And why he been excommunicated by the Mormon church yet? Or is this sort of thing A-OK with Salt Lake, Inc.?
BECK: Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, “Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,” and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, “Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.” And you know, well, I’m not sure.
The [Washington] Post recently featured a story by reporter Monica Hesse that ran on the front of the Style section while she was on vacation. The day before returning, she logged on to check e-mails — and wept.
She was buried by an avalanche of messages angrily attacking her lengthy Aug. 28 profile of Brian Brown, executive director of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the group leading the fight against legalization of same-sex marriage.
Hesse was stunned. She had expected to hear from anti-gay-marriage conservatives who might view the story as “snide.”
Instead, she heard from liberals who support gay marriage, accusing her of writing a puff piece about someone they believe fosters prejudice and intolerance. The story was shallow and one-sided, they complained.
Scores also contacted the ombudsman. It’s “one of the biggest pieces of crap The Post has published in recent memory,” wrote District resident William Grant II. “What’s next, a piece on how a KKK leader is just ’someone next door’ and ‘really a nice person’?” …
Much more at the link, including quotes from our friend Fred Karger.
Oh, and Hesse is bisexual. And she still doesn’t get it.
Keep weeping, Monica, until you do.
You have no quarter here.
Harsh? Tough. I’m tired of this. Tired of capitulaters. Tired of apologists. Tired of morons-in-denial — from “gay” Republicans to spineless Democrats — who think if we just “reach out” and make nice, the haters will be nice back.
“Reaching out” gets you one thing: your hand lopped off at the wrist.
“That is not to say there is no place for a Nazi analogy in this debate. The Nazis rose to power by mastering the art of propaganda, repeating lies so frequently and so widely that eventually people took them as truth. Hence the importance of seeking out the truth, and exposing those who would engage in such deceit.
“Freud taught us about projection: Those who would compare Obama to Hitler or his policies to Nazism ought to look in the mirror.”
Michael Berenbaum (who knows a thing or two about Nazism) on healthcare reform, Nazis, and the out-of-control fearmongers who lie like rugs:
Not, mind you, that M&A goes to any great lengths to explain why Beck’s accusation that Barack Obama “has a deep seated hatred for white people or white culture” (whatever “white culture” is supposed to be) is “ridiculous”; rather, the real point of the piece is: “[W]hat makes Glenn Beck’s comments more harmful is that he claims he is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church does not need this type of publicity or association,” especially since the “post Proposition 8 media spin has already harmed the Church’s image painting Mormons who stood for religious principle as propagating hate and intolerance and being on the fringe.”
“Mormons … propagating hate and intolerance and being on the fringe”? Doesn’t sound like “spin” to us.
Nothing like rubbing sandpaper over a bleeding, raw nerve — and when the author drags Bristol Palin into it, and sinks to the level of making a coldhearted reference to Elizabeth Edwards’ breast cancer, you know you’ve won. Or at least, I know I have.
Enjoy the sound and the fury in the comments section (at what’s become a cesspool of lying, right-wing extremists):
Ann Coulter prepares for Glenn Beck appearance with Fox News producers in green room.
Goodness knows, I’d never want to insult insects by lifting Ann Coulter to their level of intelligent and sentience. Besides, it’s entirely possible insects have souls, which, as we all know, Ann Coulter does not:
There was no Christian marriage sacrament until the sixteenth century. A Catholic scholar writes that “nothing is more remarkable than the tardiness with which liturgical forms for the marriage ceremony were evolved.” In fact they were not so much evolved as copied from the common law long established under paganism, and had more to do with the sharing of property than the sharing of love. One authority says that in the modern Greek Orthodox Church, the religious wedding service is “intrusive, no real part of the ceremony of marriage, but an elaborate way of calling down a blessing on the ceremonial, or what is left of it, which constitutes the real wedding.”
Frank Rich has another kick-butt column in today’s NYT, this time dissecting the “essence of Palinism” (”emotional, not ideological”), and the meltdown of the flailing (and amnesiac) GOP that sees Sarah Palin as its last Great White Hope.
Harsh headline? Well, it will be if Hilton suddenly drops dead in the very near future — which is highly unlikely, since only the good die young.
Against my better judgment, while Michael Jackson’s death was still unconfirmed, I hit Hilton’s blog, and found a photo of Jackson with Hilton’s typical scrawl: “Heart attack or cold feet?”
Walter Cronkite, 92, the CBS television journalist once known as “the most trusted man in America” was said to be gravely ill and near death Thursday, according a report on the blog site Media Bistro.
The online report cited sources inside CBS, but CBS News officials were not publicly commenting on Cronkite’s health. …
This commercial popped on the tube last night, and as with most commercials, I ignored it completely, until my lovely wife piped up: “It’s a gay commercial! He’s got the Human Rights Campaign logo on his shirt!” And indeed he does:
Making the gay couple the outcasts in this case works for me. I like the message: They’re not out in the cold because they’re gay — they just didn’t pay attention to who will give them the best deal, just like everybody else. Good work, Orbitz.
The good news is that the blog post in question disappeared within hours of my complaint — but I thought you might like to know the even better news: I just now received a phone call from a lovely woman named Susan, from Cincinnati.com (who also “hates stuff like that”), following up on the voicemail I left Sunday morning. She thanked me for letting them know about it, noting that too often, people see something like that and think, “I cant do anything about it.”
I am very impressed. I expected the blog post to disappear, but I never expected Cincinnati.com to call me back. Very good form, and Susan’s friendly, understanding, yet professional manner has left me with a very positive impression of Cincinnati.com.
Update: All is well, and I regret suggesting Cincinnati.com is in any way shape or form a POS. (Uh, I’ve been a little edgy lately.) See my follow-up post.
Original post:
Just left a voicemail — probably a tad disjointed, but it’s 5:37 a.m., and I am pissed — here: 1-513-248-8600
I’m calling Fair Use, because once this slime (and the slimeball who wrote it) disappear off the pages of Cincinnati.com, you won’t be able to find it in full anywhere else.
Put on your waders and pull up the nearest wastebasket in case of sudden puking before reading this vile insanity:
I was shocked to learn that President Obama and others said they were shocked that Dr. George Tiller was murdered in cold-blood while serving as an usher in his Kansas church. If you believe that you reap what you sow then the murder of Dr. Tiller is not shocking at all.
What we are seeing could be the harvest of the seeds of the vile and unrestrained anger and hatred that have been planted, spread and nurtured by the sleazemeisters of the Right Wing — self-described media stars and politicians who claim to be true conservatives, real Republicans, and patriotic Americans exercising their First Amendment rights.
“Protecting” us from the truth was in no small part responsible for our crushing defeat in the passage of Proposition 8. If our “leaders” had been honest with us — “ammunition” for the H8ers or none — about the reality of the situation (read: we were going to lose, and our “leaders” knew it), we might have gotten a few more LGBTs off their complacent, lazy asses.
But nooooooooo, our “leaders” are going to stay the course — of secrecy, and, ultimately, defeat, again and again:
“They compared the children to ‘fat bastard kids on Maury’ who just needed to be put in their places with verbal abuse and even physical punishment if necessary.”
— Michael Rowe
“[Williams] suggested that his mother tell the boy that wearing a dress is ‘not what we’re doing in this culture.’ He also called transgender people ‘freaks,’ asserting that therapy could steer them away from being transgender, since ‘they were [probably] molested’ as children.”
— The Advocate
But there’s good news: So far, ten companies have pulled advertising from KRXQ. (Who says the power of the dollar doesn’t work?)
“There’s going to be a lot of violence in this country and there’s going to be a lot of bloodshed. You know, I advocate violence as a means and I advocate the use of violence as a tool. People say violence doesn’t solve anything. They’re wrong. Violence solves everything. …I’ve done it. It works, and I encourage you to do it. We need a lot more violence to straighten up America. It’s going to take a lot of extreme violence to straighten up America. We’re probably going to have to kill a lot of elected public officials, Senators, Congressmen. And you guys at the State level too, like State Assemblymen…”
Update, July 12, 2009:We didn’t say it — we’re just quoting G-E-N. And, as GayWired.com says: “As the attorneys iterate, ‘Mr. Savage is not affiliated with Rockstar in any manner.’”
But we still wouldn’t drink Rockstar, even if you paid us. Hey, wait, that seems to be exactly what’s happening — paying off queers to, if not drink Rockstar, at least shut them up about not drinking Rockstar. I said, it seems to be what’s happening today.
Why is Rockstar worth boycotting? Rockstar was Created by Michael Weiner/Savage and his wife Janet. Janet is the current CFO, and their son Russell is the CEO.
On the surface, the students in her 11th-grade English courses seemed to have their act together. Like so many people their age, Arnold’s students saw open homophobia as uncool.
On the other hand, when Arnold listened to her students talking before the bell, she often heard an anti-gay undertone that disturbed her. Students might utter the phrase “that’s so gay,” or crack jokes about anything that defied gender stereotypes. And Arnold had to wonder why so few gay people in Elkhorn, Wis. were out of the closet. …
Arnold took on the problem directly in “Exposing Hidden Homophobia,” a 37-day unit in which her students examined electronic media, short fiction and finally a novel of their choice to find the covert and overt ways our culture sends demoralizing messages to gay people.
If Media “Research” Center-backed Newsbusters were the last Web site standing, I’d log off the Internet permanently. OK, sometimes Newsbusters is good for laughs, but mostly, it’s just the same old paranoid, gay-bashing, wrong-wing garbage — a poor man’s WorldNetDaily… which is a poor man’s Town Hall, which in turn is a poor man’s National Review. (But cheer up, Newbusters! You’re still a notch above Jeff Gannon’s old haunt, Talon News!)
Anyway… A funny thing happened while checking my email for Google Alerts for “Proposition 8″ today: I found myself agreeing with Newsbusters — for all of about five seconds, until Newsbusters, as usual, leapt off NutCase Bridge and right into Lunacy Bay.
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