Burnt Orange Report

March 30, 2004

Bill O'Reilly is a Racist

By Andrew Dobbs

I don't like to throw the word "racist" around a whole lot- I think that people on the left over use it. I doubt that very many Republicans are actual racists, in fact, I would say that in all of the US Congress, maybe 5 or 6 of them could be considered straight up racists and we have a couple of our own I'm sure. I think that there is danger in using that word frivolously, but even worse is to ignore real ignorance and hate when you see it. It seems as though Mr. Bill O'Reilly might be an honest-to-god racist.

From Atrios:

O'REILLY: Thanks for staying with us. I'm Bill O'Reilly.

In THE FACTOR "Follow-Up" Segment tonight, we've been following the various demographic shifts throughout America, and now the Census Bureau estimates, by the year 2050, white Americans will make up less than 50 percent of the population. How will that change the USA?

Joining us now from Washington is Dr. William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution. Here in the studio, John McManus, the editor in chief of "American Demographics" magazine.

So I guess this is being driven by Hispanics, right, with all the illegal immigration, millions of people coming in here and the higher birth rate among Hispanics in America. That's what's driving this?

JOHN MCMANUS, "AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS": The Hispanic population is the greatest increase that we'll see over the time period that we're talking about. Illegal immigration is a portion of the story, but it's the increase in -- rapid increase in immigration and birth rate in people of Hispanic origin that we'll see.

O'REILLY: All right. Because black birth rate is fairly stable, right?

MCMANUS: Proportionately, black birth rate and increases in their population will level out and be less significant in growth in that time period. I think Bill will be able to address the numbers better than I can, but...

O'REILLY: OK. And how about Asian? What's the situation with that?

MCMANUS: Asian -- we're going to see a 213 percent increase, according to the Census Bureau projection, and so that will be a very rapid increase of the percentage of their population in the U.S. as well.

O'REILLY: All right. Now, Doctor, the Census Bureau really doesn't tell us how this is going to affect the country. Do you have any theories on it?

WILLIAM FREY, PH.D., BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: Well, I really think what's happening is going to be this phasing out or fading out of the white baby boom population. It is a 50-year time period we're talking about...

O'REILLY: Yes. We'll all be dead. Thank God, right?

Now, I don't have the rest of the transcript, so O'Reilly might just be waxing at how he hopes he dies sometime soon (and I'm sure there are some out there who would join him in that sentiment), but it seems pretty clear that O'Reilly is spouting off some pretty harsh anti-immigrant, anti-minority sentiment. I don't know if O'Reilly really is a white supremecist or if he's just an idiot, but fact of the matter is, this stuff is out there and we need to see some outrage at this sort of ignorance.

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Comments

No, you can delete the caveats about not having the rest of the transcript. I saw it; it was racist, clear as day.

Posted by: Phil at March 30, 2004 12:17 AM

Darn us Hispanics-Chicanos-Latinos, etc for having so many babies and crossing over the river. I appologize to Mr. O'Reilly for ruining the traditionalist white state of America. I'll send him some flowers in 50 years at his grave, or I'll just piss on it. One of the two, can't decide.

Posted by: mike at March 30, 2004 02:47 AM

I don't know if O'Reilly really is a white supremecist or if he's just an idiot

Well, if he's a white supremecist, that automatically makes him an idiot.
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Al Franken will obviously have to expand the chapter "Bill O'Reilly: Lying Splotchy Bully" for the paperback edition of his book, Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.

O'Reilly, like Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh, is little more than an attack dog barking the party line at the behest of big right wing media.
Their bosses must bear ultimate responsibility for what comes out of their mouths.

Posted by: Tim Z at March 30, 2004 05:13 AM

Bill O'Reilly is from Long Island.

There are two sorts of New York Republicans.

The Upstaters, who are generally old line Republicans, in the mold of Tom Dewey (fiscally conservative, tough on crime, socially moderate), and the Long Island (pronounced Lawn Guyland) Republicans, who are RW scary Republithugs.

D'Amato is a LI 'Phant.

He is as Steve Gilliard (http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com) so succinctly put it a ""Long Island Klansman:.

It's one of the finer points of New York political geography, the context may be missed by folks who haven't spent a lot of time in the North East.

An interesting aside, the LI Republicans have become so whacko and corrupt (their roads are falling apart as a result) that Democrats are starting to win local elections.

Newsday, which is the Long Island paper, and remarkably liberal considering its reader base, gives a lot of insight.

Posted by: Matthew Saroff at March 30, 2004 09:28 AM

Tom Daschle is a racist, according to Tim Giogo, the Oglala Lakota tribesman running against him. He hasn't done anything for indigenous people living in South Dakota. Two of the poorist counties in all of America are in his state, one was the county that put Tim Johnson over the top against Thune.

Posted by: peter at March 31, 2004 02:00 PM

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March 30, 2004

Bill O'Reilly is a Racist

By Andrew Dobbs