Pat Buchanan rebuffs hypocrite O'Reilly

www.wnd.com ^ | May 26, 2003 | Patrick J Buchanan

[Ima Lurker]

Can you imagine what he would do with a white Miss America contest, or better yet, a white caucus in congress?

[tame]

Can you imagine what he would do with a white Miss America contest, or better yet, a white caucus in congress?

Tha reminds me. I have not seen O'Reilly get O'riled up about the fact that there is a magazine titled BLACK WOMAN magazine. There is JET magazine. There is EBONY magazine, etc. But I yet to see White Woman mag, or Cloud mag, or Ivory mag...How 'bout it O'Reilly???

[sweetliberty]

Pat is absolutely right.

[David Isaac]

I will agree, O'Reilly was seriously off-base on this issue. But can we not throw the baby out with the bath water. O'Reilly does do some good work on causes embraced by conservatives.

Some used to think that O'Reilly, or one of his staff, cruised FR to come up with some of the topics for his show. If that is the case, he should know definitly know that he has stuck his foot it it, as far as this one issue is concerned.

He surely is not perfect, but when you look at all other programming in his time slot, maybe he is not really all that bad either.

[nonliberal]

This "prom" was not a school-sanctioned event. It was a private party on private property. O'Reilly argues that since it was discussed in school, then it is a school function.

So if two school kids say "Let's go get some lunch." would O'Reilly want a school offical to make sure there was minority representation at McDonald's?

[FreePaul]

I listened to about a half hour of O'Reilly's radio program. I didn't agree with his position or his attitude on several things. I don't have any need to listen to him again. I was very disappointed in his pseudo conservative pompus preaching.

[sweetliberty]

"he hasn't had a word to say about the minority student's activities. Why not? Did he not know?"

He knew. He was ignoring it. I, for one, wrote him about it as I know others did too. One of his guests pointed it out on one of the shows where he was harping on it and he glossed over it. It didn't fit into his talking points I guess. I found it interesting that he was practically foaming at the mouth over this issue though. Made me wonder what personal nerve it had touched on and just WHY it made him so angry.

[sweetliberty]

"Listening to 6 hours of 'rap crap' is hell, if you don't like it."

Listening to 6 minutes of that garbage is hell if you don't like it, and in my experience, most people don't with the exception of many blacks and a few white kids who are wannabe blacks.

[DoctorMichael]

Bump for Pat. He nailed this one.

[leprechaun9]

How does "Spin" O'Reilly feel about BET (BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION), or the BLACK POLITICAL CAUCUS, elected members of the Congress of the United States?

[sweetliberty]

"Can you imagine what he would do with a white Miss America contest, or better yet, a white caucus in congress?"

I've made that point many times, but the PC crowd's eyes just glaze over. And it's funny how the black KKK NAACP presumes the authority to hold the KKK up as the epitome of racism. I can see little difference except that the black KKK NAACP is more pervasive and is actually taken seriously by most blacks while the KKK is seen as a radical fringe element, even by most whites.

[tame]

You're right on!!! God Bless You!

[GotDangGenius]

O'Reilly is probably one of the most thorough journalists/analysts there is on T.V. with the exception of Michael Savage.

O'reilly has the best ratings on Cable because he puts into words what more people than not have been wanting to say or knew was the case about a particular issue. In this case, he missed the mark- nothing new. If you think he's suddenly lost his ability to intelligently decipher an issue, you'd be sorely wrong.

On occassiona, O'Reilly blathers like anyone else.

If you don't think he stops the spin- as the show theme goes- all you have to do is make a list of all the dingbat liberals who won't put their baloney on the line on the most watched show in cable- the O'Reilly Factor... people like Hillary Clinton, Bubba Clinton, etc... O'Reilly doesn;t let people get away with nonesense. It's just that simple, and more times than not, liberals run from actually discussing the merits of their whacked out dreams for America.

'nuff said...

[Timmy]

I agree with Buchanan that it is not the government's business. However, I must admit I don't like any of the segregated practices he mentioned, whether the high school prom or the college stuff.

[Leisler]

"...Government from the Kennedy School in Cambridge."

I don't think you have to attend, just collect boxtops or something.

[Jhoffa_]

I remembered hearing about the minority students arranging their own separate graduation ceremonies. At the time I thought it their right..

Exactly.. And, what's the alternative? Forced "integration" in your garage-slash-rec room? This is insane. Even if it is racist, what's so often overlooked is that people have a RIGHT to be racists if they choose.

O'Reilly seemed miffed that there was no law or authority to stop this outrage

I'll bet he was.. Because when you get down to brass tacks, that's the kind of shallow, micro-controlling, populist thinker O'Reilly really is.

[Jhoffa_]

PS: I know how people harp on Mr. Buchannan here and in other Conservative circles and I often agree with them. Gary Bauer get's the same treatment.. and I often agree with that.

But I continue to pay attention to these two men and read what they write because on those occasions when they are on target, no one says it better.

[Jhoffa_]

I was very disappointed in his pseudo conservative pompus preaching.

O'Reilly is and has been a populist.

It's obvious, the man is horribly strained and conflicted politically. No conservative.

[Jhoffa_]

Tagline bump..

[tuna_battle_slight_return]

I still like O'Reilly very much -- probably because I own his desk calendar, which has different "wisdom" points for each day of the week. He makes a lot of sense. Furthermore, tearing off a new piece from the calendar each morning reminds me that a new installment of his program is only 14 hours away.