Posted by
Corthell on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 11:27:48 AM
''It is suspected that O’Reilly is using Hill, who is black, as cover against charges that he is a racist. O’Reilly has himself been accused by the left of making racist slurs, such as when the Washington Post reported that he attended a fundraiser for inner-city youth and joked about black kids stealing his hubcaps.''
Bill O’Reilly has brought back cop-killer apologist Marc Lamont Hill as a commentator on his highly-rated cable show, which he calls the “No Spin Zone.” Curiously, this follows the firing of Hill by O’Reilly’s boss, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation.
There has been no explanation, not even spin, from official Fox News representatives for this strange situation. How can Hill be showing up on the same channel that fired him?
On his show, O’Reilly postures as a defender of police officers and law enforcement authorities. He frequently taunts public officials for going soft on child predators and other criminals.
But Hill, a hip-hop professor at Columbia University, is a public advocate of convicted cop-killers Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur. He claims they were wrongly convicted for their crimes.
Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, who was murdered by Abu-Jamal, has written personally to O’Reilly, asking why he has the “pinhead” Hill on his show. (O’Reilly regularly denounces people who say or do extreme things as “pinheads.”)
Hill has referred to Abu-Jamal as “Brother Mumia,” a “freedom fighter,” and a “political prisoner.” The official Daniel Faulkner website rebuts the misinformation that attempts to suggest that Abu-Jamal is somehow not guilty of this murder.
Hill’s support for convicted killer Assata Shakur, who murdered New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster, included putting police mug shot photos of her on his Twitter page. Shakur escaped from prison and fled to Communist Cuba with the help of members of the terrorist Weather Underground.
Hill is so extreme that he went on O’Reilly’s show to defend a protest in honor of Lovelle Mixon, a suspected rapist with a lengthy criminal record who had murdered four Oakland police officers.
In addition, Hill labeled racist Khallid Muhammad, known as “America’s Black Hitler,” a mentor, teacher and “revolutionary hero,” and lists a speech before a communist group on his official academic Curriculum Vitae.
Nevertheless, Hill is back on “The O’Reilly Factor” as a respectable advocate of the liberal point of view.