Back to OP. Goldberg is an idiot for saying this. What is the impulse that seems to drive erstwhile conservatives to form a circular firing squad? He called a grassroots group bigots for protesting the hring of Ellen DeGeneres as a spokesperson for Jc Penny. How many times have liberals tried and usually succeeded in getting prominent conservatives kicked off the air, fired, disciplined etc? Plenty. Even Fox caved and got rid of Glenn Beck. It's so bad that no company will even consider hirng a high profile conservative as a spokesperson. They are ok with hiring leftwing crazies like Alec Baldwin though. He is doing an ad every time I turn on the TV. Ellen DeGeneres is not just some random celebrity. She is a modestly talented performer who owes pretty much her entire career to being a professional lesbian. By hiring her, Penny's says tons about what they value and what they don't. It's all part of mainstreaming homosexuality as much as possible. If you think that's a bad thing and dare to open you rmouth, they don't even have to attack you. They can rely on backstabbers like Bernie Goldberg to do the job for them. Just to remind people, Goldberg got fired from network news, then wrote a book complaining that it was an exclusive club for liberals only. then he started going on fox and pointing out examples of liberal bias in the media. If he wants to equate discomfort with the gay agenda with bigotry, that is his right. it won't get him fired from Fox, but it is another reason not to watch loudmouth O'Reilly.
AAA, I often hear conservatives say this, "thats gays are trying to glorify or mainstream homosexuality". I think to their credit they are simply trying to get people to accept it. I don't see anything wrong with that nor do I see anything wrong with Ellen. Let me draw a comparison to Rosie O'Donnell who makes her lesbianism out to be the most critically important issue of our lives. I can respect how Ellen carries herself. Not so much Rosie. And the irony here AAA is, once homosexuality gets accepted, no one will talk about it anymore. The more you try to hide it under the covers and in the basement, the harder they are going to work to put it out there in front of you. In a way you are contributing to what they are doing. Just think about it.
Need to get past that 'gay agenda' type of thinking, and then maybe it wouldn't appear as an 'agenda' thing at all. People are gay, we've always had gay people. Dating back to pre-roman days there were gay marriages. I understand that it seems weird to some people when someone says 'we're husbands' or 'we're wives' and all that. But if you were to just say, well, ok, to each their own, makes it easier. Being gay is not a crime, simply a percentage of our population. As for JCP, as I said earlier, let the free market decide if this is a good idea. c
I like O'Reilly. I know, everyone here is surprised. But I don't care for the segments with Bernie Goldberg and Dennis Miller. I usually go look for something in the frig when they come on. Some of the liberals he brings on I just really don't even care to hear what they have to say on in the background and change the channel. At least he cut back on having Charlie Rangle on very much. I have zero respect for that crook.
I agree with this, Most people under the age of 30-40 have just come to accept gay people and really couldnt care less, its only the older people who are still really worried about them..... the only thing i cant stand is the PC nazis who try to excoriate anyone who cracks a joke about someone being a homo. I dont think there will ever be a day when guys arent making jokes about each other being gay, and anyone who talks about that as if these people are bigots is just an idiot. I have two good friends who are gay, one of them i played hockey with my whole life, and i still play a game of pickup hockey with him, or go golfing with him when i go back home to visit, no one we played hockey with has a problem with him, and he is right in there calling someone a fag right along with us, or making jokes that one of us is as gay as he is..... it doesnt really have the meaning that those in the media who are overly sensitive would like it to have, its just how guys talk. it reminds me of this episode of Southpark, when the kids in the school have to go to sensitivity training for calling each other fags.... the makers of Southpark are geniuses when it comes to making fun of liberals over shit like this...... <object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WZ5w-IwEHO8?version=3&feature=player_detailpage"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WZ5w-IwEHO8?version=3&feature=player_detailpage" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="360"></object>
Here is a perfect example of what im talking about..... though it is kind of a form of poetic justice, that a race hustler like Roland Martin is being taken to task, by his own group of overly sensitive liberal pussies. CNN's Roland Martin to meet with GLAAD after tweets February 9, 2012 | 2:45 pm CNN commentator Roland Martin, who was suspended by the network Wednesday after tweeting homophobic remarks during the Super Bowl, has agreed to meet with GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. On Sunday Martin tweeted: "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him!" In another Tweet, he wrote: "Who the hell was that New England Patriot they just showed in a head to toe pink suit? Oh, he needs a visit from #teamwhipdatass." After Martin's Tweets, GLAAD immediately responded by posting an online petition calling for his dismissal. On Monday, the advocacy group added a video to the petition of an African American man being brutally attacked while people shout anti-gay slurs at the victim. âFor some people, this is what âsmacking the ish out of themâ can look like,â GLAAD said. The petition had more than 7,500 signatures by Wednesday. In a statement released Wednesday, CNN called Martin's tweets "regrettable and offensive" and said that he would "not be appearing on our air for the time being." The network did not say how long Martin's suspension would last. Martin, who claims that he was bullied as a child, later apologized for his words and said that he does not advocate violence against gays. He then posted to his Twitter account that he would meet with GLAAD. "I look forward to meeting with GLAAD in the near future and having a productive dialogue," Martin tweeted. The group tweeted back, "We look forward to a productive dialogue and to working together as well.
377OHMS is picking on me! I want some special privileges!! I want access to his bank accounts via a political process.. somebody pass a law so I can have some of his money!! I had some fun turning the left's thinking against some leftist bitch. She is all for raising taxes on landlord's to fund all the socialist garbage in California, extorting me via the legal system iow. So I got in a dispute with her over something. When I referred to our written agreement she reverted to verbal ones, when I referred to verbal agreements she reverted to written ones. I just made up a number of how much she owed me, got an attorney and made trouble for her until she paid up. Same shit she does politically but in reverse.. Then I shut down a source of illegal income she had going just to put the icing on the cake... stupid pieces of shit think there's no blowback from their actions, WRONG
A major retailer decided to give a platform to a celebrity who is best known for being a lesbian. A parents' group organized a protest. For that, they were libelled as bigots , on fox News no less. I have a problem with people who want to throw around terms like "bigot" when people are thinking about role models for their children, etc. Don't these parents have a right to say to a retailer, "We don't approve of this. We'll take our business elsewhere." Why is that bigotry? Every major religion teaches that homosexual conduct is a serious sin. Don't people who take their religion seriously have just as much right to be offended as homosexuals? By Golderg's logic, these parents could say Penny's is bigoted against religion, which is probably fairly close to the truth. As a business, you have a choice. You can self-identify with various groups and risk offending your customers or you can try to appeal tpo the broadest possible segment of customers. To me, it looks like JCP is taking the former route. Maybe it works for them as well as it did for TGT.