** Edit, Thanks to readers Emails I learn't that the footage O'Reilly used to illustrate Lesbian Gangs, was actually a youtube video of a random "Chick Fight" - The dialogue of the video indicates they are fighting over "A Man."
You know, there is a lot to fear in this world and I think we all can agree that the fear of underground lesbian gangs indoctrinating our children is not one of them. I am a straight man and this story blew my mind. I wonder what Gay people think of this, I checked out the Gay website afterellen.com and I quote...
I could analyze how ridiculous and unsubstantiated Wheeler's claims are, point out their similarity to the outrageous stories the Nazis made up about the Jews back in the day, or question how such clearly inflammatory and inaccurate assertions based on distorted information got past even Bill O'Reilly's fact-checkers, but other bloggers have already done so quite handily (see here, here, here, and here).Sometimes you have to wonder who these faces with names are that Fox News use as "experts" during programs like this. The blog "Unfit for Print" looked into Rod Wheeler for us.
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.Well.. if you are still afraid of Lesbian gangs continue watching the O'Reilly factor. I am sure you will eventually get a follow up on this story and maybe we can learn how to properly defeat the lesbians before they get to your children.
Reader Comments ( Page 4 of 4)
46. Hey! You all need to get a life
At least Bill has a job, which takes up his time. Unlike you all who waste it arguing with people over the internet..real lame guys, real lame
Charlie at 11:54PM on Jul 5th 2007
47. To me this seems like just a sensationalist news story with about as much truth to it as a Steven Colbert or Jon Stewart segment. We live in a country of over 300 million people, so I am sure that somewhere you can find a group of angry and violent lesbians who might happen to call themselves the GTO/DTO. But I personally am much more afraid of the radiation from my cell phone melting my brains out my ear than of the possibility our children being indoctrinated and 'converted' by these so called gangs.
Karl at 2:39AM on Jul 6th 2007
48. This is a long response, but I'm furious.
As a lesbian, I find this absolutely atrocious. The fact that the video proof of these so-called lesbian gangs are youtube footage of a regular chick fight, is absolutely obscene. I thought that people reporting the news, whether republican, democratic, or otherwise, were supposed to report real news with real evidence, not fabricated stories with enquirer style evidence to back it up. Why aren't there current police officers giving credible evidence, or so-called gang members on as witnesses? Why is the ONLY evidence in this from a couldn't hack it ex-homicide detective, glorified security guard, and self-proclaimed crime expert? It's because Bill O'Reilly has a personal agenda that is obviously anti-homosexual, when referring to these lesbian gangs. I'm sorry, but how does one "indoctrinate children into a homosexual lifestyle?" Unless of course you are a pedophile, seeing as being a homosexual is about your sexual preference. Stating they go around raping straight women, and beating the crap out of straight men. Where are the police reports of these rapes? Where are the police reports of these assaults? More importantly, where are the parents of these "indoctrinated children" and why aren't they livid that they're young children are being molested?
There's a reason there are no police officers or gang members on as witnesses. There's a reason there aren't any police reports or infuriated parents. There's a reason there are no black and blue men coming on the show. It's because they don't exist. The reason they brought on their "crime investigator" Rob 007 was because they knew that no one credible would smear their name with a totally unworthy news story.
In comparing this propaganda to Nazi Germany, I agree 100%. This country may not be to the point Nazi Germany ended up in, with mass genocide, but it started with propaganda just like this. It wasn't all concentration camps and violence all at once. The Nazi movement started with school propaganda and news propaganda and slowly started taking people away to kill them off. By the time anyone realized what was going on, it was just too late to do anything other than full blown war. Let's not allow our country to become a new Nazi Germany.
Katie at 11:27AM on Jul 7th 2007
49.
"...they are humans just like us!!!"
No, they're not. They ~are~ us.
Gaia sighs... at 1:47PM on Jul 7th 2007
50. So...why is this guy allowed to have a tv show, radio show, be in public, talk???
Oh right.... because it provides the rest of us with some sick entertienment. The best part is when Keith does, worse, worser, worst. Billo wins most of the times. As sick as this guy is there are times when he does make me laugh.
Patty at 3:19PM on Jul 7th 2007
51. "O'Reilly story was factual and it was unbiased."
No, it was neither. For the actual facts behind the bogus claims made in this broadcast, and the background of the person who made them, see http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=274
Elizabeth Bennett at 11:49PM on Jul 7th 2007
52. I blogged about this... being from Australia and not familiar with the show, I initially thought it was a parody. I was wrong but I still couldn't stop laughing - people believe this crap?!
Design Dyke at 3:39AM on Jul 9th 2007
53. I'm a 24 black male from NYC and gay to boot. I have lived and exprienced a lot Plus NY city gives you a hard skin. But I started to cry after seeing this. It still is amazeing to me that idiots are allowed to get on TV and Say such hateful things in the form of suppossed facts.
Thank you for putting this out there and setting the record straight!
Chris at 4:49PM on Jul 12th 2007