Hey, Falafel Boy, it’s not like anyone’s surprised you’d say something stupid. Hell, your foot has been in your mouth so often I’m surprised you haven’t contracted athlete’s tongue. But here’s a hint: you wanna know why no one was yelling motherfucker at the servers? BECAUSE YOU WEREN’T SERVING, you cum-slurping party bitch! I’m surprised you got out of Sylvia’s without a generous serving of soul food thrown all over your suit. Better men and women than I must have been at Sylvia’s that day, because I don’t think I’d have been able to resist bribing the waiters for a double-sized pot of raw chitterlings to pour all over your pointed little head. Then you’d REALLY have a story for the No Spin Zone.
I hope the cooks gave you the Waiting treatment for your entree. You truly are, once again, the favorite to unseat John Edward as Biggest Douche in the Universe.
He went into Sylvia’s, expecting the Hollywood stereotypical “black” behavior, ebonics and all?! Why am I not suprised. ETA: He is after all, to be quite blunt, a fucking moron. ETA 2: I can see how he was trying to come off as “openminded” with his comment too, in that he was saying blacks are regular people, and when they go out to eat they behave as “we” do. rolls eyes But he doesn’t get how that is still stereotyping.
But what Bill didn’t say was that the black people still kept the bones in their noses while they ate the fried chicken and watermelon, and that the tap dancing wasn’t as good as it could have been.
So he went kinda easy on them, actually. Give him a break.
Speaking as a white (well, beige) American, I was completely unaware that this was the image I have of black culture, and I would like to thank Mr. O’Reilly for correcting me on this point.
Don’t know Twista, but if Ludacris and Snoop Dogg are the only images of black culture that America has, then why should people expect black people to act wild in a restaurant? These guys are probably the most laid-back of the hip hop offering.
I mean, it’s not like they’re Britney Spears or Paris Hilton.
This isn’t the first time Bildo has spouted racist crap. Here’s a nice selection of of his greatest, White Power hits.
the guy is a mental midget who is not only a racist piece of shit but a sexist and homophobic one as well. I think he might literally be mentally ill but I guess people must like the freak show. Is there anyone left on this board who respects this cro-mag even a little bit?
Ha, “There wasn’t one person in the restaurant yelling, ‘Mother Fucka, I want more iced tea’!”
I guess I respect Bill a very little bit. I compare him to the crazy old man that lives on your block, the guy who makes sure little problems get taken care of, like badgering the city council until they fix a pothole or something. But on bigger issues, Bill and the old man are clueless, and fun to laugh at.
O’Reilly’s twice the journalist I’ll ever be. I ate at a black-owned and -patronized restaurant in Harlem months ago, had a great time - everybody was polite and the waffles were great - and I didn’t even realize it was news!
I would suggest that means O’Reilly doesn’t think much of black people, but as his representative clearly pointed out, there was no racism in his remarks.
Well, he got what he really wanted. We’re talking about it along with a million other people right now.
This is how the industry often works. He says something outrageous to get folks all a-twitter thus increasing his audience because people will tune in, irrespective of their opinions of him, to see what he’ll say next. If his behavior results in increased ratings, then it also results in more valuable and profitable commodity for its ownership.
If his behavior and opinions fall vaguely within the spectrum of the ownership’s ideology, then so much the better.
I suspect O’Reilly, behind the showbiz facade, doesn’t really give a damn one way or another about the opinions he espouses. He’s a scarcely charismatic yet forcefully outspoken person with an inflated ego and little actual power. Considering this man a serious, insightful pundit is like believing Tom Cruise can really fly a fighter jet and Hugh Laurie is capable of successfully diagnosing uncooperative patients with conflicting symptoms. It’s a role he plays to pay the bills, I think.
Or maybe he’s an ignorant jerkass with a microphone.
Ya see, Bill, its really just plain more practical to dump racist attitudes. its just easier to walk around without the extra baggage. You’re just as safe in a room full of blacks, being white, as a black is in a room full of whites. Unless they know who you are. In which case, it hardly matters, does it? Its all nonsense, anyway. That stuff about being good dancers, that is only believed by people who’ve never seen Colin Powell do the Funky Chicken. And that whole sexual, ah, endowment thing, that’s another myth. I mean, I don’t personally know that, but if you don’t believe me, you could ask your mom. Lot of black guys in the Seventh Fleet, right?
Bill seems to have gone to Harlem with the attitude that he was “slumming.” From what I have heard of the restaurant, the Rev. Sharpton had taken him to a first rate restaurant.
Although the specific slang term is not used, the practice of slumming was put down in these Lorenz Hart lyrics of 1936:
“…Won’t go to Harlem in ermine and pearls…that’s why the lady is a tramp.”
It was a boorish attitude then and it’s inconceivable now. I’m surprised Bill didn’t refer to the owners, workers and residents as darkies.
Huh. I went there the next day and when I pulled out my lighter the waiter went “What manner of God are you, who can summon fire without flint or tinder?”
Maybe we should stop knocking O’Reilly. He just needs to get out more and meet people.
Perhaps next week, we can introduce him to some Democrats. Then he can go on his show and tell everyone how pleasantly surprised he was. They turned out to be normal people with families and jobs and not once during the meal did they burn an American flag or spit on a cross or appoint an activist judge. Why, one of them even said grace before eating, just like a Republican would.