Don't miss this. Not to downplay the inappropriateness of Don Imus's on-air gaffe, but Bill O'Reilly has, inevitably, topped it by quite a margin. Here's what he had to say about a sitting U.S. Senator's African-American wife (and most likely future First Lady):
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.
Rachel S. over at Alas, a blog, has an excellent commentary:
Ever since Clarence Thomas and his defenders claimed he was the victim of a “high tech lynching,” the term lynching has been misappropriated by politicians and other public figures. Thomas’s misappropriation of the term was a tremendous insult to the real victims of lynchings, who were tortured, beaten, castrated, burned, hung, and terrorized by huge mobs of whites. These mobs included white men, women, and children. Lynching was murder and torture as a public spectacle.
So let's get this straight, Bill... You "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." Would those be hard facts like the bald-faced lies put forth by the Swift Boat Hit Squad about John Kerry's heroism in Vietnam? So... once you have the facts, Bill... you're going to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama?
When are loudmouth losers like Bill O'Really?, Ann Coltish and Flush Limburger going to learn? I guess they don't need to so long as their rabid mob of neocon nut jobs keeps tuning in for commentary like this and buying their books.
Link: Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Bill O’Reilly’s “Lynching Party” Comment.
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