Jimmie Walker Critiques Obama: 'You Have to Let Him Go When He's Not Doing the Gig'
Appearing as a guest in a pre-recorded interview aired on Wednesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, actor Jimmie Walker explained why he believes President Barack Obama "is not the guy" for the job of President and declared that, "You just can't blindly vote for somebody just because they are [your race]. Sometimes, even a brother, you have to let him go when he's not doing the gig."
The former star of the 1970s comedy Good Times divulged, "I never voted for him," when asked by host Bill O'Reilly, as Walker went on to quote former President Ronald Reagan from the 1980 presidential campaign:
I say, "Well, let's look at the job that he's done." And I go back to the old Reagan slogan: "Are you doing better now than you were four years ago?"
Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Wednesday, July 11, The O'Reilly Factor on FNC:
BILL O'REILLY: In studying your rise from a poor kid, all right, to national TV, Good Times, it was interesting to see that you made it on your own. ... And you separate from many African-Americans who support Barack Obama. You're not a real big supporter of his. How did that happen?
JIMMIE WALKER: Barack Obama is more like a Tony Robbins type of guy. You feel real good and you're happy and everything, and then you go home, and you realize there's a foreclosure sign on your door. And you just go: "Wait a minute. I just had this great meeting with this guy, and he made me feel real good." And I don't think he's a bad guy. I don't think he's a good guy for the job we have to do.
O'REILLY: When you say that, other African-Americans are gonna go, "Hey, come on."
WALKER: You just can't blindly vote for somebody just because they are you. Sometimes, even a brother, you have to let him go when he's not doing the gig.
O'REILLY: Did you vote for him, first time around?
WALKER: I never voted for him.
O'REILLY: Now, when African-Americans say to you, "Hey, you're betraying your race," because you know there's a lot of racial stuff around President Obama. You say?
WALKER: I say, "Well, let's look at the job that he's done." And I go back to the old Reagan slogan: "Are you doing better now than you were four years ago?"
O'REILLY: So you just keep it policy?
WALKER: I keep it policy. I just think that he is not the guy.
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So in othe words...
Submitted by c5then on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 9:12am.
If the promises become old and tired
He must be fired.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Attention Jon Stewart
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 9:47am.
That is what a Real comedian looks like. They don't protect their pet politicians.
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
That's what I always liked
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 11:26am.
That's what I always liked about Gallagher.
Good for Jimmie Walker, but the real question is...
Submitted by Conservator on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:31am.
...who did O'Reilly vote for in 2008 and who will he support this year - IMO, it's Obama.
No one knows for sure, of
Submitted by texastommy on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:46am.
No one knows for sure, of course, but if you read his autobiography, I doubt very seriously that he voted for Obama. Clinton? Maybe.
He sometimes goes out of his way to be fair on the show, much to my chagrin, but his background and values don't coincide with the commie in chief's.
I gave up on the
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:47pm.
I gave up on the sanctimonious and smarmy O'Reilly after his two knee-pad interviews with Boy Baraka, his continuing friendship and support of Geraldo 'Jerry Rivers' Rivera, his NOT coming to the support of Michelle Malkin, his psuedo-tough-guy ego - he's really good at yelling at lightweights, his constant trashing of 'EVIL BIG OIL', and a whole lot of other things - including his self-absorbed personality. And if I ever hear 'I'll give you the last word - what say you' again, I'll vomit!!!
Not Obama, in my opinion
Submitted by StarAZ on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:41pm.
Time and time again Bill frames it as big govt control v private enterprise market values--and then adds we can't pay for big govt--so while he may throw in the obligatory "he's a nice guy" comment, I would be shocked if Bill voted for Obama. He constantly talks about the decline of America--and guess when that started in earnest--hint, not under Bush.
O'Reilly...
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 1:49pm.
I think O'Reilly has given enough big clues that he will be voting Romney.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Don't forget the set-up
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:45am.
Prior to the Walker segment, O'Reilly had a segment with frequent guest Dr. Marc Lamont Hill, during which the professor stated that if black Americans voted for black politicians mainly based on skin color, then Herman Cain would've had a lot of black support.
Unfortunately, O'Reilly missed the opportunity to follow that remark with the fact that the Race Industry had already painted Cain as an Oreo who was so out of tough with Black America that he was really more white than black.
Michael Steele, Herman Cain, Alan West, Alan Keyes, and now Jimmie Walker are ostensibly dismissed from "Black America" by the Race Industry for failing to tow the proscribed line. The tragic irony is that these gentlemen are the embodiment of Martin Luther King's "I Had A Dream" speech. Cain is a wealthy businessman; Steele is a former Lieutenant Governor; Keyes holds a PhD and has run for President; West had a distinguished Army career, attaining command of a infantry battalion in combat and is now a Congressman; and Walker was very successful in the entertainment industry.
King led the struggle, and individuals like Jackie Robinson blazed the trail -- When given the equal opportunity they deserved, they excelled.
But the MSM pays lip-service to that legacy, and turns to the Race Industry spokesmen like Jackson and Sharpton who insist that the doors are either shut or closing again, and that any minority who disagrees is a traitor to the race.
Dr. Hill is a moron. The
Submitted by texastommy on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 10:51am.
Dr. Hill is a moron. The most biggoted jerk Fox puts on the air, well, except for Beckel, and Combs. He tries to pretend he's smart, but he's just another sociologist who majored in racist studies. He's NEVER tied two coherent thoughts together. Just a fast talking smartass. I hope I'm not being too coy.
Agreed
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 11:09am.
And that's a symptom of most of the Leftists who appear on TV.
For example, today I heard Obama-ite economist Steve Rattner on Morning Joe explain that America was prosperous in the Fifties while the upper income tax rate was 90% (not that anyone actually paid that), so ipso facto, high taxes do not inhibit economic growth. It's a DNC line that they all parrot.
But what he conveniently leaves out is that in the Fifties, the US had no commercial competitors. We had a huge trade surplus as Europe and Japan -- recovering from the devastation of their industries in WW2 -- weren't ready to export much to the US. And China? -- a backwards economy held back by Maoism. We dominated the global automobile market, and the markets for most manufactured goods. There were few foreign cars in the US outside of a handful of VW Beetles.
Today we have real competition from China, Japan, (soon) India, and even some European couuntries; it's a whole new world. But that's an inconvenient truth to the Left.
Not a moron
Submitted by StarAZ on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:34pm.
He is well spoken--it's just that his ideas roam all over the place---he was really at sea in the interview last evening. For one thing, he said it was a bad speech if it got boos--that speakers should say anything not to get booed. That was craven and people-pleasy. Then he said all things being equal, he would pick the black candidate--well, all things cannot be equal then...if the candidates are different colors--or in this case, Obama v Clinton, different genders and diff races. These are determiners. Hill gets kind of lost sometimes. Maybe I am crazy, but I sort of like watching him and Bill mix it up.
Hill...
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 2:41pm.
The faster he talks, the more vague and all over the place (and sometimes bizarre) he becomes. But I think it's completely on purpose. It's interesting to watch his interview tactics, but I can't say I enjoy it because he usually gets so anxious/spaz-like that I feel like he's going to blast out of his seat -- it's pretty uncomfortable for me to watch.
If he is talking slowly, that's when he doesn't seem to be working overtime to spin -- and he's simply laying out his views. He does act relaxed like that sometimes, usually at the beginning of the interview, especially if O'Reilly starts out soft. Then Hill will try to sound oh-so-reasonable and relax, thinking it will be one of the easier talks with Bill. But once Hill is asked a straight-up/pointed question that puts him on the defensive -- or he knows O'Reilly has a legitimate point that won't be as easy to counter logically -- watch what happens...he either pretends he doesn't understand the question or answers a totally different question or acts like Bill just said he likes to eat kittens...AND THEN Hill talks faster and faster and faster...and then out comes the gobbly-gook. He'll repeat phrases over and over but will not explain what he means (he leaves himself a lot of room to revamp later), but it's like he thinks if he just keeps talking fast and saying vague or confusing or irrelevant stuff, people will somehow think he is making sense and that they're just missing his great points. It's almost like double-speak. That is truly what I think he does, purposefully.
I don't think he's a moron. He just comes on with an agenda all the time and weaves all over the place to evade whenever he feels he needs to do it. But I will say I've never see someone use the exact same tactics to such an extreme. I'd buy that his brain just goes off in multiple directions, but I know people like that -- and I don't think that's it. The reason I don't is that those types (some -- not all -- have ADHD) can be pulled back on target...but when Bill keeps bringing him back to a very direct question, Hill actively, persistently resists. Until Hill is totally cornered and he's used up every ounce to evade, he will just continue to be the Road Runner. He will usually have one legitimate point, and the rest...well, people can watch and decide for themselves.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Yes--I think
Submitted by StarAZ on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 3:09pm.
A lot of words there--but I think I said about the same thing. Hill could have used a few yrs of HS debate, if he didn't have it.
Dy-no-mite!
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:03pm.
How refreshing.
Rationality, candor and objectivity will trump blind ideology every time.
What a concept!
Well said, Mr. Walker, but I
Submitted by LinTaylor on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:32pm.
Well said, Mr. Walker, but I hope you're ready to be stabbed in the back by your "brothers" for not marching in lock-step to the beat of the big O drum.
Somehow, I think ol' JJ is
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 12:42pm.
Somehow, I think ol' JJ is man enough to handle any grief he gets from his 'bruvvahs'................and they'll probably wish that they didn't say anything either, because he'll tell'em why. He's talkin' 'reality' here................the 'bruvvahs' are following the delusional party line - and they are doing WORSE now than before Boy Baraka was coronated. And I think that it's been proven beyond any doubt that Obama could care less about the 'bruvvahs', other than what political gain he can get from 'race'.
And to that I say,,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 6:29pm.
DYN-O-MITE!
I'll bet that if Jimmie gets
Submitted by nolefan2 on Thu, 07/12/2012 - 7:32pm.
that old phone call from the DNC at 3:00 a.m., he'll tell them "wrong number" and hang up.