Joan Rivers, in her new
book, I Hate Everybody Including Me,
on Glee:
"You know that cute Asian boy who
plays a freshman? In real life he's a thirty-year-old man and he's upside down
on a mortgage in Burbank. The only way Lea Michele is in high school is if
she's part of some bizarre religious cult and she's come back to school with
bombs strapped to her boobs. The only true character on Glee is the fat girl because in
real life she is a fat girl. On Glee all
the homo kids are smiling and giggly and they spend every day singing in the
halls. When I went to high school, the homos spent most of their days hiding in
their lockers, crying!"
She’s irreverent, she’s
sometimes rude, but she’s always funny.
Love me some JR.
Patrick Wooden, “pastor”, saying no one
wants a gay child:
”Young people grow up and
it's amazing what happens when you become a mom or a dad yourself. It's amazing
what happens when, all of a sudden now you are entrusted with a young life and
that kid looks just like you and all of a sudden now it's your little boy or
your little girl. No one wants their son to be a homosexual. No one wants their
daughter to be a homosexual. No one, no one would want their child - even the
homosexual father doesn't want his son to be homosexual; the lesbian mother does
not want her daughter to be lesbian."
I think most good parents
just want healthy, decent children who grow up to be healthy decent adults and
not mind-numbingly dumb, homophobic—and therefore possibly homosexual—bigots who
hide their hate behind the Bible.
Eh, “pastor”? I imagine
your parents are not so proud of their child.
Lawrence O'Donnell, on the story that Mittsy
Romney used to brag about impersonating a police officer:
“When Mitt Romney wasn't
gay bashing kids whose hair he didn't like, Mitt Romney’s other favorite sick
thing to do was to impersonate a police officer. In an exclusive article just
released tonight by the National Memo, details emerge of a Mitt Romney who as a
college freshman at Stanford University allegedly admitted to fellow dorm mates
that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer, and laid out on his
bed was a Michigan state trooper's uniform. One of the people who saw the
uniform said he told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father, George Romney,
then the governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniform
troopers. He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. 'He
also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white
rambler. We thought it was all pretty weird....'”
The more you hear about
the wacky shenanigans of young Mittsy, you know his bullying of supposedly gay
students and his physical assaults on those students, and now the idea that he
used to pretend to be a police officer, just serves to make it clear that he is
not fit to be president.
Of anything.
Tim Walberg, congressman from Michigan, whose
bill to allow prayer before public school board meetings has 33 GOP House
cosponsors:
"This is not an issue of school
prayer, it's an issue of a fact that a school board--like the legislature or
Congress or the Supreme Court; a deliberative body making decisions that have
the force of law--should be, if they desire--not mandated, but if they desire,
and the community supports it--that they should be able to open in
prayer."
Apparently in Michigan
everything is just fine. Unemployment is way down and the economy is just
booming—and Detroit isn’t on the brink of going broke—because why else would
someone who should know something about “Separation Of Church and State” even
be suggesting that prayer be allowed in public schools?
I mean, if they do this,
then I suggest that Walberg and his icky ilk demand that churches teach algebra
on Sundays because the line between church and state no longer exists in
Michigan.
Adam Levine, on women:
"There are two kinds of men. There are
men who are f**king misogynist pigs, and then there are men who just really
love women, who think they're the most amazing people in the world. And that's
me. Maybe the reason I was promiscuous, and wanted to sleep with a lot of them,
is that I love them so much."
Um, there might be two
types of men, Adam “MY birth control method is to pull out” Levine, but you are
one of the misogynists.
You f**k around a lot
because you love women? No, you f**k
around a lot because you’re a douchebag rock star who bought into a myth and
now tried to justify it.
Celine Dion, on Kate Winslet's diss of the
Titanic theme song:
"The way I see it is that ‘My Heart
Will Go On’ gave me the opportunity to be associated with a classic that will
live forever. If I just count how many times I’ve sung it, maybe it’ll get me
sick. If she feels tired just hearing it, and, like, throwing up, I’m glad she was not
the one singing it."
Don’t take it personally,
Celine.
Lots of people want to
throw up when you start singing.
Carrie Underwood, on marriage equality:
"As a married person myself, I don't know what it's
like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry. I can't
imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to
love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love....Our church is gay friendly. Above all, God wanted us
to love others. It's not about setting rules, or [saying] 'everyone has to be
like me'. No. We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to
love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge
anybody."
Nice that a very popular
and very successful country music performer has come out for equality.
It’s about time.
Zach Wahls, on the Boy Scouts decision to review its anti-LGBT
policy:
“It’s not a smokescreen. This proposal was made after Jen
Tyrrell’s petition on Change.org. So even though this has been brought up in
the past, it’s never gotten nearly the level of attention that it has today.
And as another departure from the past, there’s never been a group-- which I
actually launched in coordination with a number of other Eagle Scouts today
called Scouts For Equality-- and we’re going to be working with a number
of different groups to really build a community of scouts-- Eagle scouts,
former scout leaders, that sort of thing--we’re really going to work toward
making this policy change."
I hope he’s right.
I hope the BSA finally decides to stop being bigots.
Lady Gaga, on Madonna….maybe:
"It sometimes makes
people feel better about themselves to put other people down or make fun of
them or maybe make mockery of their work…And that doesn’t make me feel good at
all. That just makes me feel like I’m not a good human being…I don’t even want
to fight back because it’s more important to me to keep writing music. Because
that’s really all I care about, is the music. Things are really different than
they were 25 years ago, and that’s what makes Born This Way so relevant for me…
We’re socially in a different place and it’s OK, we don’t have to all slice and
hate each other anymore.”
But Madonna has to make fun
of Gaga and show her nipples in concert to get press,
Stop the hate, Madge.
Listen to Gaga.
Betty White, on being a
gay icon:
"Oh! I didn't know I
was a gay icon. I get a lot of mail--but I don't get many bad letters--but I
got a woman the other day that was so upset with me because they said, 'How do
you feel about the gay marriage thing?' and my answer to that is, 'I really
don't care with whom you sleep, I just care what kind of a decent human being
you are.' I figure all the rest of it is your business and not mine. And not
hers, incidentally."
Preach it Sister Betty!
And you are a gay icon.
James Turley, Global
Chairman & CEO of Ernst & Young, calling on the Boy Scouts to drop
its anti-LGBT discriminatory policy:
“Ernst & Young is
proud to have such a strong record in LGBT inclusiveness. As CEO, I know that
having an inclusive culture produces the best results, is the right thing for
our people and makes us a better organization. My experience has led me to
believe that an inclusive environment is important throughout our society and I
am proud to be a leader on this issue. I support the meaningful work of the Boy
Scouts in preparing young people for adventure, leadership, learning and
service, however the membership policy is not one I would personally endorse.
As I have done in leading Ernst & Young to being a most inclusive
organization, I intend to continue to work from within the BSA Board to
actively encourage dialogue and sustainable progress.”
Sounds about right.
I mean, how can the BSA
say they build character in young people when they openly discriminate?
That isn’t character.
