Last night on Fox News, during a conversation about sending military forces to the U.S.-Mexico border, host Bill OReilly suggested that a larger show of soldiers would intimidate drugs dealers from entering the country. But as he made his point about cocaine dealers, OReilly asserted that Fox News contributor Marc Lamont Hill, an African American Studies professor from Columbia, kinda look[s] like one a little bit. Hill, who was dressed in a suit and tie, laughed off the awkward moment, retorting as do you, and joked that to be even, OReilly looks like a cocaine user:

OREILLY: I dont need IEDs. If I have 10,000 guard down there, thats an intimidating force. That intimidates. Say you are a cocaine dealer, and you kinda look like one a little bit

HILL: As do you, you, in fact, look like a cocaine user. So were even.

OREILLY: I know, Im too thin. Im twitchy. [...]

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OReilly is no stranger to racial stereotypes and inflammatory racial rhetoric. In 2007, OReilly declared his surprise that there was no difference between Sylvias, an upscale Harlem restaraunt, and other New York restaurants. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though its run by blacks, primarily black patronship, said OReilly before adding, there wasnt one person in Sylvias who was screaming, M-Fer, I want more iced tea. In another instance during his unsuccessful radio program, OReilly warned listeners that proponents of inclusive immigration reform wanted to change the complexion of America.