Critics Blister O'Reilly for Linking Gays to Al Qaeda

If one of McDonald's new series of "diversity ads" involves gays, can one featuring Al Qaeda be far behind? That's what Bill O'Reilly wants to know after viewing a French ad featuring a gay teen and his dad, and now furious critics are demanding he apologize. "Bill O'Reilly should be ashamed for equating a family with a gay son to terrorists," a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign tells the New York Daily News. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation sent out an action alert to followers urging them to demand an apology from Fox.

An O'Reilly spokesman called the controversy "silly." The ad features a soft-spoken teen who talks to his boyfriend by cell phone before his pop sits down at their fast-food dinner to tell him he could get "all the girls he wants." Does "this make you want to have a hamburger?" O'Reilly scoffs. When Fox anchor Jane Skinner explains that it's one of the company's pro-diversity "come as you are" commercials, O'Reilly responds: "Do they have an Al-Qaeda ad?"
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