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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 06:17 PM Apr 2012

Fox: “Glee” makes you trans

Bill O'Reilly thinks the show is coming for your children -- and once again misunderstands inequality

“Here we go again,” says the blond lady from Fox. Gretchen Carlson, I assure you I feel exactly the same way.

On Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” Bill O’Reilly grappled with the terrible, terrible paradox that while “Glee” may have some merits, it also sends the message “that alternative lifestyles for children may be positive.” And then, oh no, he showed a clip of the character Unique performing a KC and the Sunshine Band song in a dress and heels. O’Reilly, who is terribly concerned that America’s youth “might go out and experiment with this stuff,” next welcomed Carlson, along with Judge Jeanine Pirro, for an old-fashioned round of pearl-clutching. “Here we go again,” said Carlson, “pandering to .3 percent of the American population that consider themselves transgender. Now I get to explain this to my 8-year-old, if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music?”


http://www.salon.com/2012/04/20/fox_glee_makes_you_trans/

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orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
1. Blabba O'seniley ,is only coherent when
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 06:23 PM
Apr 2012

they break to commercials ,where he shamelessly hawks precious stones ,and I'm sure they're a scam.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
2. Fuck you Bill. I've yet to meet an LGBT person who didn't understand tides are caused by the moon.
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 06:25 PM
Apr 2012

Johonny

(20,851 posts)
3. Why can we go back to the old days of quality manly TV music like Liberace
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 06:25 PM
Apr 2012

when men dressed like men and sang manly songs... oh wait. WTH are they talking about?

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
4. Pirro actually defends the show
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 06:30 PM
Apr 2012

Carlson is good for a laugh as usual, and O'Reilly comically suggests that it might cause people to want to become trangender the way James Dean made him want to smoke.

But Pirro talks sense and makes the other two look foolish.

 

Lionessa

(3,894 posts)
6. So FNC folks are bashing Fox programs? Hmm.
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 07:02 PM
Apr 2012

That makes me wonder as I often have, how Fox Channel which is pretty out there with Glee and House and all manner of pretty racy and on the social edge programs. Aren't they the original Southpark Channel or was that always on CC? Anyway, I don't watch a lot of Fox Channel, but it does seem like it's very provocative and a bizarre catalyst for their FNC team discussions.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Dearie me! Put Gretchen in charge of programming at Fox
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 07:09 PM
Apr 2012

Cancel Glee, revive the Lawrence Welk Show. Wunnerful, wunnerful!

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Iris

(15,653 posts)
10. "...if I just wanted to watch a nice family show with some nice music?
Fri Apr 20, 2012, 07:17 PM
Apr 2012

wtf? Could a person be any more self-centered than this?

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