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?
Steve Doocy is, of course, probably the dumbest person in “journalism,” if you’re not counting his Fox & Friends co-hosts. Tony Perkins is the lying, malicious, fey leader of a large hate group. And here they are, with their proverbial pants down, expressing their love for each other:
Priscilla at NewsHounds has a great play by play narration of the wanking, with reality tossed in for clarification:
Good Christian conservative and “Mr. Happy” Steve Doocy immediately set the agitprop in motion for the spectacularly one sided segment: “If you are part of a conservative group then you’re in a hate group according to a left wing organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center.” Agitprop chyron: “Conservative Groups Targeted? SPLC Designated Family Research Council As Hate Group.” Naturally Doocy didn’t mention that the SPLC made this designation as a result of things like promoting the lie that gay behavior is linked to pedophilia and advocating the criminalization of homosexuality. Doocy echoed (and didn’t acknowledge) Meese’s comment that “they have even put the Family Research Council in the same category as the KKK.” Doocy asked “how does that happen?” (Maybe because their demonization of gays contributes to a culture of gay baiting and bashing?) When he introduced Perkins, Doocy said, in his typically “befuddled” way, “the Family Research Council is a hate group?” (No shit, Sherlock. In opposing anti-bullying laws and programs, they accuse gays of “exploiting” gay suicides for the “gay agenda”) Perkins claimed that the SPLC “made a distinction” by saying that his group isn’t like the other hate groups. (Oh, really. Mark Potok of the SPLC said that the FRC is “the hardcore of the anti-gay religious right” as opposed to the more “moderate” Focus on the Family.) Doocy nodded in agreement when Perkins said that “the left is losing the debate over public policy…as evidenced in the election held last week.” (Uh, Tony, social issues represented only a small part of why voters turned out Democrats. The economy was the #1 issue.) He accused the left of wanting to shut down debate on gay marriage and then cited the number of states who have voted against it. Doocy mentioned how the FRC is accused of being anti-gay. (No shit, Sherlock!) Perkins then referenced the bogus “research” that his group puts out “that suggests that homosexual behavior is harmful to society and the individual….” Want a chuckle? Perkins claimed that his research is peer reviewed. The SPLC proves otherwise. To Doocy’s question of whether Perkins hates gays, Pekins – ready for it? – said “not at all” but his job is to “preserve the family” and that labels don’t bother him. Steve smiled as Perkins was speaking. Perkins said that this shows that the SPLC is a “very marginal group” and that they should retract their statement. Doocy said “right.” Agitprop chyron was straight of the “American Taliban” playbook: “FRC Fights Back: Smear Campaign by the SPLC.” Perkins said that he will produce information that “a lot of Americans stand with us and the free speech that they represent and the freedom of religion which, I think, they want to take away.”
The easiest way to tell when Tony Perkins is lying is when his mouth is open, basically. Or when he’s typing. I do think that his latest line about the “left losing the debate” on gay issues is hilarious, though, because it’s so desperately unhinged from reality.
Also, it is hilarious that he refers to the SPLC as a “marginal group.” If it was a marginal group, Tony Perkins and his compatriots in hate wouldn’t be crying like such babies right now.
Tony: saying it won’t make it so. Y’all have lost. Now we’re just waiting for the actuarial tables to catch up.
Get ready, NBC! Approximately four hundred elderly wingnuts are going to write copy/pasted form letters to the weathermen at various NBC affiliates around the country, demanding that they “cancel their Today Show subscriptions.”
Why? Jeremy caught this action alert from the American Family Association, who are currently losing their minds crying over the fact that The Today Show responded to concerns from Jeremy, GLAAD, and others about same-sex couples not being included in their upcoming wedding contest.
Jeremy already made the joke, but it bears repeating: AS IF these dingbats were watching The Today Show in the first place. Wingnuts watch Fox & Friends, because Doocy, the beauty queen who fakes her own stupidity, and the one who always looks like he just pooped his pants, are far more their intellectual speed.
