Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Fun at Gay Day

So, I'm at the baseball game (Phills lost, boo), sitting in the Gay Community section. A local news channel was there interviewing people - fine. But, Fox "news" was also there. What were they doing? Trying to goad people into saying something nasty about Bill O'Reilly. "Now's your chance! Does anyone want to say anything mean about Bill O'Reilly?!?!" Amusingly, judging from the blank stares and subsequent conversation, the group of 15 or so people near me had no idea a) who Bill O'Reilly was and b) that there was a 24 hour Fox news channel (they thought it was the local cable company produced news channel).

In any case, that's only "news" in the way that John Stossel does "news" - try to create an event and then film it. I'm sure the goal was to get the "intolerant left" to say something out of line about O'Reilly, and then contrast it with the fact that, relatively speaking, Bill "I want to go to a gay bath house!" O'Reilly is fairly gay-friendly.