{"id":11446,"date":"2007-07-13T13:15:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T17:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11446.html"},"modified":"2007-07-13T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T17:15:17","slug":"social-engineering-by-the-padres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/social-engineering-by-the-padres\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Social engineering by the Padres’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of those Fox News broadcasts that was almost too bizarre to believe, Bill O’Reilly devoted a segment<\/a> this week to a San Diego Padres baseball game. Apparently, the team hosted a gay-pride night and a children’s hat giveaway promotion during the same game, causing O’Reilly to go berserk. He called it “insane” to “cluster” gay men and lesbians during a “hat giveaway for any kid under 12.” O’Reilly reported that “thousands of gay adults showed up and commingled with straight families,” and stated, “[C]lear-thinking people understand it is completely out of context and inappropriate.”<\/p>\n

When San Diego Pride executive director Ron deHarte said that it “was no different than any other game,” O’Reilly responded, “But you are focusing in and putting more homosexuals into an area. OK? See, that’s the problem,” adding: “You’re putting it in a kid’s face at a baseball game.” O’Reilly later asserted, “This is social engineering by the Padres.”<\/p>\n

Some sane people apparently suggested to O’Reilly that his entire argument was, well, the unhinged rant of nutjob. It led to a great moment<\/a> on last night’s show.<\/p>\n

Big reaction to our report on the San Diego Padres having a gay promotion on the same day as a kids promotion, a segment highly rated by BillOReilly.com premium members.<\/p>\n

Gregory Myers, Fort Collins [said]: “Mr. O’Reilly, your position seems to imply that putting gays and kids together in one place is a bad thing. Newsflash, Bill, kids are around gays every day.”<\/p>\n

But not thousands of them, sir.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, who can argue with logic like that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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