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"O'Reilly Factor" claims lesbian gangs taking over America

Attention all AfterEllen.com readers: the jig is up! Our secret "national underground network" of violent lesbian gangs aimed at criminal activity and recruiting girls into the homosexual lifestyle has been exposed, and we must now move to Plan B (colonizing Mars).

Yes, that's what Fox's The O'Reilly Factor actually suggested last week (except for the Mars part, although I'm sure someone will suggest shipping us all there any day now) in a segment they aired about the growing problem of lesbian gangs terrorizing heterosexuals by stabbing and beating them, and brandishing pink guns (as if any self-respecting lesbian would carry a pink gun).

The claims were made by host Bill O'Reilly and "Fox crime analyst" Rod Wheeler (picture above, right), a former homicide detective who is clearly either mentally unbalanced, confused, willing to say anything to get on camera, or thinks every woman who isn't interested in him is a lesbian (or D, all of the above).

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, plus check out this gay male take, and this well-researched rebuttal).

Instead, I'll just make fun of it. Because what else can you do in the face of such insanity? (Well, besides telling Fox what you think about these outlandish claims, boycotting companies that advertise on The O'Reilly Factor, and reading more about O'Reilly's record of distortion, all of which I plan to do shortly).

Here are a few of the choicer statements made in the segment:

O'REILLY: In Tennessee, authorities say a lesbian gang called GTO, Gays Taking Over, are involved in raping young girls. And in Philadelphia, a lesbian gang called DTO, Dykes Taking Over, are allegedly terrorizing people, as well.

Yes, and here in my New York apartment, we have regular meetings of LSOC (Lesbians Sitting on the Couch), where we brandish hard plastic remotes menacingly at our television set while cruelly biting down on popcorn kernels. Quick, catch us before we strike again!

O'REILLY: When they recruit the kids, are they indoctrinating them into homosexuality?
WHEELER: Yes, as a matter of fact, some of these kids have reported being forced into performing sex acts and doing sex acts with some of these people.

That's right, don't be mislead by the fact that 97% of pedophiles are male — it's lesbians who are the real danger to your children!

O'REILLY: ...it makes sense that, if you had lawless gay people, they would do this kind of thing, but you don't associate it, you associate homosexuality more with a social movement, not a criminal movement, but you're saying this is all over the country, detective?
WHEELER: It's all over the country. It's mainly in your larger cities, you go from New York to California to wherever you want to name, you can see these organizations.

Um, hate to break it you, Ron, but those "movements" happening "all over the country" are called "pride parades," and the only thing criminal about them is the sports bra-only look some lesbians try to pass off as actual outfits.

WHEELER: "We've counted, just in the DC area alone, over 150 gangs or crews or networks."

Yes, it's true, we're just one cell short of being a full-fledged terrorist network. Don't bother asking us where bin Laden is — we'll never tell!

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  • strawberrygirl's picture

    Sarah, I love you. You give

    Sarah, I love you. You give me the opportunity to laugh in the face of sheer bigotry. I appreciate that. A lot.

    Up until the punching, it was a real nice party...

    jocmolyneux's picture

    Ridiculous.

    Ridiculous. Utterly ridiculous. Pink guns?!

     Honestly, tell me this is not something off of Jon Stewart!

    Seriously? People actually *watch* Fox as a reliable "news" network? I cannot believe that anyone would legitimately believe something like this these days...

    (Or am I just... 'Canadian'???)

    Jo16's picture

    . . .

    you're right, i really wanted to see jon stewart at the end of it just to make it all better but no such luck =( thing is though even if it was just a sketch from a show like jon stewart (i know it isnt just wishful thinking) some idiots would probably still take it seriously

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    MycaTaylor's picture

    wow...

    I would rather be on mars then with these crazy people. Give me a break...

    And thanks Sarah for making this story funny, only way I got to the end and felt better.

    I don't want to doubt you
    Know everything about you
    I don't want to sit
    Across the table from you
    Wishing I could run.....

    -Cake, and what I live my life by.

    Sally10825's picture

    That's makes two of us!

    Sugar spell it out... what should we pack to Mars??? Do you think some sort of pink tents would identify us as Martians??  Because I always thought martians were green!  If that 's you in the picture, please bring the guitar with you! We'll sing songs from Melissa Etheridge and the Indigo Girls to recruit little martians into lesbians!!!Don't you think it sounds like a god plan???
    LOL!Bill O'
    Reilly is PATHETIC!!! and so are all those people that would believe what they are saying!
    lesbian without borders
    MycaTaylor's picture

    hmm...

    Pink tents sound like a great idea, and of course I'll bring my guitar! I can't sing very well so someone else will have to, but we could def make some damn good music up there. And I wonder if we get toaster ovens for recruiting martians... I always wanted a toaster oven. Damn good plan, anyone else wanna join us??

     

    I don't want to doubt you
    Know everything about you
    I don't want to sit
    Across the table from you
    Wishing I could run.....

    -Cake, and what I live my life by.

    gali's picture

    Why did this remind me of

    Why did this remind me of this clip? Grannies from hell!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CStfT8gCrjM

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    showbreadfan818's picture

    wow

    this is why i dont watch fox news
    because its not really news.
    this is why i despise bill orielly
    i swear hes as ignorant as a 5 yearold.
    His show should be taken off the air
    andthat detective should be fired

    your mom upside down is wow

    Omega II's picture

    Poor, poor Bill... nothing

    Poor, poor Bill... nothing much else to say about him.

    Does anyone else feel dumber just from watching that clip, or just me?

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    sfinch's picture

    Heterosexual girls should be worried about...

    Bill O'Reilly leaving sexually explicit messages on their answering machines.
    corbin2123's picture

    He disgusts me...

    and it disgusts me further to think of all of the people who are going to believe every word of that without question.  I can see it already...some elderly woman in one of those "go anywhere" chairs, chasing me through the grocery parking lot...wielding nothing but a cane and the words "lesbian whippersnapper". I guess I'd better start leaving the flip-flops at home and opt for running shoes...Thanks Bill.  Really. 

    not only but also's picture

    "Pink pistol packers"?

    Isn't that more likely to be our friends over at After Elton? (Te-he). Ahh, Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. They make me so proud that Rupert Murdoch is no longer an Australian citizen. 

    (Sorry Corbin. This isn't a reply to you, but that darned "post a comment" tag has gone walk about again...)

    Not Only But Also

    woops's picture

    Try refreshing the page.

    Try refreshing the page. The first time I tried to comment on this post there was no comment box but I refreshed a few times and there it was. Just hit F5 a few times -- that refreshes.

    . . . I think I've used the word "refresh" too many times, too close together . . . oh well, you get the idea . . . geeze, it's almost three am . . . I need to try to be asleep now . . .

    woops's picture

    it's two am -- excuse my randomness . . .

    "Yes, and here in my New York apartment, we have regular meetings of LSOC (Lesbians Sitting on the Couch), where we brandish hard plastic remotes menacingly at our television set while cruelly biting down on popcorn kernels. Quick, catch us before we strike again!"

    Where do I sign up? I'm really quite the pro at the whole couch and remote thing. Actually, I currently have four remotes and an x box controller on my couch -- lol I have no idea how to play x box, but our dvd player broke and I was getting desperate. . . . for some reason I think I remember the x box controller vibrating when my brother was trying to show me some game . . . it could have been another system though, he only has like a million . . . or five . . . (it's two am, okay? a vibrating game controller seems pretty funny to me right now)

    I keep looking for some quote option in all the little buttons below, I thought there was one but I don't see it. It's probably there somewhere but it's after two am, my brain is elsewhere. ::shrugs:: Italics will have to do.

    Um, hate to break it you, Ron, but those "movements" happening "all over the country" are called "pride parades," and the only thing criminal about them is the sports bra-only look some lesbians try to pass off as actual outfits.

    I actually laughed out loud at that one (well sort of, it was a silent laughing out loud because I didn't want to wake anyone up . . . most people are asleep at two am) I think that may be the best use of quotation marks that I have ever seen!

    Lucky me, I only got to see the first little bit of the youtube video. It was really funny when I was just reading what you were saying about their stupidity, but seeing them report that with a straight face is really unsettling. Part of me still found it amusing . . . but the fact that they seem to believe what they're saying . . . Mars is starting to look pretty inviting.

    zarathustra's picture

    going underground

    Damn, leave it to Bill to blow up the spot!  Now my Pussy Posse and I must pack our pink pistols pronto and leave town.

     

    Hope he doesn’t come after us with those wack loofahs falafels sex toys:

    http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/13/fox_news_producer_su.html

     
    Cut it Again's picture

    Ha!

    LOL!! I am dying over here!

    I was waiting for someone to reference Bill's pathetically awful malaprops during his pathetically awful attempt at phone sex with a younger coworker (or was she his assiatant?). All I know is that she was either smart enough or creeped out enough to start taping his phone calls.

    Way to go Zee!!

    Wack falafels!....damn that is funny :)

    zarathustra's picture

    Yes, it is

    I like your avatar -  yes, it IS serious business   ;)

    wondernat's picture

    fuck o'reilly, pardon my... nah, fuck the dirty bastard

    let's entertain these absurdities for a second.

    nah, let's not. what a sick fucking bastard! how/why is o'reilly still on the air?

    "pink pistols, 9mm glocks"???????? Are they sure it wasn't a vibrator or something

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    shecallsherselfgarbo's picture

    sarah, you are incredible

    You continue to amaze me on a regular basis, with not only your ability to write, but your obvious intelligence, wit, and "thinking (wo)man's" humor.  It's kind of inspiring to be honest.  Especially in the face of all of this insanity.  My hat is off to you.

    woops's picture

    I second that!

    I second that!
    Tori Is Cute's picture

    Ahahaha

    I can't even be mad about this. I mean, usually, I get so annoyed and angry, but I just can't. This is just...hilarious. Ridiculous. Wow. At least I got a good laugh out of it.

    Eh. But the sad thing is that people will actually believe this junk. Greeeat. -sigh-

     

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    overthemoo's picture

    My mom catches his show

    My mom catches his show every day if she can. If she saw this today, I expect the first thing to come out of her mouth when I come out to HER to be, "Was it the GTO? DTO? WHO DID THIS TO YOU!?!??"

    Or how about this as a plot for next suspense thriller movie? Can't you just see it now? Movie poster will of course feature the then infamous pink gun...

    XSaraXPoeX's picture

    WOW!

    150 lesbian gangs in the DC area??? Well, I know where I'm going on my next vacation! :) WOOHOO! DC here I cum!

    http://sarasdarkness.blogspot.com

    damnhippie's picture

    OH!

    So THAT's why there's only one (tiny) lesbian bar in DC.  If I want to meet other lesbians I have to find a gang!  Now that I'm about to move they tell me!
    Harpy's picture

    ...

    Is it down to one now?  Wouldn't be surprised.  DC is certainly not the lesbian hotspot.  150 lesbian gangs in the DC area...
       
    Hey look!  There's an organization called the 'Pink Pistols' I found.  Woohoo!  Maybe I can join the DC chapter and go shoot with them at the NRA range. 
       
    Man, I hope The Colbert Report addresses this serious issue next week on the show.  That'll have me in stitches.  If he doesn't...then the DC chapter of the Pink Mafia will have him in stitches.
        
    Remember the skit on Will & Grace with the Gay Mafia?  No?  It's quite funny. 
    damnhippie's picture

    mmmhmm

    I do remember that sketch.  Nothing is better than Elton John's cameo.

    And, yes, Phase 1 is all we have left.  it's a great bar, but it's small.

    cosmiccowgirl's picture

    Honestly....

    I kind of wish there were violent lesbian gangs, but the whole pedophilia thing is bogus.
    blackroses1010's picture

    This is a great blog..

    This is a great blog.. though I have no been so disgusted of O' Reilly.

     

    You have inspired me to write my own blog.

    http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&pop=1&indicate=1

    dizzygirl87's picture

    "...it makes sense that, if

    "...it makes sense that, if you had lawless gay people, they would do this kind of thing"........ what?! am i reading this wrong or is he suggesting that the only thing that keeps us crazed homosexuals from running round raping people and committing crimes is that it's against the law? and actually bill, none of what you're saying makes sense.

    dairyqueen's picture

    wow

    I still find it hard to believe that this is not some comedy or parody news! This is just crazy! I am torn between laughter and shock...seems like events from "back in the day" have not taught people anything.
    SweetMyst's picture

    Pink Guns?!

    Pink Guns?! *taps chin thoughtfully*

    Oh...My...God.....Paris Hilton is Gay! NOOOOOOOOOOoooooo!!! *scream of absolute horror*

     

     

    barbann's picture

    Paris Hilton packing pink

    Now, I am scared.If she was gay, I'd go into the closet.
    Jo16's picture

    hmm

    i was laughing at sarahs great writing before i watched the video, in a way i now wish i hadn't, i mean come on!

    Right here in Washington, D.C., actually in Maryland, Capitol Heights, Maryland, last week, a young man was attacked at one of the Metro stations, beaten beyond who knows what, put in the hospital. And the police found out that it was a group of six women who identified themselves as being members of a lesbian gang that actually attacked this young man.

    this seems to me like these women (entertaining the idea that that part is true) got arrested and were understandably pissed off, and said they were a "lesbian gang" sarcastically, because from this site we all know how sarcastic us scary lesbians can be, and was mistook as being serious . . . thats the way i see it, of course i dont actually belive a word that comes out that detectives mouth.

    like the rest of you im so pissed about this cos you just know so many people are gonna believe this crap, i really think we all need to do something about this, what, i dont know, but something (im sure GLAAD will be all over this as well)

    www.myspace.com/jo_16_

    wake_up's picture

    Oh dear. How funny is the

    Oh dear. How funny is the footage of the girlfights? Like where'd they pull that out from? Those chicks are probably fighting over boys.

    I just watched OUTFOXED today if you haven't seen it you should check it out it's worth it. Anybody who takes Bill O'Reilly seriously, needs their head examined.

    The guy is like the biggest scumbag on earth and I hope he dies a horrible slow death. He says crazy propaganda nonsense like this Every. Single. Day.

    BrownEyedGirl's picture

    you. are. kidding. me.

    Seriously. Come ON! I mean really?!?! 

    Lesbian Gangs? PINK PISTOLS? For crying out loud.

    The whole segment just screams overkill; right wing bullsh!t. And Jo, how right you are, people are so going to believe that this true. Unbelievable.

    I think i have been rendered (relatively) speechless.

    That is a real rarity.

    ~I've been watching your world from afar, I've been trying to be where you are, I've been secretly falling apart...~

    hslp's picture

    Oh Really!



    "Now, when they recruit the kids, are they indoctrinating them into homosexuality?"

    is it me or does that sound quite appealing?

     

    lurker_above's picture

    I'm pretty internet-focused,

    I'm pretty internet-focused, so when I see Bill O'Reilly I always think "he's a troll, right?" and then my faith in humanity dies a little when I remember that he isn't. It's a wonder I've got any left. Blech.

    rupture618's picture

    lol

    This whole thing kind of makes me think that Bill was watching an episode of Girltrash and ran with the idea.

    Omega II's picture

    : )

    That sounds about right.

     

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    monkeywrench's picture

    O'Reilly is a pompous idiot.

    "... here in my New York apartment, we have regular meetings of LSOC (Lesbians Sitting on the Couch), where we brandish hard plastic remotes menacingly at our television set while cruelly biting down on popcorn kernels. Quick, catch us before we strike again!"

    Haha, I think the LSOC must make up about 99.99% of the lesbian population! And every member watching The O'Reilly Factor broke a tooth on a popcorn kernel while watching this garbage.

    Do you think someone could send this blog post to Bill O'Reilly? He sure doesn't like being made fun of so he may get angry (hopefully). Heh.

     

    O'Reilly is just a stupid, pompous whinbag ... which would be okay if he admitted that he reports in a completely biased manner, but he pretends he doesn't spin events to further his own prejudices!
    Any smart conservative should be embarrassed by Fox News' constant bad representation of them (I know I am).

    Has anybody here seriously ever encountered anyone who is a member of these so-called widespread gangs? Anyone? Has anybody ever heard of anyone else who encountered anyone from them? Didn't think so. What a 'tard.

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    Salzstreuerin's picture

    I am so not watching this

    I am so not watching this whole video clip! I've seen the first 20 seconds and I can take no more of these absolutely senseless, brain-burning "news"! And there are people in America watching things like this? AND believing it? What a bad bad world is this?!

    And pink pistols? That's just... who comes to think of such things?

     

    Anna

    NewHorizons's picture

    What's wrong with these people?

    Just from reading that, I found that really disturbing. How could something like that even be shown on any network? I know Fox is meant to be full of tabloid trash type of news, but that's just ridiculous. I'm sure GLAAD or some organisation could sue them for what their trying to pass off as news.

    I'm also kind of glad that Rupert Murdoch is not an Australian citizen anymore and doesn't own any TV network here. We've had bad shows before in Australia but Fox network beats them single handed with that sort of crap.

    Seriously some satirical comedy show or some show like the Stephen Colbert Report should make fun of it just to show how ridiculous it is.

    lunakiss's picture

    Lesbians Petition Fox Network ..

    I know for a fact there are girl gangs in this country who for some may identify as lesbians or bi women, but I've never heard about any girl gangs  refer themeselves as lesbian gangs or dyke gangs.  I mean geez young girls still can be targeted for attack by other girls and /or boys if they even come out in a gang affliated group.  There was a great book called 8 ball Chicks written by Gini Sikes iduring the  mid  90s Sikes interviewd and spent  a year with girl gangs telling their side of the story.  In one of the interviews one of girls , I do  remember, identify as non-straight (she was still transition of  figuring her sexuality) but couldnt come out in her particular gang in fear of being hurt or murdered.    However, O'Reilly decided to do a spin of the NY city tale of an incident between group of women who identified as gay versus a man. I think that  there is no epidemic of lesbian gangs  maybe a number of girl gangs are rising (and they do have to be "beaten in" to join).  If there were young girls in the school system who may not necessarily take sexuality or orientation seriously, may have formed a gang as a way in getting attention. Heck they may not even be Lesbian idenitfied but just roll with the Lesbian theme for attention.   I just wish there was a disclaimer about  the issue if it was presented like "ok...we gonna talk about a rare subject lesbian gangs but no means refer to or in part of or connection with the general  LGBTQI community, etc."

    It was the way Fox News Network presented the story to support the anti-gay campaign during election time especially since  same-sex marriage and other LGBTQI issues are back in the limelight. It's a conspiracy to swindle the Amercian public when acceptance of LGBTQI peeps is gaining some momentum.

    I going to write a nasty letter to Fox news .  We should petition Fox. The network purposely slanted the news on behalf of  the O'Reilly's show to misrepresent girl gangs,girls,and  Lesbians and increase the ratings, like a trashy network like Fox would do. 

    Anybody up for a Petition ?  I am

    Jo16's picture

    RE:Lesbians Petition Fox Network ..

    absolutley sign me up! if one got started we'd all sign i think,

    what are petioning though - o reilley off the air, an apology/retraction of the segment, insist we see hard proof/evidence of these "lesbian gangs" or all of the above? either way im in :P

    www.myspace.com/jo_16_

    dypole's picture

    Aren't there more important things happening in the world?

    What's amazing is how long that story's been alive and how much of it has been re-written. The incident happened two blocks away from my apartment, and ALL of the eyewitnesses told cops that the man had first come on to one of the women in the group then SPIT ON HER. Does that condone the fact that her girlfriend then stabbed the guy? Of course not. But don't portray the guy as some innocent bystander who happened to offer a compliment to a purportedly rabid lesbian. He just happened to chance upon one of the lesbians that wouldn't take shit from a heterosexual man who refuses denial.

    I've never watched O'Reilly's show, but now that I've seen how he conducts interviews and sets up seemingly innocent questions that force whoever is being interviewed to give him the exact information he is looking for, it's no wonder the man manages to convince his viewers that he's right all the time.

    "Out of the box is where I live." -Starbuck

    Grave_eighTTen's picture

    the junks

    why o why must this idiotic guy be on tv at the first place? man...it's sickening.all d junks he's uttering.all nonsense.but heck..pretty funny.You,Sarah can make it pretty funny.

    one reassoooonnn...i love this place;)

     

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    EndlessD's picture

    Wow...the stupidity just

    Wow...the stupidity just grows and grows. I live in Marylanf and I've never heard of these so-called gangs.  

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    sevencostanza's picture

    Leaving town... Who's with me?

    I went to Michael Moore's new movie "Sicko" last night, about the decrepit state of American health care.  Then, I woke up this morning to find out that I am (unbeknownst to myself) in a roving gang, carrying pink guns.  (Really, Bill?  PINK?)  Anybody from the UK want to take in a wayward American lesbian?  I'm a helluva cook...

    Ow, Harold!  Mom said not the head!
    Jo16's picture

    sevencostanza

    if i had the room i'd take ya lol thats a good idea all american lebian/bis should come over its nicer, we like the gays :P

    theres homophobio but mostly from religious people and i think most people over here understand gayness more than religion lol

    u shud all come to birmingham, granted theres only one purely lesbian bar in gay village but im sure if everyone came they would build more :P 

    www.myspace.com/jo_16_

    lifesucksinagoodway's picture

    my grandmother...

    was convinced i was a member of a lesbian mafia...lol

    "a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants." Chuckles the Clown


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