People yearn to be offended by Bill O’Reilly, who is in reality the most even-keeled, politically correct commentator out there. Indeed, I’m not an O’Reilly fan precisely because he is obscenely open-minded. I can’t explain the vitriol against him, except that it’s maybe an instance of inertia: O’Reilly made one or two brash remarks years ago, and the gravy train keeps chugging along the rusted tracks of irrational Bill-bashing.
If blacks, liberals, and wrought-with-guilt whites would actually listen to O’Reilly’s much-maligned praise of a Harlem restaurant, they would nominate him for president of the NAACP! Supposedly egregious was his claim that diversity “is what this society is all about now here in the USA. There’s no difference. There’s no difference.”
That sounds like the exact message of the black-is-beautiful lobby. Nobody can legitimately hear racism in O’Reilly’s “we’re all the same” comment.
Most striking is that there are so many more commentators who would really offend - people are just too occupied pretending to be offended by O’Reilly. Bill’s offensiveness is child’s play compared to John Gibson, Michael Savage, Neil Boortz, and John Stossil. And, of course, me.
From Mandewilkes.com
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