Another O’Reilly “controversy’ Brewing…

The Huffington Post’s Nicholas Graham writes about Bill O’Reilly allegedly comparing Homosexuality to Al Queda.

O’Reilly’s guest Jane Skinner goes on to explain that the ad is part of an overall campaign titled “Come as you are.” Cue O’Reilly’s foot to head towards his mouth: “OK. Do they have an al Qaeda ad, you know, come as you are? You know?”

Ok, we know O’Reilly can put his foot in his mouth on occasion (Malmedy, anyone?) but I would point out that the quip O’Reilly made, which is the cause of all this controversy, came as a response to Skinner stating that McDonald’s was doing a wide ad campaign targeting a variety of groups and not just gays. So before everyone goes ape…well…okay…despite the fact that some have already gone ape…over this statement, you need to look at it in terms of the context it was made in. Was it still a stupid comment to make? Of course. But that’s O’Reilly. Ready, shoot, aim appears to be his mantra on occasion. But in this case I just can’t get as worked up over this as I have over some of O’Reilly’s more unforgivably insensitve remarks…