The truth that hurts: Bill O'Reilly really hates being called a nativist
On Friday's O'Reilly Factor, BillO dragged on Edward Schumacher-Matos, who'd had the audacity to recently pen the following words in an op-ed piece:
The fury of Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and other nativists in response to the news that the prime suspect wanted for the murder of Chandra Levy is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador could easily be dismissed as racism.
O'Reilly indeed tried to blame the Levy murder on illegal immigration (perhaps as a way to deflect attention from the fact that BillO's longtime favorite suspect, Gary Condit, was now clearly innocent).
Having the nativist quality of this kind of "reportage" quite accurately pointed out nonetheless infuriated O'Reilly, who began arguing with Schumacher-Matos that all he's ever argued for is a system in which illegal immigrants busted for crimes in the USA be deported.
But as Schumacher-Matos pointed out in his Miami Herald column this week, O'Reilly's agitation has gone well beyond such limited measures. Indeed, it's a major component of how he slags the "liberal media":
In the Levy case, television-editorialist Bill O'Reilly and other immigration restrictionists were harshly critical of the AP story, accusing it and The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and network news shows of ''blatant press dishonesty'' for omitting that status from their stories. He accused them of pursuing an agenda to give amnesty to the country's 12 million illegal immigrants, who, he added, are responsible for ``millions of serious crimes over the past 10 years.''
Indeed, O'Reilly has gone after the New York Times in particular on these grounds.
Of course, if O'Reilly really only wanted to reform deportation procedures for undocumented immigrants busted for committing crimes, no one would be calling him a racist. But we all know the reason he keeps bringing up illegal immigrants and crime: It's an easy way of demonizing the people O'Reilly has at other times declared are going to swamp "white culture."
Media Matters has the goods on this:
For his part, Bill O'Reilly will often take a story of a specific crime and treat it as though it were a matter of national urgency. For example, he devoted segments on 13 separate programs to discussion of a case in Virginia Beach in which a drunken driver, who happened to be an undocumented immigrant, killed two young women in a traffic accident. As tragic as these deaths were, drunken drivers kill dozens of people every day; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 16,885 fatalities in alcohol-related auto crashes in 2005.
O'Reilly was hardly on a crusade against drunken driving; his interest was in the fact that in this case, the driver was an undocumented immigrant. O'Reilly brushes aside arguments that such cases are unrepresentative -- and even makes attempts to link immigration to terrorism. "If the local authorities, and they should be part of homeland security, were to be more vigilant on criminal illegal aliens, notice the word criminal, and track them harder, the Fort Dix thing [a thwarted plot to kill U.S. soldiers] would have been caught sooner," he said in June. "The deaths of the Virginia Beach thing which we talked about. And all of these guys at 9-11 were stopped by local police." When O'Reilly is unavailable, his compatriots will pick up the slack. "The never-ending criminal alien revolving door," said guest host and conservative columnist Michelle Malkin last August. "Another heinous crime, another illegal alien suspect with a mile-long rap sheet, another bloody tragedy wrought by open borders." O'Reilly also uses the immigration issue to bash "the left": "The most extreme elements in this country want open borders, blanket amnesty, and entitlement for foreign nationals who have come here illegally, and generally want to change the demographics in the USA so political power can be assumed by the left," he said last October. "That is the end game."
I'm sure he didn't read a word after that opening sentence, but O'Reilly could stand to learn a little by reading the rest of Schumacher-Matos' column:
But complicating matters is that most Americans probably agree with them.
The immigration restrictionists point to Salvadoran Ingmar Guandique, who is in prison for knife attacks against two other women, as an example of illegal immigrant crime run amok. "About a half million serious crimes have been committed by illegal aliens over the past 10 years," declared O'Reilly.
Some polls show that as many as three-fourths of Americans believe that immigrants cause crime to rise. Crime by illegal immigrants in particular has stirred such unease that even liberal communities such as San Francisco and the Washington suburb of Montgomery County, Md., known for providing sanctuary to the undocumented, are now moving to turn in some felony suspects to immigration authorities.
The lurid nature of immigrant-related cases, many reported spectacularly in the media, feed public insecurity. In Montgomery County, for example, illegal Latin American immigrants were charged last year for the murders of a 14-year-old honor student on a bus and a 63-year-old woman in her home.
But in all the furor, there is this hitch: The perception of high crime rates by illegal immigrants is pure myth. And it is misdirecting public policy about what we really should do to stop illegal immigration.
No wonder the print copy of the New York Times has no need for a comic section.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
B.O. NOT A RACIST...Now THAT would be news.
If he hates being called a nativist we should respect his feelings and call him a xenophobic jerk instead.
I'm good with that.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Fuck white culture....
Consumption at any cost, pollution without end, PTA meetings,
illegal pot, years of genocide all over the world, pro sports, cell
phones, boob jobs, anorexia, the KKK, NASCAR, sitcoms.
Fuck white culture....
Bring on a world culture of inclusion, sustainability, peace and justice!
Nativist and Harrasturbator, Bill OReilly.
Believe me, billo we could come up with much more insulting names for you. And you've earned every one of them. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time babe. In other words, you invite this shit to rain down upon you.
me-oww!
illegal immigrant..."
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Uh, what happened to "innocent until proven guilty"? Oh, that's right, that only applies to rich, white Rethugs...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
What Bildo was more upset about was that he was compared on par with Lou Dobbs.........
..........of course you would never hear it from him.
'Talk to the hand'
when I hear "racist xenophobe." Bilge-o, not so much, but then, he has so many other hats to wear...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
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Of course it's not RACISM when Bill-doh does it!
(/snark)
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Starve the WAR Beast...
... Save the World.
I'll call Billo a nativist if I want to and he'll just hafta learn to fucking like it!
Billo is a racist and xenophobe of the highest order and I laugh my arse off anytime he gets his panties in a wad over being called out for what he is.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Yeah, he's at LEAST a nativist, a racist, and a sexist who can't tell a loofa from a falafel. IOW, he's a pig. "Nativist" is mild compared to what some call the jackass.
Indeed, but the old fool probably has no idea what people are calling him behind his back, or when the public discusses him!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
It's little wonder he's being compared to racist Lou Dobbs - two old crotchety white men whining and crying the blues all the time. I'm shocked that Lou Dobbs is still on the air after being outed as a Republican instead of an "Indendepent" as he so calls himself. He's a total liar.
As for BillO, the aging process has not been kind to him. He's looking old, out of sync, out of ideas, a wrinkled old whiner. He's become incredibly irrelevant over the past year.
BillO has become a human punch line.
I thought blues was black men's music.
I think you owe all of America's black men an apology.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You guessed it. BillO lost his loofah and can't seem to find it. Oops...thar 'tis....the doofus sat on it.
understand that I agree with you.
See my comment in previous thread.
I meant no disagreement or offense.
How can someone who descended from Europe be a nativist? Wouldn't you first have to be native american? I guess being after nearly exterminating the native people you can claim nativist status...
No need for a new term, he is xenophobic.
Suzie
I wondered about that, too, but it's just news-speak for a xenophobe. O'Reilly might not know what he was being accused of if they used the word, xenophobe.
"Don't use my name in your column." Hahahahahahahhahahah ahahhahahahahhahhahah Wiping tears of laughter from my eyes hahhahahahhah hahahahahhahahhaha
Fuck you Bill O'Reilly!!
Alabama.
How's that Billo? Got an answer for that?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Until Glenn Beck got his own show, who was the biggest asshole (xenophobic, or otherwise) on TV? Dobb's, O'Lielly, Hannity, Douchey?
I hope every one of these rotten maggot's die the worst death possible for them: As long forgotten punchlines to bad jokes about the past.
"Hey remember that fat blowhard on FOX News? He died."
"On what?"
"FOX! FOX News!"
"Jesus, who remembers that? I don't know anyone who ever watched that shit except my Granparent's friends. What was the fucker's name and how did he die?"
"O'Really, O'Saycanyousee, O'Saysame, O'Whatagooseiam, I don't know. O something. He wanted one more chance to get on a video. So, this like, 90 year-old guy tries to give a blow-job to a stallion. The cum-shot killed the old horse-fucker, but it's on all the the 'Thought-site's.' Think about it, and it'll come to you."
Joe Scarborough and Erin Burnett tried to raise the Reagan era image of the "welfare queen" who has babies to make more money and drives to the welfare office in her Cadillac. That image was pure BS back then designed to give Americans someone to blame when your paycheck doesn't stretch as far as you think it should. Of course that image also had a racist connotation. When Billo and Dobbs make up statistics to bolster their preconceived notions about foreign, mostly brown people, how are we supposed to see them as anything but racists? Bill is becomeing more and more nothing but a shock jock.
Do people still watch or listen to this guy, O'Reilly?
I would not waste any valuable time listening to this moron nor take anything he says seriously whatsoever.
This guy O'Reilly is pathological.
Enough from me on this tool.
Life is too short.
and there was this pinhead telling people not to vote for Condit because he was not forthcoming with Levy murder info, as if he could have been, and Bill had an inside line on the guy's brain...
Hey Bill, how come you never perform ambushes on people, but send your lackeys instead?
How come you never talk about your sexual harassment of Andrea Makris, in an interview format?
Have you apologised to Condit (who BTW, was/is a back stabbing anti gay asshole) for your egregious smears, your attempts to railroad him into prison for a crime of which he apparently had no knowledge? I mean now that you've decided that this brown fellow did it. You haven't? I thought not. To use your phrase, you are a true coward.
me-oww!
Condit deserves no apology. Clearly you didn't "google" how long Condit refused to admit he was involved with Chanda (3 months); Which means Condit made HIMSELF look like the culprit, AND distracted from legitimate threads of the investigation.
and if you knew me, you'd know I didn't need to 'google' that. My best friend lives in his district and I know just what a lying asshole he is. I even said so above.
But BillO does owe him an apology. And he owes the Levy family and the DC police an apology too. His bullshit did nothing whatsoever to make Condit more conducive to talk to the police. And the police may have been quite ham fisted in handling Condit. A lot of times they don't want THE guy, they want A guy. Any guy. ANd what a feather in the caps of the DC constabulary if they'd snapped up a congressman -- it would've been much bigger than Wilbur Mills and that stripper.
He was their suspect and they'dve used his own words against him, if they'd had any. and Condit is related to a police type in Stanislaw County or the Modesto area IIRC, and I'll bet he KNEW talking to the cops was the worst thing he could do for him. If they had tricked him and there was a trial, assholes like pinhead Oreilly had sufficiently chummed the waters. What if it all went along that way and Condit was convicted? They never would have looked for THE guy.
I wouldn't have talked either. I was raised by attorneys, and the first thing you do when you are in the sights of the cops for any crime is you STFU. Full stop.
me-oww!
To me it is amazing that people still listen to O'Reilly or Rush and believe the BS and miss-truths that they are spewing out...
I have visited salesperson just the other day and he mention and still believe the BS that Ehrlich started about O'Malley little over two years ago which was proven to be a blatant lie.
This shows the reason republicans attack democrats with their lies , miss-statements and BS.... They just keep throwing it around and some of it sticks.. So they spread a little BS here and anther BS there and soon they will have a group of un-informed voters believing their propaganda...
By the way how many people were disappointed that Olbermann and Rachel did not have the guts to speak about Stewart discussion with Cramer the other night... Looks as if the reach of the elite and corporations has no end to it...
None
Cramer did as shitty a job of defending himself and supporting the station as is humanly possible. The station had to do some sort of damage control.
I don't agree with it, but I expected it.
ay caramba. Billo is like the car accident scene that keeps on giving. I don't know why I watch these clips, most likely because I can't believe morons like this are still getting air time. But they are, and it's scarier to meet the knuckleheads who do watch his show. Ugh.
Say, how much does it cost to become Canadian?
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.asp
me-oww!
on Book TV a little while ago. He said that if he could sit down to dinner with historical figures, among them he would have Chief Joseph and MLK there are his dinner party. The question of course, is whether Chief Joseph and MLK would like to have dinner with him!
Oh and he said he "blew it on the economy," That's likely not the only thing he's blown!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
I think he meant Chef Boyardee.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
You know, the whole potential of being a xenophobe against Italians and all!
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Mr. Schumacher-Matos embarrassed himself.
Why, what did he say? The video won't play on my laptop this evening and I won't be home to get on my pc until later.
O'Lielly's racist, ignorant, rantings feeds the hate monguering Reslug Morons that watch him lie.
WTF?
Did that guy actually write the things Blatho was pissed off at? It seems from the interview he was suckling at the teet of FOX and the white supremacists.
Oh jess Bill, you so right. Jou da man Bill. Please let me go now.
What the fuck was that interview? Bill pushes him and Schumacher-Matos licks his rich white ass? Disgusting.
I'm as lefty as they come, but come on people... think a little. You wouldn't be insanely pissed off that your daughter was raped and killed by some scumbag in the country illegally? You can hate this asshole without being racist. You can want the borders closed without being racist.
And you can hate the undeserved influence a modern McCarthy like O'Reilley has in the media.
All of the Right is thoughtless, but you don't have to accept even the thoughtless aspects of the Left.
He doesn't give a shit about rape victims. Surely you've heard of his disgusting comments about a teenage girl who was raped and murdered while out late one night in a strange city? Or the time he said straight out that a young boy who was held captive by a stranger and raped by him repeatedly for years must have enjoyed not having to go to school.
I'm Hispanic. I'm also a survivor of sexual violence. I have paid enough attention to his comments about both subjects to know better.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
did Mr. Columnist here back down so fast?
Bill O'Reily IS A NATIVIST. He's a RACIST. He's a BIGOT and a BULLY.
Why do these people go on his show and then back down?
because he is a bigot and a bully.
"He doesn't give a shit about rape victims. Surely you've heard of his disgusting comments about a teenage girl who was raped and murdered while out late one night in a strange city? Or the time he said straight out that a young boy who was held captive by a stranger and raped by him repeatedly for years must have enjoyed not having to go to school." EXACTLY.
Bill O'Reilly cares about these victims only in so much as he can exploit them. Period.
If the attacker of these woman and Chandra Levy had been white, we would instead been hearing about how it was all the stupid broads' fault because of what they were wearing, or the time that they were out in public.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
5 illegal immigrants are worth more
to this country in productivity than
billo was ever worth.
television. bill-o really destroyed him, and edward let it happen. bill-o's overarching theme is nativist, and yet edward could only say that he did not really mean to include bill-o in the nativist list. however, i could understand bill-o not thinking he is a nativist, he probably is someone that has well-to-do mexican and hispanic friends, legal, of course, yet he has problems with those outside of his social and financial standing; and the problem with this, as some friends of mine do, is that they have less of a problem with people of their same race than they do with non-caucasians of a lower social or financial standing.
"12 million illegal immigrants, who, he added, are responsible for ``millions of serious crimes over the past 10 years.''"
Well, "Duh-uh!" Entering the country illegally is a serious crime. Using bogus documents to get work is a serious crime. That's millions of serious crimes, but not millions of violent crimes.
Stirring up a hormets' nest of hate? That's entertainment.
he's a racist swine. and the same goes for rush and malkin and coulter and that horse's ass lou dobbs. oh, and xenophobic racists who hate mexicans can have some too.
Seems to me that Billo calmed down real quick after Schumacher made it clear [in a very calm sensible way] that Billo's accusations weren't really having much effect on him. It's so sad, Billo. I remember the days when you were a HUGE prick. Now your prick is slowly getting smaller.
Bruce C Johnson
The funny thing is, he's conveniently ignoring that breaking the law is human nature and not in any way related to one's citizenship or immigration status. How many 'crimes' have been committed by natural born U.S. citizens over the past 10 years?
That was sad to watch. What could be happening though is that I'm still riding the Jon Stewart high right now, but if you had a shot to confront Billo, that's all ou got?????
I'm sorry to say, but these type of interviews invigorate a guy like BO. I really think the Stewart thing has got these guys a little riled up, and I'm sure BO's goons vetted this Matos guy to make sure he was easy prey.
Just makes me appreciate what happen the other night so much more though. the Stewart, Kramer interview was a watershed moment.
I found it depressing too, but O'Reilly got himself an easy target, that's what he does.
Suppose the Killer was an Illegal Alien from New Zealand, Britain, Ireland, Germany or Italy. They are here and just as Illegally as someone from a Latin American Country.
How then could it be Racist to want criminal Illegals deported?
Donaldd
we do not see Billo going into hysterics over those white illegal immigrants, do we? And yet, I am sure that some of them commit terrible violent crimes as well.
Hispanic illegal immigrants get bile and outrage, Irish illegal immigrants for instance, get banners in a parade and pleas for mercy on their behalf, instead.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
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