Bill O’Reilly Shows His Stripes

Posted on 10/09/2008 at 10:15 pm by Bob Cesca

“Man, I’m glad I didn’t have you in school, boy. I would have gotten a D.”

Is there a word in there that just jumps off the screen? No? Well how about some context. Bill O’Reilly said this to Professor Marc Lamont Hill from Temple University on his show tonight. Professor Hill is African American. And Bill O’Reilly called him “boy.” The professor, as it turns out, wasn’t yelling for his motherf–king iced tea.

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  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    If I ever had the misfortune of going on his show, I think I’d wind up popping him in the mouth.

  • kansasdem

    BOY!That one!That boy!

  • Andhakari

    I think you’re stretching a bit. I think the context here suggests equating the expression with “golly gee willakers” or another pseudo expletive, rather than some subliminal racist remark.I know the wingers grab any chance to twist reality into a horrendous attack, but when there’s so much to condemn O’Reilly for, do we need to grab at straws?

  • http://misterfurious.blogspot.com/ Mr Furious

    Nobody’s got video of this that I’ve seen…I also read it as harmless. Swap that period and comma. I suspect that’s an accurate portrayal.I interpret that “Boy” as shorthand for “Boy-O-Boy…” or some such.

  • NotAPollStat

    This was harmless???? Who are YOU trying to kid???? If it was “boy-oh-boy” why would he start the sentence out with “Man,” ??????so, we’ll mad-lib the sentence ….. “Man, I’m glad I didn’t have you in school, boy”-oh-boy ….Oh yeah, that sounds righthere’s my sentenceMan, John McCain and Sarah Palin sure are racists, boy-oh-boy.

  • Bob_Cesca

    >>do we need to grab at strawsAll due respect, Andhakari, I’m not willing to give O’Reilly *any* benefit of the doubt. He’s respresentative of everything that’s wrong and vile about the corporate media and if anything I’m being too easy on him. Until we grow some spine and seriously go after these far-right jagoffs, they’re always going to get the better of us. I can assure you, the far-right wouldn’t do us any similar favors — benefit of the doubt and the like.

  • ConstanceRifle

    Andhakari, I’ve been slapped for doing the same thing you claim O’Reilly is doing. It doesn’t matter if you were using it in a folksy way, a lot of African-Americans don’t see it that way.For the record, I worked as a server in a chain restaurant a while back, and I walked up to one of my friends and said “boy, I’m getting killed out there” and he slapped me. I wasn’t even calling him boy, it really is just a folksy expression. Didn’t matter to him though.