Bill O’Reilly Compares Transgedered People To ‘Ewoks’, Suggests They Would ‘Scare The Customers’

[Ian David]

Bill O’Reilly Compares Transgedered People To ‘Ewoks’, Suggests They Would ‘Scare The Customers’

Last night, during a segment about American Eagle’s recent decision to reverse policies that banned male employees from wearing women’s clothing and vice versa, Bill O’Reilly compared transgendered people to Ewoks and suggested that they could “scare the customers”:

O’REILLY: They got a little pamphlet that says to their employees you have to dress appropriately, particularly on the floor. You have got to dress neat. If you are a man, you can’t dress like a woman and visa versa. You can’t scare the customers. If your name is Fred, you can’t look like Dolly Parton. Transgender people come in, challenge. American Eagle folds.”

GUEST: Absolutely right. they have got to get that out of there.

O’REILLY: Got to get it out? So if your name is Fred you should be able to dress like Dolly Parton? …If you owned a clothing corporation, you can say you can dress like an Ewok if you want?

Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLd88jojLY&feature=player_embedded

In reality, the American Eagle “folded” after Attorney General Andrew Cuomo asked the company to bring its personnel book in compliance with New York law, which prohibits employers from discriminating on the basis on gender identity. Cuomo made the request after Make the Road New York, a transgendered group, “complained to Cuomo’s office about what it called a pattern of discrimination against transgender job hunters. A probe confirmed the complaints, officials said.”

More:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/05/19/oreilly-ewoks/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[brooklynite]

1. Bill, meet your new candidate...

Donna Milo, 48, a conservative Republican transgender Cuban-American from Miami, has declared her candidacy for Congress.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/05/florida-conservative-gop-transgender.html

[Ian David]

2. There's something wrong with your link. n/t

[brooklynite]

3. Fixed

[Ian David]

4. Thanks! n/t

[Ian David]

6. I think we should all contribute to her Primary. n/t

[ixion]

5. So O' Dumbass is scared of Ewoks, too...

What isn't he scared of? Oh yeah, other idiots like himself. :eyes:

[Ian David]

7. We should fill his voicemal box with Ewok music. n/t

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. i heart make the road!

[SacredCow]

9. What Falafel-Boy fails to remember....

is that Ewoks, while generally peaceful, put some serious hurt on the Empire's stormtroopers when the chips were down.

[sui generis]

10. Bill just shut the fuck up. The best person for the job, and all . . . .

I personally don't care if they wear their pants inside their socks or not. Controlling "male" and "female" dress code as gender appropriate is a form of sexual domination.

So Bill, go fuck an Ewok, if one will have you.

[MarshalltheIrish]

11. Could this guy get any more primitive?

I wonder if Bill-O gets a kick out of saying the most degrading things imaginable about what he perceives to be lesser groups.

Amazing picture, btw!