Colin Powell To Bill O'Reilly 'Why Do You Only See Me As An African-American
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Bill O'Reilly apparently decided that he should just throw out all of
the dog whistles and just bring in the racist bullhorns instead during
this interview with former general and Bush Secretary of State Colin
Powell this Tuesday night. I'm no fan of Powell for his part in helping
to mislead the country into believing that our invasion of Iraq was
somehow justified, but given the current breed of right wing mouth
breathers who are the majority of the Republicans that we're treated to
on the air these days, the man looks downright sane.
O'Reilly went after Powell for stating the obvious, which is that
John Sununu, who was a Romney surrogate, constantly threw out racist dog
whistles to their base just about every time he was allowed in the air.
Sadly Powell did not just call Sununu out for what he is and let
O'Reilly brow beat him into saying that the man that was not a racist --
something which is not true and that was made completely obvious to
anyone who spent more than a few minutes watching his ugly rants during
the presidential campaign.
He also went after him for saying anything mean about Sarah Palin,
even though O'Reilly's own network has now thrown her under the bus as
well by not renewing her contract.
O'Reilly wrapped things up by saying that Powell "put himself in a
category of intolerance by backing Obama's entitlement culture." Powell
should have told O'Reilly that his language and questions like that one
during this interview are exactly the type of thing he was criticizing
Sununu for, but we didn't get that from him either.
He didn't take kindly to O'Reilly's attacks on "entitlements" but
rather than hitting back hard at his nonsense, he responded the way we'd
expect any other "Third Way," DLC corporate-crat, excuse for what we
call "centrist" these days would have, and was pushing for things like
the really dumb idea of means testing, or in other words turning earned
benefits into a welfare program so we can assure Republicans will have
an excuse to destroy them later and there's no constituency left with an
ounce of political clout to keep them in place.
I didn't expect much better out of him since he is, after all, still a
Republican and a member of the 1 percent, even if his own party and the
likes of O'Reilly and company are doing their best to disown him.
O'Reilly spent the next segment on his show with Crowley and Colmes
trying to do just that.co
