If you have missed all of the wonderment that has been former SNL cast member Victoria Jackson over the past few days, please catch up, for she is doing it again, in her latest column:
Driving to the Atlanta airport, I thought about G, my lifelong college friend from Auburn. He drove with me cross country in my 1980 beat-up Toyota Starlet when I went to Hollywood to be an actress. He was the only person who believed in me. He knows all of my sins. I know a few of his. I always tell him I don’t believe he is “gay” – we went on a date once and even kissed. We wrote a screenplay together. He loves drama. I can picture him now laughing, “Victoria, what are you doing?! Your career! You’ll never work again in Hollywood! Oh, but Hollywood loves a scandal!” And, then the twinkle in his eye. I can see my best friend A, who I also tell is not “gay,” saying in his British accent, “Victoria, my shiny, shiny friend! I still love you!” and then the big hug!
I have a theory. Victoria Jackson is one of those women who was once in love with a gay man/many gay men, and has decided to cling to a very poor understanding of a very old book in order to make her feel superior/numb the pain of that rejection. It’s sad that she tells herself, and these men, that they are not gay, because, of course, they are. Anyway.
My cell rings. It is CNN. Oh boy. The liberal, left, propaganda channel! I’m sure this won’t be pleasant! At 5 p.m. I’m sitting in a studio at CNN’s Atlanta headquarters, looking into a monitor. I feel like I’m in the book “1984,” where the protagonist is being grilled and electrocuted when he answers the wrong way.
Victoria Jackson and Winston Smith: just alike.
The TV screen is showing the gay teenage kiss over and over and over. My dad limited my exposure to carnality during my youth – no TV and no PG or R movies. He said things you see stick in your head forever. He wanted me to have a virgin mind when I got married. Dad kept me innocent. That was his job. Maybe that is why I play “airheads” so well. I’m playing “innocence.”
I’d say it’s some sort of typecasting…
American children, with their blank slate, fertile minds anxious to learn and receive guidance and information, are being brainwashed by the secular-humanist media to be sexually promiscuous/ambiguous and anti-God. The innocence of an entire generation has been stolen. They will not know love letters, romance, purity or the blessings of following Jesus.
Yes, because people who have sex don’t write love letters or do romantic things.
It’s now 5:05 p.m. at the CNN interrogation room. In my ear contraption, I can’t tell when the blond lady is talking to America or when she is talking to me. There are all these noises, dings, zings, flashbacks, videos, her face, my face. I hear her shout, “Are you homophobic?!!” a couple times. Her eyes are full of hate.
Okay, so we’re still on the 1984 theme. Since this was not the first time Victoria was in a teevee studio, I’m just going to go with the more obvious answer, that she’s lost it.
They support the Muslim agenda. However, Muslims kill homosexuals and behead women. When these pod people get confused, they shout, “Hate speech, bigot!”
And dang, she really is scared of them Muslims. Why do wingnuts actually believe that liberals support radical Islam? They always ask the clouds and the air around them things like “Don’t yew know Mooselems kill fags whah yew like them so much?!,” seemingly oblivious to the fact that the ridiculous nature of their question is exposed, within the question…
(The Huffington Post went so far as to say I “dislike sex”! Oh, do I? Ask my husband of 19 years!)
Ask her husband nothing, please.
Can’t one liberal stray from the pack and say, “Hey, Sarah Palin is the perfect feminist!” just to show they have a brain of their own?
No, because Sarah Palin is a moron, and decidedly not a feminist, thank you, moving on:
It’s like they all got a playbook to memorize, “Obama: good. Muslim: good. Christian: bad. Palin: dumb. Lesbian: good. Gay: normal. Climate change: man made. Capitalism: bad. Socialism: good. Beck: fear monger. Van Jones: never heard of him. Soros who? Bigot, hate speech, homophobe, border racist, tea-party racist. Black: good. White: bad. Latin: good. Oil: bad. Bank: bad. Rich: bad. Church: stupid. Guns: bad.” Whew! Got it!
Okay, now an actual liberal will do it:
Obama: Centrist, often annoying, panders to the Right way too much, but overall effective.
Muslim: One-a-them religions that’s got good people and bad people and in between people and whatever else, but that, as an atheist, I find preposterous, in general.
Christian: Same.
Palin: Dumb reality teevee star/job quitter.
Lesbian: Ladies who like ladies.
Gay: I AM THAT!
Climate change: Yes, man made, says science.
Capitalism: Effective when it’s strongly regulated in order to ensure fair play, etc.
Socialism: Also has some benefits, but you can swing too far in that direction, too. Hint: we are not there, or anywhere near there.
Beck: Crazed conspiracy theorist who makes a living off scaring the stupid.
Van Jones: Got screwed.
Soros: Not even sure what he looks like, but apparently he scares the panties off wingnuts, so I like him.
Bigots, hate speech, homophobes, teabaggers: bad.
Black: Is the color of my true love’s hair.
White: I AM THAT!
Latin: Dead language but helped me learn to talk good.
Oil: Yeah, our dependence on it really isn’t helping us out.
Bank: Where money lives. Most of our large banks are pretty disgusting these days, though.
Rich: Can be good or bad, depending on the steward of the riches.
Church: For me, irrelevant, but to each his own.
Guns: I like ‘em, but like all liberals who like guns, I support super gun control laws.
Dear Victoria: Every liberal you ask would have different answers to a lot of those questions.
When I walk through the cavernous lobby to leave CNN, I glance around and no one is smiling at me. They look away, or they look mean. Pod people. No minds of their own. Brainwashed.
Oh, the poor thing! She really thinks everybody’s out to get her! Of course, her cousin commented on Truth Wins Out the other day and mentioned that Victoria thinks that Barack Obama has her house bugged, so maybe it’s time for the media to stop giving her airtime [guilty, I know] and instead get someone close to her to gently suggest psychotherapy.
The black guard won’t validate my parking ticket. He doesn’t smile. It’s 1984. I am in the movie “1984.” I’m the only person left on earth who can think for herself. This is eerie.
It’s good that she let us know the guard was black.
Actors play murderers, robbers and gossips, but the gay lifestyle is always glorified. The other sins always seem to be punished or redeemed, but TV shows never show the downside to homosexuality: the loneliness, shame, broken families and marriages, diseases.
Yay, it’s the wingnut talking points, from people who don’t really know gay people, about loneliness and shame and all that crap. My lord. And these are things that don’t happen to straight people, ever.
The shame does not come from “society” but from God. So, even if the gays get everyone in the world to accept their behavior as “normal,” there will still be shame, because it goes against God.
Haha, you’re going to have to prove that asinine assertion, crazy pants.
I was asked to do a lesbian kiss in a show once, and I said no. But, I’m guilty of being part of a few movies that may have been a bad influence on young people. I’m very sorry to anyone I led away from God.
Victoria, you’re leading more people “away from God” every time you open your mouth than you’ll ever know. You’re really helping people make the connection between fundamentalist Christianity and utter lunacy.
The liberal media cannot understand how a Christian can love a homosexual and yet not condone their lifestyle.
That’s because you don’t. You have “fundamentalist Christian love,” which is selfish, prideful and arrogant. In short, it’s not love.
Anyway, that’s basically where the piece ends, just as disorganized and full of word salad as it started. I really do hope this is performance art.









Dammit Victoria! Seriously, I am up to a full cm (that means ‘centimeter’ dear) of dust on the furniture! And You KEEP STEALING MY MAIDS DUSTRAGS AND PUTTING THEM IN YOUR HAIR!!! Now, is that really Christian of you Victoria? REally?
Victoria Jackson, the Dustrag Bandit. Seems a good name for her, don’t you think folks? I mean seriously….she has mouse AND Squirrel in that mop she calls a hairdo!
She is batshit insane.
Ah yes, the “some of my best friends are gay” meme. Well, Victoria honey, I have a response to that: NOT AFTER THIS DISGRACEFUL PERFORMANCE, YOU STUPID b***h!
Evan, I don’t think I have ever seen you so accurately point out the stupidity of a bigots worldview and statements.
As it happens, I am a religious person, and white, and a man (and any one who thinks being a white guy, even a gay one, does not give a person advantages is full of crap) and a capitalist (who agrees that like all good things, capitalism needs regulation). I am twenty one years into a wonderful marriage with the best man on earth. He was born and raised in mainland China, and the years of being in an interacial marriage has made me very sensitive to bigotry such as Ms. Jackson shows (even if unintentionally). A lot of my clients are Muslims, from various nations, and some are (GASP!!!!!) gay. Most are straight. Most are just like most people, and don’t give a damn, and have gay friends. I am a gay man. I love women. I love gay women. And, I was raised by a great mom and dad……and, I have a box of love letters. I have known the romance that can come only from being prepared to move to China because my husband, unlike if we were a straight couple, was almost deported before he got his green card…and I was willing to give up my whole life here to be with him. I am in no way, impure Mrs. Jackson, and he and I were married in a wonderful church ceremony, and as a good Christian, I know fully the love of Jesus, and the affects of it I have seen in my life. As it happens, I also know athiests who could teach you, Mrs. Jackson, a lot about Christian love, grace, and the use of ones intellect.
My home is not broken. I grew up seeing TV shows showing people like me as lonely freaks. Now, I see people like me…who are…like me, on Modern Family. Our home is the one that the hetero neighbors bring their kids to for babysitting when they have dying relatives in the hospital they need to go and care for, because they know my home is full of love, and grace, and welcome. It is a happy, loving home, with nephews, nieces, cousins, and elderly relatives from the American south, and China, lovingly, and tenderly cared for.
It is a house and home full of straight and gay people, most Christian, some Buddhist, with Muslim (!!!!) and Jewish (NOT following Jesus!!!! gasp) and athiest friends, and proud strong men, and proud stong women who are taught they are the equal of the men by myself and all the others at they grow up.
We are happy, well adjusted, and decent people, most of us people of faith. Some of us, Gay. All of us, accepted as we are.
Not wingnuts, whiners, losers, anti capitalist, anti American, anti men, anti white, anti white or appalled at a (gasp) black parking attendent.
In short Mrs. Jackson, we are happier, better informed, and better educated than you.
And maybe it is just the gay man in me….but dammit, not niece, daughter, cousin, aunt or woman who visits my home, is not unloved enought that I, or someone else, would not have the decency, in private, to tell them NOT to wear a damn dustrag in their hair out in public.
Mrs Jackson, get a better worldview, get a better church, and get a life.
I really enjoyed your article.
I’m a comedian who was also upset by her bigotry and intolerance. I delt with my agnst by making a parody. Please check out (and repost if you like). Hope it makes you giggle and bring some light heartedness to an otherwise annoying and hateful situation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMSWYJidGZY
Best,
Jenn
I love her “I have gay friends, but they’re not really gay because one kissed me and one gave me a hug” spiel. It’s really funny and pathetic at the same time.
Actually all this attention must be really exciting for her. Im betting her phone has never rung this much ever.
@Gene #4: What a great read. Wonderfullyl stated. Alas, Victoria will probably not see it.
Great article Evan, well done. It’s of your best! Loved Gene’s comment. Standing ovation for this one.
Let’s hope and Pray that Victoria snaps out of it soon and puts down the over the top right wing fundamentalist Koolaide concoction she’s been drinking for far too long. God Bless and WAKE her “innocent” but incredibly dangerous little heart and mind.
Balance people balance! Paranoia will destroy ya! Why do so many sweet, “innocent” and well intentioned people get sucked into and opt for a cult-like mentality and religious organizations that claim to represent Christ over reasonable, fair, well-balanced and honest ones? There are some “out there” but the wing-nuts make the most noise so they get all the attention in every faith. Very sad. :(
Victoria, even God says in his word “Come let us reason together” not come let us go off our Rockers together. Please pull it together sweetheart and remember less is more. This kind of rhetoric makes Christians look bad and Mad Hatter crazy! Not all Christians are like this so please refrain from speaking for them until you’ve gotten some serious mental health help and a far more balanced and realistic perspective on God, the bible and human beings. Wake up honey, Your not in George Orwell’s 1984. This is about as far from soul winning as your ever going to get. So in essence your not helping your cause for Christ. Because “Your SCARING” People! It’s not cute and adorable or innocent it’s harmful and dangerous. Please stop Ms Jackson.
Thank you.
Lisa, I think the “come let us go off our rockers together” line is in some translations, or if it’s not, it should be. :)
Sounds like she actually believes what she is saying. It’s kind of sad, really.
Victoria Jackson does not speak for my religion and their are many gay people and straight allies who are also people of faith and family. Her time on SNL was way before my time, but how much should care about the political views of someone who seems to be getting her soapbox because she is sort of a celebrity. Frankly, given how poorly she gathers her thoughts, even if I agreed with what she said I would still be wondering what her..issues are. Too often I see these celebrities make public comments about stuff that they do not seem to be too knowledgeable about, but they hope will generate ‘buzz’ for their career or a particular fan base.
I want to see Victoria and Sarah come together for a nice little chit-chat. The overwhelming flood of inanity would be incredibly entertaining.
WOW! Did she just out herself as a white supremacist. She says that liberals think that black is good and white is bad, where she intimates that she believes exactly the opposite… that is pretty white supremacist to me.
I always tell him I don’t believe he is “gay” – we went on a date once and even kissed. IS SHE FOR REAL?! Does she know how many gays were/are married and have children. I have a VERY gay friend who was married and has *four* kids!! She can’t possibly that stupid. No, wait, she’s a wingnut, of course she can, and surely is.
ps..her ‘look’ reminds me of Hermione Gingold, but Gingold only ACTED stupid.
my bad — i meant Dody Goodman, not H. Gingold.
I had never heard of this woman before this incident, but she is likely suffering from some form of mental illness expressing itself in religious mania or some type of personality disorder in which she is unable to empathize with others (narcissism?). She seems a little delusional (she can be seen on other YouTubes talking about Obama). She is clearly a concrete thinker, very black & white in her mental processes, and likely incapable constitutionally of dealing with ambiguity or personally threatening data. None of this bodes well for her being able to reason herself into a different space, and likely impossible if she really does have a personality disorder. That some in her fundagelical subculture see her as a heroine removes any incentive for her to even try and get beyond where she is as well. I wouldn’t waste time trying to talk her out of what she believes, but like we do with the Phelps gang, just keep on letting her be a christian spokesperson.
Evan, there are many fine translations for “The Good News” of the bible. I’m convinced wing-nut’s and fundamentalist legalistic hippocrates use a more sinister and unauthorized version called “The Bad News Bible” I believe it was translated by Fred Phelps. Which is where you can find that scripture “Come let us go off our Rockers together.” (Joking!)
Most “Christian’s don’t want to be associated with Mr.”God Hates Fags, soldiers and apparently everyone- I’ll protest your funeral” Phelps but if their theology and ideology is similar or the same they have no right to try and disassociate. This theology is the worst and is as Un-loving, Unchristian and ANTI-Christ as Satan himself. It’s dogmatic, legalistic, religious rhetoric and it lacks the most important message of all- God’s unconditional Love and Grace that is available for everyone. If you leave that part out you are not preaching the GOSPEL. The CRAZY part is the followers of it have no clue they are the one’s who have been deceived and are spreading a doctrine of HATE not LOVE like a CANCER to the masses. :(
Here’s a good book and resource called Unchristian
http://www.unchristian.com/book.asp
Jesus draws people to himself. Ms. Jackson and many right-wing fundamentalist’s do the opposite and alienate them. That’s the litmus test. They miss the MESSAGE entirely and fail to deliver it.
God looks at our heart’s. How much do/did we Love? That’s the main question. I’d focus on that more. If we’re going to err- let’s err on the side of Love. According to the “Good News” rumor has it that LOVE covers a multitude of sins.
Bottom line. Ms. Jackson, Fred Phelps and folks like them are doing a great disservice to God and the human race.
I had no idea that Abbott and Costello made a version of 1984, because Im pretty sure she really never read the book, just a hunch
Didn’t Dr Drew say that Baby Talking is a “clear sign” that a woman was sexually abused as a child
Victoria Jackson:
“TV shows never show the downside to homosexuality: the loneliness, shame, broken families and marriages, diseases.”
I AGREE! I have seen this in the GLBT community in a very large way…the solution to this crisis is coming out of the very ideology she is propogating!
Jenn, that was hysterical.
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Well – first, you can’t accuse gay activists of being ‘anti-God’ because you cannot be against that which does not exist in the first place. The judeo christian god is nowhere, off the radar. And it is high time America – the only First World country where beief in such evil rubbish is mainstream – realised that too.
Secondly – what she says about the liberal left on Islam does have more than a grain of truth to it. Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s excellent book ‘Nomad’ explains this. Get your heads out of the sand. Two thirds of US mosques are segregated by gender. Look at who funds the mosques, and what literature is being pumped into Islamic centres and bookshops and you will have the shock of your life. The money points to Saudi wahabbi extremists.
Adrian- I admire your confidence but there are many of us who believe and are equally if not more confident that God does exist . There are plenty of Christian, Jews, Muslims etc who are Gay and plenty of “gay” and “straight” “activists” who believe in God including but not limited to (for example)…Mel White, Michael Bussee ( one of the founders of Exodus now Ex-gay) , John Evans ( one of the founders of Love in Action now ex-gay), Bishop Gene Robinson (1st openly gay Bishop in USA), Jo Hudson and Mike Piazza (Cathedral of Hope), Harry Knox (HRC), Frank Schaeffer and the list goes on and on. So no disrespect to your non belief- but please know that many of US who are deeply involved and care about these issues are people of Faith. Peace & Love