Slog - Comments on O'Reilly's cupcake logic http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log Bill O'Reilly is at it again. On his Dec. 13 show, he used a confectionery metaphor to pooh-pooh research showing that children reared by same sex parents don't grow horns. According to Media Matters, O'Reilly suggested that if children didn't suffer from being raised by gay or lesbian couples "wouldn't nature then make it that anybody could get pregnant by eating a cupcake?" Huh? He also ragged on "very liberal" Seattle PI columnists Joel Connelly and Susan Paynter who, respectively, called the TV mouth on his double standards and specious statistics.... Copyright 2008 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:28:15 -0800 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:37:26 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by COMTE Jeebuz, that's the worst example of a "straw man" logical fallacy I've ever read!

He's just lucky humans can't get preggers by playing with loofah sponges, otherwise he'd be too busy raisin' the young'uns to have a career in TV punditry.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574400 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574400 Media Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:50:16 -0800 Comment by angry middle-aged white guy All these angry middle-aged white men make me angry.

]]> angry middle-aged white guy http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574409 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574409 Media Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:14:55 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo Between this and the falafel incident, it's clear that O'Reilly has some seriously fucked-up issues surrounding foodstuffs.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574459 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574459 Media Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:24:14 -0800 Comment by PDXRitchie Let's hope next time he gets sick, he lets nature take it's course.

]]> PDXRitchie http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/12/oreillys_cupcake_log#c574668 Media Sat, 16 Dec 2006 03:37:26 -0800