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Title: AFA boycott, 'gay' bot draws corporate yawns
Post by: Shana A on July 11, 2008, 08:16:02 PM
Post by: Shana A on July 11, 2008, 08:16:02 PM
AFA boycott, 'gay' bot draws corporate yawns
Mark Morford
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/10/DDPG11MIS6.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/10/DDPG11MIS6.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment)
Hey, remember the angry evangelicals? The quivering clan of militant Christoholics who propelled Bush into office and seized the national narrative for a few terrifying moments about five years back, ran deep into the woods with it and rubbed it all over their naughty bits in a frenzy of fear and confusion and lust for all things homophobic and saccharine and spiritually denigrating?
Dying. Nearly dead. Gasping their last. Very soon, a footnote, a caricature, a gag, a punch line, blasted to the dustbin of history like dried housefly limbs after a sneeze.
Mark Morford
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/10/DDPG11MIS6.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/10/DDPG11MIS6.DTL&feed=rss.entertainment)
Hey, remember the angry evangelicals? The quivering clan of militant Christoholics who propelled Bush into office and seized the national narrative for a few terrifying moments about five years back, ran deep into the woods with it and rubbed it all over their naughty bits in a frenzy of fear and confusion and lust for all things homophobic and saccharine and spiritually denigrating?
Dying. Nearly dead. Gasping their last. Very soon, a footnote, a caricature, a gag, a punch line, blasted to the dustbin of history like dried housefly limbs after a sneeze.
Title: Re: AFA boycott, 'gay' bot draws corporate yawns
Post by: NicholeW. on July 11, 2008, 08:29:36 PM
Post by: NicholeW. on July 11, 2008, 08:29:36 PM
This was simply too good!! Why'd I wait so long to read it. Mark Morford is truly an ironist par excellence. tekla's not actually Mark Morford!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Are they?
QuoteThe AFA's Web site apparently has (or rather, had, until just recently) an auto filter installed. So utterly terrified of anything remotely gay are these kindly folk that whenever the word "gay" appeared in any news story on their site, their autobot automatically changed it to "homosexual." True.
Thus did it come to pass that many fine stories about American Olympic track and fieldster Tyson Gay become a whole lotta wacky stories about the epic struggles of some unlucky runner named Tyson Homosexual to post some good numbers in the 100-meter dash. Poor guy.
And that about does it. Your final proof that God laughs and snorts and doesn't give a flying McRib sandwich about any particular gaggle of humans, particularly those who profess that they know and love and worship him more violently and blindly than anyone else.
Somewhere in all this, a moral, a lesson. Perhaps a curious anecdote about how, in this country, it seems like every agenda, every stupid idea, every rancid fireball of ignorant religious fanaticism nevertheless gets its moment, its 15 minutes, its desperate shot at guiding the culture, just to see if it can, if there's something of value, if there's something to be learned.
And when it comes to the sad Christian nutballs, well, the lesson appears to be wildly obvious indeed: Avoid the sad Christian nutballs, now and forevermore. Hell, even God could've told you that.
Title: Re: AFA boycott, 'gay' bot draws corporate yawns
Post by: Shana A on July 11, 2008, 09:01:07 PM
Post by: Shana A on July 11, 2008, 09:01:07 PM
Quote from: Nichole on July 11, 2008, 08:29:36 PM
This was simply too good!! Why'd I wait so long to read it. Mark Morford is truly an ironist par excellence. tekla's not actually Mark Morford!! :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Are they?
Hmmmm, good point Nichole, we haven't ever seen them in the same place :laugh:
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