UPDATE: MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts tweeted the following explanation at 12:13pm this afternoon:
MYSTERY solved… @maggiemarriage was in a studio ready for our #nom interview it was just the wrong studio booked improperly on @msnbc_booking IT WAS OUR MISTAKE and she has an open invite for the show. Our sincerest apologies.
Here’s hoping that another slot can be scheduled for TWO’s Wayne Besen and Maggie Gallagher to appear together. We were looking forward to the chance to discuss NOM’s race-baiting tactics with her!
Original post, 12:04pm:
TWO’s Wayne Besen and Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage were scheduled and confirmed to appear on MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts this morning. To my knowledge, this would have been the first on-camera appearance by anyone from NOM in the wake of yesterday’s revelations that the group uses disrespectful, racially divisive “wedge strategies” in an attempt to splinter the Democratic Party by pitting African Americans and Latinos against the LGBT community.
This is what Maggie looked like today on camera:
That’s right. She bailed, with no explanation. Perhaps she was still at home figuring out how to spin these ugly truths? I wonder what her excuse will be. While any defense of something so baldly indefensible as manipulating minority groups for selfish political gain is an exercise in futility, today’s stunt was a disgracefully unprofessional move on Maggie’s part. Things just keep looking worse and worse for the crazies at NOM.
(HUGE thanks to Jeremy Hooper of Good As You for the screen grab!)
Even though I hate NOM and what they stand for, I have to be fair and point out that Thomas Roberts has tweeted that her “no-show” was a studio error – she was in a studio, but it was the wrong one. http://tinyurl.com/cuuty3y (url to tweet)
Updated the post — thanks Muir! For the record, though, it wasn’t a matter of TWO being unfair. Thomas Roberts tweeted the explanation after this post went up.
It’s okay. You can still hate NOM.
Yep! It was tweeted about 5-10 minutes after your post went up. You reported the facts as you knew them at the time. No fault of yours or TWO. :)
[...] Civil Rights leaders are also supporters of equality for LGBT people.] Anyway, the point is that Maggie bailed without an explanation. [NOTE: it appears that Thomas Roberts tweeted that Maggie's failure to show was due to a studio [...]
@Muir, it’s funny, b/c I actually made a point in my latest post about how on our side, when we screw up or new facts come to light, we always correct the mistake, because we know our readers are The Smarts, which stands in stark contract to NOM and the Religious Right, who hold their followers in the utmost contempt.
Perfect example of that. ;-)
Talking about Maggie…has anyone seen her lately? She looks like she has had it…the last photo she looked the worest I have ever seen. Is she runing out of steam to even take care of herself? come out come out were ever you are Maggie…,your hiding!!!!!