Bill O'Reilly: Jennifer Aniston Is 'Destructive to Society'

By PopEater Staff Posted Aug 11th 2010 07:20AM

While promoting her movie 'The Switch' earlier this week, Jennifer Aniston told reporters that women don't need men to start a family or be good mothers. When Bill O'Reilly caught wind of her statement, he debated the topic of single motherhood on 'The O'Reilly Factor' and called out the 41-year-old actress. "She's throwing a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, 'Hey you don't need a guy. You don't need a dad.' That is destructive to our society," O'Reilly railed.

FOX News contributor Margaret Hoover and FOX News anchor Gretchen Carlson debated the topic with O'Reilly, admitting young teens wouldn't be able to comprehend the vast differences between a 40-year-old woman and a teenager raising a child as a single mother. "She is glamorizing single parenthood," Carlson said.

In 'Switch,' Aniston plays a woman who elects to take on life as a single parent through artificial insemination. During the movie's press conference in LA, the actress admitted "times have changed" and women don't need to rely on men to be good mothers.

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"Women are realizing more and more that you don't have to settle, they don't have to fiddle with a man to have that child," Aniston said. "They are realizing if it's that time in their life and they want this part they can do it with or without that."

O'Reilly called out the actress, deeming her message inappropriate. "Jennifer Aniston can hire a battery of people to help her. But she can't hire a dad. Dads bring a psychology to children that in this society is under emphasized. Men get hosed all day long in the parental arena," he ranted.

"Any man who leaves their children is not a man. Let's make that perfectly clear. But the fathers that do try hard are under appreciated and diminished by people like Jennifer Aniston," he continued.

Finally, O'Reilly challenged Aniston to come on his show and defend her statement. "If she wants to explain, she can get her butt right in here."

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Wednesday 11 August

By Em

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Hey JOE educated and informed teens who listening to Bill O'Reilly....are neither educated or informed!

By Roxane

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Lots of teens like Jennifer Anniston because they watch reruns of Friends. These girls also think the character that Ellen Page played as an unwed teen was pretty "funny and cool" because she (Ellen's character) was such a wisea--s. I teach teens and listen to them all the time. They DO look up to these people.

By Nat

To "Yankiee" - I do, while you may not. I've been watching Bill from day to day over the past three years, and I believe in a great amount of what he has to say. The idea of a father has grown to hold many negetive affiliations. However, I will not say that the affiliations are all invalid. There is a reason that the negativety persists, and it is in fathers alligning themselves with the bad stereotype that they do so. Still, having been raised by a single mother, I can say there were many times when she needed support as I grew up, a father could have been there for her.

By staceychatelain

I was a single mom for 9 years,,,I raised 3 kids ALONE,,,the one thing I have learned...Kids,need,want and yearn for their fathers...The feminist movement in the 60's is why Us girls have it so hard.....SHUTUP J.A....You lay down on that cold hard table,,,then see how YOU FEEL.................!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By db

You are SO right!

By Jim

A chit load of teens know who O'Reilly is, you need to read more and expand.

By James R. Myers

Exactly what the problem is today. If enough teenagers knew who O'Reilly was, there wouldn't be so many morons around. You are one of those who doesn't want to hear the truth.

By Sarah

Ok, so she said that women dont need a man, and he said that is wrong, well I say that you do need a man, but only if he is capable of the responsability he's given, but we do NOT always need a man because sometimes well we are just too much for them, and struggling as a single mom is not bad, because you have a reason to keep going, and that is better than having a useless man by your side, besides girls that look up to these characters dont have a good education in their home, and I say that because I'm 18 and I'm not that stupid to look up to all of that, besides my mom was pretty much a single mother and she did pretty well with me and my sister...that is all I have to say to all of you!

By Cutie

He just said that men were important also in raising children; Anniston was talking of a movie she just made which he understood just felt two parents are balanced than one.

By Ivey

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Bill O'Nasty ? that's hilarious !

By Ed

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I agree with Joe. Teens should be educared about Bill. Most of them are probably to young to know that he's just an overbearing evening entertainment news magazine host who likes to talk about playing with dil-os.

By Daniel

No. i don't know who Bill O'Nasty is. I know who Bill O'Reilly is. And I'm 12. And I agree with Bill, having a father is an important part of family.

By LRH

The real scary part here is the presumed motherhood message to teens. Hello? Teens don't need to hear any motherhood message, baby Daddy or not, other than DON'T GET PREGNANT AT YOUR AGE!

Bill's right. Having a Dad in a child's life beats a single mom, especially one like Jen who obviously prefers conceiving with a turkey baster.

By Cindy

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Joe you're the idiot. There aren't a lot of men out there that can be counted on to be good husbands. Fathers, maybe....Why on earth should a women have to settle for some pig who will cheat, lie, and stink up your bedroom when she can take care of herself and her children. When the majority of so called men start acting like...well....decent....then I'm sure we women will accept them back in the fold. Until then I say F**k them and then make them go home and stink up their own bedrooms!

By Don

I think he is SQIDWARD

By Mike LoCascio

The meeker...you are an idiot!

By Steven Sexton

We need more fathers not less, how are we as a war nation going to teach young boys to kill? If are prime export is to be war these young people need to learn anyone different from is is not a person and we need to kill them all.
If you don't belive this go somewere else.

By taniadunga

To Yankee...You sound SO STUPID! I AM SURE YOU ARE A DEMOCRAP!

By Susan

HUGE difference between an adult single woman of a certain age having a baby on her own sans father and a teen suffering an accidental pregnancy. I think it is safe to say most teen pregnancies are NOT planned.

By Janet

you obviously don't have teenagers or get it at all. She a nice person and good actress but she has no children and no experience on the matter.

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