Tuesday, February 4, 2014

O'Reilly Forgets To Fact-Check Before Lecturing Obama For Not Addressing Black Issues

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/04/oreilly-forgets-to-fact-check-before-lecturing/197904

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in his zest for a gotcha moment O'Reilly is left pulling all ten toes out of his big mouth he came with a knife to challenge the CC of all the military, dumb.
Despite President Obama's efforts to address problems that plague the African-American community, Fox host Bill O'Reilly insisted Obama never addressed the problems explicitly and lectured him on how save the black community. In his interview with the president, O'Reilly continued his condescending effort to attribute historic problems in the black community to what he called "the culture."
On the February 3 edition of his Fox News show, O'Reilly played unaired portions of his interview with Obama. During the interview, O'Reilly asked the president why he and first lady Michelle Obama never "explicitly" address problems in the black community, citing statistics about families (emphasis added):
BILL O'REILLY: One of my points on the Factor is that poverty is driven by the dissolution of the American family; that is the prime mover. OK? On your watch, median income has dropped 17 percent among working families in this country. That's not a good record, it's not all your fault, part of it was this terrible recession, we all know that. Everybody knows that.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: OK.
O'REILLY: All right. But 72 percent of babies in African-American community are born out of wedlock now.
OBAMA: Yeah.
O'REILLY: Why isn't there a campaign, by you and the first lady, to address that problem very explicitly?
OBAMA: Yeah. Actually, Bill, we address it explicitly all the time. I'll send you at least 10 speeches I've made since I've been president, talking about the importance of men taking responsibility for their children. Talking about the importance of young people delaying gratification. Talking about the importance of when it comes to child rearing, paying child support, spending time with your kids, reading with them. So, whether it's getting publicity or not is a whole different question.
O'REILLY: But I don't see the pressure from the federal government to go in and say, "This is wrong. This is killing futures of babies and children."
OBAMA: Well first of all, I've just got to say it, Bill; we talk about it all the time. We'll continue to talk about it. We're convening, for example, philanthropists and business people city by city who are interested in addressing these problems at the local level. There is an economic component to it as well, though.
what's that saying, "don't assume it makes an fool out of you and me", he was successful
Unfortunately for O'Reilly, President Obama has been consistent about his message to the African-American community. In a June 2008 speech in in one of the largest black churches in Chicago, Obama sharply criticized absent black fathers, explaining, "[w]e need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception." Obama continued:
"Too many fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL, missing from too many lives and too many homes," Mr. Obama said, to a chorus of approving murmurs from the audience. "They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men. And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it."
During a May 2013 commencement address at the all-male, historically black Morehouse College, Obama explained the importance of having a positive black male role model:
that faction of White America has accepted their repetitive "reason for Black failings" as the family unit and environment, Gingrich, "they don't have anybody that works around them" the change the right needs to make is in personnel their "PRINCIPLES" formerly kinown as "VALUES" are why they finally admit they need to change but they denied the change had to be their manifesto, only help for them and salvation for America a major change in them.  time for trade ins