Is Bill Cosby a racist too? And Juan Williams? How about Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson?

Just because you call up a radio program, doesn’t mean you’re actually a listener too.

As the clip shows, though, at least one caller DID complain. But who are we to believe? Billy or our lying ears?

Maybe because I live in a large metropolitan area and have also traveled extensively, but I find it hard to believe that in this day and age, most white people do not interact with blacks on some level and rely solely on what they see on TV. This even applies in States such as Montana, Wyoming and Alaska that have relatively small Black populations.

Otherwise I’m solidly behind O’Reilly in this so-called “controversy.”

N o amount of selective editing can make that sound like anything except a sentiment straight out of the 30s. What possible context for “I couldn’t get over the fact” could make that OK? He says that he–himself, not some phantasmatic Other whom he pretends to have been ventriloquizing–could not get over the fact. There’s no need to parse this as if we were Talmudic scholars.

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Pay special attention to what Limbaugh said immediately after that call. Was he talking about “US Military personnel in favor of troop reductions”? Or what he talking about actual, proven phoney soldiers?

Whichever way you take it, one thing is clear: Media Matters DELIBERATELY omitted that from their transcript. As Mr Bill might say: dishonest, off the charts.

Is there some “no, I’m the most ignorant” contest going on?

Because Juan Williams gets paid by Rupert Murdoch to cover for O’Reilly and the rest of the racists at FOX “news”.

O’Reilly lies non stop. Nothing surprising about him lying about this.

Cathy, that’s so true. If Juan Williams, party to the conversation, wasn’t offended, end of story. He was there and knew the context!!!

And moonbeam, I, too, used to like Dan Abrams, but I think I’m through with him as well after this incident.

So CNN, again, takes words out of context and uses one caller….who wasn’t complaining that what O’Reilly was saying was racist… he was upset that O’Reilly criticized gangsta rappers.

Two entirely different subjects.

CNN is sad.

It’s one thing to smear someone having not understood their intent. It’s another thing to smear them when almost every line not quoted clearly expresses just the _opposite_ intent.

I may have a good, or a bad hunch, but I keep seeing in my mind a CNN management meeting discussing how Olberman has permanently relegated them to third place, and deciding to snare back their lost viewers by replicating Olberman’s strategy of personal attacks against real or perceived conservatives, and competitors, with Bill O’Reilly fitting both bills. Pardon the pun. What’s better than killing two birds with one stone–You take Olberman’s excuse-for-being away, and attempt to dethrone, and defame, your chief rival while you’re at it. I went to bed thinking the era of personal destruction was over, and I wake up to see the unattractive reality of CNN.

I also pray George Soros’ fingerprints are not on this, considering O’Reilly’s been exposing the billionaire puppeteer. I understand Soros pays Media Matters’ bills, as well as MoveOn.org’s. Besmirching General Petraeus was unfortunate enough, we don’t need more personal attacks in this great country America. We don’t have to like O’Reilly to like civility. There’s an alternative to hating each other for our differences: We can love each other for it.

Gramps, I do agree with you on point “a”. He should just drop it already; his viewers will typically believe him, and his detractors won’t. It’s not likely he’ll win anyone else over at this point.