Posted by Lee Russ Not only is this not a "clear" example of showing selectivity, I can't find any way to interpret it in that manner. Media Matters reported what O'R said about HIM being suprised that the Black restauarant was no different than white restaurants. It reported it accurately. Who cares if Juan Williams, you, or anybody else thinks that the OVERALL import of the O'R program was to show his listeners that Blacks aren't inherently different? That doesn't change the fact that O'R at least was claiming to have been surprised by that fact. That's all Media Matters reported, and that is all that is relevant to O'R's beliefs. He actually claimed to have thought, prior to that dinner at Sylvia's, that Black restaurants WOULD BE different. I'm not being argumentative, you're missing the point. As I said in my first post, I doubt that O'R really did think that Black restaurants were different than White ones up until eating at Sylvia's. I think that he had to pretend to have believed that in order to stay in his bellicose boob character, in order to remain acceptable to his pitiable audience.
on 10/1/2007, 5:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Juan Williams and Bill OReilly"
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This is your entire post which you claim shows that Media Matters was being selective: ...But while NBC's Today at least provided some balance and proper labeling, CBS's Early Show, with "In Hot Water" and "O'Race Factor" on screen, aired a story which failed to identify the ideology of Media Matters and followed with Julie Chen pressing the only guest to agree O'Reilly's comment was racist and that he must issue an apology. Amazingly, neither show bothered to mention that Juan Williams, the black journalist who was on O'Reilly's radio show when the FNC host made the remarks in question, defended O'Reilly: "It had nothing to do with racist ranting by anybody except these idiots at CNN."
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