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'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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BrianO | May 04, 2012, 09:57 PM EDT

watching Rachel Maddow makes me want to be gay.

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hollabackgurl | Apr 29, 2012, 09:33 AM EDT

At Fox News, that means it will turn your kids gay. And that's about the standard of intellectual analysis we can expect from them.

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bogsidebunny | Apr 24, 2012, 07:13 AM EDT

O'Reilly NEVER said "Glee could turn your kids gay"! He implied it was detrimental to young people's views on their gender.

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seanomelb | Apr 23, 2012, 08:29 PM EDT

Good on ya murph46 only 86 Aussies believe Elvis is alive.

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Mo Rage | Apr 23, 2012, 02:52 PM EDT

Bill O'Really, proving, day after day, like Rush "Porkulus" Limbaugh, what he doesn't know. Mo Rage, the blog.

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margaretdenten | Apr 23, 2012, 02:33 PM EDT

I watched that segment on O'Reilly and you've let your hatred for him get the better of you. Glee was written by Ian Brennan (from my city based on our high school) and pitched to Ryan Murphy, who like it so much he wanted to produce it. I've watched it from the beginning, to support our hometown guy, and it has definitely gotten more edgy! Ryan's childhood in Indiana didn't allow for much expression of his homosexuality (story on Glee, Ian and Ryan in the Chicago Tribune) and now he is taking the opportunity to express it through the show. The show, albeit based on a high school, was not written for a young audience. Bill O'Reilly commented on a TV program in our pop culture. Why don't you use your column to debate the issue rather than attack the personality. You look weak when you go for the jugular!

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peterson | Apr 23, 2012, 01:56 PM EDT

Glee has evolved into a product that is unfit for a young audience !!

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CelticQueenUSA | Apr 23, 2012, 11:06 AM EDT

Hey angrypaddy I don't know too many straight men who don't enjoy t BJ never thinking that the woman is the provider. Teeth and lips are the same on us all!!

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CelticQueenUSA | Apr 23, 2012, 11:04 AM EDT

I really like Fox being called FAUX!!! They are all not of this world. No clue about the ability of people to make a good decision. The show does not MAKE gay people!!! EDUCATE THE MASSES instead of preaching this crap!

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seanomelb | Apr 23, 2012, 12:04 AM EDT

I suppose MSNBC are correct murph46,it's possible 83.471 Australians believe Elvis is alive how did they interview the .471 person in Elvis's grave? So 23,000,000 of us are correct the 83 probably watch O'Reilly.

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kidsnurse92 | Apr 23, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT

I watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, yet never experimented with being a turtle. Does that make me an independently thinking liberal? I never dropped anvils on roadrunners, or hunted "wabbits". I think kids today, as did yesterday, know the difference between fiction and reality. IT IS ENTERTAINMENT, NOT AN INSTRUCTION VIDEO. I am more interested in alternative ways in problem solving, other than beating up those you don't like, that are illustrated in the program. This is all just too silly! If Bill O'Reilly took the time to pull his head out of his arse, he might be able to see more clearly.

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Mousemess | Apr 22, 2012, 11:54 PM EDT

PiperMac52, Here's the big fat gay lifestyle for most gay couples. Go to work, pay taxes and bills, walk the dog, shop for groceries, visit friends and relatives, fix meals,clean house, wash clothes, go to bed, get ready for work come home from work, shop, eat, repeat day and day out. Not much different from most straight couples.

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KatieMurphy | Apr 22, 2012, 11:40 PM EDT

Oh yes - I should ahve mentioned that Brendan Kearns comment about gays only living to 45 yrs old - that is specifically out of a study by the FRC (called the Amersterdam study) where in Amersterdam they averaged the age of gays who died of AIDs (about 30 of them)..............they totall ignored the gays by the thosusands who lived to normal old age./....................... What else woudl you expect from a racist bunch who have found a new group to hate.... fRC also was involved in the "kill the gays bill" in Uganda. Why choose Uganda - the confluence of taboo re gays, christina evqangelidcal hate and Muslim influence.

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KatieMurphy | Apr 22, 2012, 11:35 PM EDT

BRENDAN KEARNS comments come str8 from the FRC hate group. In this case run by non- cath xtians who were pals of David Duke, a Kluxer when Perkins and spriggs were in the Louisiana legislature.............the interesting thing is how easy they find it to add new groups to their victims lists................BTW the founder of Narth and the FRC - one George Rekers - he got outed for hiring a gay college male prostitute to go with him to Europe on a two week vacation...... thats not surprising, the surprising thing is that he paid, per the rentboy dot com website about S 15000 for the male "escort". Isnt capitalism wonderful??

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KatieMurphy | Apr 22, 2012, 11:29 PM EDT

PiperMac52 - realy whats happening is your a cradle catholic. YOu never had a chance to learn to think for yourself.........With people like you in power we'd still be seeing torture and burnings at the stake would be routine because the church said it was ok. Go ask the unholy ghost of hitler and the same re 55 million dead whether they think electing him to power was a smart move.......BTW if fianluy found out that hitler was not just a catholic but he went to catholic schools in Austria. Stalin , another nutcase, learned a lot of hate against Jews etc going to the ROC schhools in his youth.

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