Bill O'Reilly doesn't want to see Michelle Obama swinging from a tree. But you know, if she forces him.
CALLER: Well, your representative asked me not to talk about this, but I have a friend who had knowledge of her and said to me months ago, "This is a very angry," her word was "militant woman."
O'REILLY: All right. What I want you do then, Maryanne, if -- I want you to stay on the line.
CALLER: OK.
O'REILLY: Because it's not fair to Michelle Obama for you --
CALLER: Oh no, all I'm saying is --
O'REILLY: -- because we don't know who you are, and we don't know who your friend is, but we want to know. We want to know, OK. But it's not fair at this point for you to say, "My friend said X and Y," because we just don't know. But if you would give us your information, we would like to talk to your friend. And then whatever your friend tells us, we'll track it down. We'll do it in a fair and balanced and methodical way. That's how we're going to cover this campaign -- all of them, all of them. So stay on the line, give us your information. If indeed Michelle Obama is angry about something, if she has a history, we would like to know that, and then we can put it into some kind of context so that we can be fair to everybody.
You know, I have a lot of sympathy for Michelle Obama, for Bill Clinton, for all of these people. Bill Clinton, I have sympathy for him, because they're thrown into a hopper where everybody is waiting for them to make a mistake, so that they can just go and bludgeon them. And, you know, Bill Clinton and I don't agree on a lot of things, and I think I've made that clear over the years, but he's trying to stick up for his wife, and every time the guy turns around, there's another demagogue or another ideologue in his face trying to humiliate him because they're rooting for Obama.
That's wrong. And I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down.
As we know, America is a completely perfect and flawless country in which nothing ever goes worng. And anyone who says otherwise, especially if they're guilty of complaining while black, is required to provide their neck size. O'Reilly doesn't really think that Michelle Obama needs to be dragged through town and publically hung -- so long as she's not "militant" or "angry." You know -- as long as she's not one of those uppity negros.
Apparently a radio host can sit there and seriously propose that it's "legit" to "go on a lynching party" against the wife of an African-American presidential candidate. I'd like to see the definition by which this is not hate speech. On what grounds can either Fox or the radio stations that carry this execrable show justify keeping it on the air?
I don't want to see Bill O'Reilly fired... oh, wait. Yes I do, damn it. If Fox doesn't toss Bill O' out on his ass after this stunt, they should just have their anchors deliver the news wearing white hoods and be done with it.
This is so far over the line, that the line isn't even visible.