GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
#1GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 8:10am
Not to be outdone by previous GOP debate audiences, last night's audience booed a video of a gay soldier asking how/if the candidates would reverse the repeal of DADT. The audience then wildly cheered Rick Santorum's nonsensical response.
Mr. Savage? Paging Mr. Savage.
Santorum
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
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Updated On: 9/23/11 at 08:10 AM
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#2GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 9:00amI'd be happy for those that booed and/or cheered to take the place of the soldier serving in Iraq.
broadwayjim42
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#2GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 9:11am
Between this and the 14-year-old committing suicide, my faith in humanity, if I had any left to start with, is hanging by a very tenuous thread.
People have a right to their opinions, but to express that hatred so vocally and publicly is nauseating.
#3GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 9:45amSo are we getting closer to garden-variety, private-citizen Republicans admitting that they're just what we've thought they were all along?
#4GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 9:53amTo be fair, which goes against my nature, I'm not sure I'm ready to classify GOP debate audiences as garden-variety Republicans. This was a Fox 'News' sponsored debate, moderated by the always fair & balanced Megyn Kelly.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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#5GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 9:58am
Is anyone surprised by this and other GOP debate audience behaviors?
Appalled, yes, but surprised? Alas, no.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
#6GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 9:58am
There are so many things wrong with his response I have to wonder if he even understands what the purpose of DADT was and why it was reversed.
Also, he might want to be a little more current in his information. Like for example being aware of the reports that were issued this week concluding that thus far the repeal has had no negative impact whatsoever.
....but the world goes 'round
#7GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 10:21am
Fair enough, Madbrian. My point was just that this wasn't a Tea party rally, and the booers weren't crackpot candidates trying to stir up trouble.
I do think it's time for garden-variety Republicans who aren't bigots to get louder than those who are.
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#8GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 10:24amWhat an insane, ridiculous show this has all been. I wish it'd have the decency to close.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 11:15am
"I do think it's time for garden-variety Republicans who aren't bigots to get louder than those who are."
Alas, that's rather like hoping that garden-variety Klan members who aren't racists will get louder than those who are.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
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#10GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 11:19am^ Where's the "like" button when you want it?
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#11GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 11:29amI love this notion that before gays could serve openly, all members of the military were sexless human beings.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
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#12GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 11:53amExactly. I've read several comments this morning saying "it's a private matter." If only. I'm happy to closet myself and not "broadcast" my sexuality as soon as the world's heterosexual populace takes the lead.
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#13GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 12:10pmI hate when people accidentally blurt out their fantasies. "Gay people having sex all the time everywhere and they're in uniform! I mean, that's bad!"
#14GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 12:16pmPhyl, you keep forgetting that being straight--just like being white--is neutral.
#15GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 12:23pm
Not to mention that, collectively, the group on stage called to get rid of:
All income taxes (Bachmann)
The EPA (Cain)
All public unions (Santorum)
Unemployment benefits (Gingrich)
The Department of Education (Johnson)
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#16GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 12:24pmThe GOP's best and brightest, America!
#17GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 1:36pmIt wasn't just the audience who were deplorable. Did any of the candidates ask them to show some respect for a man serving his country, or thank him?
Beyoncé is not an ally. Actions speak louder than words, Mrs. Carter. #Dubai #$$$
#18GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 1:42pmWell since he's just a faggot, there was no need.
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#19GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 1:44pmI feel bad for Rick "Frothy Mix" Santorum. There are some powerful gays who are abusing him for no reason. And the liberal Google company won't do anything about it. It must be awful to be so helpless. No wonder he lashes out against those mean, mean gays.
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#20GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 1:49pm
Seriously, a day of reckoning is coming for this GOP. I have already had the conversation with two Republican friends: "This is YOUR party. Do you stand with them, or do you stand against them? They can't write it off as a "fringe element" anymore- one of these nutjobs is going to be your standard bearer in a year and what the hell are you going to do?
And yes, when Rick Santorum equates homosexuality with bestiality he's talking about me and Dan and you DAMN well better stand up and speak out against that or you are no longer welcome in my life."
#21GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 1:56pmAmen!
....but the world goes 'round
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#22GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 3:16pm
Santorum now says that he'd have commented on those boos, but he didn't hear them...
Boos? What Boos?
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
#23GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 3:24pmIt's funny how they don't hear things.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
#24GOP debate audience boos gay soldier
Posted: 9/23/11 at 3:33pm
It's also funny how GOP bloggers etc. are saying "it wasn't the whole crowd, just a few people"--and yet not denouncing it.
Updated On: 9/23/11 at 03:33 PM
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