Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how awful InsaniTEA can become. I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.
Bill O’Reilly instructs black people to hate Black Lives Matter.
Like the rest of the Fox News organization, Bill O’Reilly insists that everyone must hate and fear Black Lives Matter immediately. He and other Fox Newsians spent a good deal of their post-Dallas airtime this week whipping up as much hysteria and anger as possible against a group that has a name and a message no sane person can argue with. But sane people do not sit at Fox roundtables, as an episode of “Outnumbered" clearly shows. Meanwhile, colleagues Megyn Kelly and racist ex-cop Mark Fuhrman took it upon themselves to lecture black people to stop exaggerating about problems with police. You got that, Philando Castile, Eric Garner and Alton Sterling?
But O’Reilly is just so sick and tired of black people not listening to him when he tells them what is good for them. Speaking to his guest, NAACP director Hilary Shelton on Friday, O’Reilly said, “So, you know what I think? I think that if you really want, if African Americans really want to bring the country together and have good racial relations, they have to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter. Am I wrong?”
Yeah, you’re wrong, Shelton said, explaining that the Black Lives Matter marches are occurring for a very good reason. And lots of people understand that.
But white people ha-a-a-te Black Lives Matter, O’Reilly whined, mistaking the echo chamber in his head for reality once again. “White Americans despise this crew. And if black Americans don’t understand that, we’re just going to grow further apart.”
Shelton carried on saying reasonable things that are in the spirit of bringing people together, among other things pointing out that people of all races join Black Lives Matter marches and believe in the movement and in justice for all Americans.
All on deaf ears. O’Reilly was just too busy breaking the douchebag-o-meter… [emphasis added]
From <Alternet>
Some White Americans do hate Black Lives Matter, but they are the same racists that watch Bill O’Lielly and go nuts for the presumptive Rectum of the Republican Party, Rump Dump Trump. This is just the first of five listed awful Republican from last week alone. Click through for the other four.
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1. Only SICK white people (or SHEEP white people brainwashed by the SICK white people) hate Black Lives Matter.
2. Oh, I see. Dan Patrick defends the First Amendment. For WHITE people. People of color should just shut up.
3. It just gets to the point where it is impossible to fathom what they are using for logic. Joe, you need to start by laying off the Tylenol (or Midol, if you are taking that.) Then you need a LONG course in empathy. Then we'll talk.
4. What? He didn't say he had predicted that? Well, he probably didn't, truth be told. I have made comments like "You can only push vulnerable people around for so long before something snaps." I wouldn't call that a prediction, but an observation. I'm sure he would have called it a prediction if he had said it. But he would never say anything which so strongly implies that white people might, just possibly, not be innocent.
5. There's really no answer to someone so out of touch with reality saying something so totally off the wall. But as long as he brought up Hillary, I must say her email at the end of the week was just right. (If you didn't get it, or didn't read it, you can catch it here: https://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/07/09/1546683/-The-best-email-I-have-ever-received-from-a-political-candidate
2. Good one from Joanne above. "Oh, I see. Dan Patrick defends the First Amendment. For WHITE people. People of color should just shut up."
2. It's a hard life here in Texas, and I'm mortified at what these politicians say.
3. Hateful, hateful, hateful.
At least the Repugs are consistent with nothing but their lies and their hate.
Thanks, Tom.
This is an array of some of the most disgusting statements I have read in a long time. O'Reilly is almost as egotistic as Trump, how can he presume to know what a black man would think or feel? Dan Patrick seems to be typical of what Texas has had for leaders in the last several years, they deserve better. Joe Walsh should be charged with threatening the President. Eric Fehrnstrom should shut up and go away, and take Sarah Palin with him. They are equally effective at expressing irrational ideas. And finally, The Donald admires a dictator, who is really surprised?
This week is made up of ignoramuses, Republicans!
1) O'Lielly — “So, you know what I think? I think that if you really want, if African Americans really want to bring the country together and have good racial relations, they have to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter. Am I wrong?” — More wrong than you think, Billy boy! They need to distance themselves from Faux Noise idiots like you and Republicans. What an ignoramus!
2) Patrick — Another ignoramus that has no association with the truth or reality! Where does Texas find these twerps?
3) Walsh — A hot head that needs to be arrested and put through the ringer for threatening Obama. I don't know what he eats, but it is rotting his brain.
4) Drumpf — L'enfant horrible!
Editor’s note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims ― 1.6 billion members of an entire religion ― from entering the U.S.
Need anything else be said?
5) This guy is definitely in an alternate reality!
I've heard that's spelled "ignoranus" these days, Lynn. Short for "stupid asshole".
Good one! lol.
Ignoranus = Rump Dump Rectumite!
ROTFLMAO!!! And I actually had to look it up to ensure my spelling was correct. We should send that new word into Oxford Dictionary.
I love it!
On the Editor's note in Lynn's box above, you can link in each of the words and read several articles about Drumpf. Drumpf is really that bad. Drumpf is unfit to be POTUS.
1. Bill O'Reilly knows full well that his is not to instruct black people what to do, they're not his viewers. What he's really doing is giving white racists the thumbs up for hating black people and giving them an excuse to do so by means of vilifying BLM. "They're so bad, even black people should distance themselves from it," just the kind of rhetoric Drumfians use by calling them terrorists.
2. Yeah, it's all your fault, BLM. Stop drawing attention to the level of police violence and especially it's violence against black people and exposing the racism that's been burning like a bog fire for decades, and let Texas Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick get back to what he does best: being a bigot and a racist and a spokesman for other Republican white racist men.
3. Alternet's Janet Allon writes: Odd, the phrase “coming after you” must carry a different meaning in his addled right-wing brain than it does to other sentient beings." What do you mean with "other", Ms. Allon. Do you mean Joe Walsh is in any way sentient? No? I didn't think so, that would have been far too much too much credit for this brainless agitator.
4. I hadn't heard of any crass statements by Drumpf after the Dallas shooting, so I was getting a little worried that he was wising up to how to act like a presumptive presidential candidate and not a second hand car salesman. But after the dust settled he showed his true colors again and asked for a photo op with the NYPD. Now there's the Drumpf I know and have come to loath.
5. Eric Fehrnstrom had a lot of trouble getting a "good" comparison on paper. Well, any comparison really, certainly one that grabbed the attention. So when he finally came up with one, it was just that: a hyperbole and one that made no sense at all, nothing to justify it. So he left it at that. He had been offensive towards the presumed Democratic presidential candidate and had put in his two cents worth. He's one of the 'ole boys' again, doing his bit for the GOP. Give the boy a lolly.
Never a week goes by without some outlandish, awful utterings by the "insaniTEA" crowd. lol.
1. Bill O’Reilly, without a doubt, is a racist.
2. Good one from Joanne above. "Oh, I see. Dan Patrick defends the First Amendment. For WHITE people. People of color should just shut up."
3. Joe Walsh should be investigated by the Secret Service for threatening the President. Photographed and questioned thoroughly!
4. Drumpf's words were not his as they were most likely written by a staffer. Orange Donald does not know how to talk "kind" words. Glad that NYPD turned him down for a photo op.
5. Eric Fehrnstrom needs to disappear as he appears to be out of touch with reality. Emails = double murder. Idiot.
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Thanks all. Hugs!!
This whole bunch of "Usual Suspects" are like Idiots Incorporated!