Originally Posted by hkbajwa

I have to admit, it's a bit over-the-top to get so worked up about a joke that he himself caught in time, before it got out of hand.

I think EVERYBODY needs to take a chill pill. Personally i've been called everything from sand-nigger to white boy, from terrorist to western spy, from muslim to heretic etc etc etc.. i don't give a flyin hoot.

Words are just words and can be said in many different ways.. the way Bill O'Reilly says "homosexual" always sounds to me to be WAAAAAAY more offensive and discriminatory than ,let's say, Lewis' use of the word Fag.

Who feeds hatred and discrimination more?? Oreilly or Lewis?

It becomes a problem when stress is laid on the WORDS rather than their context and/or meaning.. Fact is that people are always going to call other people names and they are always going to BE called names.. get over it.