O'Reilly Seeks to Destroy Georgia Republican Governor

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I don't like to quote Imus, but here goes:

"OReilly should get over himself."

[rustbucket]

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

You mean that outraged pompous moral scold attitude of his. He's just upset because his radio show is getting creamed by Rush.

[faithincowboys]

Scarborough Country.

Goldsboro? Did you mean to say that?

[Russell Scott]

Race is all a part of the curse. Another thing we won't have to deal with in the Kingdom. Soon Lord soon. Maybe even before the next election.

[meyer]

The school prom is being held at a local black college.

A local Black college that probably has plenty of PC revised history to show the kids when they get there. I would almost bet that the first "school-sponsored" prom last year was held at this location and I would almost bet that there was plenty of anti-white propaganda there. No wonder the white kids want something separate - they don't want to be preached to; they want to have a plain-old genuine prom.

And is this really a national issue that O'Reilly needs to spout off about it? Has he run out of legit issues? Seems to me that Jesse might just have a little grip on O'Reilly's important parts.

[GrandMoM]

I find O'Reilly's stance on this untenable and grotesque

....so do I, and I told him so, but I think he didn't hear me.

[Fifth Business]

The thing to remember about O'Reilly is that it's always about him (very much like another popular broadcaster). This is no exception. You correctly imply that this criticism is designed to deflect personal criticism regarding HIS recent racially insensitive remarks.

[Howlin]

This doesn't look like a school function to me; they have a right to be stupid, but what does O'Reilly think the governor can do about it?

[error99]

I thought this story about the prom was going on in Albany, Georgia.
Albany, Georgia is in Dougherty County, not Baldwin County.
Is there a second segregated prom event in Baldwin County?
Or what?

[sinkspur]

I think the constant maligning of Southern whites as racists is unfair

I've not heard of an "all-white" prom anywhere but Georgia.

I also don't know of any other candidate who ran on a referendum of voting for, or against, a flag that included the stars and bars.

This isn't about "the South"; it's about some peculiarities of Georgia.

O'Reilly called Perdue out. Perdue could have ignored him. Instead he sends this galactically stupid black woman (why a black woman?) who was shredded by O'Reilly.

You're smart enough to know that an "all-white" anything is an invitation to scrutiny. Too bad those kids (or rather, their parents) weren't.

[Blessed]

News paper that broke story is in Albany.Baldwin County is between Albany and Macon.

[sinkspur]

To call the woman stupid might make some think you have issues with sex and race.

I called the woman stupid because she is.

That, or she does a very good impersonation of a stupid person. SHe had to read everything she said.

If you can't see that Perdue trotted a black woman out on O'Reilly's show for political reasons, well, then, you need to pay attention.

[faithincowboys]

Sinkspur, do you think the Confederate Flag (a Flag that millions of Southerners fought under, a couple hundred thousand died for it) should not be allowed to be displayed if the majority of the voters want it to?

I think the South has come a long way, ( FYI, I have traveled there and lived in the South, and hope to live there again, but I am not a Southerner) and I think the Flag issue should not make the top thousand for Black Americans (who have many more pressing matters to deal with).

By the way, don't you think that O'Reilly would be inconsistent to send his daughter to an upper class all-white school? I think he should send his kid to a private, majority- minority school in a working class community. You can't demand white Southerners to do what you have so purposely avoided.

How representative of America is Long Island?

I am just a person who has seen the gross hypocrisy of non-Southern whites. When African Americans left the South and moved to the big cities in the North, the whites fled to suburbia and remain there. Why does O'Reilly commute to the City from Long Island?

[Blessed]

I also don't know of any other candidate who ran on a referendum of voting for, or against, a flag that included the stars and bars.

Both the New and old flag had "stars and bars".Governor Barnes strong armed new flag through in the middle of the night.This was a small part of campaign probably only mattered to less than 5% of Perdues voters.This was balanced by Dems using it to get out their vote.The real issue was gerrymandered voting districts.What the liberal media fails to tell you is Saxby Chamblis beat Cleland by a larger margin than Perdue beat Barnes.(No flag issue here)

[error99]

You are just completely wrong. Go get a map.
Balwin County is NOT located between Albany and Macon.
This story apparently comes from Taylor County.
Taylor County (Butler, Georgia) IS located between Albany and Macon.
I have no idea how Baldwin County ever came to be mentioned
in the first place.

[Zebra]

I am increasingly surprised as to what Bill O'Reilly has morphed into. I find his format--the shrill, scold talking over his guests--off-putting enough, but his stance on this Georgia white-only prom as it relates to Perdue is bizarre, to say the least. While I (and probably most people) find the prom thing ugly and stupid, I found his tirade this evening (with the spokesperson from Perdue's office) not only unpersuasive, but inconsistent. In particular, his response to the letter writer who asked for his distinguishing the prom thing from black-only clubs and functions was an arrogant, dismissive mocking.

If he keeps this up, his audience will shrink to Donahue numbers. He is rapidly losing me, and I considered myself a fan 18 months ago.

BTW, I do agree with the notion that Perdue woiould be well served to issue a statement condemning racially divisive practices of any nature. But that is all he can do--the school neither sanctioned nor countenanced the white-only "prom", so there is no government action that is tolerable. It was, by all accounts, a private thing. And people still have the right to be stupid bigots, as long as it is not government-supported (see, e.g., Augusta National). This limits what Perdue can or should do. Of course, O'Reilly would--and did--shout over these important, inconvenient facts. That is a classic liberal tactic.

PS--at least he let that anti-American b@sta@rd Danny Glover have it tonight.

[potlatch]

When my twin daughters graduated, all 'we' parents of a large group of popular kids got together to host a graduation dance.

We rented the local dance hall, hired the best local band, and each honoree was allowed to invite a certain number of guests. Ron Gant, a fairly successful baseball player, was a guest and also a fellow graduate that year.

I like O'Reilly, but he goes overboard on his rants sometimes!! My point is; a private party IS a private party, and you can invite or exclude whoever you want.

[citizen]

I emailed O'Reilly both nights RE:

The FNC promos led me to believe that the prom was school sponsored. It was not. O'Reilly's on-air comments & chosen emails indicated that the private event was school sponsored or school condoned.

Tonight O'Reilly was still referring to it as a 'school prom'. What spinning in the "No Spin Zone"!

Bill is losing my respect big-time with this PC pandering ratings ploy.

[Blessed]

I should add:Perdue and the Republicans have gotten the legislature to approve a new fag that does not have the "stars and bars".The people will vote to ratify this flag next year.I suspect it will be approved and issue will be dead.Campaign promise to let people vote kept.Better flag than Barnes forced through legislature ratified by voters.

[faithincowboys]

And if he sent a white guy that with a cropped hair cut that looked like one of the murdering cops in the movie Mississippi Burning, you would have had 10 babies.

How sad for you that a black, educated female is on Perdue's staff.

She sounded to me like an articulate, but nervous person.

And I have persuasively made the point that many schools in liberal enclaves like Boston have all-white proms, not by dictate but by demography! Many of the schools our liberal elites send their kids to have all-white proms.

How racially diverse is Chappaqua?

Putting the flag, that enjoys popular support, up to the electorate is bad how?

By the way, the Stars and Stripes waved over many a Slave plantation. Should we get rid of it? During Jim Crow the Star-Spangled Banner waved, does the sight of it make black Southerners similarly intimidated.

German shepherds, next?

What do we get rid of next?

I think putting it up to a vote is right. A fatwa from the Governor's mansion is un-American. Consent of the Governed would be nice, who knows, maybe the voters take the Flag down themselves.