O’Reilly, Rudov Deceive and Obfuscate.
On the April 4 edition of his program, The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly had a dialog with conservative radio host Marc Rudov and Fox News Analyst Margaret Hoover. Here are the video and exerpts provided by Media Matters. I’ll provide my commentary.
O’REILLY: “Back of the Book” segment tonight: There’s no question that some powerful forces in America want to mainstream the gay lifestyle, and now, you can decide whether that’s a good or a bad thing, because it’s all on the table.
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O’REILLY: — three in 10 seconds. And Fox News analyst Margaret Hoover, who is here in New York — and you’re appalled by this mainstreaming, correct?HOOVER: Not at all.
O’REILLY: No?
HOOVER: Not at all. Look, a conservative feminist stands for increasing personal responsibility and increasing personal freedom, and there is nothing about this — I mean, these are private people, individuals, in their private lives spending their own money, leading their own lifestyle, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Their pursuit of happiness involves this, and frankly, there are kids out there that need families and parents that love them. There are plenty of broken homes that don’t have parents –
What do you know? A voice of reason advocating that LGBT people and families are private citizens who deserve to live their own lives and be left alone. How uncommon in certain circles.
O’REILLY: Even — even when the mainstreaming now has become fairly intrusive? You know, you look at television or you pick up a newspaper and, you know –
HOOVER: Is it really intrusive, though?
O’REILLY: To some people.
If the definition of “intrusive” is that one cannot pick up a magazine newspaper or turn on the television without seeing it then pretty much anything could be defined as intrusive. The media is filled with sex, violence, politics, religion, racial strife, war, crass consumerism and countless other things that any number of people might consider offensive. A person who is so sensitive that they cannot tolerate being exposed to that which exists in the normal, everyday world should avoid picking up newspapers and turning on the television.
O’REILLY: All right. What do you say, Marc?
RUDOV: Well, I think we are promoting a homosexual lifestyle, and I fear for the consequences — the long-term consequences for children.
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You know, in California, for example, in October of last year, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law SP-777. It’s a new law that says you can’t use “Mom,” “Dad,” “husband and wife” in textbooks anymore. Girls can come to school dressed as boys; boys can come to school dressed as girls. They can use each other’s lavatories. And all of this is so not to offend gays and transgenders and bisexuals –
SB-777 does not say that Mom, Dad, husband and wife cannot be used in textbooks anymore. In fact it doesn’t even address textbooks at all. Nor does it state that girls and boys can cross-dress or that they can use each others bathrooms. Rudov is outright lying. Read the text of the bill yourself if you like, though it’s quite dull really.
O’REILLY: Well, that’s part of the mainstreaming –
RUDOV: — who are about 6 percent of the population.
O’REILLY: Yeah, that’s part of the mainstreaming of the –
RUDOV: That’s right. But the –
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RUDOV: And the 94 percent of us who aren’t in that –
Yes, because the majority would be so oppressed by allowing the minority to have equal rights. Just look at the damage the Civil Rights Act has done to me and other Caucasians. 
O’REILLY: Wait, wait, Marc. Let –
HOOVER: Marc, I’ve got to object –
RUDOV: — we have to go along with it.
HOOVER: But, Marc, I have to object to this notion that children form their sexuality and their sexual identity from their parents. The truth is that scientists, biologists, we don’t know how sexuality is formed in people, and to suggest that people are going to be gay if they’re raised by gay parents is just scientifically unfounded. You just can’t say that. You can posit that, but you can’t say that’s the fact.
You — I — if you’re going to be worried about the future of children and children growing up in same-sex couples, you ought to be a heck of a lot more worried about deadbeat dads and broken homes and inner city America, because there are a whole lot of people and kids that are growing up that don’t have parents that love them.
But of course gay parents would raise gay children. Look at the centuries of straight children that straight parents have raised. Wait. Never mind…
As to the rest of the program, what little there is, I’ll leave you to form your own opinions of it…
Addendum. A comment has arrived. queerunity said:
Thanks for another case of o’reilly hates gay people.
You’re welcome. Really I could tolerate him and others not liking LGBT people. There are people I’m not fond of after all and it’s impossible to like everyone. What gets me is the intolerance they foster, particularly when they do it with propaganda and outright lies. There’s no reason for that, and it only leads to hurt and harm.
