Bill O'Reilly and Gretchen Carlson on
Thursday agreed that shows like Glee encourage children to
experiment with their sexuality.
The panel discussion came after Glee
introduced its first
transgender character, Unique, played by Alex Newell.
“Here we go again,” Carlson said on
Fox's The O'Reilly Factor, “pandering to .3% of the American
population that considers themselves transgender. Now I get to
explain this to my 8-year-old, if I want her to see a nice family
show with some nice music. By the way, in the same episode there
were two cheerleaders who apparently are lesbians with each other and
they put out a sex tape. And oh, by the way, there are two seniors
who are engaged to get married to each other, so I get to explain
that at the same time. They seem to have a positive message about
hopes and dreams and taking risks. But why do they have to come up
with these wild story lines to prove their point? I don't get it.”
“I wholeheartedly believe in today's
society that kids are experimenting with homosexuality. We see it in
celebrities who maybe just do it on the side and it might be
drug-fueled,” she added.
O'Reilly agreed, saying, “If you make
it glamorous in a program like Glee, which is undeniably a
good program … And a lot of these dopey kids are confused about who
they are.”
Jeanine Pirro argued that the whole
point of the show was to be yourself and that you can't parent a
child's sexuality. (Watch
the exchange at Mediaite.com.)