Some black people aren't so bad

Illinois Commerce Commission Chairman Charles Box served three terms (1989-2001) as mayor of Rockford, an impressive record for a black man in an overwhelmingly white community.

Box, a graduate of Dartmouth University and the University of Michigan Law School, faced surprisingly little race-baiting during his tenure at City Hall. There was, however, one episode about which he told me but which drew no public attention. It involved a School Board member whose racism was so deep-seated that the guy probably didn't even recognize it in himself.

The prejudice came to the fore when this guy said to Box that he was the "smartest black person I've ever known."

I was reminded of this matter when I read the other day about how Fox News blowhard Bill O'Reilly expressed great surprise at having had a pleasant experience in a New York restaurant operated by black folks.

Bill O'Reilly is quite the scamp

I don't know for sure what was going on when this photo of Fox News Channel blowhard Bill O'Reilly was snapped, but I now have a pretty good idea.

I knew that O'Reilly was hit with a sexual harrassment suit a few years back, but I never knew the details. Well, thanks to a few links to TheSmokingGun.com provided today by Atrios, I've come across the full text of the initial complaint. It's a doozy.

(Start here and then follow the subsequent links at the bottom of each page.)

No matter how much you previously disliked this guy, you'll never think of him in the same way again.

How dumb can you get?

Bill O'Reilly, the dim-witted commentator on the Fox News Channel, waxed offended the other night because a liberal blog site had referred to Pope Benedict XVI as a "primate."

O'Reilly seems not to know that one of the definitions of "primate" is: a bishop of highest rank.

Read about it here and follow the links therein.