O'Reilly Is An Asshole Watch

This story alone proves that the man is pondscum. After attacking a guest who is running a website that "outs" the gay staffers of anti-gay legislators, Mr. O made reference for the third time since November to "the lesbian judge" who dissented from the MA SJC ruling that legalized gay marriage. On no occasion did O'Reilly name the judge, but of the three dissenters, only one, Martha B. Sosman, is a woman, so it's unlikely that the two male dissenters are lesbians. Judge Sosman has denied through spokesmen that she is a lesbian but O'Reilly will continue to make the charge, since it is verified by "more than one independent source."

So O'Reilly, who is against "this kind of exposition" of "somebody's personal sex life," is happy to continually make reference to a dissenting lesbian judge, whom he will not name, and will support that allegation only with a similarly unnamed source.

Let me offer my own theory about what's going on here. We already know that O'Reilly graduated from the same school of evidence manipulation as Michael Moore. He played a clip for his guests of 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean corroborating a NYT story, only to reshoot the spot in his guests' presence without that clip so that he could assert that Kean had essentially contradicted the Times. On that occasion, O'Reilly demonstrated fewer journalistic scruples, and more disrespect for his audience and guests than he would have if he had simply lied to them from the outset.

So look at this from O'Reilly's point of view: wouldn't it be a great "talking point" if one of the dissenting judges in the Massachusetts case were gay? Indeed it would. Are any of them gay? Who cares, we'll just pick one at random, say she's a lesbian, and squeal like a pig about how the elite media are persecuting us.

No, I can't prove any of this. But it seems to me to be the explanation that Occam's Razor would lead us to. In the best case for O'Reilly, if the judge really is a lesbian, then he is exposed as a contemptible hypocrite.