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"I think everybody's got to relax on all this gay stuff."
-- Bill O'Reilly, The O'Reilly Factor, August 15, 2007
From his suggestion that the "secular progressive movement" would like to have "poly-amorphous" marriage ("you can marry 18 people, you can marry a duck") to his statement that it would be "insane" and "inappropriate" to "cluster" gays near children, Bill O' Reilly has never been one to "relax on all this gay stuff."
When O'Reilly isn't dishing the homophobia himself, he's giving others a platform on his show to bash the LGBT community -- featuring guests like Marc Rudov, who recently advanced the bogus notion that "promoting a homosexual lifestyle" of gays and lesbians would cause "long-term consequences for children," that like a brain tumor, may take years to diagnose:
RUDOV: If there's going to be a brain tumor, it might not be discovered for 10 years -- and I kind of look at this in the same way, because children do form their sexual identities from their same-sex parents. And what's going on here is basically teaching children that there's no difference between a heterosexual marriage and a homosexual marriage.
Fox News and O'Reilly use the topic of same-sex couples and their families to promote his show and incite fear of the LGBT community. Never was this practice more clear than when Fox used footage from Rosie O'Donnell's cruise for gay and lesbian couples and their families to promote an upcoming edition of the Factor. The promo raised the question: "Is the media celebrating gay culture?" You can probably guess what the answer was.
Of course, we all know this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to O'Reilly and his attacks on the LGBT community.
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Did that headline grab your attention? It's exactly the kind of slimy trick FOX News played when anchor E.D. Hill began her show America's Pulse with the teaser: "A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently."
Well, by FOX's own insane equation (fist bump + slanderous spin = terrorist threat), Sen. Joe Lieberman is a terrorist. After all, Lieberman can be seen in this video giving a fist bump to someone at what looks to be a golf game, judging by Lieberman's polo shirt and khaki pants.
Do we really believe that Joe Lieberman is a terrorist? Of course not! But if we were loyal FOX News viewers (perish the thought), we would have come away from Hill's show thinking that Obama was a terrorist over the innocent hand gesture he gave his wife upon clinching the Democratic nomination. And then we would believe that Lieberman, along with all of the people seen here in Media Matters' gallery of fist bumps, were terrorists as well.
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VICTORY!
First, my new video showing how FOX doctored their website to hide John McCain saying he “didn’t really love America” until he was a POW hits #1 on Digg. And now, due to the enormous attention the video has been getting, FOX has undoctored their site so it now shows the correct transcript and video! Thanks so much to all of you who watched the video, sent it to friends, contacted FOX, and voted it up on Digg and Reddit. Because of you, now everyone can go to FoxNews.com and see what McCain really said.
In some of the comments, some people have said that it was “unfair” to take McCain “out of context” and that by trying to make McCain look bad by using a soundbite of him, I was being just as bad as FOX. But this seems like a case of projection — nowhere in the video or the blog did I criticize McCain for saying he “really didn’t love America” until he was a POW, and the video includes the full "context" of the comment he made.
Personally, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what he said, exactly as I think there is nothing wrong with what Michelle Obama said when she said "for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback."
This video is about proving once again that FOX is the Republican propaganda channel, and they’re willing to lie about and doctor their own material if it helps Republicans. If someone thinks that this video is trying to make McCain look bad, it’s only because they themselves think that McCain looks bad in the video. Maybe that’s because they’ve been so convinced by the Republicans and the corporate media that Michelle Obama’s statement is so unforgivable that they don’t know how to respond to seeing McCain saying virtually the same thing. Repeatedly. The video says nothing bad about McCain — it just shows that he has said something similar to what Michelle Obama said, and FOX tried to cover it up. If you want to absolve McCain for this statement, you should do the same for Michelle Obama — otherwise you’re a hypocrite.
And in case anyone thinks that I faked this story, all I have to say is TGFSC (Thank God For Screen Captures).
On March 13, 2008, FOX’s Sean Hannity interviewed John McCain for the full hour. The interview started with questions about McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. At one point, this was said:
HANNITY: You spent two years of this five-and-a-half-year period in solitary confinement. What does that do to a person, to spend that much time in solitary confinement?
MCCAIN: I think it makes you a better person. Obviously, it makes you love America. I really didn't love America until I was deprived of her company.
Get that? McCain “really didn’t love America” until he was a POW.
Now think about how the right (including FOX and even
Cindy McCain) have attacked Michelle Obama for saying that “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback,”
a quote that even Laura Bush has defended. Now listen to what McCain said. Let that sink in for a bit. Feels good, doesn’t it?
But there’s more.
Jedreport.com discovered that the
transcript of the McCain/Hannity interview on FoxNews.com had no mention of McCain saying he “really didn’t love America” until he was a POW. I checked and sure enough, it wasn’t there. So I started watching the
video of the interview of FoxNews.com — it wasn’t there either.
Luckily, we at
foxattacks.com are recording FOX around the clock.
What do you think about this? Is FOX attempting to send subliminal messages on a local level? Has this happened before? I think a full investigation is called for to look through more footage from FOX affiliates around the nation to find out if this stuff is happening in other places. It is very possible this is a nationwide campaign.
For more on the blatant and obvious tactics they use on the big 24hour station got to:
foxattacks.com
Hannity has the audacity to say that Spike Lee is race obsessed when Hannity has been preaching the white Christian male power structure of the US on his show day in and day out. Hannity does not address the issue about the film and goes after Spike Lee, even taking an awkward jab at OJ. Hannity once again shows how pathetic and racist he is. Always projecting his own racism onto the black population of America.
BOYCOTT FOX!!!
HELP STOP THE VIRUS!!!
