The Gadflyer’s Paul Waldman noticed a Fox News classic from today’s Chicago Tribune.
The headline alone pretty much tells the story: “O’Reilly Scolds Guest Who Outed Gays, Then Calls Judge a Lesbian”
Fox News Channel’s star talk-show personality, Bill O’Reilly, says he is uncomfortable with the practice of outing gay political figures — except, it seems, when he is doing the outing.
On his show Monday night, O’Reilly chastised guest Michael Rogers for maintaining a Web site publicizing the names of gay staffers working for politicians who oppose gay marriage.
“We’re uneasy with this kind of exposition,” O’Reilly said. “Somebody’s personal sex life should have nothing to do with any kind of a policy.”
But on the same show — and for at least the third time in the last year — O’Reilly described one of the justices on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court as a lesbian, a claim that the justice herself, through a spokeswoman, denies.
There’s just no way to parody these guys; they’re caricatures of themselves.