Bill O compared lesbian parents on PBS' Buster cartoon to "a bigamy situ

[rodeodance]

what will take to pull this hate speech down!!??


http://mediamatters.org/items/200502170007

O'Reilly compared lesbian parents on PBS' Buster cartoon to "a bigamy situation in Utah" or "an S&M thing in the East Village"

Following PBS president and CEO Pat Mitchell's February 15 announcement that she plans to resign from PBS, conservatives continued to attack a controversial episode of PBS' Postcards from Buster for its depiction of lesbian couples. The Buster episode titled "Sugartime!" features an animated rabbit visiting the children of two real-life families with lesbian parents in Vermont to learn how maple syrup is made. As The Washington Post noted, "In other episodes, Buster has met Mormons in Utah, the Hmong in Wisconsin, people from the Gullah culture in South Carolina, an Orthodox Jewish family and a Pentecostal Christian family."

On MSNBC's Scarborough Country, Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway asserted that it's not an issue of "right versus left, but right versus wrong" and that people "don't want their kids looking at a cartoon with a bunch of lesbian mothers." Conway cited recent state-level same-sex marriage bans recently passed in Oregon and Michigan -- states that went for Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election -- to back up her claim that "t's not the right wing," but rather "regular Americans" who don't approve of homosexuality and PBS's depiction thereof. But recent polling data, as Media Matters for America has documented, contradicts Conway's claims about the level of acceptance towards homosexuality in the United States.

On FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly compared Buster's visit to the Vermont families with lesbian parents to visiting "a bigamy situation in Utah" or "an S&M thing in the East Village ." O'Reilly also stated that Mitchell "washed her hands like Pontius Pilate" regarding PBS' decision to not distribute the episode. (In the Bible, Pilate presided at the trial of Jesus and gave the order for his crucifixion, then washed his hands in front of the crowd that demanded Jesus's crucifixion and said: "I am innocent of this man's blood. It is your responsibility" .)

As Media Matters for America has noted, PBS said it decided not to distribute the episode to its affiliates "a couple of hours before" it was criticized by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, according to a Washington Post article. The Los Angeles Times reported on January 28 that "lthough PBS won't distribute an episode of a children's program featuring a gay couple, local affiliates may air it." As a January 28 New York Times article noted: "Like the grown-ups in most of the episodes, the lesbian mothers in the 'Sugartime!' segment are mainly background.".......

[ET Awful]

1. Or a loofah situation in O'Reilley's apartment . . . . .

:)

[chicagojoe]

2. Something tells me

that in this cartoon, these lesbians are not having sex, so what's the problem?

[w13rd0]

5. It doesn't even mention the word lesbians...

...the flap over this is monumentally stupid.

[musette_sf]

3. O'Liely looooves him some lesbians!

We saw this on Wednesday night... O'Liely was on it about PBS, the Buster cartoon, and the (let me try to quote him accurately) "LLLLLEZZZ!!!Bians" in the "Sugar Time" episode.

We thought we would die laughing, just thinking about Bildo's little stiffie. He's SUCH a perv. The way he said The Word Mentioned Above, you could just tell this was one of his favorite things to talk about, think about, etc etc etc

[rodeodance]

4. hey, I like your "O'Liely" great

[FlyByNight]

6. Bill commenting on sexual matters...

is pretty hilarious.

Hey Bill, got hush money?