|
» GC Stats |
Members: 329,743
Threads: 115,668
Posts: 2,205,120
|
| Welcome to our newest member, loganttso2709 |
|
 |
02-20-2008, 06:58 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,255
|
|
|
Am I reading this right?
O'Reilly said he wasn't interested in going after Michelle's comments unless he knew her true intent?
Is it just because he used the term "lynching"?
Seems like a bit of a reach if I'm understanding your post.
|
02-20-2008, 07:07 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Down the street
Posts: 9,791
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by shinerbock
Is it just because he used the term "lynching"?
|
Yes just like that sports anchor's "lynch him in a back alley."
I understand O'Reilly's sentiment and really like O'Reilly. This was a nonracial comment that, if he had been thinking of the larger context, he would've expressed differently as to avoid the trouble.
|
02-20-2008, 07:40 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,255
|
|
|
I thought the Tiger Woods fiasco was overblown too. I thought the comment was inappropriate, but that was a different scenario in my opinion. The comment there was a joking "lets lynch him in a back alley," which would have been awkward, at best, even for a white golfer. It simply wasn't a professional thing to say.
I think this is more of a reach because it is simply a reference to a lynch mob scenario (which by definition is not racial, though the connotation is obviously there), which in my mind is a much more common usage and not particularly controversial.
I understand that the many people wince when a black person and the term "lynch" are used in the same paragraph, but I think in the O'Reilly type scenario we should simply let that be it. I don't really even think he should refrain from doing that, unless he justs wants to eliminate the possibility of word-choice questioning like this.
|
02-20-2008, 07:42 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: In a house.
Posts: 9,564
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by shinerbock
Am I reading this right?
O'Reilly said he wasn't interested in going after Michelle's comments unless he knew her true intent?
Is it just because he used the term "lynching"?
Seems like a bit of a reach if I'm understanding your post.
|
Not reaching...laughing.
really think about it...that's par for the course for O'reilly....
I just hope and pray this doesn't become a stupid media circus when he is cornered into giving some half assed apology just to save his job.
and all because he was actually trying to defend Mrs Obama....heh
__________________
Law and Order: Gotham - “In the Criminal Justice System of Gotham City the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime, the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders, and the Batman. These are their stories.”
Last edited by DaemonSeid; 02-20-2008 at 07:46 PM.
|
02-20-2008, 07:57 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,255
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
Not reaching...laughing.
really think about it...that's par for the course for O'reilly....
I just hope and pray this doesn't become a stupid media circus when he is cornered into giving some half assed apology just to save his job.
and all because he was actually trying to defend Mrs Obama....heh
|
Fair enough. He's probably just thankful he doesn't work for MSNBC, otherwise he'd (have never been hired) be packing his stuff.
|
02-20-2008, 09:49 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: In a house.
Posts: 9,564
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by shinerbock
Fair enough. He's probably just thankful he doesn't work for MSNBC, otherwise he'd (have never been hired) be packing his stuff.
|
Shiner...speaking of MSNBC....Keith Olbermann is talking about this now....
The circus now begins
They need to do this to Saliva's "Ladies and Gentlemen"
__________________
Law and Order: Gotham - “In the Criminal Justice System of Gotham City the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime, the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders, and the Batman. These are their stories.”
Last edited by DaemonSeid; 02-20-2008 at 09:55 PM.
|
02-20-2008, 09:52 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,255
|
|
|
They're talkin about the lynching comment?
Who is it, Olbermann? I wouldn't be surprised considering he spends 80% of his time trying to attack O'Reilly.
|
02-20-2008, 09:55 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: In a house.
Posts: 9,564
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by shinerbock
They're talkin about the lynching comment?
Who is it, Olbermann? I wouldn't be surprised considering he spends 80% of his time trying to attack O'Reilly.
|
yup...turn it on...quick....
and to be more specific..
the part of 'Lynching, unless...'
sigh....
__________________
Law and Order: Gotham - “In the Criminal Justice System of Gotham City the people are represented by three separate, yet equally important groups. The police who investigate crime, the District Attorneys who prosecute the offenders, and the Batman. These are their stories.”
|
02-20-2008, 10:00 PM
|
|
GreekChat Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: capturing a vision fair...
Posts: 1,305
|
|
|
Ummm, O'Reily is a racist fool. And the Tiger Woods comment was NOT overblown.
__________________
"Hearts that are loyal and hearts that are true"
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
Sorry, T La Rock, LL killed it. 
Hybrid Mode
