So Bill O'Reilly is a Condescending Racist Asshole. What Else is New?

Oh Bill O'Reilly. It's amazing the things that come out of your mouth. Almost as amazing as Pat Robertson, but that's for another post entirely. It's so funny when people think they are being complimentary when they are, in fact, being horribly racist, homophobic, xenophobic, or sexist. I like to call it the Michael Scott syndrome. Bill O'Reilly suffers horribly from this ailment. As he said in a recent radio show, when he went to have dinner with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's, a restaurant so famous it has its own entry on Wikipedia, he was shocked and simply couldn't get over many things.

"And I 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."

I am not even shitting you. Also, he had a great deal of insight into the African-American community in general, a community he obviously knows in depth and first hand.

"I think black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves. They're getting away from the Sharptons and the Jacksons and the people trying to lead them into a race-based culture. They're just trying to figure it out: "Look, I can make it. If I work hard and get educated, I can make it."

So I just have to say that it's good that we have someone like O'Reilly around to solve all our race problems. Really, it's very important that we create black and white situations that have black and white solutions. There should be no grey area here, nothing O'Reilly can't figure out and work with. It's obvious that "gansta" culture is the ruination of "blacks", even if all O'Reilly really knows about "gangsta" culture is the stereotypes on BET. His cast of characters in the Black community read like the cast list of a bad after school special.

Also, this is really more fodder for the idea that Stephen Colbert's caricature is pretty much spot on.

*Sigh* now back to my essay, How Amy Lowell Totally Breaks the 2nd Commandment (In Verse). That GD lesbo.

listening to: The Smiths--Girlfriend in a Coma