{"id":14778,"date":"2013-01-15T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-15T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T04:01:00","slug":"Bill-O-Reilly-says-Asian-American-comments-taken-out-of-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=14778","title":{"rendered":"Bill O’Reilly says Asian American comments taken out of context"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly said comments were taken out of context to defend himself against criticism that his recent comments about Asian-Americans were offensive.<\/strong> Last week on his show, O’Reilly stated that “Asian people are not liberal, you know, by nature. They’re usually more industrious and hard-working.”<\/p>\n

Hawaii Democratic Rep. Colleen Hanabusa appeared on his Friday show to criticize O’Reilly, saying that she took issue with the way he described Asian-Americans.<\/strong> She stressed that Asian-Americans value their elders and that their culture teaches them to value each other.<\/p>\n

O’Reilly replied by accusing of her not having seen the entire January 3 report and claiming that www. mediamatters.org<\/a> took him out context:<\/strong><\/p>\n

O’REILLY:<\/strong> I don’t believe you saw that report on television. I saw it — I think you saw it on Media Matters, which you cite on your website. And you took a clip from Media Matters, which they took totally out of context — totally out of context. You didn’t see the full report on this program.<\/em><\/p>\n