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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn open letter to Bill O'Reilly:
Hey, Bill. You've gotten a lot of mileage over the years railing against supposed "Liberal Hate Sites" and "Left-wing Smear Merchants". I have a suggestion for you, O'Reilly. Ooze on over to your own website, FoxNews.com. Click on any post reporting the death of Whitney Houston. Tell me, Billy, what did you make of the comments about the demise of a woman who, in 1991, provided one of the most uplifting and iconic renditions ever sung of our National Anthem? Does "n1gger ho" upset you just a little bit? (Of course, FoxNews will have scrubbed it by now, but you and I both know it was there for a while.) And why was it there? Because those are your peeps Bill-O!
And if that isn't enough to turn your stomach, check out the thread regarding Whitney's daughter's collapse upon learning of her mother's death. "N1gger, nigbot, and coon" were among some of the oh-so-clever terms Fox fans figured they could slip past the rigorous Fox bureau of standards. That thread will be gone by now as well, but I'll bet you have enough connections at Fox to reclaim it. In any case, and much to your dismay, not even Uncle Ruppert can make it go away. It's the web, Bill-O. and it's still there for everyone to see.
Those are your fans, O'Reilly. You're quick to point the finger elsewhere. Now do you have the stones to call out some of the most offensive bullshit I've ever seen, even though it appears on the your own network? (I'm guessing no.)
seeviewonder
(461 posts)what I read on those pages yesterday. I like the open letter and I hope it makes him squirm if he reads it. Rec!
handmade34
(22,756 posts)for a moment and was made physically ill by what I saw...
seeviewonder
(461 posts)until I saw that yesterday. I know racism is still prevalent in our society, but those comments made it seem so blatant and real. Just speechless.