Bill O'Reilly Claims Blacks Are 'Conservative at
Bill O'Reilly Claims Blacks Are 'Conservative at Heart'
Compiled by the DiversityInc staff
© 2006 DiversityInc.com®
April 05, 2006
FOX News' Bill O'Reilly proves once again that it is good to check facts before speaking.
During the March 30 broadcast of his syndicated radio show, O'Reilly said "the mainstream African-American person" is a "conservative at heart." He then defined black people as the "person who goes to work, gets up, doesn't live in the ghetto, lives in a, you know, in a working class neighborhood or an affluent neighborhood."
Media Matters for America, which printed the transcript for the show, reports that O'Reilly then proceeded to list several characteristics purportedly shared by black people in the United States, which to him indicate their conservatism, including that "you don't see a lot of African-Americans ... running around with actress and anti-war activist Jane Fonda." He later added: "We're not talking gangster rappers, or Rev. Jesse Jacksons. We're talking mainstream."
Statistical information from the real world, however, shows that black people vote Democratic in overwhelming numbers, a fact O'Reilly did not mention. In the 2004 presidential election, exit polling showed that Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., won 88 percent of the black vote, while President Bush received 11 percent.
Compiled by the DiversityInc staff
© 2006 DiversityInc.com®
April 05, 2006
FOX News' Bill O'Reilly proves once again that it is good to check facts before speaking.
During the March 30 broadcast of his syndicated radio show, O'Reilly said "the mainstream African-American person" is a "conservative at heart." He then defined black people as the "person who goes to work, gets up, doesn't live in the ghetto, lives in a, you know, in a working class neighborhood or an affluent neighborhood."
Media Matters for America, which printed the transcript for the show, reports that O'Reilly then proceeded to list several characteristics purportedly shared by black people in the United States, which to him indicate their conservatism, including that "you don't see a lot of African-Americans ... running around with actress and anti-war activist Jane Fonda." He later added: "We're not talking gangster rappers, or Rev. Jesse Jacksons. We're talking mainstream."
Statistical information from the real world, however, shows that black people vote Democratic in overwhelming numbers, a fact O'Reilly did not mention. In the 2004 presidential election, exit polling showed that Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., won 88 percent of the black vote, while President Bush received 11 percent.
