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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 09:26 AM
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Most Race-Baiting Column EVER! O'Reilly Uses Nearly Entire Column To Conjure Up Race War Over Obama
from HuffPost:


Steve Young
Most Race-Baiting Column EVER! O'Reilly Uses Nearly Entire Column To Conjure Up A Race War Over Obama
Posted May 10, 2008 | 06:28 AM (EST)


In one of the most incendiary columns ever written, "Race And The Presidential Election," Bill O'Reilly sets the race-bait bar to record-breaking...depths. Short of saying that Barack Obama wants to sleep with your pearly-white daughter, O'Reilly uses just about every button meant to alarm his white fans to the fact that Barack Obama is BLACK and that just his running for, let alone becoming, president, could set off race-laced fireworks.

While there's no question, as he did on his TV Factor Friday night, Bill will say it's not race-baiting if you're just reporting the facts (despite the brilliant Prof. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill's protestations), here are just a few comments from Bill's column...

"Obama seems to be in. Now comes the hard part--convincing Americans that he is the best choice for president without all hell breaking loose on the race front."

Since when does convincing Americans that a candidate is the best choice lead to "hell breaking loose," unless you want your reader to believe it can?

"Thanks partly to Reverend Wright's now immortal 'the USA of KKK' remark, the race factor has emerged big time in this election. If you don't believe me, just look at the vote in North Carolina and Indiana."

Reverend Wright, Reverend Wright, Reverend Wright. Remember, Bill's just reporting the facts, not reminding voters over and over that Obama was connected to someone who thinks you (white) Americans are haters.

"Also, as Al Sharpton told me, any kind of superdelegate shenanigans will lead to massive demonstrations at the Democratic Convention in Denver which, of course, would be disastrous for the party."

Hmm. Al Sharpton? Massive demonstrations? Disastrous? Nope. Move along, Folks. No fear-monger, race-baiting here.

"Obama's second dilemma is convincing skeptical white voters that he and his wife are sympathetic to their concerns. Let's be honest--few white Americans would tolerate a Reverend Wright for five minutes, much less 20 years."

While there's no mention that few whites would tolerate an anti-Christian, anti-gay, pro-McCain Reverend Hagee, convincing whites that a black man, who is married to a black woman, can have the same concerns as a white man or woman can? You have to admit. Bill's got us there. How could any white believe that blacks and white have anything in common? And, of course, just for some added brown sugar...Reverend Wright. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-young/most-race-baiting-column_b_101098.html




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Lithos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 09:30 AM
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1. Are you really surprised?
I'm not.
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But.... Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 09:37 AM
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2. Are you shocked?
The question is how efficient will this be?
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 09:39 AM
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3. O'Reilly just needs to go right to his source and skip all the bullshit
<snip>
The Ideology of Hate:

THE NAZIS

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"The Nazi doctors…had created the beginning of what…had defined as a psychology of torture. It had enabled them to embrace a wide range of evils… finally to exist, the Nazi doctors had needed to virtually eliminate any capacity for normal human feelings; it was the only way for them to kill their victims."55

Gordon Thomas
Journey into Madness, 1989


Most terrorist groups today have radical political views and hold racist positions which range from "white supremist" type views to anti-Semitism. According to one of these groups, "blacks, oriental, and other races," unlike "Aryans," do not have souls.56

However, behind some of the most significant terrorist activities there has been a psychiatric or psychological influence, whether directly in terrorist training, or through a racial ideology first propagated by psychiatrists.

Nowhere is that more evident than in Nazi Germany from the 1930s to1945.

In 1999, German psychiatrists publicly admitted that psychiatry had spawned "eugenics" and the racial "inferiority/superiority" ideology almost three decades before the Nazis took power in 1933. Indeed, it was this ideology that turned the Nazis into mass murderers. The following is a brief history:

1895: German psychiatrist Alfred Ploetz and jurist, Karl Binding, published their theories about race inferiority in the book, The Fitness of Our Race and the Protection of the Weak. In 1909, Ploetz founded the German Society for Racial Hygiene. Ploetz's theory was that destroying unworthy life was "purely a healing treatment."

1920s: Psychiatrist Alfred Hoch's book, Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life, demanded euthanasia be conducted on "mental defectives." This, and another psychiatric text, Human Genetics and Racial Hygiene, helped form the "scientific" basis for the Nazi racial purity program.

According to Hoche and Binding, the acceleration of the death process is not an act of murder but "in truth a pure act of healing" and there are people who are "worthless" to society. Primary among these are the inmates of the "idiot institutes," who are "not only worthless, but of absolutely negative value." As for the "incurably dumb," "Their death will not be missed in the least except maybe in the hearts of their mother or guardian.... When we become more advanced, we will probably be saving those poor humans from themselves."


http://www.psychassault.org/ideology_hate1.html

The likes of Bill O'Reilly need to be exposed for what they really are, racist hate monger pricks!
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 09:49 AM
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4. O'Reilly is just getting warmed up, and he's far from
Edited on Sat May-10-08 09:50 AM by LibDemAlways
alone. I expect an Obama nomination will unleash race-baiting the likes of which hasn't been seen in this country since the Civil Rights struggles of the 50's and 60's. There is no depth so low that the repukes won't sink into to win (or steal) this.
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AlinPA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 09:54 AM
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5. Don't be surprised to see hundreds of KKK chapters funded by the RNC. Conservatives are crazed over
race.
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Yael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-10-08 10:36 AM
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6. I think this is going to come back to haunt him huge
This country is poised to move past race with this upcoming election, and if I am right, it will be an unstoppable train and Billo is smack in the middle of the tracks on this one.
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