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Bill O’Reilly And Gay Activist Clash On 8-Year-Old’s Confrontation With Bachmann

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On Wednesday, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly tackled the controversy and discussion surrounding GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann‘s recent talk with the eight-year-old son of lesbian parents.

O’Reilly echoed the assessment of others (including our own Jon Bershad) who felt the little boy’s mother was essentially using her son to make a political point. He invited gay activist Sally Kohn onto the program to discuss it further.

RELATED: Michele Bachmann Confronted By 8-Year-Old Boy: ‘My Mommy’s Gay But She Doesn’t Need Fixing’

Kohn, herself the mother of a three-year-old, disagreed with O’Reilly’s take that, given the child’s young age and childen’s assumed lack of familiarity with gay issues, he must’ve been coached by his mother on what to tell Bachmann. “Kids aren’t raised in a vacuum,” she said. “They see the political discourse going on them. This kid probably sees his family, his mother being attacked by politicians like Michele Bachmann. And no doubt he has a very clear opinion that his mom is a great mom and shouldn’t be a political football.”

“Well, I think you’re living in the land of Oz,” said O’Reilly. He pointed out that he’s also the parent of an eight-year-old boy, and he’s pretty confident that they’re not going around thinking about gay rights. He also felt that the little boy’s words — specifically that his mommy doesn’t need “fixing” — sound inauthentic for a boy his age. He felt that the boy’s mother should have spoken for herself, and that having her child “do the talking for her” actually does a disservice to her cause.

“You think this kid, Elijah, knows who Michele Bachmann is? Are you kidding me?”

“I think you’re not giving this eight-year-old a lot of credit,” said Kohn.

“This is cowardly!” replied O’Reilly, noting that everyone would “likely have applauded” the child’s mother had she made the point herself that she was a good and responsible parent to her son who wanted a little more open-mindedness on Bachmann’s part.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    BIll is 100% correct here.  This radical gay activist is so blinded by her political cause that she cant understand reality.  Shes so lost and clueless she even doesn’t realize that these tactics by the mother actually hurt her cause. 
    All an 8 year old boy wants to do is play video games and play outside.  They have zero knowledge or interest in politics and they think girls have cooties.

  • Anonymous

    I agree with Bill O’Reilly.  Michelle Bachmann is way more familiar with gay issues.  

    That 8 year old boy has only been living with his gay parents for 8 years.  Bachmann has been living with her gay husband for over 30 years. 

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    This creature thinks her 3 year old son is ready to goose step for her identity crisis? Poor kid.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LTOYPBQB46JSMMXS45BT7BLTSA Brian

    The kid isn’t really an activist if his mommy has to tell him what to say.

  • Anonymous

    I think tomorrow night we’ll have a Daily Show episode with dozens and dozens of clips of Bill-O using kids as props.

    I love video.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

     Is Mediaite represented at Obama’s re-election kickoff at the White House tonight for his “Mainstream Media” promoters?

  • Anonymous

    Typical wingnut mantra. If you do not like the message, attack the messenger.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    why do liberals find it necessary to personal attacks against Conservatives and at times there families?  Examples…Michelle, Palin, Santorum, Newt  This is why politicians like Mitch Daniels and Jeb Bush never entered the race this year. 

  • Anonymous

    Great segment! Bill O’Reilly made some great points. Once again, talking to a lesbian political activist seems like whistling an aria to a deaf person.  

  • Anonymous

    I have to agree with Bill-O here. The mother was a coward to use her kid. If she wan’t to make a point (one that I totally agree with), then she should have approached Bachmann herself.

  • http://twitter.com/DreadfulPenny81 Melissa E.

    While I agree the kid was probably coached — it doesn’t take a genius to figure that out when the mom is coaxing him to speak from the side — he was still very brave to say what he said. The look of shock on Bachmann’s face was priceless and well worth it. As for Ms. Kohn, I have an 8-year-old cousin, and all he cares about is Star Wars and his Nintendo DS. I don’t know many kids who actually are involved with politics unless their parents gets them involved. Considering children can’t even vote, there’s no reason to involve them in politics until they’re at least sixteen and can understand what they’re talking about.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Is this “woman” kidding; the mother says “Don’t you have something you’d like to say?” Any moron knows this is coaching.

    I’m more interested in how lesbians make their asses perfectly square: do they sit in some kind of frame before they waddle out the door or use silicon or what? The Mayans used to use boards tied to their kids foreheads to make them flat cuz it was a desired look and necks are extended among some few African women by hanging them from a tower when they’re 7 years old.

    I myself use a scissors to cut my hair as a cultural conceit.

  • Henry Wood

    Why is it that conservatives are so comfortable with hypocrisy, constantly hurling personal insults at every librul in sight and then clutching their pearls when anyone dares to tell the truth about them?

  • https://me.yahoo.com/a/7nZpGKwT1fVdlb3YN6DXlA8PViJDMLL2bO_q#5aa2e ganymede

    Prompted or not by his parents, this 8 year old was talking from his 8 year old heart and it sounded genuine, despite all the sanctimonious comments by the bigots on this website.  Even this kid understands that the prejudice and ignorance promoted by the O’Reilly’s and Bachmanns is evil. Unlike O’Reilly, Michelle Bachmann in many ways appears to be a nice person, but when it comes to sex, she is as twisted and repressed as many rightwing bigots are. O’Reilly, as the gossip goes, has a more kinky take on sex than Bachmann. However, the damage Bachmann and her husband have done to dozens, if not hundreds of gays who, out of ignorance have gone to them to be ‘fixed’ is despicable. I understand there have been a few suicides to boot. 95% of gay males are really gay, and probably 90% of lesbians are really lesbians.It’s genetic and homosexuality has been a constant throughout history. Don’t you bigots have enough life experience to know that!  Man, are we in need of a change of consciousness, and with the collapse of the rightwing, it looks like that’s what we’re going to get. I think there is something to 2012 and the prophecies of the Mayan calendar. (Check this out, it is of interest.)  It’s time for a change, and it looks like it’s coming. We’re watching one of  the bastions of  ignorance, the Republican Party, imploding upon itself, and it’s nice to see an 8 year old kid aiding the process.  Thanks Elijah!

  • http://twitter.com/GroupSpringhill springhill group

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  • Anonymous

    I’m glad Bill agrees that we should protect our children from Bachmann’s venom and hatred of homosexuals.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    what truth??? 

    creating a new definition for the word santorum??  you know Conservatives can play the same game against liberals too.  What interesting definition could we make for Obama??  Or AL Gore?  payback is a bitch..aint it ;)
    ALso we could easily say Michelle Obama is a lesbian or BI.  Or that Obama isnt the real father of his kids or how about the Vera Baker story?  ya know…….May 18, 2004, Vera Baker was dropped off at a DC hotel by a limo driver, where she allegedly spent the night with Barack Obama.

  • Anonymous

    It depends on what kind of discussions the child has been exposed to.  If he has heard about gay persons and the positions of politicians, he’d most likely be aware of who they are.  One cannot truthfully say that all eight years olds are alike because they’re not.

  • Anonymous

    Memo to Super: Jeb Bush’s family would not be subject to any personal attacks because Americans have not forgotten his brother.

  • http://twitter.com/Wacman89 Josh Williams

    Holy crap, I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I totally agree with O’Reilly here…

  • Anonymous

    Good pushback from Sally Kohn. My friend’s daughter is 10-11 years old and she absolutely knows what homosexuality is. It actually shocked me. Granted it’s not 8, but the case applies. Two things; Both sides exaggerated. Bill thinks children that young are oblivious when it comes to sexuality of themselves or that of their parents and Sally overplays the fact. The kid was definitely coached. But that indoctrination is no different from that administered by their parents telling them about “God” and Jesus Christ…and I have seen that on television programming for kids on Saturday morning. 

  • Anonymous

    Might wanna use those the scissors…..jamming them in your neck would be a good start. 

  • Anonymous

    Ms Bachman should have said, “Your mommy wasn’t such a lesbian when she had you, now was she? Or is your daddy that carpet she was munchin’?

  • Anonymous

    O’Reilly really should be more polite to that guy.

  • South Park Conservatives

    The left has no shame. Using your kid like that.

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    But he also pushes Megan’s law, which protects kids from Sally’s friends too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/UChicago-Charter-Woodlawn/58008049644 Greg Ingleright

    So many words ….so little to say .

  • Anonymous

    Exactly. Just like Bachmann’s 8y/o (a hypocritical one) would be more likely to know about Jesus. Children are receptive to what is in their environment. 

  • Anonymous

    You mean like FLOTUS being called a “fatass” and pejoratively called Moo-chelle? How about Limpballs calling that one lady’s pre-teen son a Brownshirt? 

  • http://twitter.com/Seanmj63376 Sean Johnson

    No teaching your kids about God and Jesus is teaching them about the foundation of western civilization. Teaching you kids about homosexuality is teaching the latest sexual psychosis that has become a pop culture fad.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad specious rumors can not be substituted for truth. Do you know why Santorum got that smear? It didn’t just happen in a vacuum little child. It was a response for something he said about the LGBT community. 

    Why don’t you go ahead and spear Obama? The guy has a personal likability of over 70%! See how that works out for ya!. 

  • Anonymous

    He is an 8 year old child. We all know it is YOU who is the 3yr old. 

  • Anonymous

    …but it wouldn’t have made the news. It was a tactical move. 

  • Anonymous

    I know…it sounded like that that in the conclusion of the segment..right? LOL. 

  • Anonymous

    No it is not. You are introducing to them concepts that require emotional maturity. Thanks for showing your hypocrisy tho. Jesus was the foundation of western civilization? Guffaw. I bet you think Jesus was a white guy with blonde hair and blue eyes too. Typical teahadist prattling.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    I haven’t heard of that fad; does it somehow create the ability to make up extremely clever pseudonyms or is the effect visual?

    Or are you a Shia celebrating Ashurra? I’m not a Shia.

  • Anonymous

    Whether the kid has heard of Michelle Bachmann or not is irrelevant, it’s a kid. In this case he was clearly coached and didn’t want to be participating, and that’s first and foremost why it’s wrong.

    But even IF he wanted to speak his mind…who gives a damn? It’s an 8 year old kid. Their opinions on politics do not matter.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    The difference is that you can’t get gay people to shut up about being gay and gay this and gay that and how does this affect gays and does the neighbor like me cuz I’m gay. The kids head is probably spinning 24/7.

    In a normal household, one doesn’t need to promote heterosexuality or spank kids to believe in rain or that fire burns.

  • Anonymous

    super, you are absolutely right. O’Reilly was completely right, as well. Obviously, the woman knows very little about raising a child and would do well to listen to O’Reilly regarding her own three year old. Children can teach you humility, if you are willing to put aside your agenda and will listen.

    Back in the day, I was of the belief that if you raised boys and girls the same, they’d be the same. What a foolish idea! Having two girls and then a boy sure taught me fast that the genders are NOT the same- they have different physiological strengths from the get-go. We certainly have put aside common sense for some idiotic notion of how things “should” be. Every time you think “should,” you’d better check your assumptions.

    Thank goodness O’Reilly doesn’t mince words where children are concerned! Someone needs to call out these fools.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    I agree. I think gay people should be allowed to live in peace but there’s a limit to pretend and how far I’m going to be pushed into playing a drag game I really have no interest in.

  • Anonymous

    then you can borrow them and cut out some fat lardass…

  • Anonymous

    No kidding. That’s because they don’t have the same rights as straight people! Heterosexuals have nothing to complain about. Duh. 

  • Anonymous

    yeah because they can identify the gene that makes some people taste cauliflower differently than the majority of the population, but they haven’t identified the “gay” gene yet…

  • Anonymous

    I agree. I have already stated this. The kid was definitely coached and probably has been advised on LGBT issues considering his mom is a lesbian. That is no different from a kid born to a religious nut who is coached to that respective dogma. The kid was used as a prop for a reason. It creates a media firestorm and generates more attention. It has been done in the past and it will be done in the future.

  • Anonymous

     miss the old america where racist were proud to call themselves racist and homophobes were called homophobes. Now people want to think this way but not be labeled. What did the kid say that was so bad, If he said he loved jesus to a muslim, people would be so proud and call him courageous.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t you mean “their” famlies? Are you illiterate?

  • david r

    And they foamed at the mouth when Palin brought her kid onstage:  “Using him as a prop!”

  • Anonymous

    I’ve never seen O’Reilly use children as props. He’s very outspoken against exploiting children. Then again I actually watch his show, not just edited clips.

  • Anonymous

    Actually, the night with Vera Baker was allegedly a group-thing! 

  • Anonymous

    I don’t mean on his show, I mean at events.

    Bill-O also speaks at conferences to fund raise for violence against women, even though he is a sexual predator…so, you know…

  • Anonymous

    What a small-minded bigot you are, you pretentious fool.

  • david r

    Remember how they foamed at the mouth when Palin brought her kid onstage: “Using him as a prop!”

  • Anonymous

    What a dimwitted troglodyte you are, you sanctimonious oaf!   LOL. :)

  • david r

    Remember how the left foamed at the mouth when Palin brought her kid onstage: “Using him as a prop!”

  • Anonymous

    The financial problems and irreularities in Jeb Bush’s and Mitch Daniel’s backgrounds would’nt inspire confidence in most voters.  I think the public is very weary of seeing men like this just squeaking by legally– as large sums of money conveniently appear and disappear.  It’s not personal, but, it is infuriating.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ind-gov-daniels-says-300-million-went-untouched-money-was-collected-as-lawmakers-made-cuts/2011/12/06/gIQA1wAkaO_story.html

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0D81E3BF937A25753C1A966958260&pagewanted=all

  • Anonymous

    You have very singular, if not bizaar interests.  I suggest you find a lesbian and ask her.

  • Anonymous

    Ya. You said that.

  • Anonymous

    So few words, so much they tell us about your intelligence. 

  • Anonymous

    Ya. You said that.

  • Anonymous

    As much as it pains me to say it I’m going to have to completely agree with the Right on this one.

    The only saving grace is that it’s some unknown mom embarrassing the Left instead of the leaders of the party like on the Right.  :)

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Just stop. You ain’t me.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, I’m sure Bachmann is far, far, above anything of the sort.  I do wonder what it must have been like to grow up in her home. 

  • Anonymous

    I agree with Billo…the kid was probably coached.   With that said, Billo is a big racist bigoted idiot.

  • http://impossibledreamsmedia.com Chris Jones

    To suggest that an 8-year old would be familiar with Michele Bachmann’s positions on gay rights or even know what gay rights are is absurd. It’s so absurd that I’m still wondering if Kohn was joking. Does she really believe that 8-year old wanted to confront Bachmann about her positions on gay issues and the mother was merely a bystander? This is the kind of sick stuff that turns the vast majority of Americans against the gay cause. This kind of extreme gay militancy is disgusting. If that lesbian had a beef with Bachmann she should have said so. Not send her child in to do her dirty work. And worse, put it on YouTube.

  • Anonymous

    You two sound like racist people in the 50′s XD

    This isn’t politics, it’s human rights and the reason an 8 year old supports gay people is probably because his Mom’s are lesbians and he likes his life.

    Please take your caveman values somewhere else.

  • AMP2020

    Yeah, I would go further and say she SUCKS.

    If she had half a brain she’d just admit that the woman was stupid to use the kid in that way. Then she could have just spent the rest of the time talking about how Bachmann is a bigot with a closeted homosexual husband.

    Instead she comes across as an apologist. 

    O’Reilly is about 90% correct. Young kids with gay parents DO know a bit about what’s going on. They just don’t know the politics of it fully (unless they’ve been bullied in school and had to grow up about it too fast).

  • us995

    she’s a coward she used a child so she wouldn’t have to speak

  • us995

    i’m sure you can provide proof of that?

  • us995

    the left has Obama to embarras them it’s a full time job for him

  • Anonymous

    I never have any trouble differentiating.  It’s just like that “Mirror, Mirror” episode of Star Trek where Mr Spock has a goatee and Shatner overacts a bit (any episode) and everyone has pinlights focused on their eyes.

  • Anonymous

    It may have been a tactical move, but it showed the mother in a poor light for using her son that way, and tarnishes her cause. Look, it still would have made news if the mother herself had confronted Bachmann. MSNBC and the like live for stuff like this. The mother did NOT have to use her son this way.  

  • Anonymous

    Living in peace and shutting someone up (or desiring to) are incongruous ideas. 

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    I appreciate that (a great reference to boot). It doesn’t bother me much…guess I felt the need to object on principal. Cheers!

  • Anonymous

    An 8 year old child of a lesbian couple probably does know more about homosexual issues than the child of heterosexual parents, just by listening to day to day conversation in his/her home. Regardless of that, the mother USED her son. Poor kid.

  • Anonymous

    It would be wrong to judge all gay parents on the actions of one women.  I saw signs the child was uncomfortable and overwhelmed.  Poor kid, he probably would have prefered Chuck E. Cheese’s to meeting Bachmann, as would I, and I’m no fan of screamin” kiddies and germy “ball pits”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    a very rudimentary knowledge of Jesus that’s it.  AN 8 year understanding of the world around him or her isn’t like that of an adult.  Its to bad many cant comprehend that simple fact.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    it was started by one jerk.  A radical jerk against Santorum ….a jerk that hates all conservatives even gay ones. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    actually it was the situation involving mitches wife.  ANd with Jeb Bush his daughter. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    Jeb bushs daughter would become the liberals focus.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    there, their, they are or they’re …you cant defeat my argument so now you focus on spelling/grammar.  :)

  • Anonymous

    When I was 8 I read the paper almost every day and remember asking my mom questions about abortion, racism and politics. Kids don’t live in a vacum and do have some awareness of their enviroment-for example a woman on tv running for president saying there is something “wrong” or “bad” about your parents.

  • LJB57

    All those lesbian are messed up in the head, that’s obvious.
    I mean how could they not be, they are born with sort of female bodies, but wish they were men, but then they dislike, if not hate men and boys, generally out of envy I suppose.
    So interviewing one is a little like interviewing a schizophrenic… quite pointless.

  • LJB57

    Never allow Gays near kids. They are diddlers just like Sandusky and Fine.
    Besides that their brains aren’t wired correctly, that is why they go after the wrong sex. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/guyicap Guy Capparelli

    Doesn’t it sound perverted to hear a women ,with a, son,and the women is gay? How could a lesbian hate men but wants to look like one,  or wants her girlfriend to dress like a man when she is suppose to be a man hater? Sally Kohn, is one sick and perverted person.

  • Anonymous

    Bad judgment is bad judgement and regardless of where one stands on gay rights issues, what this mother did was not appropriate

    The mother was a coward as further evidenced by her fleeing the scene right after the kid blurted the words.. one has to feel for the kid with a mother like that who obviously has issues

  • Anonymous

    Just seen this video and all I can say is Sally Kohn has mush for brains and people like   Sally Kohn
    make this world a bad place to be..

  • Anonymous

    Some people like to take it up the ass. Deal with it, Oreilly. How is it a political point to say I am gay and don’t need fixing? Why does it bother you what people prefer to suck?

  • Anonymous

    She disagrees with Bill. So what? Her brains look well functioning, as far one can tell from that video.

  • Anonymous

    what do you EXPECT that limp-wristed woman to do except FORCE her child to do her bidding?

  • Anonymous

    what a dim bulb you are: O’Reilly said it wouldn’t have been a problem if the MOTHER had said it. His problem wasn’t with WHAT was said; it was that ‘Mommy’ didn’t have the guts to say it herself.

  • Anonymous

    Its about time that Bachmann understood that what she says about gays is extremely hurtful to children, not just the adults she normally targets.

  • Anonymous

    Tell that to the 8yr old’s that write to Bill O’Reilly that want to read “Killing Lincoln”.

  • Anonymous

    For once I agree with the general sentiments expressed here – this is an incredibly boring story and you’re all idiots

  • Anonymous

    I know he said that but, of course, his objection is to gay rights in general.

    Sure, I can be as clever as you are and take Oreilly’s word for it, or stay ‘dim’ and suspect he is full of sh!t.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Observing professional victims, themselves incapable of hate, bigotry and racism, are overstuffed windbags is hardly a general call for censoring homosexuals.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_76F7SAA3N35X4IBY5BGVQML2YM James

    Are you suggesting Lesbians don’t cultivate a “look?” I guess I’ve been around more mullet wearing “girls” with the fake watch chain, Doc Martins and fingerless leather gloves than you have.

  • Anonymous

    Children are too young to form a coherent and mature opinion on anything at 8 years old, and in no shape or form can understand the complexities of issues like this….that’s why we don’t let them vote. 
     
    The fact of the matter is, the left loves to throw their own children at their political enemies, because, in their epic cowardace, they know that when a child is manipulated to confront a political enemy, they themselves are less likely to be subject to substantiate or defend themselves by the target of their attack.
     
    This is typical, and disgustingly cowardly. 

  • Anonymous

    Maybe if she hadn’t blown 12 million last year visiting exotic destinations with two under-aged “senior advisors” so she didnt have to pay the transportation costs for her kids herself, people would be less likely to call her “Moochelle”

  • Anonymous

    what does she say?

  • Anonymous

    He’s referring to Silly Sally’s child, she said her child was three.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s see a source for O’Reilly using children as props at events.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a dumb comment. I wasn’t arguing, I was calling you illiterate

  • Anonymous

    Worth it?  This video is viral, having a gay sibling, even our nieces and nephews had derogatory remarks and slurs directed at THEM because they have a gay uncle.  I hope this child is in an environment that will not tolerate what may be thrown at him, it gets ugly out there.  The  parents were definately not thinking of HIS best interests when they did this….to him.

    btw, spite is never the way to go.

  • Anonymous

    Seek and you will find more than 456 hits.

  • Anonymous

    I have doubts that a politician’s book signing  appeared on this child’s little bucket list and it’s stunning that a parent would introduce him to the world/expose him like this.  Definately not his best interests they were concerned with.

  • Anonymous

    As an 8 year old son of gay parents I’d say there’s a good chance the kid may have already experienced some of the prejudice against homosexuals. He may not understand all the details and specifics of the issue, but he could certainly understand that some people think his parents are sick, or wrong, or whatever other impressions he may have gathered, and understand that the prejudice he encountered is what’s wrong, not his parents. He could also understand that Michelle Bachman is one of  those people.

    We don’t know if his parents pushed him into it, insisted he do it against his wishes or merely encouraged him, and then when the moment came, he was embarrassed and less courageous than he wanted to be. I don’t approve of him being pushed into it or being used as a political prop as some are suggesting. I also don’t approve of the rush to judgement and exaggerated condemnation his parents are getting.

    Did I not see young children his age and younger carrying signs at Tea Party rallies and being used as political props? Do you think they wrote and understood the signs they held, or were on their stroller?

  • Anonymous

     
    This should be a surprise to no one. There is no level too low to which libs won’t sink to promote their agenda. We saw this a couple of months ago when a mother “pushed” her son forward to ask Rick Perry a question about evolution, and here we have a coward liberal “pimping” her 8 years old child out to to promote her homosexual agenda.

    What is funny, is that what this soi disant mother succeeded in doing by her despicable act is prove beyond any question that she does indeed need “fixing.” She should be charged with child abuse and forced to take classes in how to be good mother.

    Thank God Bill had Sally Kohn on to further establish that liberals will defend any type of behavior no matter how deplorable to further their agenda. Kohn is the poster person for” The End Justifies the Means” philosophy of gay activists.

    And no Kohn, 2nd and 3rd graders are not talking about who is running for office and about gay rights.

    Next up: libs will have a 6 year old girl ask a conservative candidate why she has to inform her parents when she wants to get an abortion when she turns 16.

  • Anonymous

    Exactly, and he may well have already faced the issue of why the other kids were calling him and his parents ugly names.

  • Anonymous

    Ahhh another mind reader. It’s amazing how many there are on internet comment pages. I need to call Kreskan and apologize for being so skeptical

  • Anonymous

    son, I’m sure you have proof he wasn’t. 

    There is proof he was coached.

    The mother’s statement to the 8 year old of:

    ” Do you have something you need to say?” “You can say it louder.”

    That’s all the proof any reasonable person needs .

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know to what degree he was pushed or coached. I don’t approve of the idea of him being used as a prop but the eager rush to condemn his parents by people who approved of young kids carrying anti Obama signs at Tea Party rallies is more partisan BS.
    “Oh Boy, we can condemn a Liberal, and a lesbian to boot. See See, we’re right”

    No, what the kid said, pressured or not, was right.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Yeah, what’s wrong with them? It’s not as if they’ve been condemned and ridiculed for years because of of religious indoctrination. Can’t they just get over it?

  • Anonymous

    They can live in peace as long as they aren’t foolish enough to ask for equality, is that it?

  • Anonymous

    You want to see something really disturbing concerning kids

    Go to YouTube and find a few clips from Jesus Camp and take a gander at the people being courted by Bachman and Perry and the right in general.

  • Anonymous

    son, you mean like barry does with his kids?

  • Anonymous

    son, go to the elementary school and watch this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3TKMKbifgQ&feature=related

  • Anonymous

    Let me know when you’ve watched the clips from Jesus camp and care to comment intelligently about them. Then I’ll be glad to watch your link.

    and to you as well. How did you feel about the kids being “pimped out” at the Tea Party rallies. Did you express your outrage then?

  • Anonymous

    son, I struck a nerve.  When the kids at a  TP rally are forced to mouth the words their parents have forced them to say to a  TV reporter or a public figure, get back to me.

    Until that time , son, just say “mmm, mmm, mmm- Barack Hussein Obama.”

  • cma cma

    It is shameful for gay activists to exploit and manipulate a 8-year-old to advance their radical homosexual agenda.  “Gay marriage” is an oxymoron, since marriage means “a permanent union between one woman and man.”
    For 5000 years, “marriage” has meant “a contract between one man and one woman”, not some other random combination of humans because it feels good. That definition of marriage is the bedrock of human society. MB’s response meant that society should not endorse gay marriage by giving it the high status of “marriage”. Ignore the perverted and false “interpretations” of her comments by gay media bloggers. She remains the most principled Constitutional Conservative on the American political stage.
     This was a  particularly moronic screed on MB’s commonsense response and instruction to clueless gay activist students. The radical left, gay media no longer even pretends to report political news but instead feeds us radical left gay propaganda.
     The argument for “gay marriage” is equally valid (and equally invalid) for 1 man-2 women and for  2 women-1 man; etc. The logical extension of allowing “gay marriage” is legalizing polygamy.

  • Anonymous

    Seems like she has a pretty good idea who she is.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s hear it for simplistic understandings of genetics and epigenetics!

  • Anonymous

    That seems to be what he’s implying.

  • Anonymous

    First, lesbians don’t want to be ‘men’. 

    Second, being a lesbian does not instantly mean that you hate men.  That’s an idiotic statement.  Your entire train of thought is bigoted conjecture. 

    Third, you clearly have no idea what schizophrenia is and how people who suffer from the illness actually are.

  • Anonymous

    Simple.  She isn’t a man hater.

  • LJB57

    You don’t know what you’re talking about.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LXT3XUHYC4UCPM5ATGGIXB2ZMA larry w

    Now let me see an 8 year old shouldn’t he be working at his school cleaning the bathrooms?

  • Anonymous

    What the kid said was ” my mom is into beastiality, and doesn’t need to change”!

  • Anonymous

    I certainly am not an expert, but I am clearly more knowledgeable about both subjects than you are. 

    First, lesbians don’t want to be men.  Lesbians are women who are sexually attracted to women, not transgendered.  There’s a HUGE difference between the two.

    Second, stating that lesbians hate men is an idiotic blanket statement informed by your bigotry and completely free from the burden of actual facts.  Unless you can cite some evidence that lesbians universally hate men, then this statement of yours is utter bullshit.

    Third, I know very well what I’m talking about in regards to schizophrenia.  My mother suffered from it, a fact that pushed me into the mental health profession. 

  • LJB57

    Listen shogun I’m speaking in generalities,geez of course there are always a few exception.
    I’ve heard it out of more than a few Lesbian mouths, so don’t presume to know,what I know.
    Psychiatrists are generally charlatan’s, who know nothing about the intricacies of the human mind, but cash in big time on the unfortunate and gullible members of society.

  • LJB57

    So I guess all those lesbian I have encountered in my life were just lying when they exclaimed loudly that they hate men.
    Psychiatrists are mostly just charlatans, cashing in big time on the unfortunate and the gullible in society.
    And it’s a well know fact the the so-called “Psychiatrists” are now at the forfront of the politicaly correct movement, and attempting to legitimize Child -molesting.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, you are speaking of generalities.  That’s the problem.  Broad-brushing an entire group of people with hateful, uninformed crap is something a bigoted idiot would do.

    “I’ve heard it out of more than a few Lesbian mouths, so don’t presume to know,what I know.”

    I cannot presume to know what you know, but I am aware of what constitutes a good source of objective information and anecdotal evidence is not included.  Anecdotal evidence is not really evidence.  Whether it is one lesbian you’ve heard say such things or a 100 lesbians, that does not mean that lesbians, in general, hate men. 

    “Psychiatrists are generally charlatan’s, who know nothing about the
    intricacies of the human mind, but cash in big time on the unfortunate
    and gullible members of society.”

    This is probably one of the most idiotic sentences I’ve ever read.  I would hardly think that you have a working knowledge of neuroanatomy and neuroscience, so I’m not sure how you could seriously state, without qualification, that all psychiatrists are ‘charlatans’.  Sorry, buddy.  Psychiatry is a well-established and well-researched field of medical science.  Where the hell did you read that?!?  You may think that believing that makes you some ‘informed’ member of society, but it only makes you look like a fool who’ll believe anything that conforms to their world view. 

    And I’m not a psychiatrist. 

  • LJB57

    Ok Shogan so 5% of lesbians don’t hate Men.
    that just leave 95% that do.
    Tell me when they preform the 1st brain transplant.
    They know as much about the human brain as the cave men knew about rocket ships.
    Your obviously young,( you presume too much to be taken seriously) and have been brainwashed by the homosexual controlled education system, poor fella.

  • Anonymous

    “Ok Shogan so 5% of lesbians don’t hate Men.
    that just leave 95% that do.”

    Wow.  Those figures are extremely arbitrary.  Tell me, where did you get the ’5% and 95%’ figures?  The Encyclopedia Yourassica?

    “Tell me when they preform the 1st brain transplant. (I mean if they know
    how it works they should have no trouble at all installing one).”

    Wow.  You really have no idea of what you’re talking about.  First, you’d have to get that brain in there quick.  Brain cells start to die off when they don’t have oxygen available.  Second, there are these things called ‘nerve cells’.  Once they’re damaged or broken, they are not replaced.  Sure you could stick a brain in a skull, but you’re not going to have much luck connecting the brain to the body’s nervous system.  And given the extremely complex system of blood vessels, you’re going to have a tricky time connecting the brain to the various blood vessels that supply it.  I’m not going to even get into how you would have trouble connecting the new brain to the endocrine system.

    “They know as much about the human brain as the cave men knew about rocket ships.”

    Actually, since the invention of functional brain imaging techniques, we’ve learned quite a lot about the brain.  In fact, we have extremely well-documented and fleshed-out theories regarding the underlying causes and maintenance factors behind most mental illnesses. 

    “And just remember it was not that long ago that the mental heath
    profession was sticking screw drivers up peoples noses then giving it a
    good wack with a mallet, and claiming they were curing people of mental
    disorders.”

    Just like it wasn’t so long ago that we employed leeches, relied on our ‘understanding’ of the humors, and were calling rubbing infected pus into a wound ‘inoculation’.  What’s your point?

  • Anonymous

    “So I guess all those lesbian I have encountered in my life were just lying when they exclaimed loudly that they hate men.”

    No, I didn’t say they were lying.  The ones you heard directly could have been speaking the truth, but they are only speaking for themselves, not for ALL LESBIANS. 

    “And it’s a well know fact the the so-called “Psychiatrists” are now at
    the forfront of the politicaly correct movement, and attempting to
    legitimize Child -molesting.”

    Please cite some journals and articles that document this ‘well known fact’. 

  • LJB57

    Ya on second thought it’s probably closer to 3% and 97%.
    Whats your point? leeches work just fine, for some medical procedures.

  • Anonymous

    “Ya on second thought it’s probably closer to 3% and 97%.”

    If you’re pulling numbers out of your ass in an attempt to look informed, you’re failing miserably. 

  • Anonymous

    My point is that, just as it wasn’t that long ago when psychiatric treatment could be considered barbaric, the entirety of medical practice went through similar medieval growing pains not that long ago.  Psychiatry and neurology are just as advanced as most modern medicine. 

  • LJB57

    Lobotomies were being preformed right up to the 1970,s that hardly qualifies as medieval.

  • LJB57

    If I’m failing you wouldn’t bother replying now would you.
    unless your obsessed or something.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_O6WGHUNCZ4VDZEXPIOLI24KNVA v m

    The look of shock on Bachmann’s face was priceless and well worth it. WOW hun you need some help….using a child to do her dirty work and that was worth it???

  • Anonymous

    you get a lot of gay genes up in ya?

  • Anonymous

    As I thought. You’re incapable of a rational reasoned discussion.

    So let’s see if I follow this sad excuse for logic. When Tea Partiers bring their little kids to rallies they don’t understand and make them hold political signs they don’t understand and maybe dress up in a costume to help promote Mommie’s and Daddy’s political position, it’s okay and not in any way pimping out the kids for politics because the kids didn’t have to say anything to anybody.
    But when a liberal does it, especially a gay liberal, it’s not okay it’s despicable, because the kid actually was asked to speak.

    Well. now that you’ve made such an eloquent defense I can see that it’s just a lame and ridiculous as I thought it would be.

    I actually don’t agree with what the lady did but I find the vastly overblown criticism from the right who clearly did something incredibly similar to be all too typical.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what it is although people will rarely face the truth of the matter. It’s the same attitude reflected in all kinds of civil rights and equality opposition.
    I don’t have any animosity toward {group X} or wish them ill in any way. {translates in the mind as “I’m not a bad person”}
    I just wish they’d stop causing trouble and be happy with all the progress they’ve already made. { Translates in the mind as “they aren’t my equal and don’t deserve equality so they should be grateful for what they’re allowed”}

    So clearly if some group insists on actual equality rather than some cheap imitation, it is THEY who are in the wrong and causing trouble.

  • Anonymous

    No, just bored.

  • Anonymous

    Medieval does not necessarily mean the time period.  It can refer to something that seems primitive.  

  • Michael Parido

    Maybe O’Reilly (and a few others) should take a look at this:
    Google “Parents’ fury after teacher strips word ‘gay’ from Christmas carol Deck The Halls”

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t change the idiocy of his flippant remark.

  • Anonymous

    Too bad you can not corroborate your specious lies with evidence.

  • LJB57

    Now you’re just nit picking, shogan83.

  • Anonymous

    A very rudimentary knowledge of Jesus? What a liar. LOL. How about the concept of hell and heaven? Those are concepts still debated on by scholars who are adults yet seem fine material for indoctrinating an 8 year old. What a joke.

  • Anonymous

    Surprisngly, I agree with your first paragraph. Understanding? Yes. They can’t understand, but, they are very aware of their environment. At that age, kids will know that they have two mommies instead of one. They may not understand the social stigma however.

  • Anonymous

    Yes…it was started by a jerk. Santorum. He deserves every bit of what he’s getting now.

  • Anonymous

    shut up clown

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