O'Reilly: "What if Bush had used Coretta's funeral for political points?"

[Faygo Kid]

That's the Memo. Yep, he actually said that. And, HIS political points were that Dems were in office when MLK was wiretapped. Excuse me, but weren't these "political points" by Joseph Lowery and Jimmy Carter standing up for the poor? The disenfranchised? The Constitution (wiretapping). Then, off to his first segment; Bush protecting us. Grotesque. I believe he is trying to out-ego Limbaugh. This could get interesting.

[hang a left]

1. I just don't think that would have been a good idea

in a church full of black people.

[LynnTheDem]

2. ANGRY black people.

Very very ANGRY NON-REPUBLICAN black people.

[Faygo Kid]

15. I am not at all comfortable with this response about "angry black people"

No criticism, just a reminder. We all have prejudices. Me too. I fear they are showing up here - believe me, I cast no aspersions. If you don't see it, let me know. Think they are tougher than us Swedes? Just a thought.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. It's probably a contrast to the "angry white men" that generally

refers to the right.

Personally, I'm glad that the right isn't monopolizing anger.

[northofdenali]

18. That was my first thought, as well.

However, re: politicizing the funeral, isn't that exactly what the neocons are doing with all this anguish about "impropriety"?

Bush politicized the funeral just by showing up, the bastard.

[NanceGreggs]

3. Just wonderin' ...

"What if Bush had used Coretta's funeral for political points?"

Now, THAT I would have taped, so I could enjoy it again and again!
What 'political points' could the BushBaby have scored, pray tell?

"I personally played the guitar while the good black folk of NOLA were drowning ..."

"I am personally responsible for putting more Americans, many of them black, into poverty during my tenure in office ..."

"Polls show that I have a 12% favourability rating among black Americans, and I couldn't be prouder of that ..."

Where were the 'political points' to be scored here, Mr. O'Reilly?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. Truth be told bill...

He DID. He wasn't going to attend, yet did under pressure. Only because he was told it would help his showing up would make him look better to a group who has bo faith in him whatsoever.

Hello backfire.

:rofl:

[sandnsea]

5. Bill & Hil sang the WMD song too

So why do they presume the Rev's comments were only directed at Bush, hmmm??? And since we've already established that Dems have, indeed, wiretapped in the past; how do they know Carter wasn't challengine the Democrats in Congress to do the right thing this time, hmmm???

Guilty conscience, O'Liely?

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Let's see here

a white man telling a black family how to do their funeral with a woman who WAS POLITICAL. What's wrong with this picture? :eyes:

[leftchick]

7. He didn't need to. He had rayguns' week long lovefest funeral

and it was pre-2004 election!

[pstans]

8. That is horrible

O'Lielly needs to go back on Letterman and get slapped around some more.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Bush BEING there was political.

But if, before that black, Democratic audience, he'd said anything overtly political (at least, supporting HIS politics), his remarks would have gone over like the proverbial turd in the punchbowl. As stupid as he is, he or his handlers at least figured out that much. And that, Mr. Bill, is why he didn't.

DildO'Reilly sucks ass.

[NoSheep]

13. ditt-o

[FloridaPat]

10. And Reagan's last DC appearance was what - a quiet night

with the repubs? That was so political I almost got sick on it

[UTUSN]

11. O'LOOFAH doesn't want HIS funeral marked by politics

He don't need to worry about that, since he is NOT known for politics, but rather for wingnut propaganda. I submit this as his obit picture:

Here's chickenhawk O'LOOFAH receiving the VFW Errect Loofah Award

[NoSheep]

12. But he DID! Just being there was a political maneuver. He didn't and

doesn't give a rats ass for her life and mission. His appearance there was the ultimate in hypocrisy and could only be construed as political bullshit.

[kenny blankenship]

14. Frankly someone like Bush being in attendance IS ALREADY using and abusing

the occasion for a political purpose. His wing of the Republican Party can legitimately claim to have paid for the bullet that struck her husband down. His simple presence is an affront to everything MLK Jr. and Coretta Scott King stood for--it's planting the flag and arrogantly claiming the King's history as common political heritage which he as President now has stewardship over.

But the plain truth is these people--the Bushes and the Kings--had no more in common than Nazis and Jews. If it had been up to people like George W. Bush and the new Southern Republicans he represents, civil rights legislation would never have been passed in the 1960s, and Brown v. Board of Education would have been reversed and Earl Warren impeached. And if a hundred years before that, the choice had been up to people like Bush and his "movement conservatives" slavery would never have been abolished but spread to every corner of the Union.
And no, I don't think I'm exaggerating at all.

[Erika]

16. O'Lielly lied yet again

He said that W could have pointed out that the wire tapping was carried out by a democratic administration on MLK as a U.S. citizen. He then stated W's wiretapping is done for national security purposes for those in contact with foreign enemies.

Hoover, who placed MLK under wire tapping, ran the FBI as an Ollie North type operation for years. He suspected
MLK to be in cahoots with the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government.

O'Lielly knew he was putting out false information (lies) again once more. His talking points is about all I can stand him for until I switch the channel.

Rushbo is ten times worse and it's literally frightening to think so many depend on them for "facts."