Dennis Miller has suggested that Ben &
Jerry's ice cream thinks everyone is gay.
Earlier this month, the company
followed up on its 2009 renaming of Chubby Hubby to Hubby Hubby in
celebration of passage of a gay marriage law in its home state of
Vermont with altering Oh My! Apple Pie to Apple-y Ever After in
support of a proposal to legalize gay marriage in Britain before
2015.
A graphic of a gay male couple dressed
in tuxes while holding a bouquet of flowers atop a wedding cake
decorated with bands of gay rainbow colors has been added to the
packaging.
On Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor,
host Bill O'Reilly asked Miller whether he thought the move was “good
marketing.”
“Is it good marketing to alienate 50
percent of your customers right from the jump?” O'Reilly asked.
“You know gay marriage is about 50-50 in America right now. So
these pinheads, I guess they don't care at Ben & Jerry's.”
“I just assume everybody in the
country's gay and then when they say, 'Hey, I'm not gay,' I go, 'What
are you so uptight about? Are you homophobic?' So, I think that's
what I think Ben & Jerry are doing, there. We're all gay, then
when somebody denies they're gay, just go, 'Hey, why are you so
uptight? What's wrong with gay?”
“Well, I want everybody to be happy
as well, Miller,” O'Reilly responded. (Watch
the exchange at EqualityMatters.org.)