I was feeling facetious.
I don't think O'Reilly sees black people in terms of negative stereotypes. I think that, for the purposes of his discussion, he was addressing the fact that many white Americans do harbor these stereotypes because of the pop culture representation we all see.
Again, he started out that way. It was when he went off course and said "I couldn't believe that no one was yelling "more iced tea, mf'er" that he started to personalize the stereotypes. Personally, I think he should have just said, yeah... I know it sounded bad. But I meant it well..." and it would have passed. Instead, it's another poor woe is me, everybody's out to get me" thing from Bill O'.
I've got another hour. I pulling for the grave digger.
We're kind of liking the flight attendant. The grave digger's cool, too. I'm just glad they voted off the girl wrestler. So far, they've actually gotten rid of the right people.
Keep in mind, I don't believe either one of them are racists. My only point is that what O'Reilly said is no worse than Olbermann's comment in his voice over and that if what O'Reilly said makes him a racist or racially insensitive, well, the same can be said of Olbie. As for the source, NewsBusters. The conservative equivalent of Media Matters. I am loathe to source any blog, especially those that are blatantly partisan.
I'll have to disagree about Newsbusters v Media Matters. Media Matters actually does its homework.
I haven't like Olbermann since his days as a local sportscaster in Los Angeles. I used to listen to O'Reilly, but his schtick grew old. Much like Hannity he plays the same tune over and over. Unlike Hannity, however, he seemed willing to take members of both parties to task when necessary. Of course that was a while back. I don't mind Scarborough, but I do have some questions about the dead girl, Lori Klausutis, who was found in his Florida office back in '01. I can't stand Hannity or Colmes but I can tolerate Glenn Beck in small doses.
Just to give you an idea where I'm comming from, LOL.
lol.. Touche! You know, until you wrote it, I had forgotten that it was Scarborough who had the assistant who died in his office. He resigned not long after that. The press was making such a huge thing about the Gary Condit matter (him being a dem and all) at the time, that Scarborough kind of got swept under the rug.