Bill O’Reilly Visits Sylvia’s, Discovers That People Of Other Races Order Food, Just Like Us!

Buried lede — the researchers at Media Matters may be the only ones who pay attention to him:

After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Bill O’Reilly of the Fox News Channel told a radio audience, he “couldn’t get over the fact” that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia’s and other restaurants.

“It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there and they were ordering and having fun,” he said. “And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”

Mr. O’Reilly said his fellow patrons were tremendously respectful as he ate dinner with Al Sharpton.

The comments were made during Mr. O’Reilly’s nationally syndicated radio broadcast last week. The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America called attention to them by distributing a transcript and audio clip on the Internet. Karl Frisch, a Media Matters spokesman, called Mr. O’Reilly’s comments “ignorant and racially charged.”