Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly said Wednesday his critics took remarks he made about a famed Harlem restaurant out of context and “fabricated a racial controversy where none exists.”
He criticized the liberal group Media Matters for America as “smear merchants” for publicizing statements he made on his radio show last week.
O’Reilly told his radio audience that he dined with civil rights activist Al SharptonNew York City. at Sylvia’s recently and “couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference” between the black-run restaurant and others in
I agree Bill O’ Reilly isn’t a racist, except for the whole separate water fountain thing. Just kidding don’t sue me.