O'Reilly: Chicago South Side "Like Haiti"..(It Is)

I don't see much wrong with the loose O'Reilly characterization, which was obviously made in somewhat jest and exaggerating the point, although we Chicagoan's know damn well he's right in many places of the city sadly, and it's been that way ever since the south and west sides along with 110 other American cities were torched on the day MLK was assassinated, and never rebuilt.

Of course, not the entire south side is like Haiti, for instance Mayor Daley's  Bridgeport and Obama's Hyde Park neighborhoods are 2 cases of wealthy, showcase south side enclaves, but it has  more of it's share of blighted spots and moments like any other big American city, and LIKE HAITI in many places before the earthquake.

west side chicago

This is the problem with America today, one often gets in more trouble and deeper bs for telling the truth than they do lying and sugarcoating things, just so people's "feeeeelings" (as Dr. Michael Savage puts it)  won't be hurt.

The only place he may be offbase is that there are just as many rough spots on the west side of Chicago as there are on the South Side nowadays,  and it's been that way since I was a kid.

Robert Taylor Homes and  south side projects, home to TV's "Good Times"

I didn't hear people crying back in the 70's when the great singer songwriter Jim Croce immortalized the South side as "the baddest part of town, and if you go down there you better just beware of a man named Leroy Brown".  If he were alive and wrote it, the PC pussy police would wanna hang him for disparaging people named "Brown" on the South Side.

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For the record, O'Reilly is as right as rain in his characterization. They just don't want anyone of note admitting it. I've been ripping Obama's chunk of the South side since he used those people to advance his political career, that's what they should be pissed off about.

NBC Chicago: "Chicago's South Side resembles the quake-ravaged country of Haiti, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly says.

Speaking on his 'Bold and Fresh' tour with equally bombastic host Glenn Beck, O'Reilly made the argument that Obama couldn't possibly help Haiti if he can't help Chicago's oft-troubled southern neighborhoods.

”If you've ever been to the South Side of Chicago, I mean, it's a disaster. Alright?' said O'Reilly. 'It's like Haiti. It's like -- I've been to Haiti a couple times, and I support some charities there, but Haiti just never gets better no matter how much money you put in there because they don't have a system.”   continued

Again he's right on all counts there and we all know it.

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