O'Reilly Seeks to Destroy Georgia Republican Governor

[quark]

Don't agree with an all-white prom, but:
1. It's a private party.
2. Blacks on campuses do much worse segregationist acts and don't get slammed: black-only convocations, black-only student unions, black-only dorms, black-only graduations, black-only cafeterias, and on & on.....

[Paul Atreides]

No matter the issue, O'Reilly tends to take on an attitude that he is saving the world, at times.

[noutopia]

We made O'Bill we can bring him down too.

[faithincowboys]

Also, making the 18 year old white kids that went to the all-white prom national pariahs is not going to advance anything. I think the kids will mature and realize the insensitivity of what they have done, but putting scarlet Rs on them is no answer.

[Paul Atreides]

I'm wondering how many white kids weren't invited to that party. Is it just a party held by a certain clique? From the vehicles I saw them arriving in, it didn't exactly look as if just anyone, regardless of race, was invited.

[faithincowboys]

He's an idiot and he is hurting Governor Perdue.

O'Reilly just made a Baldwin County issue a Georgia,if not, Southern issue. Bill has put Perdue in a no-win situation.

During all of the years the Democrats were in the State house (except for last year) Baldwin county has held private, segregated proms, why did none of Democrat Governors catch national Hell for it? Also, the integrated prom will still be held. O'reilly and others have succeeded in criminalizing a private prom.

[lonestar]

Am I correct in that this all-white prom was a private function and NOT a school sponsored event? If so, it's none of the school's business, the gov of Georgia's business, or Bill O'Reilly's business.

It would be no worse than having a birthday party and being able to extend invitations to those you choose to attend.

O'Reilly frequently displays a self-righteous attitude that he has the right and obligation to tell everybody else how to behave and tends to sound like a preacher.

[Sonny M]

First off, 2 things. 1)The so called all white party, is NOT banning african americans from attending, but the spirit is for it to be all white, however, if somone wants to bring a black date, it is allowed (kind of kills the whole spirit of the idea, which was due to tension over inter-racial dating). There is also an integrated prom to begin with. The sad part to me, is that these kids have essentially given there high school negative national publicity and made themselves look like racists. How much damage is that going to do, to kids who come after them (no one even knew the name untill now, even with the so called segregated proms of the past) in regards to resumes, college applications, etc. Personally, I think O'Reilly is doing this, to get the spot light off of him, for some comments he made, that he was attacked for. To stop getting blasted, he picked another target to blast, and focus everyone on them, this way, if he spoofs off another comment, he can always point back to this incident.

[Kerberos]

Yeah but then Bill is generally pretty full of himself anyway.

[Ole Okie]

No matter the issue, O'Reilly tends to take on an attitude that he is saving the world, at times.

Bill is becoming increasingly shrill. I've been a fan, but he's about to chase me off. Tonight, he was grotesque. He shouted that the governor should have gone to the city and led a charge against the all-white prom. And he was more than rude to the governor's press secretary, who happened to be black. He told her that all that she was saying was spin.

Methinks that O'Reilly doth protest too much.

Perdue has problems. The Atlanta media have been yapping at his heels, and now O'Reilly takes in after him!

[Howlin]

We made O'Bill we can bring him down too.

He's doing a pretty good job of that all by himself.

[faithincowboys]

Good point! Incidentally, many of the sanctimonious liberal elites who are so outraged by this send their kids to all-white schools. Any prom their kids attend, by definition, will look like Arkansas's Central High School prior to integration.

Why do the private segregated lives of media elites never get attention? Bill Bennet's private gambling is all over all the fish wrap. Why do liberals never get outted? Bill is no liberal, but he has done a great impression of one over the last two nights.

[sam_paine]

Were the kids morally wrong to exclude their black peers from their private prom? Yes.No. Not immoral. Freedom of association. On the other points, I agree. OReilly is a jackass.

[Texas Eagle]

Well, this is a sure sign that things are almost back to pre-911 normalcy. The week before 9/11, O'Reilly's undies were in a bundle because his flight to Chicago was delayed 15 minutes....FIFTEEN MINUTES! (a little O'Reilly lingo there) and he was demanding that Congress pass The Passengers Bill of Rights pronto.

I get a kick out of O'Reilly's forehead vein doing the Macarena, but once he starts demanding that government "do something"....well, that's when I start getting nervous.

[Lurker]

They're both idiots.

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[Jorge]

O'Reilly regularly goes on these blame game crusades...and he just sounded like a blow-hard tonight.

[Paul Atreides]

When O'Reilly is calm, cool, and collected, he is more persuasive. However, when he launches into the "save-the-world" mode, he comes across as losing it, even when he is doing it on issues in which I agree with him.

[EternalVigilance]

I saw the show tonight. O'Reilly was insufferably rude and self-righteous.

I can't stand the buffoon.

[Howlin]

Is there a link to the accurate story about this "prom?"