assholeofday:Bill O’Reilly, Asshole of the Day for December 2, 2014 by TeaPartyCat (Follow @
assholeofday: Bill O’Reilly, Asshole of the Day for December 2, 2014 by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat) Bill O’Reilly doesn’t believe in white privilege even though he grew up in a segregated community that blacks weren’t allowed to live in. But he says he’s not a racist of course. On Sunday some St. Louis Rams players came out using the “hands up, don’t shoot” pose to show solidarity with protesters in Ferguson: The latest #Ferguson confrontation is between the St. Louis County police & the @STLouisRams: http://t.co/kwTE8EviFr pic.twitter.com/C75OiODCzr — CNN (@CNN) December 2, 2014 But Bill O’Reilly isn’t having any of it, and says the players are too stupid to know what they were doing: “Look, you’ve got crazy people on all sides, Bill,” said Juan Williams, arguing with the host’s opinion that anyone who assumes the “hands up, don’t shoot” position thinks that all police are hunting down all minorities. “But if you think that those football players identify and say, ‘Oh, all cops are bad’? That is not true.” “No,” O’Reilly responds with the utmost condescension. “Quite frankly, I don’t think they’re smart enough to know what they’re doing. I don’t. I absolutely don’t think they’re smart enough to know what they’re doing.” Yes, he said that. Really, it’s not hard. Hands up, don’t shoot. The protesters have been using it for 3 months. It both shows anger at police shooting Michael Brown, who many think had his hands up when he was shot, and says to the police at protests that they are not posing a threat. But Bill O’Reilly doesn’t think the players are smart enough to get that. Is it because they’re black? Or because they disagree with his worldview that racism no longer exists? Hard to say. But the answer doesn’t really matter since both are enough to make him the Asshole of the Day. It is Bill O’Reilly’s fifth time being named Asshole of the Day. Previous wins include saying “Jesus wouldn’t be down with welfare” saying “Jesus died to protest taxes” saying there’s no point in discussing the gender pay gap saying he doesn’t believe in “white privilege” Full story: Salon. -- source link