Billo's Most Race-Baiting Column EVER!

by Steve Young   

May 10, 2008 – Hollywood (HuffPo / apj.us) – 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.

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