The O'Reilly Debate

I'm still thinking there's a bit of a ratings ploy involved here, but the debate over Bill O'Reilly's comment about eating at Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem isn't going away. Olbermann kept the flames roaring last night...

CLIPS: Wash. Post's Robinson on O'Reilly: "[I]t was, at best, a casually racist remark"

During the September 26 edition of MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, discussing Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's controversial September 19 remarks about his visit to Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson said of O'Reilly's comment: "[I]t was, at best, a casually racist remark." Robinson also said: "[W]hat really ticks me off is that when you say that, when you point that out, you know, immediately you get charged by O'Reilly and cohorts with, you know, you're the thought police, you're the thought Gestapo, you're the word Nazis, you're interfering with free speech, and somehow cutting off an honest debate about race. Well, tell me what in the year 2007 is [...]

And, this morning, Joe Scarborough kept the chatter going on "Morning Joe" -

Scarborough Slaps Sharpton For Not Going After 'Moron' O'Reilly

This could be a first: Al Sharpton criticized for being insufficiently inflammatory; faulted for not shooting from the hip. At the opening of today's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough panned the Rev's "O'Reilly Factor" performance last evening, in which the normally obstreperous one was relatively subdued on the subject of his host's comments on Sylvia's restaurant in Harlem. Later, Scarborough escalated his criticism, [...]

Newspapers are all over it, too -

O’Reilly at Sylvia’s: O’Reilly and Sanches comment…

The Washington Post’s Paul Fahritalks with both Bill O’Reilly and CNN’s Rick Sanchez… O’Reilly was still simmering last night. “They’re making it something that it isn’t,” he said in an interview by phone from New York. “Anyone who listens to the tape [of the radio show] and is fair-minded will tell you this was an intelligent [...]

O’Reilly at Sylvia’s: More write-ups…

Variety’s Michael Learmonth writes about the story… Cut, parsed, and repurposed, and according to O’Reilly, taken out of context, the comments have been red meat for liberal groups as well as for O’Reilly’s 8pm rivals, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and CNN substitute host Rick Sanchez. Both have spent two nights keeping the controversy alive. Williams, who was present [...]

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