A narrator then urged a yes vote on Proposition 8.

Radio host and author Glenn Greenwald described his “vital (if not complete) antidote” to the passage of Prop 8 on his Salon blog Nov. 6. Greenwald is relying on Obama’s promise to repeal DOMA:

Barack Obama has, on numerous occasions, emphatically expressed his support for repealing DOMA. When he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2004, he wrote a letter to Chicago's Windy City Times, calling DOMA “abhorrent” and its repeal “essential,” and vowing: “I opposed DOMA in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.” But he went on to cite what he called the “the realities of modern politics” in order to proclaim (accurately) that DOMA's repeal at that time -- 2004 -- was “unlikely with Mr. Bush in the White House and Republicans in control of both chambers of Congress.” After Tuesday, that excuse is no longer availing. [Emphasis in original].

If any media personality should see spin in Obama’s statements, it’s Bill O’Reilly. So far, he’s repeating Obama’s “anti gay marriage” statement as fact.

On Nov. 13, O’Reilly stated emphatically on Fox’s O’Reilly Factor that president-elect “Barack Obama doesn’t want gay marriage.” O’Reilly said it twice. He also said, “Barack Obama is against gay marriage. He wants to keep marriage between a man and a woman.”

O’Reilly’s guest, Wayne Besen, is director of the homosexual advocacy group “Truth Wins Out,” which opposed Prop. 8 but supports Obama.  Besen reminded O’Reilly that “Barack Obama was outspoken against Proposition 8. He is a politician.”

O’Reilly then asked Besen, “You don’t think he is telling the truth when he says he opposed gay marriage? Besen dodged the question.

I wish O’Reilly would ask me.