Posted on 04/16/2014 7:43:42 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Fox News' host Bill O'Reilly has devoted many broadcasts of this TV show, "The O'Reilly Factor," to what he believes are problems in the black community.
O'Reilly, who has blamed black crime on black, unwed mothers, interviewed Kentucky Wildcats basketball coach John Calipari last night about controlling his black players, notes Salon.com (video below).
According to New York Magazine, during the interview, O'Reilly asked Calipari, "I don't know if you listen to this rap stuff and the hip-hop stuff, but it has coarsened. Has that changed their attitude? How do you impose discipline on kids who are gonna do what they're gonna do?"
Calipari looked visibly uncomfortable, but told O'Reilly how important it was that he gained his players' trust and that they know their coach is looking out for their best interests.
"But do they act differently toward you?" asked O'Reilly. "Do they use four-letter words?"
Calipari denied they do, but admitted that many of the players grew up without dads, and then added, "Some of the best kids I coached were raised by a grandmother who was so firm that they understood."
O'Reilly then asked, "How do you keep them away from temptation with the hustlers everywhere?"
"There are drugs everywhere," said O'Reilly. "They're giving the kids drugs for free, how do you keep them away from that?"
Calipari again explained how the kids come to the school to play basketball and learn, but O'Reilly still wasn't satisfied.
"Do you have guys on them all the time? Curfews? Coaches watching them? Drug testing? Do you drug test?"
Calipari explained how he uses NBA security on the road to keep bad influences away from his players, but added the kids are from good homes.
O’Reilly is a pompous asshat.
No fan of BOR, but I don’t see any questions about “black” players in the excerpt.
It was a fascinating interview, as BOR was laying mines in front of Calipari, and the coach was pretty adept at sidestepping them. I was thinking how any response that could be construed as “racist” would SINK his basketball program. Predictably, Calipari seemed to know all the politically correct replies, as if he had professional PR training.
Coach, you know how THOSE PEOPLE are? Do you allow them to listen to blues records around the white players?
I don’t have to watch the Colbert Report, I got The Factor.
That sure tells you how his miniature brain works.
BOR has us “folks” covered. I nominate him for sainthood. /s
Once the players become employees, they can be fired.
Your opinion is noted. But what about the actual subject - who else is asking questions like this? Who else is raising the issue of social breakdown and the destruction of the black family?
It doesn’t matter if you like him, or if I do myself, but why attack the messenger? Don’t you think it’s important to ask these questions if we are going to change the kind of country our grandkids will live in?
Maybe George Stephanopolous or Rachael Maddow are going to start asking tough questions like this and calling the race hustlers out for what they are, ya think?
I expect BOR to be swallowed up by the Earth any day now.
There don't have to be. If you are white, you can't even be deemed to be thinking it. That's racist.
Thanks BenLurkin! BOR is an utter jackass, and is certainly no conservative, but this one is just leftist agitprop, which figures, given the source.
Maybe he gives them Loofahs.
Good points you have made there. I admire BOR for asking the questions, repeatedly. And giving some credence to the idea that the solution is not just “more money for the poor people”, because that has done nothing to help (in fact, has probably encouraged the single parent/no dad in the home phenomenon).
I’m glad BO is out there. I can’t watch him about half the time. I have no doubt the size of his ego is only trumped by the size of our universe. But overall, he is an equal opportunity antagonizer. My personal rub with him is that he calculates his perceived bias when taking a position on things. In some cases he plays the middle hard. But I do have to give him credit for pushing the hard issues and tough questions (most of the time).
Frankly, O'Reilly is horribly naïve if he thinks there's some nefarious forces out there "hustling blacks" as in ugly capitalists making a buck off black athletes or even just as a systemic problem solely within the black community.
This 'hustling' has been going on for decades. They've been hustled by Democrat blame-giving dogma for decades. They've been 'hustled' by their own culture that includes the black community as well as cop hating hip hop and rap. They've been 'hustled' by their own black leaders who, to a tee, have gotten rich out of making a career on the 'black plight'. And, they have been mislead by Hollywood who seeks to drive their liberal agendas (and still get rich like they did with the 70s Blaxsploitation films).
Even today, they are 'hustled' by an Attorney General who has indemnified them from prosecution for anything that could be construed as a hate crime, and a President that prescribes them a plethora of blame targets for all their problems.
IOW, O'Reilly is too late, too ill prepared for this debate IMO.
LOL! What an asshat BORe is!!
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