By: E&P Staff Columnist Eugene Robinson criticized a reference to lynching made by Fox News host Bill O'Reilly, who's also a columnist.
O'Reilly said on his radio show this week that "I don't want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there's evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that's how she really feels -- that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever -- then that's legit. We'll track it down."
Robinson, speaking Wednesday on MSNBC's "Countdown" show hosted by Keith Olbermann, said: "There's certainly nothing at all funny or remotely appropriate about the use of a lynching reference to talk about Michelle Obama. ... It's -- I'm almost speechless."
He later added: "You know, by tomorrow morning, some defender will come out and say, 'I know Bill O'Reilly and he's no racist.' [But] all you can go by is his words and his actions. And he keeps saying these things that sound pretty darn racist to me."
Robinson is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group, while O'Reilly's newspaper column is with Creators Syndicate.
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