O'Reilly Wants Proof That FoxNews Is Racist: Read Your Own Columns, Bill

Yesterday on his Radio Factor, Bill O'Reilly tried as hard as he could to
come up with something that proved the case those dang smear sites were
making. That the Fox News channel is racist. He even brought on the
ever brilliant, albeit Fox News consultant, Prof. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, a
real live African-American, to try to help him. Full Story »

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by Chris Finnie - Jul. 25, 2008

While I would except without question that Faux Noise and Bill O'Reilly are racist, I certainly couldn't prove it by this mess. I've only been able to stand to watch the channel a few times (and several of those because somebody else had it on), I was horrified and disgusted by what I heard. I believe Young could have found ample proof. For some reason, he didn't. Even more incredible, he's presented as an "award-winning TV writer." I know TV standards are pretty low, but I thought a ... More »

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by Roland F. Hirsch - Jul. 25, 2008

This opinion piece has minimal journalistic value. I could not find a coherent argument in it. The author does not seem to know any American history or he would recognize that the statement "one of the most incendiary columns ever written" is nonsense; it doesn't even make the top 100,000. Few writers in the 1800s were as mild-tempered in what they wrote as O'Reilly is in these excerpts. Try 1800 or 1864 for industrial-strength incendiary writing, Mr Young!

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