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BILL O'REILLY LIKENS BLACK LIVES MATTER TO NAZI PARTY
Guest: 'I'm outraged that you would say that'
Cheryl Chumley
He opened with commentary about the Black Lives Matter movement "not all that different than the Black Panther movement" in that they "both believe police actively target blacks for oppression."
O'Reilly then said "Black Lives Matter movement [is] causing trouble all over the country," and cut to video segments of some of the members' recent protests, including one where they marched down a street chanting, "pigs in a blanket" and another one where they called for "dead cops."
His point: "You would think if you have an organized group in America saying we want dead cops, that all decent people would reject that group. ... The Democratic Party is actively embracing Black Lives Matter."
O'Reilly then read from a letter from the Democratic National Committee approving a Black Lives Matter town hall that stated, in part: "We believe that your organization would be an ideal host for a presidential candidate forum, where all of the Democratic candidates can showcase their ideas and policy positions that will expand opportunity for all, strengthen the middle class and address racism in America."
O'Reilly clarified the "disturbing letter" was written by the executive officer of the DNC, and then introduced his guests, David Goodfriend, a law professor at Georgetown University and Keith Boykin, who served as a special assistant to former president Bill Clinton.
O'Reilly opened with the question: "What do you think about that letter?"
Boykin: "I think it's a good move on the part of the DNC to work with the Black Lives Matter movement ... and I do think, quite frankly ... the Democratic Party needs to have the support of the black community."
O'Reilly shot back: "So you believe the Democratic Party is correct in embracing a radical group, a group that has called for police officers to be killed?"
Boykin denied that characterization and from there, the two engaged in a heated back-and-forth.
"That is not a reflection of the entire movement," Boykin said, about the call for dead cops. "Has anybody in the leadership ever said that?"
Ultimately, O'Reilly threatened to cut his microphone.
"You're either going to stop talking or I'm going to cut your mic off," O'Reilly said, to Boykin.
O'Reilly pressed the point to Goodfriend: "Is it right or wrong for the Democratic Party to ally itself with this group that has called for police officers to be killed? Is it right or wrong?"
Goodfriend said the Democratic National Committee "repudiates" all Black Lives Matter's calls for violence.
"The DNC," O'Reilly said. "Look, would you be comfortable with the Republican Party bringing in the stormfront, the Nazi people, and saying we'd like our candidates to talk to you guys. Would you be comfortable with that?"
Goodfriend said, "no."
O'Reilly: "Okay. ... They're an extreme group, the Nazi party. But the Black Lives Matter is also an extreme group as you've heard, as we've proven. They've just this week interrupted a town meeting in Los Angeles ... where the mayor couldn't even speak to the folks, where they stormed in."
He then pressed once more the question: Why are Democrats embracing such a group?
Goodfriend said he has a lot of black friends and some of their concerns about police are justified. Boykin, meanwhile, broke in to say: "The Black Lives Matter movement is not the Nazi party. It's an offensive suggestion to make that comparison, Bill. I'm outraged that you would say that. And the reality is no one I know who's a part of the leadership, has ever endorsed the killing of police officers."
As O'Reilly said: "I've asked you to give me one name of a person who's repudiated that and you couldn't. ... The group is judged by its behavior."
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