Bill O'Reilly is today's Unlikely Voice of Reason.

In the "Talking Points Memo" segment of The O'Reilly Factor yesterday, the Fox host blasted those who want to push Americans headlong into a race war:

No longer is it white privilege. Now, it's supremacy, the allegation that white Americans are actively trying to keep black Americans down. That is what the far left is putting out there... It is an outrageous Tower of Babble.

O'Reilly noted that the "cowardly" media are afraid to challenge the disgusting charges that America is a white supremacist nation because they're afraid to be labeled anti-black bigots. He's partly correct; it should also be noted that much of the progressive media aren't merely cowering in fear, but are in ideological agreement with the race-baiters.

The one TV network that does not accept the blatant dishonesty, he asserted, is Fox News, and to the network's critics he challenged, "You want a war? You got a war."

He acknowledged that there are anti-black bigots in America. But to claim the country is defined by them is a gross lie, he said.

"There is no organized effort to harm black people by white people. That doesn't exist here."

He said that real racism is due to "a corrosive culture" of poverty that is harming African-Americans, caused by the dissolution of the traditional family, violence on the streets and an educational system with low standards.

"Every stat and every poll say the same thing: There is not an epidemic of racism in the United States of America," O'Reilly concluded. "That is the truth, and the liars who distort the record are on notice. You will be held to account."