Beware the LESBIANS!
O'Reilly Factor warns of vast underground network of violent lesbians.
(Better than a vast public network of fanatic, rabble-rousing media-types, I guess)
O'Reilly, you glorious bastard. You make this easier every day. I don't need to say too much about this one because it's so utterly ridiculous, but there are three things I want to point out:
1: The video clips they show of the supposedly 'violent lesbian attacks' are nothing of the sort. As far as I've been able to tell from looking around at various editorials and comments about the videos, the videos are presented without the correct context and played over the statements by Fox's "expert" to make it look worse.
The video of the street attack is, I think, video of an event you can read about here and here. No doubt, the attack on the man was excessive. The women deserved to be punished, at least to some extent, but the man was by no means an innocent bystander that was attacked for no reason by a lesbian street gang.
The other video clip of the fight at the beach was, as far as I can tell, a fight between two girls over a GUY that escalated into a full on brawl. I'm not sure how a fight over a guy equates to lesbian street gang attack, but if you figure it out, let me know. The video can be found on YouTube, I'd assume by typing any combination of the words 'girl' 'fight' and 'beach'.
2: The Pink Pistols are neither a lesbian street gang nor an underground network of any kind. Their mission, as stated on their website, is promoting "the legal, safe, and responsible use of firearms for self-defense of the sexual-minority community." Now, I am not particularly fond of guns or of many organizations that are fond of them, but that's no reason to let O'Reilly's guest's misinformed (or poorly worded, as the case may be) statement reflect on them in a negative way.
3: Fox's 'expert', according to the blog Unfit to Print, is not quite what he appears... or is that exactly what he appears, and not quite as he'd like to appear? From their site:
"after checking out this “detective’s” website — Rod007.com, no joke — his, um, credibility as a crack investigator is a little dubious. Rod only claims to have served “several years” as a homicide investigator and fraud investigator. Not five or ten or twenty, but “several” years. One of his other claims to legitimacy as a crime expert is his experience working in “corporate security and safety management” at Boston Market (a McDonalds chain), which kinda sounds like “security guard.” And his “what people are saying” page is mostly made up of praise from other Fox reporters."
I would encourage you to read the blog's full writeup on the story, as it also has interesting details about the other attack described in the O'Reilly piece, as well as more information about the supposed "GTO" lesbian violence gang.
(Better than a vast public network of fanatic, rabble-rousing media-types, I guess)
O'Reilly, you glorious bastard. You make this easier every day. I don't need to say too much about this one because it's so utterly ridiculous, but there are three things I want to point out:
1: The video clips they show of the supposedly 'violent lesbian attacks' are nothing of the sort. As far as I've been able to tell from looking around at various editorials and comments about the videos, the videos are presented without the correct context and played over the statements by Fox's "expert" to make it look worse.
The video of the street attack is, I think, video of an event you can read about here and here. No doubt, the attack on the man was excessive. The women deserved to be punished, at least to some extent, but the man was by no means an innocent bystander that was attacked for no reason by a lesbian street gang.
The other video clip of the fight at the beach was, as far as I can tell, a fight between two girls over a GUY that escalated into a full on brawl. I'm not sure how a fight over a guy equates to lesbian street gang attack, but if you figure it out, let me know. The video can be found on YouTube, I'd assume by typing any combination of the words 'girl' 'fight' and 'beach'.
2: The Pink Pistols are neither a lesbian street gang nor an underground network of any kind. Their mission, as stated on their website, is promoting "the legal, safe, and responsible use of firearms for self-defense of the sexual-minority community." Now, I am not particularly fond of guns or of many organizations that are fond of them, but that's no reason to let O'Reilly's guest's misinformed (or poorly worded, as the case may be) statement reflect on them in a negative way.
3: Fox's 'expert', according to the blog Unfit to Print, is not quite what he appears... or is that exactly what he appears, and not quite as he'd like to appear? From their site:
"after checking out this “detective’s” website — Rod007.com, no joke — his, um, credibility as a crack investigator is a little dubious. Rod only claims to have served “several years” as a homicide investigator and fraud investigator. Not five or ten or twenty, but “several” years. One of his other claims to legitimacy as a crime expert is his experience working in “corporate security and safety management” at Boston Market (a McDonalds chain), which kinda sounds like “security guard.” And his “what people are saying” page is mostly made up of praise from other Fox reporters."
I would encourage you to read the blog's full writeup on the story, as it also has interesting details about the other attack described in the O'Reilly piece, as well as more information about the supposed "GTO" lesbian violence gang.
Labels: propaganda, spin, television, tolerance
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