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Manhattan Diary by Cahir O'Doherty

'Glee' could turn your kids gay Bill O'Reilly warns - VIDEO

Posted on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at 09:48 AM

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Bill O'Reilly is worried that Glee, the all-singing all-dancing smash hit musical show on Fox, will encourage America's youth to experiment with 'alternative lifestyles.'

Let's be clear: 'alternative lifestyles,' for Fox News pundits, is code for gay. O'Reilly is concerned that watching Glee will turn your kids gay.

O'Reilly didn't say gay though, because for conservatives your sexual orientation is not something that's fixed or innate, like your eye color or the color of your skin - instead it's altogether more elective, it's something you can fall into, like stamp collecting or model ship building.

Which means that all it will take is for some bright on the surface but unbridled underneath prime-time award winning song and dance show to throw you and your sexuality into a tailspin.

This means of course that no one at Fox News has ever watched the show. Why bother when it's more fun to ring the alarm bells? Glee is a sweet, often overly saccharine, rendering of the many trials and tribulations known to teenagers: bullying, ostracization, peer-pressure, first love, you name it, it's all here.

What Glee is not, it should be pointed out, is a kind of sexual atlas to the further shores of decadence, which O'Reilly is clearly implying.

O'Reilly's latest freakout illustrates an important conservative principle: to acknowledge reality is to surrender to it.

To think of a thing is the gateway drug to doing the thing.

If you give gay people equality you are giving your husband or wife permission to become gay, under this rubric. To acknowledge a thing is to surrender to it. Once you open the door the gay floodgates will be unstoppable. That's the 'attack' that we must 'protect marriage' from.

Young people 'might go out and experiment with this stuff,' O'Reilly moaned, apparently unable to tell the difference between thinking and doing.

And there it is again, your sexuality is simply a lifestyle, it's like stamp collecting, and you might decide, having being exposed to exciting new alternatives, that really you'd be much better off getting into embroidery or quilt making.

It's too stupid for words, but nothing's too stupid for Fox News.

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KatieMurphy | Apr 22, 2012, 11:25 PM EDT

Oreilly the mouth piece for the FAUX new channel which is trying to deflect attention from the endless molestation of children............Maybe whats wrong with OReilly is he was molested himself and convinced that it was his fault, thankt so a priests power over children ..............Just another possible reason Fox hates gay people. I often wonder if O'R has a dirct line from Rome...................Has everyone btw seen the biz about the pope complaining about the nuns doing their work helping poor people etc instead of helping the church demonize gay people and their quest for CIVIL marriage equality.........??? All of which is just more ways to take the heat of eg Dolan and his crimes against children to keep his priests on the job

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Mousemess | Apr 22, 2012, 11:17 PM EDT

Bill O'Reilly, Labhraionn se seafoid mar is gnach faoi dhaoine aeracha. He speaks nonsense as usual about gay people.

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hollabackgurl | Apr 22, 2012, 10:42 PM EDT

PiperMac52 you'd have more success discussing other peoples "inability to see" if you'd actually read the article before commenting on it. Which makes you rather sound foolish. Being gay isn't a lifestyle, the writer said, like model train building or hang gliding, it's an orientation from birth, like being left handed or having blue eyes. I bet you don't have a heterosexual lifestyle, or at least not one that anyone shares or would want to hear about.

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PiperMac52 | Apr 22, 2012, 10:15 PM EDT

Most liberal have lost their ability to objectively reason. They have been consumed by the moral relativism of the culture and it's inherent indoctrination which posits there is no objective right or wrong. The media glamorizes the homosexual lifestyle via these shows. Impressionable young people are absolutely swayed by the Hollywood hype. It is this same motivation that leads liberals to their PC contention that even Christ's teachings are open to reinterpretation to fit their hedonistic vision. O'Reilly makes a good point. Sadly liberals have lost the ability to see it.

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Murph46 | Apr 22, 2012, 10:10 PM EDT

No Sean in a recent MSNBC survey they said 83.471 of Australia still believes Elvis lives!

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AMWilson | Apr 22, 2012, 09:43 PM EDT

Bythebay: "O'Reilly, the darling of Irish America". Oh yes. Always. Every single one of us. Life must be so much easier when you have everyone pigeonholed. "All Ireland" this. "All America" that. "All Catholics" the other. Have you ever taken a moment to consider "people" as individual human creatures? Or are we all simply "the great hoard" to you, only fit to be lumped into this or that group as it suits your purposes?

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AMWilson | Apr 22, 2012, 09:33 PM EDT

Now come on, hollaback: Bill O is a "registered independent", which means he's totally objective and doesn't favor one side or the other. I'm joking, of course...

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seanomelb | Apr 22, 2012, 07:34 PM EDT

I wonder if O'Reilly had multiple wives because a he saw Eddie Fisher in the movies when he was a kid James Dean made him smoke but he did not (as far as we know) become gay when James Dean had a homosexual love affair with Sal Mineo As for the dumb blond Gretchen she's a has been.pilib04 the sad part is that some of his audience are so gullible they think Elvis is alive.

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pilib04 | Apr 22, 2012, 07:18 PM EDT

You can't tell me that people take O'Reilly seriously! I refuse to believe that there are people who are that dumb.

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McNamara31 | Apr 22, 2012, 07:06 PM EDT

wjb1tex...Last time I checked MSNBC wasn't run by an organization under investigation for worldwide criminal activity.

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hollabackgurl | Apr 22, 2012, 05:26 PM EDT

O'Reilly can't tell the difference between seeing and doing. To conservatives to see something is to do it, apparently.

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Chicago1 | Apr 22, 2012, 05:07 PM EDT

O'Doherty, did you even watch this clip? If so, where was the O'Reilly "freak out"? At no time did he ever say or imply that watching this show would make someone gay. He had 2 guests on that took opposing views of the show but all agreed that it was a good show with a very positive message for kids. One guest mentioned that this episode showed 2 lesbian cheerleaders who made a sextape. O'Reilly said he didn't think the show handled it well because it glossed over it, sending the wrong message to kids - making a sex tape is no big deal. O'R also said when he was young he saw James Dean smoking in a movie, it made him want to smoke. He feels that some kids that watch this show could choose to copy the behavior of some of the characters. In this one episode it highlighted a transgender singer, the cheerleaders w/ sex tape and two 4th year students who plan to marry. I don't think it is so outrageous for an adult to hope that their child would not choose to imitate any of those characters.

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manhattan | Apr 22, 2012, 03:35 PM EDT

O'Reilly bashing again Cahir? You have twisted again what he said about Glee. Did he say one bad thing about gay's please tell us what it was. Bill talks about the sexualization of our young on shows such as Glee, Anything you do that is immoral is shown without any consequences. I bet not one O'Reilly hater on here has ever listened to him and if you did and you don't mind your kids being subject to all the garbage out there then then so be it but don't twist his words.

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alisaann | Apr 22, 2012, 03:10 PM EDT

it's time to get this NUTT CASE OFF THE AIR as well.....you CAN'T make someone gay, if their NOT already that way....that's like saying, you can PRAY the gayness out. alisa

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redhand32 | Apr 22, 2012, 02:37 PM EDT

There is actually a recent study that showed respondents who watch Fox "News" for News are actually less knowledgeable on Current Events than those who watch NO TV News. Fox "News" is like a crack pipe or Crystal Meth for the mind.

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