is going to be a LONG eight months.
Only took me 7 to be born.
OMG they called Petraeus Betray Us
But I'll talk about lynching future First Lady's.
ysbaddaden @ 21:
My thoughts exactly. God...this is going to be ugly.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Bill O didn't want to start a lynching just yet....
Not till his place at the head of the mob is secured. The man has always used inflammatory language. He does it so often it's hard to even tell if it's calculated anymore. Doesn't really have to be. It's just who he is.
And because of that HE SHOULD NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO BE ON THE AIR. Not even on Fox.
Does Olbermann have to hammer him even harder and more often for anyone to notice that Bill O is a hatefilled mofo?
" . . and I don't want to take this rope here, make it into a noose, walk over to that tree right there and . . "
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
I shudder now at some of the displays. I can't wait.
O'Reilly... he's from the asshat tribe. Looks good on ya, Bill(shit)!
Yes, her original statement that she was "really proud". Being that no one but Michelle knows her true feelings, people like BillO and all the rest should just STFU.
As for the language BillO used, you don't need a secret decoder ring to figure out that message.
Will the Falafel Man lose his job or get suspended the same way that commenter on the Golf Channel did when she made that "lynching" comment regarding Tiger Woods?
Michelle Obama is not Tiger Woods and she'd kick O'Lielly's ass so far he'd come back and say "Thank you, ma'am, may I have another?"
ConcernedCanuck @ 26:
Billo's just stoking the crowd. Warm up Act.
I'm preparing for the most sickening stuff imaginable. This countries Lost It. COMPLETELY.
Susie @ 17:
I suppose he could have said "witch hunt"...
Anyone shocked by this?
Anybody recognize this from 1992 when it was Hillary being described as a "militant woman"?
This country is just like any other. The backwash will always have a strong current of racism and misogyny.
Bill O'Reilly is an asshole, and Snoop had it right.
As for Juan Williams putting Bill O in check, naw, because he'll be too busy fetching this SOB some M---F---ing Iced tea from Sylvia's.
L.A. Confidential @ 19:
Let them spew their bile and hate, lies and spin. Americans are sick of the Repugs, Rove, Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, et al, and of the dying in Iraq and the rising cost of living and the hypocracy of the religious right. Their swiftboat style of campaigning is going to render their party irrelevant for years to come.
Thanks "Dubya"!
“I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts...So until someone out there can slap some pictures of Mrs. Obama frowning and find a quote with anger or one of its synonyms in it I'm just gonna havta keep the rope in my closet with the falafels. Now if Michelle would like to come over and clear this up personally, I'd be happy to do that, but not over the phone, because that could be recorded and edited out of context, which can be very expensive...So this is an invitation to Michelle Obama to come on over for falafels, bring a girlfriend if she wants, we'll get to the bottom of her anger with hard facts. There's your choices Michelle - hard facts and falafels or the noose. I report, you decide."
On another right-wing rascism note, Captain Ed refers to Obama as using a "Rope-a-Dope" technique today.
ConcernedCanuck @ 26:
At this point, who cares what the wingnuts think? Bring it on, a$$holes!
And let's not forget Billo's offense at my people -- The Chosen People.
ysbaddaden @ 21:
Nice point. Seems like the MSM has no ear for the faked outrage of the right-wing.
Michelle is about 40 years old. All her adult life has been under a Bush or Clinton regime. The Bush clan sure didn't raise the pride index in America and even under Clinton there were many times that one might not have felt real proud of America and its government. (it was a difficult time when Monica and other girl friends stuff hit the news.)
I'm with Michelle on this one - this is a great time to feel proud about being an American.
Now with FOX and idiots like O'Reilly on the scene, pride in the MSM is a at an all-time low.
The Political Junkie @ 32:
HAHA!!
goatsage @ 33:
We'll see. Judging from the past 2 elections I'm not so confident anymore.
We know that 30% will be eating every spoonful of this crap and 45% will not stand for it in any way, shape or form. This leaves the 25% in the "middle" to either save or doom this country.
Sorry folks, it might be a coin toss..
On the Michelle Obama "gaff", she didn't choose her words carefully, but it seems her statement has been edited. I'm listening to the Thom Hartman show right now, and it appears that the word REALLY has been edited out of the audio of her statement. Check these links. 1st one with the audio edited out:
http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/02/19/michelle-obama-is-proud-of-her-country/
Here's the actual audio:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ffGpYcTu5GI&feature=related
It is also worthwhile to note that Patrick Buchanan said (multiple times) on MSNBC's election coverage that the Republicans were "going to beat Michelle Obama to death with this issue." If the Republicans want to get hysterical about hyperbole, perhaps they should look to their own first.
MSNBC also edited the tape of Michelle Obama's speech to remove the word "really" ("I'm really proud of my country") which was very interesting because on election night they had a discussion of how that word "really" changed the meaning. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23251926#23251926 Look to the end of the tape. The edit was well done, but compare to the original.
Also, Newsweek is running a very disrespectful column about "The Obama delusion." The media elites are shaking in their boots.
Since Obama grew up a black man with a white mother, I imagine he has dealt with worse than O'Reilly along the way. I'm not worried about Obama, he can hold his own and I'm guessing Michelle can as well. All the stuff that's going to be thrown at them will probably be just considered more ignorance from ignorant people. Michelle and Obama are so far above O'Reilly they can't even see his smarmy face.
How can I say this in a classy way...........Bill O' Reilly isn't fit to suck the shit from Keith Oberman's asshole.
Jymn @ 35:
Isn't that clever.
Next he will be "tap dancing" around the issues.
God I'm soooooooooooo sick of this shit.
Election 2000 Redux 08
SC Declares McCain the Winner
Lay your bets
No wonder this is the network Hillary Clinton wants the democratic party to reestablish ties with.
On Morning Joe, Mika and Joe talked about this either yesterday or the day before. Mika made a point of emphasizing that Michelle said, really proud. They played the video on the show and you could hear and see her say it.
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Bill-O proves everyday that being a bigot on air makes you money.
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So if he finds evidence, then he's going to call to have her murdered?
Will he murder Michelle himself?
I say let them bloviate.
Already McCain has Bush's endorsement (that's not a plus and could well turn out to be an albatross hanging on his neck).
So let McCain be the "pro-lynching" party's candidate.
That will get him lots of votes.
I see a campaign in which the GOP cuts its nose off to spite its face because in spite of the overwhelming evidence that people want a change in this country (even conservatives), they won't be able to meet the challenge. They are strait-jacketed by their ideology and bound to their Bushmafia/IronTriangle/MurdochSmearMachine masters.
They are not going to be able to wage a relevant campaign or even to put forth a candidate suitable for the times.
fwffavvg @ 46:
ooh... "classy".
Oh well, in principle You are correct.
I'll be proud of the country when the snake oil salemen/women and charlatans are in federal prison. Hold the Neo-cons and their slack-jawed, knuckle dragging supporters accountable. Prison or exile should be the only options.
I'm no fan, but he took the correct position.
Nothing to criticize here ... move along.
THE RIGHT WING OR WHOEVER ..... EDITED MICHELLE OBAMA'S SPEECH... THEY TOOK OUT THE WORD "REALLY" IN HER ADDRESS.... AS IN REALLY PROUD OF MY COUNTRY.... GO TO C-SPAN.ORG TO GET THE REAL VIDEO AND YOU WILL FIND THE TRUTH....
Stick a fork in her. Check out this poll... Hillary is toast.
Michelle Obama speech was edited by Drudge and Played on Fox...and reported by AP...
Ph0en1x @ 43:
Dang, you beat me to it. I heard it too and was shocked to hear the "hiccup" in the audio. It was really apparent she said something and that it was nipped.
Dave Anon @ 58:
The Dem Party is toast I'm beginning to think.
Obama and whole crew.
Michelle Obama's being "proud" or "really proud" of her country is only an issue to the xenophones, ubber nationalists, nativists, know-nothings and the media whores. In their eyes what ever the government does or whatever it's citizens do is just jim dandy because after all this is the nation of exceptionalism, God favors the U.S. of A.
Honestly, how does this guy still have a job?
Pasta @ 63:
Get used to it this is the New World Order
army193 @ 59:
If that's the case, somebody gots some 'splaining to do. And it ain't Ms. Obama.
This is a rant I wrote for the Internet Movie Database, about the critic's of Michael Moore's Sicko, but I feel compelled to share it here.
Most GOP/Republican's/Neo- con's don't care about anyone but themselves.....
Most members of the GOP/Republican's/Neo-con's are incapable of thinking for themselves. They are inhuman conservative scum who think that everything in the USA is just fine and dandy because they have no brain and the idea of someone like Moore questioning the problems in the USA is insulting to the low forehead morons like yourselves who think it’s wonderful that…
A: In the USA, you can buy a stockpile of guns and ammo and shoot up a school, as we have seen in Virgina and Illinois most recently, but you start screaming about the 2nd Amendment when the government starts talking about gun control. Understand this meatheads, the 2nd Amendment was put in place not so that you can overcompensate for you’re small genitals but so that you could rise up against your Government should they try to take away your rights or trample on you’re civil liberties. Well, I haven’t seen much uprising while Bushco. Has been tearing apart the Constitution and the Bill of Rights but then you’re probably to busy polishing your knob, er, I mean your gun collection.
B: Your President (actually he’s not really the President since the vote was rigged in Florida by Katherine Harris who counted the votes and is a friend of the Bush Family, of whom Jeb Bush is George’s brother and Governor of Florida as well as the members of the Supreme Court who were placed there by George HW Bush when he was President and handed his son the White House), has used 9/11 as a modern day Tonkin Incident to start a war with a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. The Bush administration has also used 9/11 as an excuse to torture people and illegally spy on United States citizens.
C: That you’re Government can spend hundred’s of billions of dollars on illegal wars with other countries to steal their resources, assassinate the democratically elected officials of those countries to install dictators who will serve the USA’s interests, while 50 million of you’re citizens are uninsured and the rest (well not counting the richest 1%) are screwed out ofthe money they put into a system in good faith.
It's really pointless arguing with most of you because 90% of Republican’s are sociopathic pathological liars (like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of Bushco.) who are incapable of caring about anyone but yourself and wouldn’t piss on someone if they were on fire. You will try to counterpoint me with lies and then pile more lies upon lies and if you can’t browbeat me by screaming at me (because Republican’s think they win argument’s by yelling the loudest or cutting of their mike) then you’ll call me a Liberal because your kind (like Limbaugh, O’ Reilly, Coulter, Hannity, Stossel, Malkin etc, etc…) don’t like LIBERAL thing’s like THE TRUTH.
Moore has been making documentaries for almost 20 years about the various injustices going on in the supposed Greatest Country on Earth(TM) and although he stacks the deck a bit, otherwise he’s 99% on the money. Do you think that picking at every single little detail invalidates anything he said about the USA’s gun culture, it’s corrupt President or the despicable state of Healthcare in the USA? It doesn’t and all you have done is show yourselves to be petty little worms while Michael Moore is a true patriot because he actually asks questions and cares about the state of the country and it’s citizen’s while you do NOTHING to improve the quality of life in the USA.
Gotugye @ 62:
I assume there's a point to this comment, but I haven't found it yet. The point of the word "really" in her statement is that it changes the entire context. Words matter, semantics matter, intent matters.
Who can be surprised that the American fascists have already started their dirty tricks with the editing of Madame Obama's comment. Of course the MSM, being the good whores that they are, will follow along obediently.
Gotugye @ 68:
These guys will do ANYTHING to win.
Thats why the Dems always lose.
VietVet @ 9:
Serious?
Without the unifying theme of bigotry, the GOP would evaporate like so much gas from an agitated colon.
Bury him. Seriously. He and his ilk capitalize on misspeak and stereotypes and basically..bullshit and do everything they can to poison the well. Send this around to all the blogs. Combine it with all the questionable shit he's said (yea, the Harlem thing) and hammer him.
He has had it coming for a long, long time.
Obama/Edwards '08 @ 70:
lack of evidence has never stopped the falafel king before...neither has common sense.
is it just me or is this lunatic actually trying to portray himself as more normal, lately? i wonder if he's ever heard the term, "too little too late."
I bet BillO and his fellow FoxNewser Mark Furhman have beers and talk about shit after hours.
pissed off patricia @ 28:
Her adult life began in the '80s. All the great black heroes were long gone then. Watch some Spike Lee movies like "Do the Right Thing" to try to find and imagine any sense of pride a black girl like that could have felt in the big metropolises in the '80s. Then there were the '90s and nothing to be really proud of. This present decade was, simply put, f****ed up for us all. She must have felt proud when she was younger and now, for obvious reasons, any Obama supporter has this feeling. Michelle is spot on with her remark. Look at the f*****g calendar Bill you lunatic f**k!
Obama/Edwards '08 @ 70:
Serious, see comments 43 and 60
I wonder who Shrillo thinks he's kidding. He's dying to go a lynchin'. The rawest most groundless slander will constitute proof for this buffoon.
The more this asshole speaks the more I think he had his brains fucked out by some of the priests
in that wonderful church of his ...
question: could this be construed as a real (as in, involving the secret service) threat to Michelle Obama's safety and security?
she, being black; lynching being a racist call for the hanging of african americans; and billo saying that he might go on a lynching party...
or, put it another way, what if--instead of using the word 'lynching'--billo said that he wants to murder Michelle Obama, would that construe a threat?
really, murder and lynch are pretty much the same. except that lynching has an overt racist message...
i am not a lawyer, i just play one on tv.....
(again, nothing will hapen to billo as a result of this [please, i am begging, prove me wrong])
Obama/Edwards '08 @ 73:
It's going to take more then hope to dig the Country out of the grave.
Oh cool! Cindy and Michelle are having a pride fight! (Cindy McCain told a Wisconsin rally on Tuesday: "I'm proud of my country, I don't know about you, if you heard those words earlier.")
Well, "I ain't proud.... but I ain't tired neither!"
Failing ecosystems, human-enhanced environmental catastrophes; failing infrastructure; food, water and fuel shortages; infectious disease; war, civil conflict and other dynamics.
We'll need to put our best happy faces no doubt about it.
Yes We Can!
Gotugye @ 68:
MSM=OLD
People are smarter than that!
We understand her without nonsense talking heads interpretations.
We HEARD what she said, we don't need THEM to TELL US she said something else!
WTF is with these morons, these so-called "patriots" who love this country and this "democracy" so much that they think it is ok to punish people for how they feel? Freaks.
I don't care what Michelle Obama said. I could give two rats asses if she said she felt ashamed of the country until recently.
It's what Bill O said that should be broadcast everywhere.
FIRE BILL O!
Ph0en1x @ 67:
It changes it slightly. It really wasn't that incendiary to begin with. The real point here is that someone made the change to make her look bad. This is no different than doctoring a news photo.
Fox Noose
Billo is a dickbag. But let's not take a step back and begin making a big deal any time the word lynching is used for black people. Obviously it was being used figuratively.
jim @ 76:
Oh, whew, I thought you had misunderstood my comment. Your rant was at BillO, not me. And I agree with you.