Bill O’Reilly: “I don’t want to go on a lynching party against Michelle Obama unless there’s evidence, hard facts, that say this is how the woman really feels. If that’s how she really feels — that America is a bad country or a flawed nation, whatever — then that’s legit. We’ll track it down.”

In other words, if O’Reilly decides there is “evidence, hard facts,” he will lead a lynching party?

OK, I realize he’s not literally going to lynch her, but that’s still a creepy turn of phrase, given how many “uppity” African-Americans have indeed been lynched since the Civil War. As journalist David Neiwert put it, it’s like referring to a Jewish politician’s comments and saying “Well, I wouldn’t send him to a concentration camp unless there was hard evidence …”

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