French McDonald’s Is Too Gay for Bill O’Reilly

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French McDonald’s Is Too Gay for Bill O’Reilly

Al-Qaida is to Bill O’Reilly what Nazis are to Glenn Beck. That is to say it’s his favorite smear for things he doesn’t like. In this instance, a heartwarming (warning) commercial for McDonald’s in France (danger) aimed at gays (RED ALERT!).

Hat tip to ohnotheydidnt via @GabayJonathan

The Commercial:

O’Reilly’s Response:

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By Nadia Shapely, June 5, 2010 at 7:25 pm Link to this comment
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I have to chuckle at these guys. Glenn Beck and sweetcheeks Rush Limbaugh, if locked up in a State Prison (say for encouraging violence over the public airwaves), would be the first to willingly squeal like a pig.

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By logkAW, June 4, 2010 at 5:48 pm Link to this comment

Yes, O’Reilly’s remark is incredibly offensive (surprise), but let’s not overlook that the French commercial is vague in its purported “social stance” and non-confrontational about issue of discrimination against gays, likely functioning as a cheap PR mechanism to appeal to those of a shallow moral conscience.

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By jack, June 4, 2010 at 4:14 pm Link to this comment
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“It’ll never run here,” because it is in French and made for les jeunesses de la
France, no matter how desperately vacuous talking heads like these want to
believe ‘here’ is the center of the universe - as for fast food in France, now that’s
something over which we could fait le beouf.

As for Al Queda, the CIA has already made plenty of ads for them,
e.g. virtually all the Bin Laden videos.

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