Last night on the “Talking Points” segment of his Fox News program, The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly was simply “fed up with all the adulation” over Michael Jackson.
Among Bill’s observations on the day of MJ’s memorial service:
- Jackson’s “incredible selfishness, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on himself while singing ‘We Are The World’” should make anyone nauseous.
- Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other African-Americans are shamelessly “playing the race card” by claiming Jackson as one of their own in death.
- “If (Jackson) were a white guy,” his behavior would never be tolerated.
- “You don’t become an African-American icon” if you bleach your skin.
As bad as that was, his guest, “media critic” Bernard Goldberg, was worse.
Goldberg first defended U.S. Rep. Peter King, who has come under fire for calling Jackson a “low-life,” a “pedophile” and a “child molester” over the weekend.
The New York Republican is enraged at people extolling the virtues of Jackson, putting at least part of the blame on media coverage that is “too politically correct.”
The icing on the cake came when Goldberg said, “Then again, to many black people, if you remember the reaction after he was acquitted, O.J. Simpson was a hero.”
Here’s O’Reilly’s “Talking Points” and an interview with Columbia University Professor Marc Lamont Hill, who tried his best to dispute some of the above comments:
What do you think? Are these guys way out of line, even racist? Or are they the only ones taking the media to task for glorifying Michael Jackson?