It’s been a while since we’ve posted a video from Molotov Mitchell of WorldNetDaily. He’s a sad attempt at right-wing humor and “biting” commentary, which fails for all the reasons right-wing “comedians” and commentators always fail, and honestly, unless you really go looking for his work, you’re not going to just run across it. As with all right-wing attempts at being cool, what comes across is a sad, weakling of a man who is so frightened of the world around him that he simply spews hatred at all the people who are smarter than he is. He believes he has gay friends, like so many bigots do. “I have a black friend! I have a gay friend!,” they are known to say. In reality, it’s usually that there’s a gay person or a person of color who lives in their neighborhood, and who tolerates the right-wing idiot in their midst, while making fun of them behind their backs. He expressed support for the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill, of course claiming, like so many stupid right-wingers, that it wasn’t about killing gay people, except for the times he pretty much advocated for genocide.
Anyway, Porno Pete is excited about Molotov’s new video where he goes after Dan Savage for saying mean things. I’m not going to defend every single thing Dan has ever said — Dan doesn’t even defend every single thing he’s ever said — but I will point out that while there are those on the side of fairness and humanity who are lit fuses and sometimes pop off, we are actually fighting for good. This is in direct opposition to fundamentalist religious bigots who tend to value “civility” in discourse, all while advocating, for instance, for non-existent policies on teen bullying and promulgating hateful messages which lead to kids taking their own lives. I’ll side with the people who actually fight for good, with a liberal use of the word “f*ck,” thank you.
Moreover, Molotov claims that Dan has bragged about “cheating” on his spouse. Um, no. Dan has explained the arrangement of his marriage many times, and all literate people are free to look that up. But as Dan and Terry’s arrangement is “consensual,” it wins the moral contest over the Fundamentalist Christian version of open marriages, which tends to involve a lot of lying and closet homosexuality.
In this video about Dan Savage, Molotov also expresses his adoration for Rick Santorum, which makes sense, as overgrown WATB child-men with bizarre fixations on gay sex tend to flock together.
Hey Molotov? Actually, a majority of Americans support marriage equality. I know you simply can’t get your small head around that fact, but it’s true. You’ve lost.
Porno Pete adds:
If you haven’t seen Molotov’s previous video “My Gay Friends,” please watch this YouTube of it as well. It is compassionate yet honest Christianity in action and I believe the finest short video ever produced on this H. issue.
The video he’s talking about was universally reviled by gay people. But I will agree that it’s a good example of Porno Pete’s perverted version of Christian love in action. If you want to see it, click on Molotov’s name above and do some scrolling.
Occasionally, we have shared Molotov Mitchell videos. He’s the self-aggrandizing thug, wannabe who tries to steal Penn & Teller’s act – but adds a sick, right wing twist. Today, Terry Krepel fought back and took a look at who this “conservative” clown truly is.
The profile of Mitchell isn’t pretty and paints a portrait of an angry, dishonest fanatic who should be monitored by the FBI and possibly arrested for sedition. His unpatriotic, violent remarks are on the border where free speech meets an actual threat against the U.S. government:
Mitchell then engages in his usual denigrating of people he doesn’t agree with: “A handful of pencil-necked, metrosexual socialists in Washington can’t possibly defeat a nation of red-blooded, God-fearing patriots.” He then endorsed a military coup against Obama:
The spirit of Thomas Jefferson is alive and well in Honduras — especially in Honduras, where their Marxist just tried to tamper with their constitution, and guess what happened? The Honduran military took that socialist dictator wannabe to the border and said, “Hasta la vista, baby. Better luck in Costa Rica.” Sounds nice, doesn’t it? Sounds nice to me. Time will tell.
Molotov Mitchell has a real problem with America’s democracy, it seems.
Time for the weekly wrap-up and then some music, so let’s go.
Ken Mehlman is gaygaygaygayGAYgaysuper-duper gay. Ann Coulter made fun of Joseph Farah and his WorldNetDaily on Fox News, without shame. Exodus International has no money, and still, no shame. NOM and Ed Whelan figured out why Ted Olson is so gay for marriage equality: his hippie liberal wife made him do it. Gary Bauer came up with a measuring system where each and every 9/11 victim is three feet long, which helps Muslims figure out how far away from “Hallowed Ground” they have to build their mosques. Memphis gay leaders pulled an inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance because the City Council wouldn’t give it a fair hearing, which led one Memphis resident (and a personal friend of mine) to stay until the bitter end to give the Council a bit of what-for. And of course, Peter LaBarbera, Molotov Mitchell and Ugandan MP David Bahati are still insane. Oh, and Wayne put up a music post of his own last night, so if you haven’t been there, go.
Instead of picking one song and hitting the iTunes shuffle from there, this week is going to be a little bit different. As a songwriter and composer, I’ve always paid particular attention to lyrical narratives, and the way that songs can work together to form an arc. The other night, my iTunes did something that I found magical when it played three random songs in order, which I then listened to in that order again, and again, and again, about eleventy times. The three songs are “Transatlanticism” by Death Cab for Cutie, “1000 Oceans” by Tori Amos, and “Run” by Snow Patrol. Aside from being three amazing, heartwrenching songs, when played together, they indeed form an arc. Sometimes there are deep oceans, but there are also lighthouses.
So those three songs, and then we’ll hit shuffle on the last one and see what happens. Ready, set, go. More videos after the jump.
“Transatlanticism”
“1000 Oceans”
“Run”
1. Dar Williams – “In Love But Not At Peace”
2. Janelle Monáe – “Faster”
3. The National – “Racing Like A Pro”
4. Imogen Heap – “Tidal”
5. Damien Rice – “Eskimo”
6. Neil Young – “Harvest”
7. Suzanne Vega – “Blood Sings”
8. Marissa Nadler – “True Love Will Find You In The End” [Daniel Johnston cover]
9. Van Halen – “Dreams”
10. U2 – “Dancing Barefoot” [Patti Smith cover]
No word on where that Van Halen came from, but I’m okay with it if you are.
Unfortunately, we’ve been consumed with Mehlman fever (antibiotics should do the trick) the past twenty four hours, so I missed this. Jeff Sharlet has a new book, and a new piece in Harper’s, which unfortunately isn’t available yet, but an NPR interview with Sharlet drops a bit of a bombshell about the private ambitions of the sick, twisted, maniacal Ugandan MP David Bahati, the sponsor of that nation’s infamous “kill the gays bill”:
“Bahati said: ‘If you come here, you’ll see homosexuals from Europe and America are luring our children into homosexuality by distributing cell phones and iPods and things like this,’ ” Sharlet recounts. “And he said, ‘And I can explain to you what I really want to do.’ ”
Sharlet accompanied Bahati to a restaurant and later to his home, where Bahati told Sharlet that he wanted “to kill every last gay person.”
“It was a very chilling moment, because I’m sitting there with this man who’s talking about his plans for genocide, and has demonstrated over the period of my relationship with him that he’s not some back bencher — he’s a real rising star in the movement,” Sharlet says. “This was something that I hadn’t understood before I went to Uganda, that this was a guy with real potential and real sway and increasingly a following in Uganda.”
And he has connections to American leaders. Sharlet explains that Bahati is one of the Uganda leaders of an American evangelical movement called the Fellowship, or the Family — the secretive fellowship of powerful Christian politicians who wield considerable political influence, both in Washington and abroad.
If that’s what Bahati says to an American journalist with a history of reporting facts, I’d hate to imagine what he says behind closed doors to American Religious Right wingnuts.
Bahati is an aspiring genocidal maniac, and continuing American support from fundamentalist Christian leaders just proves what so many have always said: They are our American Taliban, and the only reason they haven’t started bombing things is because they live in a developed country where the Enlightenment and secularization have had a civilizing effect on the most grotesque applications of Deep Religious Faith. Bahati just has more “freedom” where he lives than our American mullahs do.
The post title is a direct correction of Peter LaBarbera’s Ministry of Love-style headline for the same video. We’ve written about Molotov Mitchell before, several times. He’s made videos since the beginning of the year defending the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill, which is all you really need to know. And again, Peter LaBarbera refers to his as a “biblical love,” which means that Peter is seriously DSM-IV, evil, or both.
In this creepy video, Molotov Mitchell talks about how he handles his “gay friends,” by telling them, with no supporting evidence whatsoever other than the fact that other people are brainwashed to believe the same things, that they are headed for a fiery hell.
Also, we find out that Mitchell is a garden variety bigot, who doesn’t feel the need to hold back from making fun of effeminate, “flaming homosexuals.”
SPOILER ALERT: At the end of the video, the “moral of the story” comes, because apparently the gay guy he’s talking about was particularly susceptible to becoming a victim for Mitchell, convinced to buy into self-loathing in service of a fundamentalist Christian worldview that has been summarily disproven, and moreover, is harmful to those who choose it as a lifestyle.
She was apparently grown in Joseph Farah’s backyard from a single stray hair from Molotov Mitchell‘s grit ‘stache!
She styles herself as a “comedienne,” but, as usual with wingnuts, without the laugh track there would be utter silence in the room. Her contention is that “homosexuality is a mental disorder,” so let’s find out why “D.J.” thinks so. Oh wait what? Molotov Mitchell wrote it? She’s just reading lines? Okay, let’s find out why Molotov Mitchell thinks gayness is a mental disorder. Again. (Read More)
Lovely. Watch the video. Then I have a correction and a question:
Correction: Molotov Mitchell claims that the Ugandan anti-gay legislation only calls for the death penalty in cases of pedophilia, sexual abuse, knowingly spreading HIV, and “using power to coerce.” Molotov Mitchell is doing something usually referred to as “lying through his teeth.” He is likely aware that those five people in the world who respect him and view him as a trendy, macho guy are far too brainwashed to check his facts for themselves. Sadly, we have the text of the bill, and we were taught to read when we were young, so we can easily show you were Molotov Mitchell is lying. The death penalty is called for in cases of “aggravated homosexuality,” which is explained thus:
3. Aggravated homosexuality.
(1) A person commits the offense of aggravated homosexuality where the
(a) person against whom the offence is committed is below the age of 18 years;
(b) offender is a person living with HIV;
(c) offender is a parent or guardian of the person against whom the offence is committed;
(d) offender is a person in authority over the person against whom the offence is committed;
(e) victim of the offence is a person with disability;
(f) offender is a serial offender, or
(g) offender applies, administers or causes to be used by any man or woman any drug, matter or thing with intent to stupefy overpower him or her so as to there by enable any person to have unlawful carnal connection with any person of the same sex,
(2) A person who commits the offence of aggravated homosexuality shall be liable on conviction to suffer death.
(3) Where a person is charged with the offence under this section, that person shall undergo a medical examination to ascertain his or her HIV status.
Okay. If a person has same gender sex with someone under 18, they can be put to death. Even if they’re 19. That’s #1. A person can be sentenced to death if they have same gender sex while HIV positive (even protected! even if they divulge their HIV status!). Thats #2. A person can be sentenced to death if they have same gender sex with someone they have authority over. Presumably this includes a boss having sex with one of his employees, coerced or not. That’s #3. A person can be sentenced to death for having same gender sex with a person who has a “disability.” Again, it is not stated that the sex must be coerced to merit that distinction. Simply that the “victim” must be disabled. That’s #4. Oh, but look at this one: If a person is a “serial offender,” they may also be put to death. This seems to mean that if they are caught having regular old gay sex MULTIPLE TIMES, they are subject to the death penalty. This, presumably, would put most sexually active gay people, having garden variety safe sex WITH THEIR PARTNERS, in danger of going before the, um, Death Panel. (Oh, look, death panels are real. They’re just in Africa.)
So. Either Molotov Mitchell is:
1. Stupid. (Entirely possible.)
2. A liar. (As a member of the Religious Right, this is likely.)
3. Both. (The likeliest option.)
So that’s the correction.
Now my question: When I watched the video, an advertisement for Woolite played beforehand. Woolite is made by Reckitt Benckiser. How do they feel about their name being associated with lying hate speech? Maybe you should ask them.
UPDATE: I only watched the video once, but it seems that a revolving group of products are advertising in this video, including Resolve and Dell. Jeremy Hooper and Warren Throckmorton have more on how to contact the companies involved, and Warren’s corrections of Mitchell’s lies are also thorough.
Most of the best parts of the internet are making fun of this video today. It’s Molotov Mitchell and some other undersexed chunk friend of his, “rapping” about how Obama is going to be a one term president. And um, they call themselves “WOLVERINES!” Really. It’s impossible to truly make fun of these people, because they are the joke.
First the video, then Wonkette commenters, because why not?
(h/t Wonkette and Balloon Juice and Jesse at Pandagon, in a post titled “What Would Happen If The Black Eyed Peas Were Conservative Bloggers And None Of Them Were Black?” Heh.)
“Speaking as a marketing professional, if you are trying to co-opt youth culture, it helps to actually find some youths to help you out with it. The average age of these people is what, 35?”
“This video has it all. Autotune, a big hipped girl with crooked bangs, and an epileptic seizure warning.”
“Wait, WND people complaining about the Iraq war not being over? That is some RICH bullsh*t.”
“Even Sarah Palin would call this retarded.”
“Isn’t ‘OTP’ the fanfiction term for ‘I hope these two characters have buttsex’?
Molotov Mitchell thinks he is really, REALLY, super-duper cool. He acts as though his extreme right shtick is unique and original. But, upon closer inspection it appears that he may be a poseur.
Could the extremist be attempting a right wing knock-off of the comedian Penn on the Showtime hit “Bullshit” with Penn & Teller?
It appears that he apes the real comedian in mannerisms and delivery. Visually, he copycats the show with extraneous people and objects popping up randomly on the screen. Take a look at the two videos – compare – and judge for yourself. Is Molotov Mitchell a phony who is trying to steal Penn’s gig without giving him credit?
I really don’t have time to write, so here is another crazy video from Molotov Mitchell, which I haven’t watched yet (because I do not have time to write). In it, Joe Jervis reports that he “talks about one of these fictitious men, mocking his manner of speaking while simultaneously claiming to have “really loved him.” Riiiiight. Sounds about right.
If you forgot, Molotov was the one who defended the Ugandan genocide in a very well-produced video, the kind that is meant to evoke the wingnut notion of “We are hipped hopped too, like the all the cool kids (who beat us up)!”
It’s been a while since we’ve posted a video from Molotov Mitchell of WorldNetDaily. He’s a sad attempt at right-wing humor and “biting” commentary, which fails for all the reasons right-wing “comedians” and commentators always fail, and honestly, unless you really go looking for his work, you’re not going to just run across it. As with all right-wing attempts at being cool, what comes across is a sad, weakling of a man who is so frightened of the world around him that he simply spews hatred at all the people who are smarter than he is. He believes he has gay friends, like so many bigots do. “I have a black friend! I have a gay friend!,” they are known to say. In reality, it’s usually that there’s a gay person or a person of color who lives in their neighborhood, and who tolerates the right-wing idiot in their midst, while making fun of them behind their backs. He expressed support for the Ugandan “Kill the Gays” bill, of course claiming, like so many stupid right-wingers, that it wasn’t about killing gay people, except for the times he pretty much advocated for genocide.
Molotov Mitchell thinks he is really, REALLY, super-duper cool. He acts as though his extreme right shtick is unique and original. But, upon closer inspection it appears that he may be a poseur.
