Jon Stewart’s summit with Bill O’Reilly in order to keep the Common controversy going will now be a two-night event. Read the full post.
May 16
2011
05:15 PM ET
Jon Stewart and Bill O'Reilly's battle extended to two rounds
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Mr. O’Reilly, I agree with you that this Common character should NOT have been invited to the White House. People like John Stewart do NOT have the political character to recognize how wrong this was! Please continue to voice the opinion of the PEOPLE!
@Francie, who do you think Jon Stewart speaks for? The opinion of the bunnies and kittens?
Jon Stewart destroyed each of O’Reilly’s arguments.
That’s a lie. O’Reilly won! Look, b l a c ks commit the most crimes, the most rapes, the most thefts. Having a rapper come to the White House and do hardcore gangster rap at a poetry session is obscene and wrong!
This is Common we’re talking about. It’s not gangsta rap. I love O’Reilly, but this is one issue he screwed up on. I agree, Common is hardly a great poet. There are far better poets out there. But the arguments against him are the wrong arguments.
@Francie Brown:
I don’t know you, but based on your ignorant and blanketed term about “blacks” (if you’ve ever taken an African American History class, you would have learned that’s a socially constructed term), then you need to educate yourself.
You are narrowing your mind based on your lack of socio-political perspective (also critical and analytical, but that’s a pressing issue many Fox viewers are blind to(statistically Fox Viewers education level is lower than viewers of the Daily Show…look it up if you don’t believe me…research was done by a senior research analyst at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania…and a survey of around 20,000 people was conducted and analyzed…statistics are credible (ever written an essay? Credible sources are muy importante.)
Okay, so, my thoughts are all jumbled, my punctuation isn’t correct, and it’s late, but my point I still need to make:
You should go to a poetry slam. They’re moving and bring people together because humans, being the social creatures we are, love to relate to the stories.
Oh, one more point. Your ignorance and blind trust to a somewhat judgemental and racist-enforcing prejudice of African Americans,whom have been exploited and degraded since the 1700′s (and that’s slavery JUST in this country), makes me fear many of the population illogically think the same as you. You would be just like the slave owners and Mayors of Northern and Southern states, before and during the Missouri Compromise, justifying the right to own slaves and believe they’re “happy, well-fed, and, just like George Washington thought, believes the “blacks” are inferior and proven to be inferior to the White man.
Just, turn off the news and read.
Only an idiot would argue that a ‘ne g ro’ loving liberal like Stewart won. The fact is that b l a cks commit more rape, arson and violent crime than any other race. Letting a cop-killer like Common attend a White House event and then letting him gangster rap to a White House audience is not only wrong but it is obscene and inappropriate! O’Reilly won hands down.
Somehow, I suspect that these last couple of people are plants — liberals writing comments to make conservatives look bad. I could be wrong. But I’m from a conservative area and I hang out with a lot of conservatives. I have met very, very few who would make such racist statements as the one above. That goes against the core of conservative thought — that is, the importance of the individual over the collective, meaning that every person should be judged according to his or her own merits or lack thereof, rather than being grouped in with others. Putting people into groups and judging their abilities is something more common in a caste system, or in communism (think proletariat vs. bourgeois). Such grouping and generalizing is not a part of general conservative thought.
Yawn…on a average night O’Reilly has about three times the viewership that Stewart has…Mr. Stewart needs the exposure. BTW, the NJ State Police and most police officer associations also objected to Common’s invitation to the WH.
And Johnny Cash used to serenade outlaws in his songs that, guess what?, used to kill cops and were celebrated for it and he was invited to the White House along with Bono who, guess what?, wrote songs that defended those wrongfully accused of killing police officers. We get it, you don’t like Obama because of the color of his skin. Now go back to the hole you crawled out of.
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