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O'Reilly and Dumbledore

Posted on: October 30, 2007 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton

You have to see the video of Olbermann going after Bill O'Reilly and his idiotic and hypocritical blather about Dumbledore being gay. It's especially funny when O'Reilly complains about how Rowling's statement was just intended to "indoctrinate" people into tolerating homosexuals. Ya don't say?

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It sounds like Bill O'Reillevant is trying to argue that children are being forced to believe that gay American citizens should be treated as American citizens. The horror!

Posted by: pough | October 30, 2007 10:22 AM

I like O'Reilly's statement implicitly implicates the "gay agenda" as being an international one, and therefore one of vast proportions. After all, the author is a British woman, tapping into a different set of social questions than we have here, and yet her statements prove the vast gay conspiracy.

I find this stuff laughable and scary at the same time. It mirrors much of what you see in the right wing with climate change: "It's a vast conspiracy that we must fight against, for the good of American moral values (so long as it's our moral values), God almighty (so long as it's our God), and the rights of our citizens to act any way they want (so long as it's the way we want it)."

Someone should teach O'Reilly the concept of parsimony, based on Occam's principle (aka 'Occam's Razor'), "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", or "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".

Posted by: Umlud | October 30, 2007 10:59 AM

I like how "BillO" keeps baiting his guests, but they just won't bite.

I have counseled with teens before who are gay, and none of them have ever told me that they were "indoctrinated" into a "lifestyle" by a book...(or a movie, or the "Ambiguously Gay Duo," or because they had a gay teacher...). Being gay is not something that is chosen. Sexuality is more complex than turning on or off a light switch. "Hey a wizard is gay...guess I must be too!"

Thanks, "BillO" for providing me laughs when I watch "Countdown." You're one of the best comedians out there today!

Posted by: Rev. AJB | October 31, 2007 11:16 AM

Using his logic, I'd better be careful because y'all are going to "indoctrinate" me into being an Atheist.

Grow up, "BillO!"

Posted by: Rev. AJB | October 31, 2007 11:18 AM