O'REILLY: Personal story, tonight perhaps the most successful book series in the word is Harry Potter, who battles, wizards and the occult, stuff like that. Author J.K. Rowling has sold an incredible 350 million books worldwide with seven Potter volumes.
Now reports say Ms. Rowling has outed one of her characters is gay which is causing some concern. With us now to analyze, Tina Jordan, senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. Dumbledore, I don't know anything about this Potter stuff. You can kick my butt here.
TINA JORDAN, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I will kick your butt. You are the last person in America not to read the books.
O'REILLY: I have a lot to read and Dumbledore and all of this. But here's what I don't understand because I did study up on the story. If J.K. Rowling wanted to make the character gay, why didn't she just make the character gay rather than going to Carnegie Hall in New York and you were in the audience and announcing he is gay. I don't get the strategy. Is it just publicity?
JORDAN: I don't think it is publicity. And first of all, I can't speak for her because I didn't talk to her about this but she made several things very clear. And the fact that he was gay, giving that away in an early volume might possibly have compromised a later plot point.
O'REILLY: OK but here's what I'm talking about. Why have a gathering of Potter aficionados and then drop the gay bomb on them? Why do that?
JORDAN: Somebody asked the question. She answered the question.
O'REILLY: The question was is Dumbledore gay?
JORDAN: No. The question was along the lines of did Dumbledore ever find true love. I'm paraphrasing.
O'REILLY: True love.
JORDAN: Yes.
O'REILLY: Well she could have said no or yes. She didn't have to say he's you know got a condo in Key West. She did it to provoke. I think this woman is a provocateur.
JORDAN: Well, she's a very smart woman.
O'REILLY: I think she's a provocateur.
JORDAN: But let me say this, one thing she did say on Friday night was that the books were a prolonged plea for tolerance. And that's a direct quote.
O'REILLY: And that's a good thing, right.
JORDAN: Right.
O'REILLY: Now many parents are worried in America about the gay agenda and indoctrination of their children to see homosexuality in a certain way. That debate is raging all over the country. This now becomes part of that debate, does it not?
ThinkProgress has the video clip and Stephanie Miller clued me in to what the "gay agenda" really is. From Betty Bowers:
3:33 p.m. Assume complete control of the U.S., state, and local governments (in addition to other nations' governments); destroy all healthy Christian marriages; recruit all children grades Kindergarten through 12 into your amoral, filthy lifestyle; secure complete control of the media, starting with sitcoms; molest innocent children; give AIDS to as many people as you can; host a pornographic "art" exhibit at your local art museum; and turn people away from Jesus, causing them to burn forever in Hell.
1Fox News Network
October 23, 2007 Tuesday
SHOW: THE O'REILLY FACTOR 8:20 PM EST
Personal Story
BYLINE: Bill O'Reilly
GUESTS: Tina Jordan
SECTION: NEWS; Domestic
LENGTH: 742 words
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