This particular MediaMatters.org clip contains segments from a number of different shows, including some audio from O’Reilly’s call-in radio show where he slides right down that slippery slope to man/duck marriage when a caller gets too truthy on him. The clip concludes with another TV guest giving Bill a dose of reality on same-sex parenting.

Of course, none of that really matters, because the next thing you know, someone’s gonna be marrying their dog. Or Flipper.

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It’s the Math, Stupid

There are websites devoted solely to debunking, correcting, and ranting about O’Reilly’s numerous, flagrant, and unapologetic excesses, lies, and exaggerations. MediaMatters.org, started by out gay ex-conservative David Brock to monitor the media for accuracy, devotes a big hunk of its bandwidth to pointing out each and every time O’Reilly gets it wrong. And, unsurprisingly, O’Reilly is frequently the winner of Keith Olbermann’s nightly “Worst Person in the World” award – and sometimes the runner-up, too.

One of Bill’s doubleheader “Worst Person” wins was on August 16, 2007, when he took second place for calling a Daily Kos user an anti-Semite for quoting someone else’s anti-Semitic remarks in order to disagree with him. Too bad for Bill the guy turned out to be a lawyer. O’Reilly won the crown, though, for telling his audience that most Americans won’t vote for you if you get endorsed by a gay organization.

Not so, Olbermann said. In the poll O’Reilly cited, 30 percent of respondents said they’d be less likely to vote for a candidate endorsed by a GLBT organization, 10 percent said they’d be more likely, and a whopping 58 percent didn’t care either way. “Is it the truth that you hate, Bill? Or just the math?” finished Olbermann.

Gay Cannibals: Now that's a Slippery Slope

It’s much easier to keep gay people invisible when our history is invisible, too. Which might explain why O’Reilly and right wing pundit Michelle Malkin were lamenting a proposed California law that would require state approved textbooks to include GLBT historical figures and events when she joined him on his show one night in May of 2006.

What do school textbooks have to do with gay cannibals? Well, nothing, really. But in Malkin and O’Reilly’s world, the proposed law meant that teachers would be legally prevented from saying “bad things about Jeffery Dahmer” because in addition to being a cannibal and a serial killer, he was gay.

The law says nothing of the sort, of course; even Malkin’s own words make that clear (italics ours): “I looked at this bill over very closely, and it is a very radical, very extreme, dangerous bill. It says that no teacher can even say anything that would, quote unquote, ‘reflect adversely’ on anyone, a historical figure, whatever, based on their sexual orientation.”