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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 927997" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/16/sc-dem-chair-gop-holding-debate-on-mlk-day-is-racist-oreilly-you-do-know-dems-held-a-debate-on-mlk-day-in-2008/" target="_blank">SC Dem Chair: GOP Holding Debate On MLK Day Is Racist — O’Reilly: You Do Know Dems Held a Debate On MLK Day In 2008?</a></p><p>Via <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/youre-getting-killed-here-oreilly-embarrasses-sc-dem-chair-with-reminder-of-2008-mlk-day-debate/" target="_blank">Mediaite</a>:</p><p>South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Dick Harpootlian objected earlier in the week on MSNBC to today’s Republican primary debate.</p><p>...he considered it objectionable to have a debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and “ignore” the holiday.</p><p>“Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.”</p><p>O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this — namely, something that happened in 2008.</p><p>Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 927997, member: 12952"] [URL='http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/16/sc-dem-chair-gop-holding-debate-on-mlk-day-is-racist-oreilly-you-do-know-dems-held-a-debate-on-mlk-day-in-2008/']SC Dem Chair: GOP Holding Debate On MLK Day Is Racist — O’Reilly: You Do Know Dems Held a Debate On MLK Day In 2008?[/URL] Via [URL='http://www.mediaite.com/tv/youre-getting-killed-here-oreilly-embarrasses-sc-dem-chair-with-reminder-of-2008-mlk-day-debate/']Mediaite[/URL]: South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Dick Harpootlian objected earlier in the week on MSNBC to today’s Republican primary debate. ...he considered it objectionable to have a debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and “ignore” the holiday. “Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.” O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this — namely, something that happened in 2008. Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.” [/QUOTE]
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