O'Reilly: If kids of gay parents were equally healthy, why wouldn't eating cupcakes cause pregnancy?

[LynneSin]

MY GOD I STILL CAN'T FIGURE OUT THIS LOGIC!!!


http://mediamatters.org/items/200612150001

O'Reilly logic: If kids of gay parents were equally healthy, why wouldn't eating cupcakes cause pregnancy?
Summary: On his television program, Bill O'Reilly asked "why," if children suffer no psychosocial deficit from being raised by same-sex parents, "wouldn't nature then make it that anybody could get pregnant by eating a cupcake?"

[Dr.Phool]

1. No, but they could go insane listening to Orally

[leftyclimber]

2. I have been trying to figure that statement out all day.

No luck. Even after the third cup of coffee.

It must mean I'm sane.

[CatholicEdHead]

64. That was also my first reaction

is does it actually mean.

[rockymountaindem]

3. This is how it translates:

"If nature (read God) had meant gays to be parents, it would be possible for everyone to get pregnant without sex. Since gay people can't get pregnant though gay sex, that means they aren't meant to have children."

[LynneSin]

5. Thank you for that Insanity-to-English translation

The guy is still bonkers!

That or I've been pregnant about million times cause I like cupcakes!

[TahitiNut]

17. Yep. That's Billo - God's Press Secretary.

It always amazes me that a supposedly omnipotent God apparently needs so many interpreters.

[skypilot]

33. But what does the "health" of...

...the children of gay parents have to do with anything? I'm still not getting my brain around that.

[yellowcanine]

65. This is "is ought" logic. What "is" is the way things "ought" to be. You can use the same logic to

argue that boys should not be circumcised or that we should not immunize people against disease - and some religious groups do. It is sloppy logic.

[rockymountaindem]

66. His logic, not mine. n/t

[Left Is Write]

72. I suppose he thinks that infertile hetero couples aren't meant to have children either.

No infertile couples should ever adopt or undergo medical intervention to have children, right, Bill? I wonder how that would go over with some of the viewers...

Bill O'Reilly is a big steaming bag of nincompoop.

[twilight_sailing]

4. If I ever meet O'Reilly, I think I'll say,

"Eat me, cupcake."

[dysfunctional press]

28. if i ever meet o'reilly, i'll say "i want an attorney"...

after i get arrested for assault & battery.

[deepthought42]

6. Because cupcakes were invented by man?

Which came first, man or the cupcake? *lmao*

[BOSSHOG]

7. The man wants gay sex so bad

but he's probably reduced to spending weekends in the Dominican Republic with limbaugh and a bottle of viagra.

bill, your point, like you is totally irrelevant in the land of the free. Ya just can't stand people being free huh?

[LynneSin]

10. Or perhaps he just wants a cupcake

[jmowreader]

69. Or he's gotten hold of some of that Extra Strength Crack they're talking about

Falafels...cupcakes...how long do you have to boil a loofah before you can eat it?

I think I'm seeing a pattern here.

[LeftCoast]

41. Ya know, Mr. Hog, not every right wing nutbag is gay

and those of us that are gay


ARE GETTING FUCKING TIRED OF THIS TYPE OF BULLSHIT




have a nice day

[TahitiNut]

59. Same goes for those of us that aren't gay.

Us fruits and nuts should stick together.

[warrens]

8. I know the answer

He's got syphilis and it rotted out most of his brain. The only conclusion that makes sense.

[mondo joe]

9. The ridiculous implication is that anyone who CAN make a baby is the BEST suited to be a parent.

Would even Billo say something that idiotic?

[Lex]

20. Yes, he would.

He's an idiot. He'd prefer a child be raised in an abusive straight home than with loving gay parents.

[gollygee]

37. OOOoooooh is THAT what he's trying to say

the obvious extension of that is that heterosexual couples who have fertility problems shouldn't be parents. :/

[mondo joe]

39. But any fertile child-molesting couple has nature or god's seal of approval

to parent.

[gollygee]

42. There are some real stinkers of parents out there

physically, sexually, emotionally abusive. Just rotten parents. But they did it the old-fashioned way, so it must be fine.

*sigh*

[RobofSWVA]

11. orly?

[lukasahero]

12. Oh man, that hurts my head.

This guy is an idiot.

[soleft]

13. According to his logic reproductively challenged people should

not be parents. Because if you can't procreate you can't be a parent.

[novalib]

14. TWINKIES??!!!

I VERY MUCH enjoy TWINKIES!!

Is it possible that eating Twinkies could cause pregnancy???!!!

[Solon]

53. I guess that depends on what's in the creme.

[Lex]

15. But, Bill, it *is* possible for gay women to have children with no psychosocial deficits

so apparently then, it is okay with God or I assume that an all-powerful God would've been able to stop it.

[LSK]

16. huh???

[formerrepuke]

18. It makes perfect sense, if only to his fans..and he knows his audience.

[Ian_rd]

19. O'Reilly, you just blew my mind.

So why doesn't eating falafel turn you into a sexually pushy blowhard?

[Missy M]

21. Can there be anything dumber than his logic,....

I doubt it. It makes me cringe that so many people listen to that idiot.

[bleedingheart]

22. Jesus what will happen to me since I once ate the paper around the cupcake

..it was my first cupcake and my older sister was asking me..."where's the paper"...and couldn't believe I ate it all...

hahahaha

as for OReilly...what do you expect?

[rolfboy]

26. paper = condom LOL :)

[novalib]

27. YOU ATE THE PAPER???!!!

OMG, You might get pregnant and give birth to a PAGE!!!!

(Just don't let the child near Mark Foley!!!!)

[bleedingheart]

32. I was hungry!!!!

and now I must call the doctor for advice!

[novalib]

61. CALL The Doctor????!!!!!

Oh my goodness, DO NOT CALL the Doctor!!!

In cases where you swallow the paper, you MUST PAGE the Doctor.

You could try to BOOK an appointment with a doctor.

[rolfboy]

23. If I didn't know better,

i would think that The Daily Show has hired Bill Orally.

I try to watch his commentaries once or twice a week, just to hear their twisted spin. Usually, i can last about 1/2 to 2/3 the way through the "commentary" before once again realizing how batshit crazy he is.

This has got to be one of the strangest, funniest things i've heard from him ever.

My take: either one to many falafels or he's getting ghost writers from the Daily Show, and just reads the teleprompter without thinking.

thanks for the post.

[Dulcinea]

24. WTF?

What am I missing here? Cupcakes? Gay parents? I need some Advil.

[gollygee]

25. Huh?

What the hell? Usually I can at least follow bad logic, no matter how bad it is. But that is completely off the wall.

[Virginia Dare]

29. Even if the logic were sound...

it's a crappy argument, not all heterosexual couples conceive their children the old fashioned way. In fact, I would lay money that the Chimp and his lady didn't.

[skypilot]

30. I've read it several times...

...and I still don't know what it means.

[Ha Ha Ha Oh Wow]

31. LoL Wut?

Cupcakes make you idiots, old chum!

Brilliant!

[kenny blankenship]

34. I know SOMEBODY who needs more pink frosting & rainbow sprinkles in his life!

Clearly this is a cry for help.

[Ganja Ninja]

For the same reason you can't get pregnant eating falafel Bill'O.

[mondo joe]

35. If gays shouldn't have kids, artificial insemination wouldn't work.

I didn't use a cupcake. I used a sterilized chutney jar.

[sui generis]

36. again with the "what nature intended"; use falafels, not cupcakes!

O'Reilly I have a question for you.

Why if two humans mate and bear human offspring do you claim to have human parents?

Some others:

If "nature intended" everyone to be baby spewing little fuckers, why did it make some people gay?

and another one

Billy boy, you do realize that we reproduce EGGZACKLY the same way other humans do, and unlike you, we don't need to use falafels to ovulate or inseminate.

That wasn't a question

And another question, Billy boy you do realize that most gay families actually do have large, involved extended families? That our kids are exposed to both sexes all the time, regardless?

What a flipping idiot.

[kenny blankenship]

43. Nature intends us to be dead at 40. If nature gave us everything good

there'd be no such thing as civilization. Reproduction in nature is quite often indistinguishable from rape. Don't ever take medicine to get well from illnesses or chronic ailments that come with aging Mr. O'Reilly since you object to anything that's unnatural. Die soon--as nature intended you to, Mr. O'Reilly.

[radfringe]

38. sadly, Billo's parents didn't practice abstinence mandatory

[LynneSin]

50. Maybe Billo's parents just liked cupcakes alot

[radfringe]

56. dunno

but if Billo thinks cupcakes has something to do with sex and conception, then we know he flunked sex-ed

one other thing - if cupcakes cause pregnancy, then shouldn't they be put behind the counter at the drug store and not sold in grocery stores, vending machines, etc.?

and what about donuts? or muffins? should these also be regulated and dispensed only by prescription?

ennywho - now you know what's in those drugs women get at fertility clinics - prescription strength hostess cupcakes. Wonder if the creamy filling causes any side effects?

[Yavin4]

40. Maybe Bill Needs to Pose His Question to Mary Cheney?

She could answer his question if someone could translate it into English.

[Der Blaue Engel]

44. I, for one, don't want those "cupcake eaters" anywhere near children

Clearly, they are twisted, mentally deficient individuals. What kind of sick person would eat a cupcake??

CAKES DO NO BELONG IN CUPS. It is unnatural!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's next, pizza on a stick?!?

[HuffleClaw]

46. its the unnatural people who eat rasins in things like carrot cake that

i simply cannot abide. raisins belong in those little red boxes, not in our food. those folks just aint right.

[LynneSin]

51. AMEN!!!

[blogslut]

45. How far off the pier

...does that man have to go before people realize he's drowning?

Bill. Get. Some. Help.

[Bridget Burke]

47. The Insidious Cupcake Threat!

Cupcakes move up on the menu; Treats turn trendy, but not cheap, in a sweet deal for boutique bakeries

Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

In Greenwich Village and Beverly Hills, lines trail all the way out the door. They're waiting for cupcakes.

Strange as it sounds, the cupcake is hot on both coasts. Is Houston next?

A few cupcake places are already popping up here. The Cookie Jar bakery cafe in Montrose, where cupcakes are a main feature, opened two weeks ago. Sugarbaby's Cupcake Boutique is set to open in early January in the same neighborhood, while the Cupcake Cafe in Sugar Land has been around two years.

www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/biz/4379447.html

Hmmmm.... Greenwich Village? We know what that means.

Houstonians know about Montrose.

But--Sugarland? Well, they did elect a Democratic representative.

[HuffleClaw]

48. some day he is gonna look back on the things he's said and the shame

will be unbearable. though, as another poster pointed out, it would have been far funnier had he said 'TWINKIE'.

[Rex]

49. The man makes no sense, why expect this to mean anything?

O'Motard NEVER has a logical statement to make. It amazes me he is still on the air and people watch his show. He's actually worse than the Pigman IMO.

[cwydro]

52. That statement

just gave me a headache. He is a true moran.

[TlalocW]

54. I think it would matter what the cream filling inside the cupcake was

And whether "eating" could mean, "stuff into a vagina."

TlalocW

[BlueStorm]

55. But I eat cupcakes, and candy bars, and Ding Dongs

I should have been pregnant so many times, but noooooooo all I ever got out of eating these sweet treats is hyperglycemia.

But according to you Bill, and your twisted up logic, I should be pregnant by a cupcake.

Blue

[David__77]

57. Inseminating an egg causes pregnancy.

Intercourse is one way to accomplish this, but it's not a requirement by any means. Biology affords no special transcendental bond. One day, pregnancy will not even be necessary for reproduction, and that will be a good thing. Human beings are masters of their own destinies, not slaves to biology.

[eppur_se_muova]

58. I thought "eating the cupcake" was the oldest form of birth control ... nt

[ulysses]

60. if surviving cancer is a good thing, why doesn't eating jellybeans prevent disease?

There's a mirror to that "logic".

[LynneSin]

67. Man in that case I should be cancer free

Someone brought Jelly Belly jellybeans into work. I love the popcorn & pear ones

[Cass]

62. He gets paid good money to talk this gibberish on the airwaves.

And his listeners think he's some kind of genius. That is what blows my mind.

[Dastard Stepchild]

63. I wonder how his cupcake eatin' infertile hetero fans...

enjoyed the taste of that comment. Because if I am to understand it correctly, if ya can't get pregnant without science, then you are not meant to get pregnant. This is a statement that I have to imagine would not sit well with the non-baby endowed but desperately trying womenfolk that listen to his show. And I do know that infertile women listen to his show because I have wandered over to pregnancy/parenthood message boards on occasion and bore witness to this fact.

[AndreaCG]

68. O'reilly is besting Coulter in the "who's the looniest" contest

If only cause sh's currently AWOL.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

70. And if eating cheezwhiz caused sunsets in labrats, all of Asia would be an onion

Hey this is easy !!

[ComerPerro]

71. think OReiley calls his producer at home to tell her how he likes to eat cupcakes?