Bill O’Reilly: ‘The Only Person In The Galaxy Who Is Able To Imagine A Raceless Human Being’
Bill O’Reilly: ‘The Only Person In The Galaxy Who Is Able To Imagine A Raceless Human Being’
On Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor last night, Temple University professor Marc Lamont Hill argued that when politicians like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin invoke “Joe Six Pack,” they are using a “code word” that excludes African-Americans. “Why can’t an African-American guy be Joe six pack?” asked O’Reilly.
“What I’m saying is that when people think of Joe Six Pack, when — the immediate image that comes to your mind is not a black man. It is often a white man,” said Lamont. O’Reilly then claimed that when he imagined “Joe Six Pack,” he pictured a person with “no color”:
HILL: What I’m saying is that when people think of Joe six pack, when — the immediate image that comes to your mind is not a black man. It is often a white man.
O’REILLY: The immediate image - no, the immediate image that comes to my mind is a guy of no color with a six pack of Bud. No color.
HILL: You might be the only person in the galaxy who is able to imagine a raceless human being. For most people our images of our people are racialized. And oftentimes the index of the normal average American is a white person.
Watch it:
O’Reilly’s claim that he is racially colorblind is laughable given his own past statements. In fact, in a past interview with Hill, O’Reilly complained that “white Americans are terrified” to compliment African-Americans because it “may be taken as condescension.” O’Reilly sparked controversy last year when he admitted that he “couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between” an African-American run restaurant and “any other restaurant in New York City.”
Ironically, Stephen Colbert says that O’Reilly is one of the main inspirations for his character. Colbert’s satirical character defines himself as racially colorblind, often saying, “I don’t see race.”
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“A guy of no color”—-the invisible man! Sweet!
October 10th, 2008 at 1:59 pmIs Bill O’Reilly our very own Tracy666?
October 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pmit’s code for ignorant white guys. that’s the kindest way i can put it.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:00 pmBill-O is an insufferable imbecile. But a high-paid imbecile so…
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October 10th, 2008 at 2:05 pmO’REILLY: The immediate image - no, the immediate image that comes to my mind is a guy of no color with a six pack of Bud. No color.
The poor guy in O’Reilly’s mind needs to get out of that dark place and get some sun.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:05 pmThat’s why Colbert is so funny. He makes fun of people like O’Reilly not by going over the top on the parody, but by nailing it dead on. The humor (and pathos) comes from the fact that while Colbert is playing a role, O’Reilly and his ilk actually believe what they’re saying.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:06 pmshoeless Says:
Is Bill O’Reilly our very own Tracy666?
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I doubt it O’falafel isnt bright enough. Tracy may be a meanspirited troll but he isnt THAT dumb
October 10th, 2008 at 2:08 pmColbert skewers O’Reilly on this farcical point of view better than anyone.
O’Reilly is using a right wing strategy in opposition to affirmative action here. The idea is to posit affirmative action as itself being racist because it recognizes disparity between the races whereas the more enlightened right wing politicians have moved so far beyond race that they can no longer even contemplate there being a difference in policy between different races.
We should never seek to erase racial differences since it is that diversity which is one of the major strengths of this country. I certainly look forward to a time when race is considered to be as secondary to one’s prospects as hair color, but I do not believe we are there yet.
Palin and McCain’s campaign is filled with bigoted code words. They won’t come out and be overtly racist, but their rhetoric is all designed to trigger bigotry in their audiences. It is a variation of the Southern Strategy. Given how unpopular they are becoming I don’t think it is quite well enough veiled.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:09 pmColbert’s satirical character defines himself as racially colorblind, often saying, “I don’t see race.”
- - I love life imitating art. Especially when the art is so slyly comical and the life is such a dullard.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:11 pmHow fitting. When I look at Bill O’Reilly, I don’t see humanity.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:12 pmEugeneDebs Says:
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shoeless Says:
Is Bill O’Reilly our very own Tracy666?
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I doubt it O’falafel isnt bright enough. Tracy may be a meanspirited troll but he isnt THAT dumb
Au contraire, mon frère. In his efforts to convince me that he is not racist, Tracy has told me that he does not see color and that one of his best friends is black. He would never explain how he knew that his friend is black. I’m thinking Tracist asked all of his friends if they were black, and one said yes.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pmO’Reilly and Hannity are zombies from Squaresville, man…
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October 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pmThat’s right Billo, that lilly white crowd of hate-filled screaming crackers showing up at the McPalin rallies hears “Joe Six Pack” and conjurs up images of colorless people without any racial identity whatsoever.
Then they yell things like “terrorist” and “traitor” and “kill him” at the mention of the opposing candidate’s name which of course has nothing to do with the fact that the opposing candidate doesn’t. quite. look. like. them.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:15 pmThat’s why they call it pigmentation. It explains why such a big porker can’t recognize it.
Fish & water, porker & pigmentation
October 10th, 2008 at 2:15 pmI wish the candidate would discuss global poverty more. According to The Borgen Project:
October 10th, 2008 at 2:19 pm$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget
Hey O’Liely, where’s my em-effin iced tea traitor-f@cker?!
October 10th, 2008 at 2:20 pm“Joe sixpack” — skinny white guy, half-shaven, slumped down on a tattered, stained, stinking couch, in a dimly lit, filthy room watching endless t.v. in a wife-beater shirt, perpetually intoxicated. His “clumsy” wife in the kitchen cooking away for him (”She falls down a lot… she’s ‘clumsy’. RIGHT dear?”). Laid off half the time, drunk all the time, promiscuous and unclean, violent, bigoted racist who gets his kicks getting a large group of “the good ol boys” together to go “teach some lessons” to anyone they don’t like (mainly anyone who appears to them to be homosexual and anyone not caucasion). Unable to take any responsibility for anything at all (”It’s not my fault — ever. And, honey, if you would just not annoy me so much I wouldn’t have to hit you…”) That’s something of the image of “joe sixpack” that I see when I hear that term.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:26 pmblack = absence of color = invisible.
yup, that sounds like Brill-O…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:33 pmThat’s something of the image of “joe sixpack” that I see when I hear that term.
Mostly, yeah, that’s about gt it.
You left out the part about molesting his daughter and her friends at a sleep-over, when the wife was out playing bingo…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:35 pmAnd how many people of color do you ever see at a McDepends/Flailin ‘town hall meeting’, other than a few plants behind the speakers?
Let’s face it, the current Repug party is one of white, homophobic, self-centered, humanity-challenged people.
(And they wonder why they are getting their collective arses kicked in November.)
Heh Heh
October 10th, 2008 at 2:37 pm# marisha30_1984 Says: I wish the candidate would discuss global poverty more. According to The Borgen Project:
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget
October 10th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Sheeeit, babe, they don’t even talk about DOMESTIC hunger. Ducks’ll fart dollars before they discuss GLOBAL hunger…
October 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pmCageyCretin Says:
“Joe sixpack” — skinny white guy, half-shaven…
Funny, the different images that come to mind. For me (living in New Orleans), “Joe Six-Pack” sports a beer-belly, bleeds Purple & Gold for LSU, even tho’ no one in his family has never attended the school…drives a Ford F3500 penis-mobile that he cannot afford but has never hauled anything heavier than a keg and the supersize kitty litter from Sam’s Club…tosses around the “n” word as casually as F-bombs…too lazy to be violent but dumb enough to be dangerous.
Potato/Potahto.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:39 pmWhere’s my effin’ ice tea?
October 10th, 2008 at 2:40 pmAnd my immediate image of a hockey mom is a woman of no color - none, at all, ever.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:41 pmThe best and quickest way to reveal Brill-O’s or any other allegedly color-blind person’s racial hypocrisy is to ask them if they’re white. Reflexively, 95% of white folks will respond in the affirmative. Doing so, of course, demontrates irrefutably that they are not race-blind, ence they acknowledge their own racial denomination/identity, howsoever casually.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:43 pmI beg to differ. Have you spent any time discussing stuff with Tracy?
October 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pmThere’s a peer group I’d want to be part of, the Joe Six-Pack crowd. Shoot me now.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pmNo, Bill O images a knuckle dragger or a more than likely a dildo up his own behind with a felafel.
Bildo is a freaking liar, but then again we all know that.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:47 pmSh1t, Joe Six Pack can’t even afford a six pack anymore. He’s down to chugging Listerine.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:48 pmtokin librul Says:
You left out the part about molesting his daughter and her friends at a sleep-over, when the wife was out playing bingo…
Yeah, I forgot that part. Or, as the who re said, “You get it!”
October 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pmSo, they expect the “average American” (man or WOMAN) to WANT to be identified as an alcoholic man? And that we should like being refered to in this manner?
Oh, please tell me that someone isn’t going to try to spin this as supposing to mean “six-pack” abs. Please, tell me that no one will dare to be THAT insulting…..
October 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pmJebus. Billo is truly “The Compleat Moron.”
Hey! That ought to be the title for his next tome!! ;o)
October 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pmWho was it that went into a restaurant and was surprised when they weren’t MF’n each other ?
October 10th, 2008 at 2:53 pmHowever, isn’t “white” not technically a ‘color’, but the reflection of all the colors of the spectrum (black being the absorption of all colors)? Or do I have that backwards? Either way, OButtmunch could spin that to mean that while he SEES a caucasion, he is really not seeing any specific color.
It has become a norm in our society that it is not really a lie if you have a justification (such as that). I have seen this attitude in a disturbing number of children in recent years. Truth is becoming a relative issue, in a bad way, and our leadership is not helping that matter much.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pmShould have asked him if he thought Jeebus was white.
October 10th, 2008 at 2:58 pmAccording to my training in art, colorless, i.e. the absence of color is white. Black is the combination of all colors…
So colorless is white O’Biley.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:03 pmOh, and Biley? In case no one’s told you lately, you’re a bucking figot!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:04 pm#
RUCerious Says:
According to my training in art, colorless, i.e. the absence of color is white. Black is the combination of all colors…
So colorless is white O’Biley.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I’d get my money back if i wuz you.
White is the combination of all colors, that’s why crystals work to show the spectrum…black is the absence of color…
October 10th, 2008 at 3:29 pmThe term “Joe Six-pack” is broadly linked to the working man or blue collar worker. However, it doesn’t represent the broad American public.
John Q. Public is a generic name in the United States to denote a hypothetical member of society deemed a “common man.”
Roughly equivalent, but more pejorative, are the names Joe Six-pack, Joe Blow, and Joe Schmoe, implying a lower-class citizen (from the Yiddish schmo: simpleton, or possibly Hebrew sh’mo: (what’s)-his-name).
October 10th, 2008 at 3:31 pmIn other words, Palin is insulting the people she’s hoping will vote for her (and McCain…of course).
October 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pmBill O’Reilly is in a Galaxy all by himself.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pmI’m not white, i’m a kind of “flax” or “wheat”
October 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pmJoe Sixpack is color neutral just like NASCAR Dad is color neutral. Another name is Reagan Democrat. Before that it was Wallace Democrat. Nothing color neutral about that.
October 10th, 2008 at 3:57 pmZooey Says:
How fitting. When I look at Bill O’Reilly, I don’t see humanity.
Billo had his soul taken away from him at his own request when he was 24. Satan told him without it, it would get him more women than he could shake a stick at.
Billo is still shaking that stick with no results every weekend. But he’s helped the porn and fetish industries grow every year since!
October 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pmFunny–my image of Joe Sixpack is a chunky guy, losing his hair, who comes home , throws his filthy work shirt in the hamper, shouts hello to his family, and presses the can of Bud to his forehead before he opens it while his wife tells him what the kids have gotten up to today.
October 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pmThing is, he’s a union man, been laid off once for three months and is scared he’s going to lose it for good this time.
He goes bnowling with his wife thursday nights with folks he’s known since he was in grade school. He changes his own oil in his 1987 Pontiac.
He goes out shooting with his buddies twice as a rule in the fall, where they go crazy trying to pick up the ball game on their radios.
When his wife nearly died from an ovarian cyst she insisted was ‘nothing’, he thanked God for his Union health plan.
He voted for Reagan because Carter botched the hostage rescue attempt, and because he was 22. And that was the last time.
He knows Republicans: they’re rich people who close factories, raise health-care co-pays and try to lower his pay. He deals with them every day.
Whenever he looks at his two kids, he wants to kick George W. Bush in the nuts.
Joe Sixpack? Know him well.
I’m a hockey mom
October 10th, 2008 at 4:59 pmJoe Six-pack is my dream date
Hot pickup truck sex
ralph the wonder llama Says:
I doubt it O’falafel isnt bright enough. Tracy may be a meanspirited troll but he isnt THAT dumb
I beg to differ. Have you spent any time discussing stuff with Tracy?
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Yes I have I am not claiming he is Stephen Hawkins or even Alan Colmes just not Billy O dumb
October 10th, 2008 at 5:39 pmugh…. O’Reilly vs Tracy the Babbler in a battle of the (dim)wits?
It’s hard to tell who would be the winner. Or loser, depending on how you look at it.
Tough call.
As for the clip… O’Reilly opening with “I am not being obtuse” then closing with “you put a lot of burden in the conversation” is priceless… (yes, Bill you are being obtuse, as usual)
October 10th, 2008 at 6:54 pmBill-o, here’s a nice phrase you might want to live by: “self-reflection.”
October 11th, 2008 at 8:48 am