The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
Whenever Faux News wants to lob a race bomb out there, Jesse Lee Peterson is happy to oblige and provide cover. Sean Hannity, who sits on the advisory board of Peterson's Brothers of a New Destiny (BOND) welcomes him to play pathologically self-loathing House Negro on the air. (NewsHounds, video via Media Matters):
As soon as Peterson had a chance to speak, he launched his racial attack against Obama: "I think we all agree that Barack Obama was elected by, mostly by black racists and white guilty people. Most black Americans, 96 percent of them, are racists who (unintelligible) white Americans. And white folks feel guilty and they are afraid of being called racists," Peterson said.
This was too much even for Hannity, who usually tacitly approves Peterson's bigoted rants. This time, Hannity said, "Do you really believe 96% of black America is racist? You don't believe that."
"Yes, sir," Peterson answered.
"No, you don't believe that," Hannity repeated.
OK, so maybe Hannity thinks Peterson believes only 90% of blacks are racist. Because that is exactly the kind of thing that Peterson has been saying for years on Hannity & Colmes, without a peep of objection from Hannity.
Peterson's "colorful" history saying stupid sh*t like this in the MSM goes way back. Some highlights:
"If whites were to just leave the United States and let blacks run the country, they would turn America into a ghetto within 10 years. The audience, shall we say, disagreed with me strongly. Now I have to disagree with me. I gave blacks too much credit. It took a mere three days for blacks to turn the Superdome and the convention center into ghettos, rampant with theft, rape and murder."
-- his 9/21/2005 WND column, "Moral poverty cost blacks in New Orleans"
"If black folks want to blame someone for this tragedy they only need to look in the mirror."
-- More Peterson "it's the poor darkies' fault" for Katrina tragedy, in The Washington Times.
"Most blacks, not all but most in Tennessee, especially in the Memphis, Tennessee area, are still living in the 50's and 60's. They are so racist that they don't even realize that white Americans have moved on. And so whenever there's a campaign like this, such as this, they always use racism in order to intimidate white America."
-- Jesse's analysis of the congressional primary between Nikki Tinker, a black woman who used bigoted tactics, and incumbent, Steve Cohen. Cohen swept all demos with a landslide 80% of the vote.
And Rev. Peterson's versatile - check out his views about women and gays:
"Most women themselves don't understand why they provoke and agitate their spouse to lash out or run away. They don't understand the subtle control they have over weak men....In a relationship the man often has an unnatural need for his wife or girlfriend. He's addicted to her approval and to her sex. The woman senses this wrong need the man has and she begins to test him. Often times, men find themselves giving in more and more in order to a receive her favor. Sometimes the demands of the woman become unbearable to the point that the man may lash out -- I'm not saying this is right, but this is the reality. "
-- Peterson on man-woman relations in his WND column, "Why fathers leave"
"The so-called 'Hate Crimes' bill is an attempt to take away the rights of Christians to speak out and express their freedom of speech. This is unjust and Americans deserve better than this from their elected officials."
-- the wisdom of Peterson in WND article opposing hate crimes legislation.
I'm sure this is just the beginning of FoxNews doing "slip ups" like this during the Obama administration. Take a look at this allegedly moderated crawl, as Fox allowed viewers to send in New Year's greetings via text.
"HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C."
So familiar, huh? Remember during the Foley scandal when Fox "mistakenly" put a (D) next to his name? A flashback:
How many "mistakes" are they going to have at the fair and balanced newschannel? In today's Gonzales hearing, Republican Arlen Specter slammed the attorney general for his continual lies and deceptions. Apparently in the control room at Fox, if a Republican makes the wingnuts look bad, a "D" is inserted.
You might recall the last time the network made this "mistake," it was when they labeled GOPerv Mark Foley "(D)". I guess this is Fox's way of tossing McCain under the bus.
Other signs of the feeble, weakening McCain campaign are below the fold.
Update: Donna Rose got on the air with Rover during his morning show, and she has posts up on her conversation here and here. Read freeper style comments by Rover listeners here.
Update 2: Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett has apologized, much as Ian Drew did previously. Read about it at GLAAD.
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As I'm writing this piece early August 15th, there are two stories of really dehumanizing comments by large, corporate media outlets towards trans people in the news. The more recent of the stories is from August 14th on the Fox News Channel, in which Fox aired a crude and obnoxious segment concerning the recent announcement of America's Next Top Model: there's going to be a transgender contestant on the show. The earlier piece is from August 13th, in which a syndicated Clear Channel Communication morning radio show referred to the recently murdered transgender teen Angie Zapata as a "man," a "he," a "he/she," a "thing," and an "it."
Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett and Us Weekly Editor-at-Large Ian Drew spent the segment gratuitously insulting the America's Next Top Model contestant, using dehumanizing terminology, inaccurate and inappropriate pronouns and offensive references to her anatomy.
While laughing and joking, Jarrett mocked Isis' description of herself as a woman whose "cards were dealt differently," and said, "That's an understatement!" Drew referred to recent instances of transgender visibility on reality television as "The Crying Game '08," going on to call the show "America's Next Top Tranny." Drew then said that she doesn't look any different from other contestants because "they are not exactly the most high-class group of women." Throughout the segment, Jarrett switched back and forth between male and female pronouns, and both Jarrett and Drew suggested that Isis "fooled" people by "blending in." They went on to make crude remarks about her genitalia and the pitch of her voice.
Here's the segment:
[Below the fold: Fox News Channel Contact Info ; "Rover's Morning Glory" uses defamatory language to refer to hate crime murder victim Angie Zapata.]
I guess the talking heads on Fox just get right to the point -- the GOP is bankrupt of any ideas or actual accomplishments to run on in 2008, so the flagging McSame campaign better drag out the tired homo straw man, according to Right Said Fred Barnes on Faux News Sunday:
BARNES: In particular, gays in the military for one. We know Barack Obama is for allowing gays in the military, and Bill Clinton tried to do, but backed off. This is not a popular issue. Gay marriage is another one. These are both issues that I think McCain's going to have to use. You can't ignore the right. If he does, he'll lose.
As Think Progress notes, he isn't even right about the public's view of Don't Ask, Don't Tell; a 2007 CNN poll found that 79% of Americans think out gay and lesbians should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military, with only 18% opposing.
Barnes isn't even right if you look at polls of service members. A 2006 Zogby poll found 73% percent of U.S. military members would accept openly gay and lesbian service members being in their units.
Perhaps some of the Log Cabin Republicans can share their thoughts with Barnes about this advice to McCain.
Via Think Progress, this is the kind of bullsh*t being fed to the sheeple watching Fox News. Neo-con Bill Kristol shares a peek inside his crystal ball to clue viewers in on not only who McSame is going to pick for VP, but that this person's selection will somehow miraculously lower prices at the pump. Bonus points for the breathless anchorette's introduction of Kristol:
KRISTOL: First, I think she would help him get elected, which would be a good thing if you want gas prices to come down. Then she'll persuade him that we have to drill in ANWR and have an aggressive drilling program across the board.
Kristol, floated that out there with no evidence or data to support his conclusion other than the smoke blowing out of his posterior. Think Progress noted:
One major flaw in Kristol and Fox's claim that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve would lower prices immediately is the fact that it would take 10 years for the oil to hit the market, and even then, the reserve is estimated to have only enough oil to satisfy six months demand.
In other short-list VP news on the McSame front, Louisiana Governor Bobby "Exorcist" Jindal continues to try to completely derail his chances by uttering something beyond absurd. It's below the fold.
Good lord. This news is confirmation that the Beltway consultant class is just a bunch of rent boys, they hop from one campaign or media bed to another with their swill. Actually, that's a major insult to the hard-working rent boys and gals everywhere, my apologies. Howard Kurtz:
Fox News's newest contributor, to be announced today, may surprise the liberal crowd: former Clinton White House lawyer Lanny Davis.
"Fox has always treated me with respect and given me a chance to express my point of view," Davis says of the network that the Democratic candidates refused to grant a debate out of concern that it favors Republicans. He will be a frequent guest, along with such Fox stalwarts as Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich.
A relentless surrogate for Hillary Clinton, Davis says, he felt "ganged up on" during appearances on the other cable channels. He says that Clinton was "demonized" by MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann, and that CNN's primary-night panels were tilted toward the Obama side.
Fox News' America's Pulse host E.D. Hill must have gotten an associate-Obama-with-terrorism-at-all-costs memo from upstairs, as she desperately tried to interpret the "fist bump" between Michelle and Barack Obama in a unique segment featuring a "body language expert."
Now I don't know why the fist bump is worth dissecting, but if it's some sort of secret signal to fellow terrorists, then I guess my governor, Mike "Pansy" Easley (who received one yesterday when Obama swung through Raleigh), should be on some sort of watchlist:
During a segment on Fox News' Studio B with Shepard Smith today, Fox's chief political correspondent, Carl Cameron spoke in hushed tones while reporting from an event by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in Thomasville, AL. Reacting to Cameron's muted speech, Smith quipped, "Carl Cameron in full pornstar voice today as he is in a crowd."
Smith once chatted me up in a New York City gay piano bar, bought me drinks, and invited me back to his place. When I declined, he asked me to dinner the next night, another invitation I politely refused.
We sat at the bar chatting and drinking martinis until 3 a.m., our conversation interrupted only when he paused to belt out the lyrics to whatever showtune was being performed.
We all know Fox is a GOP propaganda organ rather than a news network, but they really have jumped the shark spending precious air time pondering the "ethnic" significance of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's beard. Yes, this is the best they can do when discussing the impact of the former Clinton cabinet member's endorsement of Barack Obama. (Media Matters):
When I saw Richardson's beard for the first time, what came into my mind is that he looks great with it, not whether he looked Hispanic enough. It certainly is more becoming than Al Gore's post-2000 facial fur.
I guess these Faux folks are so coloraroused that their implicit biases just take over.
Watch this surprising light of truth out of the mouth of Fox News Sunday host's mouth as he holds the biased bigots at Fox and Friends accountable for selected editing of Barack Obama's speech on race.
They look like a bunch of morons and they start whining and stammering uncontrollably as Wallace schools them with a nice big paddle on the fanny.
I'm a disabled, Persian Gulf War Veteran, with a Veterans Administration disability rating of 100%. My disabilities are service connected. I served 20-years in the U.S. Navy, from 1980-2000, and received an honorable discharge.
Watch the video below, and you'll understand why I'm so very, very offended by the comments of Laura Ingraham of Fox News.
To Laura Ingraham I say:
Did I not serve in the military for 20-years? Would you not shake my hand and thank me for my 20-years of service to yours and my country? Would you welcome me as a veteran in your home town, even if I came as the transgender veteran I am to your town?
Frankly Laura Ingraham, do you really believe that transgender Americans -- especially transgender veterans -- don't love their country as much or more than you?
Laura Ingraham owes transgender people in general an apology for her implied presumption that we hate the military, and we hate our country. And, transgender veterans in specific a public apology for assuming we would never serve our country -- I know I'm not the only transgender veteran who would want to meet Laura Ingram in person and ask her if our past service in the U.S. Military services is less valuable now because we are out as transgender vets.
And Laura, you owe me, a disabled, transgender veteran who is on the planning committee for that transgender conference in Berkley, a personal apology for implying in your interview that I'm not patriotic. I served for 20-years in the U.S. Navy -- Exactly how many years of military service did you put in, Laura?
I know this -- I wouldn't welcome Laura Ingraham to my hometown of San Diego. It's because I find her bigoted and incredibly small-minded.
Well at least he had sense to cash in at the right network. I won't have to worry about seeing him since I never turn to that pathetic propaganda channel.
Karl Rove, the strategist behind President George W. Bush's ascendancy to the White House, will join Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel as a contributor starting with Super Tuesday, the network said.
Rove was chief strategist for Bush's 2000 presidential campaign and joined him in the White House in several capacities, including deputy chief of staff. He left the White House in August.
GIBSON: Now it's time for "My Word." I have received comments regarding remarks I made on my radio show the other night after the shocking death of Heath Ledger. I'm sorry that some took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive. I'm aware that Ledger has a family and many fans who were grief-stricken by his sudden death.
As I speak, a crowd is gathering at the funeral home where Ledger's funeral services will be held. Those who knew him say he was a good actor and a loving dad. And what happened to him was terrible, but was evidently an accident. Once again, to anyone offended by my comments, I'm sorry. But I'm also sorry that Heath Ledger is no longer alive and with us.
Remember, on his radio show there was little doubt that anyone with a sense of decency would find humor in this commentary about an actor who had nothing to do with any political agenda, but was had simply played a role that made Gibson squirm.
Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, "I wish I knew how to quit you" from Ledger's gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, "Well, he found out how to quit you." Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger said, "We're dead," followed by his own, mocking "We're dead" before playing the clip again.
On his radio show he also took the old "I was misunderstood by the oversensitive homos." I guess this is about as good as you're going to get from the bigoted Gibson:
GIBSON: I have received emails regarding some comments I made on this radio show the other night after the shocking death of Heath Ledger. I'm sorry that some gay groups and others took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive. I'm aware that Ledger has a family and many fans who were grief-stricken by his sudden death.
John Gibson is a sick, sick man. (Think Progress, which has audio):
Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson callously mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a "weirdo" with a "serious drug problem."
Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, "I wish I knew how to quit you" from Ledger's gay romance movie Brokeback Mountain, Gibson disdainfully quipped, "Well, he found out how to quit you." Laughing, Gibson then played another clip from Brokeback Mountain in which Ledger said, "We're dead," followed by his own, mocking "We're dead" before playing the clip again.
It's apparently great fun to mock the 28-year-old actor's death simply because he played gay in Brokeback Mountain, a film that made John Gibson terribly uncomfortable, as he recounted in 2006's "Most People Don't Want to See Two Guys Get It On":
I'm sure it will be a critical hit. Hollywood may in fact want to give every Oscar it can find to the first gay cowboy movie.
But I just think most people do not want to go into a darkened room with a tub of popcorn and munch away watching two guys get it on.
I just don't.
I had one prominent writer say he wouldn't come on my radio show because I made hate encouraging speech when I said I couldn't figure out which was going to be harder to watch: the guys smooching in "Brokeback" or Bob Baer getting his fingernails ripped out in "Syriana."
I said, "Hey, I know people who are gay and I have nothing against them, but I don't want to see this movie."
... I still think it's a gay agenda movie and as such it might sweep the Oscars.
You can contact FOX News (probably in vain) to tell them Gibson has gone way over the line.
I went to U.S. Vets in Inglewood, California. US Vets is the largest non-profit organization in the US dedicated to helping homeless and at-risk veterans with temporary housing, counseling, and employment assistance. The facility currently houses up to 500 homeless veterans.
I talked to over a dozen homeless vets, some who had served as far back as the Korean War, and showed them the clips of BOR denying or dismissing their existence. The reactions to the clips were quite similar - a shaking of the head in disbelief, a derisive chuckle or snort, and a deep sigh when the videos were over. Some of the veterans couldn't believe that anyone could be so clueless and naïve, while others wondered why BOR hadn't bothered to do any research before making such a dubious claim. Twice.
Considering how the Bush Administration has treated men and women serving while on his watch, added to all the Vietnam-era vets down on their luck, many with untreated PTSD and mental health issues, the number isn't surprising. Billo's on-air denial is wishful thinking on his part; it's politically inconvenient.
Brave New Films takes on Faux News again in its Fox Attacks series ("They Distort. We Reply"). Its new video is Fox Attacks Bloggers. You will not believe what comes out of O'Reilly's mouth. Well, ok. You can imagine.
Faux seeks to frighten its viewers (who are disproportionately elderly and, most likely, not tech savvy) into thinking that progressive bloggers and netroots activist sites like MoveOn are nothing more than havens for extremists, hatemongerers, liars, and genocidal maniacs.
You can sign up to become a Fox Attacker, helping to build a database of Fox advertisers so that the network can be hit where it hurts for its constant disinformation campaigns.
Bill O'Lielly on the June 21 edition of The Factor had a segment called "Violent Lesbian Gangs a Growing Problem" on. It was a report by Faux News Crime Analyst Rod Wheeler describing an alleged underground national network of lesbians carrying pink pistols and attacking random men and preying on teen girls.
Wheeler, a Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department officer-turned-paid Fox News commentator, launched right in: "Well, you know, there is this national underground network, if you will, Bill, of women that's lesbians and also some men groups that's actually recruiting kids as young as 10 years old in a lot of the schools in the communities all across the country," he reported. "And they actually carry a number of weapons. And they commit a number of crimes."
Wheeler asserted that "we've actually counted, just in the Washington D.C. area alone, that's Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, well over 150 of these crews. ? And they -- like I said, they recruit these kids to be members of these gangs."
O'Reilly asked, "Now, when they recruit the kids, are they indoctrinating them into homosexuality?"
"Yes," Wheeler answered. "As a matter of fact, some of the kids have actually reported that they were forced into, you know, performing sex acts and doing sex acts with some of these people."
...Flabbergasted by the sheer depravity of it all, O'Reilly nevertheless forged ahead. "I never thought of this," said the host of the "no-spin zone." "It makes sense that, if you had lawless gay people, they would do this kind of thing. You associate homosexuality more with a social movement, not a criminal movement. But you're saying this is all over the country, detective?"
"It's all over the country," Wheeler replied. "I mean, you go from New York to California to wherever you want to name, you can see these organizations."
SPLC also notes that Wheeler has a problem with gays; he didn't disclose on the air that he's part of the flock at the Jericho City of Praise in Landover, Maryland a conservative megachurch that rails against LGBT rights., a conservative Christian megachurch in Landover, Md., whose leadership publicly advocates against equal rights for gays and lesbians. He's a fixture on Faux News talking head shows, according to his web site.
Crossposted at the lovely new Radical Writ, eagerly awaiting interested Blenders to bask in its radically progressive glory...
You may have heard that the FAUX News Channel was going to be sponsoring a 2008 Democratic Presidential Debate. Many progressives recoiled in horror at the idea of our champions appearing on the right-wing's media mouthpiece, but I, for one, was looking forward to it. I figure it's part of the 50-State Strategy Governor Dean used to help us win the last election. There are some places in America where the dial is always and only turned to FAUX News. The only chance some of these Dems would be heard by some folks in flyover country is if they were speaking live on FAUX.
Progressives told me I was wrong, that FAUX would have its before and after debate five-head neo-con panel disseminating GOP talking points and distorting what was just said in the debate, that FAUX would use misleading chirons to spin the Dem message, and that merely by appearing on FAUX the Dems legitimize its message. John Edwards dropped out of the debate early, Bill Richardson was next. I began to rethink the issue. Maybe I'm wrong on this one, maybe it's wrong to have a Dem debate on FAUX.
Now, it's all apparently a moot point. The Democratic Party has officially canceled the debate, thanks to one of the few times FAUX News Chairman Roger Ailes used his mouth for something other than eating. Ailes did his best Dennis Miller impersonation and told a bunch of unfunny right-wing jokes, which the Dems are now using as cover to cancel the debate, rather than admit they F'ed up in the first place and that the pressure from truly radical progressives and MoveOn was too much to bear.
Well at least he had sense to cash in 
GIBSON: Now it's time for "My Word." I have received comments regarding remarks I made on my radio show the other night after the shocking death of Heath Ledger. I'm sorry that some took my comments as anti-gay and insensitive. I'm aware that Ledger has a family and many fans who were grief-stricken by his sudden death.
Take a look at this video from 
