I wish this could all mean Santorum would somehow surge enough to become the 2012 candidate, as that would be the funniest election in recent memory, but it ain’t gonna happen.
“How are you going to get the gay vote?,” asked Greta to Rick Santorum. “Considering the fact that your seething anti-gay hatred is weird even by Fox News standards, in what world would any gay human consider voting for you?,” were not her exact words.
His answer is stupid, of course, but his answers are always stupid. The interview also shows Bob Vander Plaats, irrelevant wingnut and leader of the Iowa hate group “ThE fAmIlY lEaDeR,” endorsing the most irrelevant and hilarious GOP candidate I have ever seen. The video is apparently unembeddable here, so click over to Think Progress to witness the continually unfolding disaster.
Quelle surprise, wingnuts. When we call you dumb, it’s not because we have nothing else to say, but that we have no interest in speaking to particularly dumb brick walls:
Fox News viewers are less informed than people who don’t watch any news, according to a new poll from Fairleigh Dickinson University.
The poll surveyed New Jersey residents about the uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East, and where they get their news sources. The study, which controlled for demographic factors like education and partisanship, found that “people who watch Fox News are 18-points less likely to know that Egyptians overthrew their government” and “6-points less likely to know that Syrians have not yet overthrown their government” compared to those who watch no news.
Oh, my god. You would think Megyn Kelly would take at least a second out of her day to tell the idiots something, but no. She is “the smart one” around there, you know.
Now you know that when they use the term “low information voter,” they’re talking about wingnuts.
These people truly are pathetic. Steve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade are having a discussion about, oh my gah you guys, gender neutral housing at Grinnell College in Iowa. Instead of actually reporting the story — it has to do with special facilities that transgender students, or any students for that matter, can specifically request — they start giggling amongst themselves that ewwwww, this is weird, etc. When Brian Kilmeade says that being transgender is “in vogue, like bell bottoms!,” you are all free to slam your heads on whatever furniture happens to be nearby. Morons, all of them.
I found this video over at Videogum, where one of my favorite writers, Gabe Delahaye, had a lot to say:
Stop! Stop! Gretchen Carlson is going to break a rib! Oh, it’s too hilarious. Apparently? I mean, it’s true that these shiny pieces of human garbage can’t stop laughing, and at one point they have to stop the “reporting” because one of the cameramen is laughing? Cool cameraman. I feel like at this point in my life I know a thing or two about jokes, and I definitely don’t get it. Let’s go back over it: a group of marginalized college students, during their transition into adulthood after an entire life of self-doubt, discomfort, and social ostracization, decided that they would like to create an area on campus in which they could live in peace and feel safe and accepted in their own living quarters? No, that is f*cking hilarious. Of course, after covering the facts of this story between coughs (COUGHfaggotsCOUGH), the gang at FOX and Friends gets serious for a second to engage in what has to be the most complicated performance of facetious, fear-mongering AND hate-mongering, anti-logical rhetoric that I’ve ever seen.
And later:
What’s next? GENDER NEUTRAL DOGS MARRYING SNAKES IN THE SHOWER?
In an interview on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pressed flailing Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum about his position that the now-extinct “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy ought to be reinstated. The remarks Santorum made raising the horrifying specter of gay soldiers showering with other soldiers (*GASP!*) received all the media attention, but what seems to have thus far escaped notice is that he also cited discredited and dangerous “ex-gay” propaganda as a reason he believes that LGBT Americans, unlike African Americans, do not deserve their civil rights (for clarity’s sake, I’ve removed most of the sputters):
I mean, we’re talking about people who are simply different because of the color of their skin, not because of activities that would cause problems for people living in those, quote, ‘close quarters…’ I know the whole gay community is trying to make this the new Civil Rights Act — it’s not. It’s not the same. You are black by the color of your skin. You are not homosexual, necessarily, obviously, by the color of your skin… the idea that somehow or another that this is the equivalent, that being black and being gay is the same, is simply not true. There are all sorts of studies out there that suggest just the contrary. And there are people who were gay, and lived the gay lifestyle, and aren’t anymore. I don’t know if that’s the similar situation — I don’t think that’s the case with anybody that’s black. So it’s not the same and I know people try to make it the same, but it is not. It is behavioral issue as opposed to a color of the skin issue, and that makes it [sic] all of the difference when it comes to serving in the military.
Santorum clearly suffers from a chronic case of the Gay Hysteria — he’s obsessed with gay people, gay sexual activities, gay soldiers in the shower, gay people having gay sex… in fact, he brings up gay topics with a frequency approaching the level of compulsion (take note, Karen). The former senator is so fixated on gay sexual acts that he is apparently unable to discuss gay people without talking about them in flagrante delicto. In fact, I’d be interested (horrified?) to know just how much time Rick Santorum spends thinking about gay sex.
Oh and yeah, by the way, the whole “there are people who were gay… and aren’t anymore” thing? Pretty sure nobodyagreeswithyou, Rick. It’s not possible to change from gay to straight and you can’t pray away the gay, so you’re going to have to be a little more creative the next time you go fishing for reasons to justify your bigotry. Thanks for playing.
Video of the sputtering Santorum here, courtesy of HuffPost Politics:
Just yesterday, we noted that Peter LaBarbera is having a little fit over the fact that his beloved Fox News is coddling the bigotry of he and his kind less and less. Here is another example of that!
Fox’s website ran a ridiculous article from Dr. Keith Ablow, whom I’ve made fun of on this site before, where he took transphobia to new heights in suggesting that, by watching Chaz Bono on Dancing With The Stars, children might be more likely to actually become transgender, therefore their parents shouldn’t let them watch it. It’s sort of a joke that he’s still allowed to put “Dr.” in front of his name, as he has a long history of absolutely losing his tiny little wingnut mind over things like pink toenails on a boy in J. Crew ads and the like.
But Alyssa at Think Progress posted the fun part of this story yesterday, where Dr. Ablow had to go on with Fox’s own Megyn Kelly, whereupon she tore him apart and made him look like the fool he is.
To be clear, Megyn Kelly is far more prominent within the Fox News organization than the quack Ablow, and I’d say she did good.
As I’ve said before, when the wingnuts start losing Fox, that really means they’ve lost the war. Porno Pete has a desperate missive on his little hate dungeon blog, begging Fox News to please make it clear that they hate and are as bizarrely fixated on gays as much as Pete is:
Dear Readers,
One of the reasons we are in such big trouble regarding the promotion of homosexuality in our culture is that “conservatives” have stopped acting conservatively on this particular (sin) issue.
When Pete uses the word “conservative,” he means “backwoods, uneducated and medievally bigoted for no other reason besides the fact that Mommy and Daddy taught me to be.”
A good example is frequent FOX News guest Margaret Hoover. She espouses legalized homosexual “marriage” as a Republican Party and “conservative” issue — despite the longstanding GOP platform planks against counterfeit “same-sex marriage” and other aspects of the larger homosexual agenda. Please read below as Hoover makes the same fraudulent connection between homosexuality and race that drives Blacks nuts when it’s trotted out by “gay’ activists and liberals…
Pete is so concerned about The Blacks that he capitalizes “blacks.” Of course, there are many The Blacks who aren’t driven “nuts” by that comparison. The late Coretta Scott King was a notable one. Civil Rights leaders like John Lewis, who actually know something about the Civil Rights Movement, are also worthy of mention. Julian Bond, the chair of the NAACP…
Et cetera, et cetera.
But please do remember, that Porno Pete is an expert on The Blacks, as he has a long history of co-opting them for bigoted purposes. They’re tight!
We Republicans have often found ourselves on the wrong side of civil rights struggles since the 1960s, but there was a reason that Martin Luther King, Jr.’s father is said to have supported Republicans.
Republicans were historically the party ever-expanding freedom to disenfranchised minorities, from newly liberated slaves to giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was a Republican. By supporting the [pro-homosexuality American Foundation for Equal Rights trial against California's Proposition 8 upholding traditional marriage as between a man and a woman] we have an opportunity to establish our historic credibility on civil rights issues once again. But we should support marriage equality because it is the right thing to do.
Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers. Does it sit well with you that because of their sexual orientation, a factor outside one’s control, that they should have less rights and protections in the eyes of the law?…
That’s why the Supreme Court, in 1967 Loving v. Virginia, legalized interracial marriage –six years after our current president was born to an interracial couple. At that time 73% of the population opposed “miscegenation.” How long would it have taken to change popular opinion, for the minority to democratically win their constitutional rights? As Martin Luther King, Jr. famously asserted, “Justice delayed is justice denied.”
Yay, Margaret Hoover.
Anywho, he’s really upset that that was on the Fox News website, and that his beloved wingnut network is slowly beginning to tell his kind to go to hell on these issues. It’s a slow process, but it is indeed happening, and the reason, which Pete et al. have never been able to understand or accept, is that News Corp never actually cared about them or respected their beliefs as people, but simply saw them as a ratings demographic — the bitter, cranky, whiny, low-information white set of voters — and has played that card for all it’s worth. But Fox News also recognizes that, though there is still some steam in that demographic, even they are slowly starting to abandon the bigotry of old when it comes to gays. Simply put, there’s a hell of a lot of Teabaggers who have gay relatives and neighbors and sons and daughters, and though the network can still play ooga booga with them on make-believe black crime waves and presidential birth certificates, peddling anti-gay bigotry just isn’t such a safe bet for them anymore.
They never respected you, Pete. They wanted your money. Deal wit’ it.
In news sure to make wingnuts squirm, News Corp, the parent company of their beloved Fox News, will be publishing a magazine devoted to the planning of gay weddings:
News Corporation, the parent company of the right-leaning cabler Fox News, will publish a magazine devoted to gay and lesbian weddings.
The inaugural issue of glossy Wedding Pride: The Magazine for Gay and Lesbian Wedding Planning will hit newstands in September.
The magazine is being published by CNG Publications, a unit of New York-based Community Newspaper Group, which is owned by News Corporation…
You see, conservatives, Rupert, Fox and News Corp don’t actually care about or respect you. They respect ca$h.
It’s got to be pretty painful for hate group leader Tony Perkins when these days, he even loses debates on Fox News. Watch as Bernard Whitman of Faith In America, a gay father himself, clearly calls Tony out for his lies regarding gay parenting and the anti-gay Arizona adoption bill. I hope the anti-gay Religious Right is making plans for their coming irrelevancy, because if this is all they’ve got, the clock is ticking.
This is too funny, mostly because, as is de rigueur for Fox News, the “analyst” Monica Crowley doesn’t even have her facts straight. Watch as she bemoans the Obama administration’s announcement that they will no longer defend DOMA in court by claiming that they also will not enforce it. Uh, no, Monica. I know reading comprehension is not part of the application process at Fox, but come on.
Note also that she refers to the president as “Mubarak Obama,” and see it in context with what I said about Mike Huckabee earlier. Wingnuts do not follow normal lines of analytical thought, instead choosing to throw out dogwhistle words, even if they’re not related to each other, in order to scare their couch-bound followers.
“How are you going to get the gay vote?,” asked Greta to Rick Santorum. “Considering the fact that your seething anti-gay hatred is weird even by Fox News standards, in what world would any gay human consider voting for you?,” were not her exact words.
