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Censure and move on
Political Animal —
... blasted Obama yesterday as a " rational-sounding sort of bigot ," comparable to a racist segregationist in the deep South during the era of Jim Crow. I will gladly argue, and have repeatedly, that the Warren invitation is a mistake, and I'd hoped Obama and his team would have known better, but Cloud's criticism strikes me as excessive, not because it's intemperate, but the disparagement doesn't match the error. Obama, to my mind, is poised to become the most progressive president in history on social/cultural issues, including gay equality. One dumb invitation does not a ...
Time: Obama 'A Very Tolerant, Very Rational-Sounding Sort of Bigot'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Barack Obama is finding out that his honeymoon with the mainstream media may be considerably shorter than he had expected. Inviting Pastor Rick Warren to pray at his inauguration hasn't endeared him to a core constituency and now Time Magazine has joined in the bash fest. Its Web site carries the piece, "The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama." Authored by John Cloud, the article begins by citing Warren's criticisms of homosexuality and then clobbers Obama for his association with him: ...
Quotes of the day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... “Gays and lesbians are angry that Barack Obama has honored Warren, but they shouldn’t be surprised. Obama has proved himself repeatedly to be a very tolerant, very rational-sounding sort of bigot .” *
Shots from the Weekend Show 12/20
Tammy Bruce —
**This post will be updated throughout the show**
Since Jesus gives me the head-shake so much, I thought it was time for me to get a bobblehead.
The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama
Here's Ann Curry asking Rick Warren about gay marriage and his bizarre response about wanting to sleep with every attractive woman he sees. He has no problem not acting on that, as last time I checked sleeping with someone was a two-way street. Oh, the best part of this? The various looks on Ann Curry's face. Priceless. ...
Time Mag Columnist: Obama Is "Very Rational-Sounding Sort Of Bigot"
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... In a Time magazine column, John Cloud writes that gay people should not be surprised that Barack Obama picked Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration: ...
Time Mag Columnist: Obama Is "Very Rational-Sounding Sort Of Bigot"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... In a Time magazine column, John Cloud writes that gay people should not be surprised that Barack Obama picked Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration: ...
John Cloud: Obama Basher, Ann Coulter Fan
Oliver Willis —
Time Magazine’s John Cloud has decided to attack Obama over the Rick Warren thing by calling the president-elect a “bigot”. What’s intriguing is that John Cloud can call Obama a name like that but a few years ago spent 6,000 words gushing effusively over an actual bigot, Ann Coulter, in a cover profile for Time.
And people wonder why we lose trust in the media every day. ...
Time: Obama Is An Anti-Gay Rights Bigot
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
Now that Barack Obama has won the White House, Time must feel it's safe to call the magazine's "Man of the Year" an anti-gay rights bigot. Such was revealed in an article posted Thursday entitled "The Problem for Gays with Rick Warren — and Obama." It's quite a shame that the following paragraphs weren't front page news during the campaign as they surely would have changed the way many liberals viewed the junior senator from Illinois (emphasis added): Gays and lesbians are angry that Barack Obama has honored ...
David Quigg: What Would Obama Do If Obama Was Mad At Obama About Rick Warren?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama might conclude that those words are damning evidence that our next president is "a very tolerant, very rational-sounding sort of bigot," as recently alleged in a Time column. If so, Obama might savage the president-elect with all the tactics he picked up during his time as a community organizer. He'd refer to ...
Loveland
David E's Fablog —
... AIDS in Africa does not mitigate the gay-baiting of his 2004 campaign, let alone his silence and utter inaction when the epidemic was killing Texans by the thousands, many of them gay men, during his term as governor. Unlike Bush, Obama has been the vocal advocate of gay civil rights he claims to be. It is over the top to assert, as a gay writer at Time did, that the president-elect is “a very tolerant, very rational-sounding sort of bigot.” Here’s where I part company with Rich. John Clous is absolutely right , particularly when he notes – Obama reminds me a little bit of ...
