The O’Reilly Factor, as you well know, used to be one of my favorite sitcoms. It also more often than not made me completely psychotic so I haven’t watched it in months. Sadly, and it seems I’ve really been missing out on The Important News.
A report on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s site about O’Reilly’s recent hysteria over lesbian gangs is mind-bending, even by O’Reilly standards.
“The Oh-Really Factor: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly offers up an ‘expert’ to claim that pink pistol-packing lesbian gangs are terrorizing the nation,” by Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse, examines a June 21 segment in which O’Reilly and an “expert” talked about the growing lesbian gang menace, including the alleged 150 violent lesbian gangs in the DC area.
A “national underground network” of pink pistol-packing lesbians is terrorizing America. “All across the country,” they are raping young girls, attacking heterosexual males at random, and forcibly indoctrinating children as young as 10 into the homosexual lifestyle, according to a shocking June 21 segment on the popular Fox News Channel program, “The O’Reilly Factor.”
It’s a lengthy and serious piece and I feel sort of guilty quoting the silly part at the end, but how can I resist? It’s just too great:
And then there are the pink Glocks.
There have been no media reports at all of lesbian gangs committing violence while armed with pink-painted 9-millimeter pistols or calling themselves, as Wheeler colorfully described it, “the pink pistol-packing group.” Several law enforcement officers contacted by the Report found the idea laughable. There is, however, a well-known national organization of gay and lesbian firearms owners called the Pink Pistols. This group has never been implicated in any gang activity. Asked by the Intelligence Report if he’d perhaps confused the Pink Pistols with a criminal organization, Wheeler denied it. “I wasn’t referring to their pink pistols,” Wheeler said. “These [lesbian] crews, these gangs, they buy a Glock 9-millimeter and you can paint them pink.”
Pink Pistols spokesperson Gwen Patton said the pistols the group’s members carry are, by and large, not actually colored pink. The Pink Pistols are now demanding an on-air apology from Wheeler, O’Reilly and Fox News.
“A lot of people are confusing these imaginary, lesbian, gun-carrying gangs with our organization,” said Patton. “We would appreciate it if Mr. O’Reilly would invite Mr. Wheeler back onto his show to clear up this nonsense in the same arena it started — on national TV.”
The sad part is, he can get away with this sort of nonsense because people are still all too willing to buy into stereotypes and let their prejudices warp any possible critical thinking skills they might possess.
If you don’t have the Southern Poverty Law Center’s excellent website bookmarked, now’s a good time to fix that.