Bill O'Reilly compares gay people to Al Qaeda

[ck4829]

Last night, Bill O’Reilly ran a segment about a new gay-themed McDonald’s ad airing in France. After previewing the ad, which shows a young man talking on the phone with his boyfriend, O’Reilly asked Fox News anchor Jane Skinner, “does that make you want to buy a Big Mac?…Because, you know, straight people are going to watch that, too.”

When Skinner explained that the ad was part of a campaign showcasing people from different walks of life (CK says: That's right, folks, this was so crazy that the Fox News anchor had to tell Bill ORLY that he was wrong), O’Reilly asked if they would cut an ad featuring Al-Qaeda and insisted that the ad would never run in America:

O’REILLY: OK. Or in McDonald’s or in the fast food world. They want to make a political statement selling burgers. They’re entitled to it. It will never run in the USA. They’ll never do that.

SKINNER: Part of an overreaching campaign called come as you are, which you saw at the end there. So they show people in different walks of life. This happens to be their gay friendly ad.

O’REILLY: OK. Do they have al Qaeda ad, you know, come as you are? You know?

SKINNER: And how do you know it’s not coming to the states?

O’REILLY: I don’t know.

SKINNER: Never say never.

O’REILLY: No. That would not — I guarantee you that will not run here

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/06/03/oreilly-mcd/

[Demoiselle]

1. What has become of us as a nation?

We let idiots like O'Reilly dominate our discourse.
Disgusting fathead.
We can't survive if we keep getting dumber.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Saw this clip on "The Ed Show..."

Believe it was on his "psycho talk" segment. Why is this lying bigot still on the national sirwaves?! :grr:

[JBoy]

3. Billo is too stupid to understand the ad, and too bigoted to accept it

and because he's the perfect example of an American that's why it would never run.

Put another way, France is mature enough to handle the ad, Billo's America is not.

[Scuba]

4. Scuba compares Bill O'Lie-ly to a lump of feces.

[Chulanowa]

5. I'm shocked. Shocked I say

This, from the guy who expressed surprise that black people can eat at a restaurant without screaming for their "motherfucking iced tea"?

I'll never believe it.

[QC]

6. There is a poster right here on DU who routinely compares us to the KKK.

He's done it three times that I know of, and he's still a member in good standing.