- Himself - Host: [after introducing him and his newest book]
- Himself - Host: Here's all I want from you, this is it.
- Bill O'Reilly: Uh huh.
- Himself - Host: That's all we've got to do in this conversation: I have one simple goal. I want you to admit that there is such thing as white privilege. That's it.
- Bill O'Reilly: I knew you were going to say that.
- Himself - Host: I just want you to say that "I was terribly wrong about that".
- Bill O'Reilly: In your case, there is "white privilege."
- Himself - Host: Thank you.
- Bill O'Reilly: The fact that you're here, sitting there, you don't even shave.
- Himself - Host: [jokingly, while rubbing his cheeks] This is called "Jewish privilege," it happens. We are a "hair suit" people.
- Bill O'Reilly: Yeah.
- Himself - Host: You have state this: I don't believe there's such a thing as "white privilege."
- Bill O'Reilly: There is not.
- Himself - Host: Ok now we can have a conversation about that.
- Bill O'Reilly: Ok if there's "white privilege", then there has to be "Asian privilege".
- Himself - Host: Why?
- Bill O'Reilly: Because Asians make more money than whites.
- Himself - Host: [sarcastically, jokingly internally sounding scared and surprised] What?
- Bill O'Reilly: Being Asian.
- Himself - Host: What kind of Asian?
- Bill O'Reilly: Asian Americans.
- Himself - Host: Depends where they're from
- Bill O'Reilly: Their from Asia, their Asian Americans.
- Bill O'Reilly: I understand that.
- Bill O'Reilly: They make more money, higher education, more affluent, so it's Asian privilege, not "white privilege".
- Himself - Host: You're missing the point.
- Bill O'Reilly: Oh, sorry to confuse you with facts.
- Himself - Host: The Asian immigrant experience in America is very different from the black experience so they're not equivalent, either way, white people: white males set the system so that's what privilege is, so yes Asian immigrants, once immigration policy is liberalized has done better in the past thirty to forty years but there's been a "systemic, "system of ties", subjugation of the black community, would you not agree with that?
- Bill O'Reilly: Sure.
- Himself - Host: [before applause from the audience] Well then that's it, that's "white privilege", that's it, we're done.
- Bill O'Reilly: That was then, this is now.
- Himself - Host: So, there was "white privilege", so it no longer exists.
- Bill O'Reilly: [sarcastically, to the audience] Maybe you haven't figured it out that there is no more slavery, no more Jim Crow, and the most powerful man in the world is black, and the most powerful woman in the world, Oprah Winfrey is black.
- Himself - Host: Being able to give people a free car does not make you the most powerful female in the world.
- Bill O'Reilly: Don't mess with Oprah, she'll come in here and shave you.
- Himself - Host: I see the issue here. I mean slavery and Jim Crow are dead but the residue effects of that systemic subjugation exist today.
- Bill O'Reilly: It absolutely exists today but...
- Himself - Host: [interrupts him] Let's go a different way...
- Bill O'Reilly: [interrupts him] It does exist for every race but not at that extent but you don't put forth "oh this is white privilege but if you fail that's why you fail." America is now a place if you work hard, get educated and if you're an honest person, you can succeed that's what should be put out there.
- Himself - Host: Your carrying more of a burden as a black person in this country than a white person.
- Bill O'Reilly: From collectively, yes.
- Himself - Host: Individually, they don't stop and frisk Wall Street bankers, even though they've done far worse damage to the economy, white people do more drugs in this country than black people but black people make a far more majority of drug related arrests.
- Bill O'Reilly: Do you know why that is?
- Himself - Host: Yes.
- Bill O'Reilly: why is that?
- Himself - Host: It's about real estate to some extent. There has been a systemic subjugation through real estate, black people are "ghettoized", they're living in ghettos.
- Bill O'Reilly: They're forced to live there? Is that what your telling me?
- Himself - Host: Oh, now you're getting into a bad place my friend.
- Bill O'Reilly: Ok this is the usual white guilt, liberal stuff.
- Himself - Host: No this is not guilt I don't feel guilty.
- Bill O'Reilly: You should.
- Himself - Host: Why?
- Bill O'Reilly: [referring to his job at The Daily Show] You're getting paid for this, you should feel very guilty.
- Himself - Host: What made you culturally? Do you think your upbringing gave you values? Ethics?
- Himself - Host: Yes, it did, you didn't grow up rich, right?
- Bill O'Reilly: No, we didn't have any money at all.
- Himself - Host: But you worked hard.
- Bill O'Reilly: Right.
- Himself - Host: You lived where?
- Bill O'Reilly: Levitown New York
- Himself - Host: So, it gave you a stable environment, a nice home, a cheap home, no down payment, it was just an incredible opportunity, those houses weren't subsidized.
- Bill O'Reilly: No, they weren't subsidized, they were sold to GI's and the GI's were given a mortgage they could afford, your making a huge mistake.
- Himself - Host: Let me just ask you one question? Did that upbringing leave a mark on you even today?
- Bill O'Reilly: Of course.
- Himself - Host: Could black people live in Levittown?
- Bill O'Reilly: Not at that time.
- Himself - Host: So that's what we call in the "business" white privilege.
- Bill O'Reilly: That was in 1950 alright?
- Himself - Host: Were there black people living there in 1960?
- Bill O'Reilly: In Levittown?
- Himself - Host: Yes.
- Bill O'Reilly: I don't know.
- Himself - Host: There weren't.
- Bill O'Reilly: How do you know?
- Himself - Host: Because I read up on it.
- Bill O'Reilly: Why would you want to live there? It's a nice place but it's not like Bel Air.
- Himself - Host: Because it's a place that built values.
- Bill O'Reilly: There were millions of black neighborhoods that built values.
- Himself - Host: Imagine growing up as an American, as a GI who fought in World War Two, couldn't buy into that because you were less, you were...
- Bill O'Reilly: [interrupts him] It was unfair.
- Himself - Host: And the residue of that continues today and that is "white privilege".
- Bill O'Reilly: If you want to call it "white privilege"...
- Himself - Host: [interrupts him] I'm not saying it's an excuse, I'm just saying it exists.
- Bill O'Reilly: But that's not what's happening to contemporary society.
- Himself - Host: Yes, it is.
- Bill O'Reilly: No, it's not, ok let me repeat this slowly, even you can understand this.
- Himself - Host: Alright.
- Bill O'Reilly: [raising his voice] If you work hard, if you get educated, if you're an honest person, you can make it in America.
- Himself - Host: If you live in a neighborhood that poverty is endemic, it's harder to work hard.
- Bill O'Reilly: It was harder for me than it was for the white guy living in Garden City, it's all relative, yes, it's harder if you're a "ghetto kid" but can you, do it? *Yes*.
- Himself - Host: Yes, it's harder but you can also win the one-hundred-yard dash on one leg but it's harder, all I'm asking is this, because this would go a long way towards healing is what I think is a huge racial issue in our country, just an acknowledgement of that.
- Bill O'Reilly: Every fair-minded person acknowledges that and I've said it many times on The Factor: the highest rated news show in the world, African Americans have it harder.
- Himself - Host: [jokingly] Someone hasn't seen Megyn Kelly, she's crushing you dude.
- Bill O'Reilly: You're misleading this audience.
- Himself - Host: All I'm saying is this: so we've come to an agreement, you've admitted that white privilege exists and while it's not an excuse.
- Bill O'Reilly: It doesn't to any extent where individuals are kept back because of their color or promoted because of their color, look, you and I are lucky guys, we made it, we worked hard it's not because we're white!
- Himself - Host: [booing from the audience] Well...
- Bill O'Reilly: [to the audience] You think I'm sitting here because I'm white? Are you a Moron? I'm sitting here because I'm obnoxious not because I'm white.
- Himself - Host: [after applause and laughter from the audience] The point is this, when you try and reduce to being solely about that, absolutely but my point is this: women face this and minorities face this they have to make strategic calculations in their lives that white men never have to make. We never have to worry about walking down certain streets because somebody is going to cat call us. We never have to worry about if and when we move into a new neighborhood if we're going to be accepted these are the types of things we're talking about.
- Bill O'Reilly: [referring to "white privilege"] maybe you didn't have to worry about it: I did, if I had to move into a new neighborhood, I wasn't accepted anywhere, look you're generalizing and what you're doing is promoting victimhood.
- Himself - Host: No, no, no.
- Bill O'Reilly: Yes, yes, yes.
- Himself - Host: Alright but by acknowledging that reality goes towards a long way to healing...
- Bill O'Reilly: [interrupts him] I acknowledge a "historical reality."
- Himself - Host: Healing the resentment and what I don't understand is, why get so defensive about it? Why do white people get so defensive about this? I'm not saying life isn't hard, I'm not saying there's middle class white guys, that are working hard to do what they can and stop and they go "I'm not getting any privilege." That's not what we're talking about, what we're talking about is a group of people that were brought here, they didn't choose to immigrate here to get that better life and just acknowledge that our country has a problem with that...
- Bill O'Reilly: [interrupts him] People acknowledge that who are fair minded but you don't then take that and condemn the modern society...
- Himself - Host: [interrupts him] Nobody's condemning...
- Bill O'Reilly: [interrupts him] Yes you are, you said it's "white privilege" that makes you successful.
- Himself - Host: I just said that's not.
- Bill O'Reilly: [interrupts him] If you're a woman...
- Himself - Host: [interrupts him, referencing the name of his show "The O'Reilly Factor] I'll call it this, and it's a word I think you'll understand "a factor"
- Bill O'Reilly: I'll give you the "factor" business
- Himself - Host: [before standing up excited with applause from the audience] You did? You've given me the "factor", so, we're ok...
- Bill O'Reilly: [interrupts him, jokingly] Are we even on the air?
- Himself - Host: We've been on the air the whole time, let me tell you something, this was a beautiful moment in healing between not just black and white, Jewish and Irish, tall and short, this was a historic moment.
- Bill O'Reilly: Are you happy now?
- Himself - Host: Your...
- Bill O'Reilly: [speaking slower] are you happy?
- Himself - Host: Happiness is not what "comes" by me, let me tell you this: your "humility" has moved me, you are like Pope Francis that has taken the Catholic Church...
- Bill O'Reilly: [amused, interrupts him] Yeah
- Himself - Host: Into an era of acceptance and humility, you can lead the flock of Fox fearful to a better place. I believe in you.