December 15th 2008
Sloppy AP Reporting Targets Gays For Church Fire
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et’s put the shoe – OMG! What a cute, cute shoe! – on the other foot, shall we? If Rev. Wright’s church was burned in a probable arson and AP arbitrarily jammed in a paragraph about some conference held there that was particularly irritating to white conservatives, implying we were the fire-setters, wouldn’t we holler?
So there’s no reason to be surprised when the gay community took offense at this passage in the AP coverage of the disastrous fire at Sarah Palin’s former church in Wasilla:
The 1,000-member evangelical church was the subject of intense scrutiny after Palin was named John McCain’s running mate. Early in Palin’s campaign, the church was criticized for promoting in a Sunday bulletin a Focus on the Family “Love Won Out Conference” in Anchorage. The conference promised to “help men and women dissatisfied with living homosexually understand that same-sex attractions can be overcome.”
Why indeed should AP tag gays, lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals, bisexuals, trisexuals, gender-confused, queens, trixes and any others I apologize to for leaving out for the fire? It’s just as likely to have been a riled up abortion hawk, a violent pacifist, a coven of witches, a wardrobe-jealous recessionista, William Ayres or any number of people far more off the deep end than your run-of-the-mill gay.
Heck, maybe Karl Rove set it just to get people mad at the far left kooks – did you think about that, AP?
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December 15th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Laer, you got any movies that have been out in the last year or so that you could recommend to me?
December 16th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Or maybe it was Fred Phelps…you know he gets pissed when people try to help fags…because obviously just like God, you hate them too.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:52 am
How exactly did you get that from anything I wrote, James? Are you perhaps a straightophobe?
December 16th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Ymarsakar:
We spent a lot of our movie time this year watching old series on DVD – Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, The Wire, Dexter, Rome. All were exceptionally good, particularly the latter four. We didn’t see too many movies, but did see three worth noting:
Burn After Reading, one of the best Coen Bros. movies ever, and that’s saying a lot.
Expelled. I didn’t see it, but Incredible Wife did and was very impressed.
Where in the World is Osama bin Laden, made by the same guy who made Supersize Me. He visits Egypt, Israel, Gaza, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan and talks to a mix of Muslims, some quite pacifying, others quite terrifying.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Thanks for the pics, I’ll check em out.
Have you checked out Legend of the Galactic Heroes yet? I don’t even know if you can get those any more from stores, online or otherwise, except by downloading the fan subs.
December 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I watched Expelled. It was pretty good, although I knew the bare bones foundation for ID from Phileosophos. Ben Stein gave an interesting narration of the subject as well as some of his own personal voyages as he framed it.
Btw, Laer, you do realize that 500 years from now, doctorate thesis will be written and published concerning how bloggers of the early 21st century used little nicknames like “Incredible Wife”, “Instadaughter”, and “Little Bookworms”, right?