Rick Santorum gave an interview to Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, who is shaping up to be quite an advocate (in weak Faux News terms) for the gay community. In that interview, he addressed the booing of openly gay soldier Stephen Hill, condemning the act and the people that did it:
I condemn the people who booed that gay soldier. That soldier is serving our country. I thank him for his service to our country. I'm sure he is doing an excellent job. I hope he is safe. I hope he returns safely, and does his mission well. I have to admit I seriously did not hear those boos. Had I heard them, I certainly would have commented on them.
I kind of think his condemnation is a bit contradictory to the issues he stands for. If that soldier is doing an excellent job and is worth thanking for his service, why should he not be allowed to serve? Isn't the act of coming out, according to Santorum, in of itself destructive to the military mission? This only serves to illustrate the fallacies of his argument.
What the fuck ever, dude. Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum had the balls to attack Iran on its gay rights record at the Ames GOP candidate debate. That's right, the man who compared gay nuptials to paper towels and homolove to man-on-dog sex had the nerve to say that Iran oppresses the gays.
Just. Just shut up. Shut up for good.
And Igor Volsky at ThinkProgress put together a video highlighting all the anti-gay bibble babble in the debate:
Ol' Crazy Eyes went on Faux News today in a call-in interview, placing the blame for the S&P credit downgrade squarely on the President's shoulders:
Of course, she is blithely ignoring the actual statement from Standard and Poors, which cites our inability to generate revenue due to the intractability of the Republicans in office on fiscal issues. Essentially, we are unable to settle our debt because the GOP refuses to allow revenue-raising taxes to be imposed:
"We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act."
The downgrade of our credit rating is a complicated and important issue, but the heart of the matter remains that our reputation and fiscal solvency is being driven into the dirt in order to protect the richest 10% of Americans from paying their taxes. This is disgusting.
Yesterday the President celebrated his 50th birthday, marking the occasion with a private party attended by a host of celebrities such as Stevie Wonder, Chris Rock, Charles Barkeley, Jay-Z, Tom Hanks, and Rita Wilson. Fox Nation reported on the event, slamming the President for taking a couple hours out of his schedule to celebrate the big 5-0.
Right. Neither does the cookie I ate this morning. Neither does this freaking blog. Neither does Fox Fucking Nation. There's lots of shit that doesn't create jobs.
They might as well have made the headline "A Bunch Of Rich Black People Got Together And That Scares Us."
News Corp., the troubled Murdoch company being creamed over a phone-hacking scandal, is the owner of possibly the world's worst news service, Fox News. Faux News is the daily go-to for Tea Party whackjobs and religious extremist bigots, so you would think their business model has no room for same-sex nuptials.
Maybe they're cottoning to the fact that the majority of Americans now support marriage equality, but for whatever reason, News Corp. is now putting out a "bridal" magazine for queer couples called Wedding Pride.
Of course, News Corp. has a long history of opposing marriage equality:
"While the New York Post, the conservative tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, opposed gay marriage in an editorial and gave scant coverage to the June 24 state Senate vote that enacted that law, a second News Corporation unit in New York City is selling pricey ad space in the inaugural issue of 'Wedding Pride: The Magazine for Gay and Lesbian Wedding Planning.'
"In a June 14 editorial, the Post said 'There is no denying that same-sex marriage could become law this year. This reflects a seismic shift in society's attitudes on the issue and a growing acceptance of gays in general. Still, the question is vexing. But if we had a vote, it would be no. Marriage as an institution has fallen on hard times in recent years. But that's no excuse for weakening it further.'"
While I now identify my ethnicity as "bridezilla," this is definitely one mag I won't be perusing. I would prefer that these money grubbers not turn around and use my "pink dollar" to fund an insane news outlet that gives a free platform to assholes like Pat Buchanan and Bryan Fischer.
Monday was the beginning of Ramadan, and Barack Obama recognized Muslim Americans with a simple statement as follows:
"Times like this remind us of the lesson of all great faiths, including Islam — that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. In that spirit, I wish Muslims around the world a blessed month, and I look forward to again hosting an iftar dinner here at the White House. Ramadan Kareem."
This, of course, is in continuing with traditions begun with the last President, George W. Bush, who notably held iftar dinners all eight years of his presidency (iftar being the meal breaking the Ramadan fast). This didn't stop the asshats over on Fox News from once again raising questions about the President's religious background, to include Barry O's supposed War on Easter. From ThinkProgress:
CARLSON: Some people said that they might have an issue with the fact that he didn’t issue a proclamation for Easter. So some people are saying is this an outreach to the Muslim world and why isn’t there an outreach to the Christian world.”
DOOCY: Of course the White House does historically have White House Easter Egg Roll, but they didn’t issue a proclamation they did for Ramadan just now…I think he did mention briefly in his weekend address that weekend Easter — in passing — but still, nothing big. It is Christianity’s holiest, most sacred holiday.
JOHNSON: I think the coming Easter you’ll see a statement coming out of the White House.
DOOCY: Oh during the election year?
JOHNSON: Clearly, it was a terrible terrible error.
So was it a terrible, terrible error when George W. didn't issue a proclamation on Easter? Or H.W. Bush? Or Ronald Reagan?
Dudes, nobody has ever issued a proclamation on Easter. Why? Because the President already reaches out to Christians-- in the White House Easter Egg Roll, in the annual Christmas Address, in the Presidential Christmas tree, and in the Easter prayer breakfast. What you're asking for isn't to reach out to Christians, but to place Christianity in a place of primacy in our President's actions. That's not only inappropriate, it violates the already tenuous grasp our nation has on the separation of church and state.
Faux News was the victim of a hacker attack this weekend, with their ticker text changed to criticize the network's anti-union efforts.
Fox, of course, deny the incident took place. Naturally, we all believe them. Right?
UPDATED: Editing genius and DJ Naite Heal (who also created the popular flaming fists of fury graphic) analyzed the video in his studio and has declared it a fake.
"It's awesome, the statement they made, but it is a fake. We analyzed it in the studio today. Really good tracking, but not real."
According to close sources, Fox News President Roger Ailes appears to be a full-time Palin hater, as reported by New York Magazine.
"Roger is worried about the future of the country. He thinks the election of Obama is a disaster. He thinks Palin is an idiot. He thinks she’s stupid. He helped boost her up. People like Sarah Palin haven’t elevated the conservative movement."
Evidently a lot of Ailes' frustration stems from Palin's handling of the Gifford shooting. During a time when she might waited to respond to allegations that her gunsight infographic encouraged the shooter to attempt to assassinate political candidates, she instead mouthed off, calling the criticism "blood libel."
Of course, Fox News has now come out in the press saying that Roger just loves Mama Bear:
"'I know for a fact that Roger Ailes admires and respects Sarah Palin and thinks she is smart,' Fox News Channel executive vice president of programming Bill Shine told the New York Times. 'He also believes many members of the left-wing media are extremely terrified and threatened by her.'"
If by terrified and threatened he means "scared she's going to tell her fans to kill us," maybe this isn't the load of malarkey that I thought it was.
Also, I think it's probably a death knell for someone's political career when Fox News execs have to give interviews saying "Oh no! I swear I don't think she's dumb. She's really smart! Really! I really think that!"
Completely ignoring the actual message of last night's episode of Glee, Bryan Fischer (one of my favorite assholes) went on Fox News and decried the episode as evidence of the indoctrination of our children.
The episode was written around Lady Gaga's hit song, "Born This Way," and taught the Gleeks that they were awesome no matter how they were born. Whether they could sing or not, were gay or straight, or even if they have a huge Jew nose, they owned who they were and felt better about themselves for it. Naturally, this was a sneaky conspiracy on the part of dirty AIDSy gays handing out heroin syringes!
"Keith: Bryan, what do you think of the homosexuality storylines that we’re having in more shows now?
"Fischer: Well I’m deeply concerned bout this because what these television programs are doing is glamorizing homosexual behavior, glamorizing homosexual conduct. This is conduct that carries enormous psychological and physical risks to those who engage in it. It’s just not a lifestyle, it’s not behavior that ought to be glamorized or presented in a way that makes it idealistic.
"Keith: And we all know about product placement. You throw a soda in a movie and within a few seconds later everyone in the theater is thirsty for that particular brand. Ray, what do you have to say to the people who say that this is propaganda, that this isn’t just storylines but the people have an agenda."
You're right, Keith! We do have an agenda. Our agenda is that you stop comparing our youth to AIDS-ridden IV drug users.
I was simply appalled to learn that Fox News managing editor Bill Sammon admitted that he spread lies about Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election.
"Speaking in 2009 onboard a pricey Mediterranean cruise sponsored by a right-wing college, Fox Washington managing editor Bill Sammon described his attempts the previous year to link Obama to 'socialism' as 'mischievous speculation.' Sammon, who is also a Fox News vice president, acknowledged that 'privately' he had believed that the socialism allegation was 'rather far-fetched.'"
I guess to some "fair and balanced" means "balancing my private beliefs with crocks of shit I like to fling at the American people."
