Bill O’Reilly And Bernard Goldberg Use Michael Jackson Funeral To Take Swipes At African American Community

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cheap jordan store In his Talking Points at the beginning of the show, O’Reilly said he was “fed up with all the adulation” over Jackson. “The truth is that Jackson’s interactions with children were unacceptable for any adult. His incredible selfishness, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on himself while singing ‘We Are The World’ should make any clear thinking American nauseous.” Then he attacked Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and other African Americans for “playing the race card” by claiming Jackson as one of their own. cheap jordan store

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cheap white jordan shoes Goldberg allowed as how since man “emerged from cave, we always looked out for our group over any other group” and that that’s why, for example, when people attacked Frank Sinatra, Italian Americans would “bristle.” But he was still implying that the only reason African Americans were upset was because of clannishness, not because that what King said might have been genuinely offensive. cheap white jordan shoes

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buy cheap jordans online On the other hand, Goldberg, who, unlike Shields, did not seem to know Jackson, sneered, “A black hero of a man who bleached his skin to the point that at the end he was as white as you and me? It’s one thing to honor him Cheap jordans as an entertainer. But as a civil rights hero? That just strikes me as ridiculous.” The truth is, Jackson was something of a civil rights here. As Rev. Al Sharpton explained, Jackson fans “grew up from being teenage comfortable fans of Michael to being 40 years old and being comfortable to vote for a person of color to be the president of the United States of America.” Also, Jackson broke an extremely important color barrier when his videos were played on MTV. buy cheap jordans online

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After stressing that Jackson was “a great entertainer,” Goldberg said he was most struck by how Jackson had been “elevated to something more than that.” Um, that’s because he was something more than that to many people. He was a pop icon for more than 40 years, which means most people grew up with him as a major figure. Goldberg and O’Reilly are showing their age if they don’t get at least that part of it. Do these guys scorn Princess Diana as “a ceremonial figurehead?” Somehow, I doubt it. She had her own personal troubles, too.

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