Jodie Foster, coming out:
“I
already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone Age. In
those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted
friends, and family, coworkers and then gradually, proudly, to everyone who
knew her. To everyone she actually met. But now, apparently I'm told, that
every celebrity is expected to honor the details of their private life with a
press conference, a fragrance and a primetime reality show. You guys might be
surprised, but I'm not Honey Boo Boo child....If you had been a public figure
since the time you were a toddler, if you had to fight for a life that felt
real and honest and normal against all odds, then maybe you too would value
privacy above all else.”
Okay, this is for all those
people--and there were many--who asked, Did Jodie come out? Um,
yeah. “I already did my coming out…” sums that up.
And for those of you who
questioned why someone would speak of privacy on an awards show in front of
millions, she wasn’t explaining that she wanted privacy, she was explaining why
she wanted it all those years.
Lawrence O'Donnell, on the
ejection of Reverend Louie Giglio from the inauguration, over what he says
it says in the Bible about gay people, as well as the use of the Bible at the
inauguration ceremony:
“This time, as it was last
time for the first time in history, the book will be held by a First Lady who
is a descendent of slaves. But the holy book she will be holding does not
contain one word of God condemning slavery. Not one word. But that same book,
which spends hundreds and hundreds of pages condemning all sorts of things and
couldn’t find one sentence in here to condemn slavery, does indeed manage to
find the space to repeatedly condemn gay people, as the now banished Louie
Giglio says it does."
Isn’t it funny what people find to quote in the Bible when
it suits their “issue,” while ignoring page after page of other quotes for which they have no use?
Pat
Brady, Illinois GOP chairman, on calls for his resignation after endorsing
same-sex marriage:
"If
people want to throw me out because I took a stand on an issue of
discrimination [as] the chairman of the Republican Party, the party founded by
Abraham Lincoln, then that’s – that’s up to them and they’re free to do it. But
I’m not backing down."
It’s time, GOP, and it’s
time, conservatives. It’s time to stop
discrimination. You can believe whatever religious belief you choose, but you
cannot use your ‘religion’ as a tool to enact laws that discriminate.
James
Yeager, the CEO of a Tennessee-based gun company, on what he'll do if
President Obama tries to limit arms ownership:
“I'm
not fucking putting up with this. I am not letting my country be ruled by a
dictator. I'm not letting anybody take my guns. If it goes one inch further,
I'm gonna start killing people."
And this is why we need gun
control, and background checks.
Andrew
Rannells, star of The New Normal, on,
um, how 'gay' he is:
"I
personally have never had sex with a woman. I'm more of what you call gold-star
gay. I'm purebred. So I knew it wasn't my thing, so I was like, Why do that? So I didn't." [he then explains his use of
the word 'purebred'] "In my circle of friends, it's used. Like, 'Andrew,
he's a purebred.' Yeah...I feel like I'm in the minority for a lot of gay men."
Well, looky there, I’m a
purebred, gold-star gay.
Do I get a ribbon, or a
plaque?
Larry Ward, chairman of Gun
Appreciation Day:
"I
believe that Gun Appreciation Day honors the legacy of Dr. King. The truth is,
I think Martin Luther King would agree with me if he were alive today that if
African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one
of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our
history. And I believe wholeheartedly that’s essential to liberty.”
Yes, if African Americans had
been armed maybe they wouldn’t have been slaves; they might only have been
corpses, shot to death by slave traders.
The solution to gun violence
is not more guns.
That’s like saying the
solution to drunk driving is allowing more drunks to drive.
Lady Gaga, on Kelly Osbourne being a fashion
critic:
"Your work on E! with
the Fashion Police is rooted in criticism, judgment, and rating people’s beauty
against one another. 'Appearance”' is the most used reason for bullying in the
world. Your show breeds negativity, and over the years has even become comedic
in nature..."
Funny how Gaga can critique
Kelly Osbourne for Osbourne’s critiques of fashion.
Pot.Kettle……
Sharon Osbourne, Kelly’s
mother, fights back:
"Your open letter is hypocritical and
full of contradictions...Example, when I saw you wear a dress made out of raw
meat, I was sickened. When I see you wearing fur, and using it as a fashion
statement, the fact that defenseless animals have been killed so you can get
your picture in the press is abhorrent to me. Shouldn't you be teaching your
'little monster' fans to respect animals and life?"
And just this week, after the
Sandy Hook shooting, Gaga appeared onstage in a bra with two assault weapon
cups. Respect for life.
Gaga is about getting
attention for Gaga, hence meat dresses and wacky costumes. Gun bras. It’s show.
You cannot take what she says seriously because in about a minute she’ll be on
to something else so people will talk about her.
Matt
Barber, Liberty Council hate group leader, predicting a civil war if machine
guns are outlawed:
"No one’s taking my guns
either. Period. And if Dianne Feinstein orders me from her lofty perch on the
left-coast to retroactively register them with some federal autocracy, I think
I might just forget I even have them. Tens of millions of law-abiding, God
fearing Americans just like me and Dad, I suspect, feel the same way. I love
guns. Grew up with ‘em. As a former police officer with 12 years in the U.S.
military, I know how to use them, too – use them well. I plan to buy more – a
bunch more. In fact, who’s to say I don’t already have a veritable arsenal?
Point is, tain’t Big Brother Barack’s nor any other
candy-keistered-liberal-cream-puff’s bloody business whether I do or not."
And, again, this is the
problem.
No one is saying you can’t
have a gun. Or guns, you delusional fool. They are saying that assault weapons
are wrong, and should be outlawed for the average citizen. And the fact that
you want to combat this by buying more guns and creating a larger arsenal shows
just how foolish you are.
