Posted on 05/06/2003 5:58:32 PM PDT by faithincowboys
Tonight, Bill has continued his jihad against Georgia Republican Governor Sonny Perdue. O'Reilly, who recently made what many considered an anti-black remark, has launched a full frontal assault on Perdue.
Inexplicably, Bill O blames the GOP Gov for an all-white private prom that recently occured in Baldwin County Georgia. Of course, if the Governor could prevent the white kids from having a private prom, we would be living in a totalitarian state.
Bill is clearly seeking to destroy Perdue to deflect from his racially insensitive faux pas.
Perdue's Black Female Press Secretary was on The Factor tonight and Bill was rude and hostile to her, it kinda made you think that if Bill were throwing a private party at his big Long Island digs (why doesn't he live closer to work in a more diverse area?) he wouldn't invite her unless she agreed to hold a serving tray all night.
Georgia is all ready in a state of racial tension, due to the flag issue, Bill's attempt to destroy Georgia's first Republican Governor since Reconstruction is, without a doubt, an assault on the GOP.
We should all let O'Reilly know how we feel about this. Also, when O'Reilly's young daughter becomes school age, we must demand that he sends her to a school in Harlem. The white kids who went to that prom attend a 55% African American majority high school and live more racially integrated lives than O'Reilly and his wealthy Long Island elitists ever have.
Were the kids morally wrong to exclude their balck peers from their private prom? Yes. Were they legally wrong? No. Does Sonny Perdue bear any culpability in the matter? Absolutely Not!
O'Reilly is now demanding that Perdue hold a press conference, go on The Factor, and/or go to this week's integrated prom.
I find O'Reilly's stance on this untenable and grotesque. Hobbling a Republican Governor (unfairly) driving up anti-Republican sentiment in the South (a region integral to Dubya's re-election) and galvanizing Southern Democrats is a clear sign that Bill is not on our team.
Maybe he's not on the D team either, perhaps, he is on his own team-- in a very Clintonian way. His jihad against Georgia's Governor is to appease the NYC, DC chattering class who think he is a racist and suspect his Jesse Jackson fixation is rooted in racism.
In a suck up to his critics, Bill O has thrown an innocent man to the wolves. This is outrageous!
and persecuting 18 years olds that
You really suck at innuendo. It's intellectually dishonest to make a vague charge against unidentified individuals. Anytime 'maybe' 'wonder' and 'may' appear in the same sentence it's a guarantee the writer has no factual basis.
The technique is as phony as the news reporters' use of "many people believe..." Have a problem with a comment? Well, address it then. Cheap shot at Lott and Thurmond, too, especially the latter. He hung on to keep the Pubbies from becoming the minority in the Senate and earlier played a huge role in making the 'R' word in the Deep South acceptable for use in mixed company. Maybe somebody should post the 1944 photo of him at Ste. Mere Eglise for you to criticize.
Nice job at group mindreading too. Do you do seances?
I know you weren't asking me, but I wonder if equating this to a truly private event is quite the right anology.
Let's say that instead of going to my company's annual Christmas party, I decide to organize a separate, segregated one this year ... and further suppose there are enough boobs at my company that it becomes a pretty big one, say a whites-only Home Depot party, or whites-only IBM party, or whites-only Exxon party and it makes the press as such. As a shareholder, wouldn't you expect the company to at minimum issue a clear statement of policy on the matter? Would it matter if the party was held offsite, or if employees were buying tickets? I submit not. Remember, all employees are invited, except for the black ones of course, and we're not calling it a private cocktail reception, we're calling it (e.g.) the Whites-Only Home Depot Christmas Party.
By the same token these kids are having the Taylor County High School Whites-Only Prom. Not a private party at a friend's house ... a prom. This governor is the CEO of the state, the kids attend a taxpayer-funded school in his state, and he should act like a leader and not a wimp. No one's asking him to send in the Marines and forcibly shut down the event. Just to make a clear and unequivocal statement of policy ... it's called leadership, and his stakeholders (taxpayers) deserve that much.
From the AP story in Post #23.
Intrude into the lives of citizens? I merely expect him to show leadership by issuing a statement of his policy. It's what leaders do. We can agree to disagree, of course, but this one's a no-brainer IMHO.
You really have to ask?
But what difference does it make how my statement reads? I don't have time for creative writing 101 and wordsmithing sample statements. It's Perdue's statement and leadership that's at question, not mine.
Embarrassing, ain't it?! ;-)
I have never liked O'Rielly. He is a self-righteous ass. He should be back doing tabloid fluff for Inside Edition because he doesn't have the intellectual chops to present political matters in any useful way. He just talks and talks and talks and talks and talks ... whoever is on his show is incidental to giving O'Rielly a platform to run his mouth.
The Governor has nothing whatsoever to do with the decisions of some high school kids to have a private party. O'Reilly is grandstanding to feed his own ego, and I do not appreciate him using Georgia as a prop for his own aggrandizement.
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