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Title: O'Reilly garners 'pink brick' award for LGBT-bashing
Post by: Shana A on June 06, 2008, 10:46:08 PM
O'Reilly garners 'pink brick' award for LGBT-bashing
by: Pam Spaulding
Fri Jun 06, 2008 at 11:00:00 AM EDT

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The president of San Francisco Pride, Mikayla Connell, appeared on The O'Reilly Factor to present the bombastic host with a "Pink Brick Award" to acknowledge his fomenting of anti-LGBT hysteria by airing inaccuracy-laced reports and outright lies on his program.

One of the more infamous anti-gay shows cited was a ridiculous piece, "Violent Lesbian Gangs a Growing Problem", a report by Faux News "Crime Analyst" Rod Wheeler, who came on O'Reilly to spin a fable about a national network of pink pistol-toting lesbians preying on teen girls and attacking men. (PageOneQ):