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Wed 29 Mar, 2017 01:51 pm
THIS is what Congresswoman Waters was saying on the floor of the House, that Bill O'Reilly got us all to ignore by ridiculing her wig:
“African-Americans have struggled and fought historically, many African-
Americans have paid a huge price, fighting for justice and equality in this country, have died for it. I don’t have to call the names of Martin Luther King and all the others. We have paid a price, we have fought. But guess what? Despite the fact that America has not always been there for us, we’ve always been there for America. We have fought in America’s wars. We have suffered discrimination, we have suffered isolation and undermining, but we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not.
“When we fight against this president, and we point out how dangerous he is for this society and for this country, we’re fighting for the democracy. We’re fighting for America. We’re saying to those who say they’re patriotic but they’ve turned a blind eye to the destruction that he’s about to cause this country, ‘You’re not nearly as patriotic as we are.’”
O'Reilly heard all this before he made the "James Brown wig" remark. It's almost like wingnut shills like O'Reilly don't want us to hear things like Maxine Water's truth.
@snood,
It's a tactic of smearing someone to make fun of their looks. Maxine Waters' message is toxic to the likes of O'Reilly because the service has a disproportionately high percentage of blacks and minorities in it, so they are the ones putting themselves on the line when the shooting starts. This is a most uncomfortable truth to a conservative like O'Reilly, since his party has nominated and elected a president who was helped by Russia in the election, who says NATO is obsolete when it is the only reason Russia dares not take back the Eastern European nations it had to let go when their economy imploded, and who has stocked his Administration with pro-Putin people who are fresh off the Kremlin payroll.
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