bill reilly right after the march on Washington speech is started
was just constantly attacking liberals attacking the democrats say
you didn't invite people to this in fact we have %uh some video of him talking
specifically about
black conservative attendance president clinton described the gathering today as
an observance of one of the most important days American history
and that's true but what mister clinton and no one else mentioned
is at today's event X school did black Republicans and conservatives
all the speakers were democrats vast
was a glaring error and does not indicate a desire
for inclusion yeah we're gonna get to the actual glaring error there
and he wasn't the only one there were a number about beds on pretty much every a
at little right-wing blogger everything about it didn't invite them wide white
or black concern is why
when a black centers or anything like that and now he was eventually forced to
come back
and apologize for the mistake he made because it turns out that yes they did
invite prominent republicans problems like cancer visit turns out there is all
had better things to do
so here's bill oreilly actually doing the right thing for once last night
during my schedule james carville about the Martin Luther King commemoration
I said there were no republican speakers invited
wrong was wrong some republicans were asked to speak
they declined and that was a mistake they should have spoken now
the mistake entirely on me I simply assumed
but since all the speakers for liberal democrats republicans were excluded
so here's a tip for the day always check out the facts before you make a
definitive statement and when you make a mistake
admit it by the way I'm sorry I made a mistake it's very annoying because I
know you guys watch the factor
for accuracy well I
I don't go to hear that last part you know that when you wish to make them
make a nasa
remove good to me
yeah way we got a sizeable audiences falling asleep as they're watching it so
you have to like moving on the comeback
okay I'm so what he did make mistakes even the apology by the way saying some
republicans were invited
a pretty much every Republican in Congress and in the house or the Senate
was invited
and but pretty good housing I think more as far as bill rightly is concerned with
the republicans going to do are they going to come out and say
yeah you know that's right we we sorta did mess up there we were invited we had
other things we didn't have enough time I saw that is one of the excuses
that they were given enough time to reschedule anything is it was for five
weeks ago
well their August recess is we're already completely scheduled up and I'm
just shocked that they can find one
percent at one not want not one could manage to be there
work tonight shows you start in a rut that just kinda shows you why they
continue to lose out
are the minority vote I mean babe try to make it seem as though it's some sort a
priority to them but it's obviously not a priority
we this is the fiftieth anniversary this is somewhere
that you need to be this is something to be desired
n the fact that they had other like what what else were they doing
well we actually know some of what they were doing falwell so let's see in
particular out one
I believe it was Mitch McConnell
I could be wrong was meeting with oil lobbyists many of them had
was air cancer that's actually perfect thinking about most of them it was just
fundraising they were doing different fundraising endeavors and things like
that
look I have sympathy for them is all messed up system that requires gas and
fundraising
and yet many of the democrats who also have an urgent need to fundraise
were able to make it to the event I does that bother senator
you had like republicans making the argument that Martin Luther King junior
was a republican and like yeah about that is that we have we covered this
story on Wednesday and one of the things that I brought up with how could they
not
invite Tim Scott from south carolina the one black Republican in the Senate
because at that time it sounded like he wasn't invited and then it just turned
out he didn't want to leave South Carolina
now no matter what he was doing in south carolina whether it was fundraising
which we know is the most important thing the politician can do
or visiting a hospital I mean he really needed to be there
and made it clear that he was invited from b1 if you wasn't gonna be there
exactly well they did release a statement about whether or not he was
invited %uh
this is what they said senator Scott was not invited to speak at the event
which is technically true so I'd say our I don't harass them in there are there
that the entire statement
it up inaccurate its untrue they did actually
respond when the initial invitation was sent a staffer did respond to inside
unfortunately
the center will be in South Carolina during this time so you'll be unable to
attend the event
please do however keep in mind for future events you may be hosting
let me sit there for the height have what about you
better when asked when asked whether I have invited they say there he was not
invited to speak at the event in jr broke down beautifully
that is both true and completely misleading he was invited to speak
at the event he was invited to the event though and the the people were holding
the event said
we invited people first and then depending on who could come with and
shows speakers
and so he probably could have spoken at the event if you'd been willing to go at
all
and so they had a little bit %uh verbal jujitsu there and
an unfortunate was a are fortunate brothers eventually yes it was
eventually on math
he should have been there though that's the the main point now
also what I like is we have a quote from Michael Steele you may remember him from
his
amazing appearances on The Daily Show in the form of a blue muppet
I'm but he was a former republican committee chairmen he was speaking about
the failure of republicans and in particular black conservatives to show
about this event
he was not invited bear in mind because he's not currently a political figure
I'll vote for Palin forget to buy them stuff so god knows what he wants
he said but if I were the current chairman and hadn't been invited
that be a different story if I had been invited I would have forced myself on
them
rather revealing which hum
but i think is a great point and I think that you brought this up a few minutes
ago
this is a in that time when that they did horribly among various
minority demographics the last election and they said coming out a bit
we're going to do more more outreach for Hispanics for african-americans
among others and they get these opportunities and they just don't care
they don't want to be seen with those people
or they just don't prioritize their actions speak louder than they're worth
yes and one thing I do want to point out is that the Republican National
Committee they did have their own events they had it on Monday and they had their
own little special commemorative event and bided
a some civil rights conservative civil rights activists and one of the things
that came out of that particular RNC meeting
was a representative james sensenbrenner actually stood up and said that he is
going to fight to restore the voting rights
act that is going to be his mission and that it must be done
as soon as possible prior to the end of this session I believe
because it's gotta be in place prior to the 2014 elections
so sensenbrenner gets up and says very clearly we must restore
and make it constitute I mean not make its go to spur
make it to cream court proof in order to cut it withstand any constitutional
challenge and the RNC came out and said
he does not speak for the entire party we have not taken an official position
on this
yeah yes legislation first wells out they they screwed up one way
they screwed up the other way they have one guy who comes out and actually has
some spent something to say
about voting rights and restoring the voting rights act but
they dropped that too do you think that it partly they do this and pretend that
they're not invited to these things because it fits their narrative up where
the outsiders in the media is out to get us and everybody is out to get us in the
powers out to get us
and all heads up so it fires up the bass and it always makes them seem like the
outsiders which is a great game to play for just trying to
gin up the same or people that may not be long term good political strategy
but in short term you probably get some wins remiss yes sadly
what I love about that as they're saying look the the power structure in the
media
they're just there making as outsiders were low on were on the outside looking
in
and during that time is that going to the event that they were invited to
their of getting money from the richest people in the country
and going on Fox News the largest cable news network in the country talking
about they were invited
subtle about it