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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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.BrianO | May 04, 2012, 09:57 PM EDT
watching Rachel Maddow makes me want to be gay.
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.
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.
seanomelb | Apr 23, 2012, 08:29 PM EDT
Good on ya murph46 only 86 Aussies believe Elvis is alive.
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.
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!
peterson | Apr 23, 2012, 01:56 PM EDT
Glee has evolved into a product that is unfit for a young audience !!
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!!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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??
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
starwatts | Apr 22, 2012, 02:36 PM EDT
I laughed so hard at this article. O'Rielly is so obsurd and the the article writer's sarcasm was dead on. MY favorite part was "O'Reilly's latest freakout illustrates an important conservative principle: to acknowledge reality is to surrender to it." and the end - "It's too stupid for words, but nothing is too stupid for fox news." Loved it. Sad that O'rielly spouts this crap, but loved the comebacks.
borefield | Apr 22, 2012, 02:23 PM EDT
Cahir, are you a REAL person?, you come across so convoluted and crazy. When sane people have an opinion that is not in keeping with your off the wall thinking, you go ape. Get yourself some help fella.
LasVegasRocks | Apr 22, 2012, 01:06 PM EDT
Why anyone listens to O'Reilly is beyond my ability to comprehend.
jamthecat | Apr 22, 2012, 01:00 PM EDT
I'm confused as to why anyone still pays attention to this man. He's a millionaire ordered by billionaires to tell the middle class that everything is the (choose today's minority to berate) fault. That's what made him a millionaire. Same for that low-class slab of fat called Rush Limbaugh. They have all the moral authority of a cockroach, but like cockroaches, once you got them you can't get rid of them, completely; you can only control them.
ProudCanadian | Apr 22, 2012, 12:07 PM EDT
Is there an asylum as in insane for this mentally ill waste of skin. These people just don't wake up one morning and say oh I want to be gay, so I don't think that people watching this show or any other show are going to become gay by just watching. This idiot has been on the air far to long. Bill it is time to go to the home.
wjb1tex | Apr 22, 2012, 12:05 PM EDT
McNamara31 Then I can assume you consider MSNBC "news" as well?
oldboreen | Apr 22, 2012, 11:55 AM EDT
Wow! That's pretty graphic imagery there JimCooke! If you haven't already got a fan club, you've certainly got one now! Can I be its President?
McNamara31 | Apr 22, 2012, 11:22 AM EDT
wjb1tex ... To be "Clear"… Fox News is run by a onetime Nixon operative (R. Ailes) and their parent company is owned by a family presently being investigated for hacking the personal phones of not hundreds, but THOUSANDS of people. I call that in the least very biased, and many others consider News Corps actions, criminal. Why anyone would use them as a source of correct information boggles my mind.
JimCooke | Apr 22, 2012, 11:01 AM EDT
This is good to know! No doubt there are programs considerably less gleeful that could straighten a viewer out in a minute. Watching Bill O'Reilly turns my stomach faster than warm breasts on my bare back.
ariagirl | Apr 22, 2012, 10:00 AM EDT
Seriously? People have been experimenting with "alternative lifestyles" since the beginning of time. Glee certainly didn't trigger that phenomenon. Finally there is an entertaining show on TV that imparts musical culture and it's being bashed. Shame on Bill O'Reilly.
wjb1tex | Apr 22, 2012, 09:53 AM EDT
You seem to have difficulty diffentiating between Fox News and an opinion program on the Fox Channel. But that's to be expected of you.
joma5004 | Apr 22, 2012, 09:37 AM EDT
Yeah, and watching Star Treck may turn them into techies, or Lonesome Dove into cowboys/girls, or American Idol into entertainers.. See where this is going!