[lbo-talk] political tourism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Sep 25 09:01:30 PDT 2007


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celebrating diversity Bill O'Reilly Visits "Ghetto," Finds Blacks Well-Behaved

Over the weekend, loud-mouth asshat and Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly pulled what sort of looked like a Don Imus—but was really much worse. It seems that O'Reilly's most recent encounters with the black community have left him seriously impressed with how much progress they've made since he last checked in with them in the 70s. Concert- goers at that Anita Baker concert were well-dressed! And dinner in Harlem with the Reverend Al Sharpton? O'Reilly said on his radio show that it was "like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense that people were sitting there, they were ordering and having fun and there wasn't any kind of craziness at all!"

O'Reilly surprised "there was no difference" between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants [Media Matters]



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