O’Reilly: STL Rams Not ‘Smart Enough To Know’ What They Were Protesting

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 1: Bill O'Reilly at Late Show With David Letterman in New York City on October 1, 2014. Credit: RW/MediaPunch/IPX
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Fox News host Bill O’Reilly took aim on Monday night at the St. Louis Rams football players who took the field with their hands up this weekend in protest of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo.

During his show, O’Reilly said the recent shootings of black teens by white cops were “not an epidemic” and “not a hunting down of black youths.”

He criticized the five players who took part in the protest during Sunday night’s game.

“Quite frankly, I don’t think they’re smart enough to know what they’re doing,” O’Reilly said. “I don’t. I absolutely don’t think they’re smart enough to know what they’re doing.”

Watch the video below, via Media Matters:

h/t Salon

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  1. It’s the damnedest thing. All you have to do is claim not to be racist and there’s really nothing you can’t say.

  2. O’Reilly proudly demonstrates once again that he is a pompous ass.

  3. He was just sorry they weren’t Tampa Bay players, so he could refer to them as bucks.

  4. Avatar for mazs mazs says:

    As Stephen Colbert would say (of Papa Bear), “I don’t see color. They tell me the Ram players are black.”

  5. “I absolutely don’t think they’re smart enough to know what they’re doing.”

    Oh really, Bill-O? Were they just “aping” it? Was it a case of MONKEY see MONKEY do? Hmmmmm? You racist fucking twat.

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