Reason #3,485 why Bill O'Reilly is an idiot

Bill O'Reilly, along with scores of other basic cable geniuses, constantly attempts to minimize the President's achievements, while maximizing what they perceive to be his failures.

There's nothing new in cable news about that, but with this particular president, race has been invoked all too plainly.

Seldom so obviously as the other day, however, when in a discussion on his show, O'Reilly asserted:

Barack Obama, a black man. OK, I mean he's half black and half white, but his appearance is black. The first black to ever run, OK? Huge, huge advantage in a campaign. Enormous. 

Right, Bill. Because Obama was the first black candidate, he practically couldn't lose.

The first Black candidate, of course, besides Jesse Jackson.

...and Shirley Chisholm.

...and Alan Keyes.

...and Carol Moseley Braun.

...and Al Sharpton.

...and even Frederick Douglass in 1888, sort of.

Sorry O'Reilly - you'll have to dream up some other reason to define the President solely on race. We have every confidence that you will.

[h/t Crooks and Liars]