The particulars: Jason Whitlock of “blame the gun when a grown man commits murder” infamy compared the NRA to the KKK. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly invited Whitlock onto his show to explain himself. O’Reilly’s show is one of the most watched shows on cable. Getting an invitation to appear on it is a big deal, even if you’re being invited on to defend saying or writing something that O’Reilly disagrees with. O’Reilly regularly invites guests with whom he disagrees, to debate the issue and hand and have their say as he has his.
In general, columnists want to get their ideas out to as many people as possible. That’s why they become columnists. Whitlock has ideas. O’Reilly offered him a platform to defend those ideas.
But Whitlock declined. And he attacked O’Reilly’s invitation as a racist move.
But it appears I was summoned to testify before Speaker of The Big House Bill O’Reilly, the FOX News entertainer. O’Reilly is fixated on the mistake I made on the Tom Joyner show. O’Reilly spent part of his Tuesday show telling his viewers that I was afraid to come on “The Factor” and discuss my views on the NRA, the Second Amendment and gun culture.
I’m a grown-ass man and it’s 2012. I don’t have to shuffle off to the Big House when summoned. O’Reilly is not Boehner, Pelosi or Obama. He’s a TV entertainer who has spent the weeks after the election crying about the end of “white establishment” America, the end of the days when an upstanding white man felt entitled to summon whomever he wanted whenever he wanted to the Big House to dance.
I don’t dance.
Jason Whitlock may not dance, but he writes like a child and he runs from a fight that he started. What serious columnist describes himself as a “grown-ass man” and resorts to the trope of citing the year as if that’s some sort of coup de grace? They did that on All in the Family in the 1970s, for goodness sake. It’s hardly a new or innovative tactic. What columnist who wants to be taken seriously compares a news network to a prison — the “Big House?” What columnist who wants to be taken seriously says irresponsible things on one show, then flees when he has a chance to defend or explain those ideas before a huge national audience? What is there about Jason Whitlock, his response to the Jovan Belcher murder-suicide, or his own comments in the aftermath, that merits any serious consideration at all?
Got anything to say about this, Bob?
Didn’t think so.
What a silly, silly manchild he is.
Whitlock wasn’t referring to prison with “the Big House”, he was referring to plantations. He’s insinuating O’Reilly views him as a slave, to be called into the house to perform tricks or tasks.
…but intriguingly, Whitlock views himself as a slave to the government (“O’Reilly is not Boehner, Pelosi or Obama.”, implying he would go )–and seems to consider that a good thing. If Obama says, “Hey, come shuffle” he’d go. Twisted.
So he mixed his metaphors too. Great writing! Heh.
Great minds think alike, Bryan! http://thehayride.com/2012/12/jason-whitlock-coward/
One has to wonder what the deeper agenda is. Whitlock used the tragic murder-suicide of a black athlete to promote not only gun control, the origins of which were to keep firearms out of the hands of freed slaves and to equate the advocacy of gun possession to the KKK. The Democrats who formed the KKK benefited greatly from being able to attack disarmed blacks. Thus able to carry out their program of terror with little risk to their own safety.
The reasons advocates like Whitlock cite for gun control is the rampant violence in the mostly black poor communities. As we’ve seen with the gun restrictions in Chicago and New York, connected whites have little trouble obtaining a license for a firearm. Whereas, poor blacks are routinely denied and even harassed over guns. Commonsense would indicate that any increase in gun control would have a disparate impact on blacks, whites and other minorities in the poorer communities while the 1% suffer little if any interference with their gun possession and certainly not with their protection given their access to bodyguards.
So one must wonder if the exploitation of a tragedy to call for the disarming of poor blacks and the attempt to smear a civil rights advocacy group by claiming they are like the Democrats of 60+ years ago isn’t part of a “Progressive” agenda to create a disarmed public ripe for exploitation and abuse?
I never heard of Whitlock before now.
I guess his Bette Davis drama strategy worked, any publicity is good publicity as long as they spell your name right.
– ass? No, just morbidly obese and even his belove UbamaCare won’t be able to save him from the fat surrounding his heart and head.