CNN Asks, Is Bill O’Reilly Comment on Race an ‘Imus Moment?’

Published: September 25, 2007, 1:30 pm

Tags: race issues, racism, kiran chetry, roland martin, american morning, cnn

CNN co-host Kiran Chetry and CNN contributor Roland Martin, in a segment on Tuesday's "American Morning," discussed comments on race Fox News host Bill O'Reilly had recently made on his radio show, and the question you might expect came up: "Is this going to be one of those Don Imus moments?" Chetry asked this question to Martin due to some blogs "buzzing" over O'Reilly's comments about a visit he made to a "soul food" restaurant in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City with Al Sharpton. Martin denied that this was going to be O'Reilly's "Imus moment." O'Reilly, in a conversation with NPR host and Fox contributor Juan Williams, had said of his visit to Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem, "I think black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves. There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, M-Fer, I want more iced tea.' They were ordering and having fun, and it wasn't any kind of

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