Yep, it’s Bill O’Reilly and a gay marriage opponent discussing the recent California court case. Bill’s trying to throw the guy some softball questions, but the anti-gay guy can’t even come up with any reasons beyond “people don’t want it”. Bill tries to get him to explain why people shouldn’t want it, but all he can do is say that people don’t yet want it, at least in some polls.
You mean, you’re the spokesman for an anti-gay group, and that’s all you’ve got? Not that I’d expect anything reasonable, or logical. Just SOMETHING. Some appeal to emotion, some appeal to authority, some logical fallacy. So this is all the anti-gay movement has? That’s their best shot? It makes me chuckle!
And this is why the anti-gay people are in such a frenzy, because they’ve already lost, and in their hearts they know it. They might have majorities opposing gay marriage today, but they’ve lost the next generation.
It’s more the spectacle of the anti-gay guy unable to offer a coherent response to O’Reilly’s softballs that was so amusing. If you’re an anti-gay spokesman, surely you should be able to do better than that!
Yeah, i’m a full-on supporter of gay marriage, and i reckon i could have done better than that guy. Their cause is looking pretty weak if that’s what passes for their “spokesperson.”
I’m trying to figure out why this would be a bad thing or pitted…surely it’s good news that their spokesman was so lame? Hell, we should be encouraging such incompetence, no?
O’Reilly? Yeah, he has libertarian leanings on this and a few other issues. He’s not a complete idiot…just mostly. I actually used to enjoy reading and listening to him…until he seemed to really go whole hog toward conservatism on other than economic issues.
However, on this issue I think he’s fairly decent…JMHO of course.
I saw the thread title and immediately thought: “You are cordially invited to the nuptials of Mr. William O’Reilly and Mr. Rupert Murdoch.” I then threw up a little bit in my mouth and went back to being in support of gay marriage. 10 years ago I wasn’t, but frankly, there wasn’t a single logical reason to oppose it and many in favor of it. So I changed my flip-floppin’ liberal mind.
Heck, I’m at the point where opposing polygamy between fully mature and consenting adults makes no sense as long as all spouses consent and have equal rights under the law.
That was funny. Even Billo doesn’t suffer true fools well. I’m not convinced he’s suddenly pro-gay marriage or anything, he just wants to find someone who’s not an idiot to oppose it.
The American people will go to civil war because they care about the definition of marriage. Ha! No they won’t. Americans don’t think that deep. They just don’t like gays. Go ahead, say it or get off the pot.
O’Reilly is clearly rolling his eyes through that entire fucking interview. The fact that the moronic OP here wants to describe it as throwing softball questions and others want to make this into a standard SDMB-on-O’Reilly dogpile really doesn’t impress me too damn much. I can’t believe Miller is the cool voice of reason here. Shit al-fucking-mighty.