{"id":2175,"date":"2004-07-21T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T18:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2175.html"},"modified":"2004-07-21T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T18:21:39","slug":"oreilly-scolds-guest-who-outed-gays-then-calls-judge-a-lesbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/oreilly-scolds-guest-who-outed-gays-then-calls-judge-a-lesbian\/","title":{"rendered":"‘O’Reilly Scolds Guest Who Outed Gays, Then Calls Judge a Lesbian’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gadflyer’s Paul Waldman noticed<\/a> a Fox News classic from today’s Chicago Tribune<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The headline alone pretty much tells the story: “O’Reilly Scolds Guest Who Outed Gays, Then Calls Judge a Lesbian”<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s just no way to parody these guys; they’re caricatures of themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}