No Spin Zone...

I've been wanting to blog this for several days, since I first heard about it, but I haven' had the chance. And now it's big new. So, in case you haven't heard, Bill O'Reilly is a racist back-tracking bastard. Recently Bill recounted a trip he made with Al Sharpton to Harlem restaurant Sylvia's. Commenting on his dining experience in the predominately black restaurant; "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City,... There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who [was] screaming,'M-Fer was, I want more iced tea," . He goes on to say "[It] was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all." Really? You mean, black people eat at restaurants the same way rich white Republican men do? I had no idea!
O'Reilly has taken a lot of heat for this lately, and some have compared his comments to that of fellow right-wing cohort Don Imus. Bill's dining partner that afternoon even said his comments were "disturbing and surprising".

In his own defense, O'Reilly has said that if one listened to the entire conversation, he was making a social commentary on the outrageousness of racism. People have made the comment that his point was taken out of context, and perhaps he was a bit inarticulate. Bill O'Reilly is a lot of things, but inarticulate is not one of them. He's well spoken (although most things spoken are bullshit), and knows how to talk on television. I think he knew exactly what he was saying, and how he was saying it, because really, who is his fan base? His comment can be skewed to sound sarcastically anti-racist, but at the end of the day, he just comes off sounding like a bigot.