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Glitter and Be Gay

By on 7.6.12 @ 6:07AM

Some candid talk about Anderson Cooper’s new ratings.

I was immersed in the Supreme Court’s decision on health care when Anderson Cooper upstaged Chief Justice John Roberts with the announcement that he is gay. Pretty much everyone in America was as stunned as I was. What a week. I recently learned that Truman Capote was also gay. You just never can tell these days.

The New York Times story says that Cooper’s “announcement makes him the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television,” leading to a lot of speculation by viewers about who the lesser known gays on TV news might be. I have my own hunches and, thanks to Cooper coming out at last, I now feel at liberty to reveal them:

Walter Cronkite was forced to remain in the closet lest it be known that he was a transsexual who spent much of his time off camera in women’s closets. He was famous for doing a female strip tease at parties, but few realized that he also often dressed up like Carmen Miranda for a night on the town. As for Chet Huntley and David Brinkley — “Good night, David”…”Good night, Chet.” Need I say more?  

Rachel Maddow has made it not just OK but fashionable to be a gay talk show host, so one wonders how long it will be until David Letterman and Jay Leno finally fess up to their own sexual identities. The pressure is now on for gays in positions of power on TV to consider coming out, especially those with shows in ratings trouble, as Brian Stelter writes in the Times on Cooper’s announcement. Look for Conan O’Brien, whose late night show is not doing too well, to make a startling announcement shortly.

Stelter notes, “The daytime talk format seemingly demands hosts to come forward with the personal details of their lives.” Ellen DeGeneres broke TV’s “lesbo glass ceiling,” as TV industry insiders call it, and it didn’t hurt her any, nor Rosie O’Donnell. Maddow is adamant on the subject, telling the Times: “I do think that if you’re gay you have a responsibility to come out,” which is sure to help push gays out of the apparently crowded video closet. Are you listening, Matt Lauer? Al Roker? Had only Ann Curry claimed she was gay, she might still be the Today co-host.

A New York Times op-ed piece notes that Entertainment Weekly discusses “the new art of coming out” among stars on both coasts, presaging a flood of TV journalists rushing to reveal their gayness. It is not unlikely that agencies handling television journalists and talk show hosts are encouraging their clients, whether gay or straight, to declare their sexual leanings ASAP and increase their marketability.

CNN may well be a hotbed of gay anchors, according to whispers around the water coolers at Fox News. Larry King, despite his many marriages, could be latently gay, and his five ex-wives just an elaborate cover-up to keep Larry’s real sex life from the public. Ditto Piers Morgan, King’s flirty replacement, who so far has declined to state his sexual preference. I have not yet heard any rumors about Wolf Blitzer, so we will just have to wait for an announcement from Wolf.

It now seems clear that Anderson Cooper is the Rosa Parks of gay TV anchors.

About the Author

Gerald Nachman is a writer in San Francisco and most recently the author of Right Here on Our Stage Tonight!: Ed Sullivan’s America (University of California Press). 

Letter to the Editor View all comments (92) |

Appleby| 7.6.12 @ 6:50AM

Is there anybody in America, even in rural Alabama, who could take one look at Anderson Cooper and NOT say "Gay"?

In fact, is there anybody in America who gives a rat's patootie with whom Anderson Cooper is playing house, when our own collective house is in flames?

William L. Gensert| 7.6.12 @ 8:15AM

I certainly agree with you as far as no one should care with the nation in such turmoil.

Yet, I have to admit, I didn't see the man as gay, but then I never look for things like that because I truly do not care.

CJW| 7.6.12 @ 8:00PM

Why do you think you are smarter than Americans in rural Alabama? I know they are smarter than Americans living in Canada.

Occam's Tool| 7.8.12 @ 1:47AM

I have an Alabama medical license. My wife, a true genius, graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Capstone in accounting, having gone to Alabama with TWO CONCURRENT full ride academic scholarships---she is Caucasian, incidentally; no Affirmative Action for her.

There are a LOT of bright people in rural Alabama, Appleby. You don't know that area very well; I do. Sorry, Ma'am.

But I don't watch Anderson Cooper---he's just another Libtard to me.

Pecos Pete| 7.6.12 @ 7:07AM

Anyone care to guess about King O?

Stewed_tomatoes| 7.6.12 @ 7:22AM

Pole smoker. Them ears were pulled on repeatedly. ;)

Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 2:09PM

Down Low.

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 2:30PM

What?

You think Michelle is a woman???

She's a MAN, BABY!!! She looks like Ru Paul.

Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 2:50PM

That would explain why sex changes are covered in Obamacare. Interesting.

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 3:24PM

Those painted-on eyebrows?

Those too-high, manly cheekbones?

Those thighs?

Sasha and Malia were adopted...

MK48| 7.8.12 @ 11:51AM

Chicago bath house member......and yes DS "Down Low".

Definition.....a high profile flaming homosexual is paired up with a toxic straight female to give the appearance of it being a normal marrage. This union was arranged in the so called, Rev. Wright's church.

Susan T.| 7.6.12 @ 7:34AM

Appleby,

I would surely like to see what you look like. Anderson Cooper is one HANDSOME HUNK, and millions of women--including myself--would love to be romantically linked to him.

You, like so many others on this site, are an asshole. A real right-wing, all-American asshole who hates gays, no matter what.

One thing for sure: Most of you are losers, and Anderson Cooper is a WINNER! A WINNER!

You all keep on hating, you hear. Your hate will eventually kill you, and the sooner the better.

It's a new world, losers. And gays are going to triumph in their careers, so just get used to it.

Spring has finally arrived here in Portland. Lovely day. Lovely, that is, if you are not full of hate like you, Appleby. Indeed, it's a lovely day for me.

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 9:12AM

Portland...what a shock.

Thank you for reaffirming our faith in the emotional instability of Liberal women.

Please don't hold it against us Conservatives because you felt "different" in high school, and took too many women's studies classes in college. It's not our fault you've wasted your life.

Kathi| 7.6.12 @ 12:27PM

Gerald Nachman is not fit to shine Anderson Cooper's shoes.

As for the rest of you Cooper haters, you are all sinking in your shit. Gays to the Future! We will assert ourselves and take the lead in all facets of public life. Now, suck in your flabby guts, and get over it, and get out of our way. The future is "glittering," positively shimmering for us! Cheers to the future!

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 2:22PM

Suck in OUR flabby guts???

Now THAT'S funny!!!

I'm trying to get a mental picture of you, Kathi...wondering if you're as "hot" as the malcontented lesbian who flipped-off the portrait of Ronald Reagan in the White House..???

Let me guess...

Short-short hair...t-shirt...mom-jeans...l'il white tennis shoes...hefty. Like Gertie Stein?

Or maybe you have a mohawk, multiple piercings, tattoos, and wear Doc Martens? But you consider yourself a non-conformist, no doubt...

Listen, sweetie...why don't you have a beer, listen to some Indigo Girls tapes, and come back when you have a clue?

Butch| 7.6.12 @ 9:48AM

"Your hate will eventually kill you, and the sooner the better." No hate there.

Anthony| 7.6.12 @ 9:54AM

Gee, Susi (Q) T , such vitriol from the loony land of leftism. Admit it, you hate conservatives more than you do al Qaeda.
Good luck with your wet dreams over Cooper, he's all yours, you can have him, but I suggest you gag him before sex, so you don't have to listen to him moan for Obozo. Kinda ruins the mood, no?
And speaking of your hero, the Kenyan Muslim Marxist, sight unseen, you'll look great in your berka after The One introduces America to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Then Cooper will be allowed to gag you, and you'll have no recourse. Spring time for Portland women chattel in the wonderful world of Islam!!
Hey genius, them are real rocks the Muslim Brotherhood throw at woman, ain't no nurf balls!!
But, you'll do anything for the cause, am I right??
Enjoy your lovely day, you have only a few left.

KyMouse| 7.6.12 @ 10:16AM

Susan, all you are doing is showing how filled with hatred YOU are.

Are you unable to express your beliefs without vulgar words, and without wishing for someone to die? Or are you merely unwilling?

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 2:23PM

Most Liberals are actually very nasty, unhappy people.

That's why they want everyone else to change - so they don't feel so bad about themselves.

Skippy| 7.6.12 @ 3:35PM

Evidence above.

Fredx| 7.6.12 @ 10:33AM

Good grief! You're the only one here doing the hating! Lighten up! What's wrong with a whimsical piece about the sudden proliferation of gay TV hosts? If hate kills, I hope you rest in peace.

John786| 7.6.12 @ 10:47AM

Dear Susan if you want to avoid hate speech please avoid this site. It attracts only the unhinged from the right.

Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 2:51PM

As your on here quite often, just where does that place you?

Boar Hunter| 7.6.12 @ 10:52AM

Hey Sue, what was it Appleby said that was disparaging about Pooper that was disparaging, other than to point out that real men might have suspected ol' Anderson was light in his loafers?

How utterly shallow of you to immediately jump on the physical appearances issue like some third grader in a pig tail.

Your assessment that "Anderson Cooper" is one HANDSOME HUNK, and millions of women--including myself--would love to be romantically linked to him" is hilarious since you must of missed the part where he is gay.

What you allege to be millions of women who want to be romantically involved with him has as much relevance as your pathetic, bitter spirited post.

I can tell you as a fact that whatever Appleby looks like on the outside, I would definitely choose her companionship over yours.

In your short post you let me know that you have the morals of a house cat, you are shallow, ignorant and vile.

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 2:24PM

Sue is just mad because Anderson Cooper scores with more hot studs than she does...

Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 2:16PM

Could not care less who he cuddles up with. His business, lets keep it that way. See that is the point most of you idiot Liberals miss. Many of us do not care what you claim as your sexuality. So stop the trumpet blaring. I don't TV shows or Parades running up to me screaming "I'm Heterosexual" so why should I put up with the gay agenda's throwing it in my face? He is a nobody in my book. Why? because he doesn't influence my life one way or the other. I'm not related to him, don't work for him, doesn't work for me, don't personally know him and I have a life of my own to worry about.

Who gives a shit what he is or does?

And please explain the logic to me of women claiming they would love to have a relationship with homosexual men, then turning around and going after the "bad, rebel" guys. And you wonder why your life is so empty that you have to look to others for your happiness.

Appleby| 7.6.12 @ 6:46PM

I said nothing at all about his looks, Susan dear. I know plenty of gay people -- in fact, the entire tenor section of my Atlanta church was gay -- and they run the gamut in looks the same as the rest of us do.

I never said that I "hated" him or anybody lilke him. I had a brother-in-law who was gay, who married my sister to give himself cover so he could be ordained in the Methodist church, and looked after her when she left him after discovering Jesus hadn't made him straight, when he got AIDS that eventually killed him, I was by his side and my parents and his parents and I were the only straight people at his very large memorial service and my father stood up and spoke kindly of him. My parents brought us up to judge people by the content of their character.

You, Susan, clearly had defective parents who taught you that knee-jerk hatred and spewing filthy talk is the proper response to a stranger who opens a conversation that you butted into uninvited. Surely you are old enough to realize that your manners need spiffing up by now. If not, I hope the next person you insult for no reason slaps your head around backwards.

bjb57| 7.7.12 @ 10:01PM

Susan T.,

Relax. Have a drink. Enjoy the weekend.

Occam's Tool| 7.8.12 @ 1:49AM

Portland rains a lot. They also hate new people moving there.

I don't care that Anderson is gay; I care that he is a Libtard.

Jenkens et al| 7.6.12 @ 7:49AM

And Appleby says, "who could take one look at Anderson Cooper and NOT say "gay"?

What a twisted shit-head you are, Appleby. What exactly are the features (all handsome, by the way) that give Cooper away? Please spell them out for our edification.

You must be having a bad day with your chemotherapy. If not, you should be because you are toxic to the bone.

AmSpec is for haters, that's for sure.

Kathi| 7.6.12 @ 7:57AM

Nachman,

I would advise you to not attempt humor. Your pathetic attempts fall flat. Anderson Cooper? I have always watched him. And he's one sexy man, in my opinion, and like Susan T. says, there are many women who would agree. Women and men!

Why don't you stand naked, gazing into your stupid, bespeckled face, and masturbate, Mr. Superior. And don't neglect to wipe the bacteria-polluted semen off the glass when you're finished, pig.

Anthony| 7.6.12 @ 10:09AM

Ohh, another nasty, vicious lefty.
"Bacteria-polluted seamen", tisk, tisk, is today Anderson Cooper day on The View?
Hey Kathi, you and Susi Q can pitch rocks to each other as warm up, before the Muslim Brotherhood plays hard ball for real, with both women and gays......

Fredx| 7.6.12 @ 10:38AM

The best part about this is that I will never have to meet you.

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 2:26PM

Semen. Men.

Those words fill you with fear, don't they??

Hey...could you explain something to me?

WHY is it that so many women who claim to love other women end-up dating women who look like men???

I mean, seriously! If you LIKE women, you should like women who look like women - NOT like Larry the Cable Guy.

What gives?

Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 4:15PM

Penis envy! Had a lipstick lesbian drinking buddy I worked with once. And that was her take on them anyway. At least she liked hot women. We spent many a evening pointing the out to each other over beers.

KyMouse| 7.6.12 @ 10:27AM

Jenkins, are you able to see how much hatred YOU expressed in your 7:49 a.m. post? Like Susan T., you are either unable or unwilling to express your opinions without vulgarity and insults. Go after ideas, not people. Throwing around insults and ugly words simply lowers you to the level of a child having a temper tantrum. It doesn't advance your cause.

On the other hand, you and Susan T. have demonstrated how little tolerance and decency there is among advocates of same-sex causes. That is instructive for the rest of us.

Occam's Tool| 7.8.12 @ 1:51AM

KYMouse---as you know, I didn't like Owensboro when I lived there. You, madam, redeem your state. Thonking that you might read my words, I avoided criticizing KY in my response to Appleby. May G-d Bless and Keep You.

KyMouse| 7.9.12 @ 11:07AM

Bless you and thank you for the kind words, sir. In my long experience, I have found my home state to comprise a wide range of people -- smart, stupid, sophisticated, hick-ish -- just like pretty much everywhere else.

My only trip to Owensboro was when I was nine, when my dad took me there on a DC-3 to visit some cousins. The town didn't impress me, but the airplane ride certainly did. Especially the chocolate milkshake the stewardess brought me -- and my dad didn't have to pay so much as an extra penny for it.

PolishKnight| 7.6.12 @ 11:15AM

What gives him away is his effeminate appearance and attitudes. He acts like a girl just as Rosie O'Donnell acts like a vulgar man.

It wasn't always the case though. I remember when the original James Bond films came out when it was considered maucho for a man to have cultured tastes and dress well BUT the old Sean Connery bond also showed that he could be brutal at a moment's notice. Andersen reminds me more of the leader of Spectre stroking his white pussy cat than beating up henchmen. He would fit right in with one of the Queer Eyes for the Straight Guy show.

I think it's rather funny he came out since his shows ratings were always anemic. The numbers will spike for a while before they fall as straight liberal women move on. They can watch the daily show. All the metrosexual "hunks" there are straight (yeah, sure!) Hahaha!

Joan Of Snark | 7.6.12 @ 8:50PM

What gave him away, at least if there were any doubts, was when "teabagger" slipped so readily off his tongue in his attempts to disparage conservatives.

CopyKatnj| 7.6.12 @ 8:20AM

So what! I didn't watch Cooper before and I have no interest in watching Cooper in the future. Nor do I have an interest in the sexual preferences of anyone in entertainment or news media. It's the information that is important not the news reader delivering it.

Bob K| 7.6.12 @ 8:30AM

How could one be a writer based in San Francisco and not find the Oh So Serious self outings of these self important celebrities hilarious?

Enjoy the next Gay Parade there in the City by the Bay, Mr. Nachman and laugh it up!

Frog in Uniform | 7.6.12 @ 9:05AM

Suzi, Jenk & Kathi, you are a real bunch of sick people (you could also be the same idiot with 3 different aliases). We got the same kind of morons at home, that's really funny! Would you have French ancestry by any chance? I cannot believe America became such a powerful nation with citizens like you. Do you need to roam conservative websites in order to get aggravated and spew your hatred of everything un-gay and un-liberal? I got news for you: Your way of life is a dead end, you're a minority and if democracy ever meant anything to you, the obvious conclusion is: you don't make the rules, never did, never will. You belong to the septic tank of history. Now buzz off. To the regular readers of AmSpec: forgive my poor command of your language.

Skippy| 7.6.12 @ 3:56PM

"Suzi, Jenk & Kathi, you are a real bunch of sick people (you could also be the same idiot with 3 different aliases)."
Psst!
They are.
They all use "sh!t" so freely how could they not be?

Bill84728| 7.6.12 @ 9:06AM

Anderson Cooper is "the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television"?

Wow, there must be a huge number of people competing for THAT distinction.

ata777| 7.6.12 @ 9:16AM

nothing like everyone missing the point. CNN's ratings are in the all-time toilet. AC's "stunning" revelation is nothing more than a silly attempt to boost ratings

JP| 7.6.12 @ 9:32AM

Next, people will say Gore Vidal is gay. BTW, who in the hell is Anderson Cooper?

Dai Alanye | 7.6.12 @ 10:37AM

Regardless of his admitted homosexuality, who are these sick, twisted deviants who find Anderson Cooper handsome and sexy? Are they women, as they claim? Perhaps we have reason to wonder.

Dai (who is a man) Alanye

Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.6.12 @ 10:53AM

It looks like it must be final exam time for the students of "Anna K. of Emory U". Political science student trolls chase a story with a theme that appeals (often involving homosexuality) to them, invade a blog to agree with themselves and provoke others, and then discuss "Conservative Hate Speech" in the classroom (would this be Professor Vigilante's class?). Though the aliases are different, I recognize many of the poor quality posts.

If Emery University produced HVAC technicians instead of political science students, the world would be a better place.

Anthony| 7.6.12 @ 11:53AM

Ah, a blast from the past, ole Anna K. of Emory U. She's probably on a mission from Emory to recruit Sandra Fluke to the Emory faculty.
What a snatch that would be, let's see, one Sandra
Fluke is worth two Paul Krugmans, one Bill Ayers, oh, and the zaney bucktoothed black studies professor at Princeton, whose name escapes me.
Close all the zoos, we have all these universities that offer equal entertainment.
Great suggestion Albert, it's time to convert all colleges to trade schools. At least something useful and productive will come out of them.
Hot air, the good kind. Look ma, no global warming!!!!

Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.6.12 @ 12:45PM

"and the zaney bucktoothed black studies professor at Princeton, whose name escapes me."

Would that be Cornel West?

Maxwell| 7.6.12 @ 12:52PM

Hay, careful there about Princeton, I live here! Trust me, there are PLENTY of people that fit that description.

Anthony| 7.6.12 @ 1:45PM

Well Maxwell, we know that doesn't include your gov. aka Tony Soprano." Get the hell off the beaches".
But Christie would look better in a Fro and buckteeth. Gov. Fat Albert, I like it.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 7.6.12 @ 2:14PM

"Hey, Hey, Hey..."

Anthony| 7.6.12 @ 1:40PM

None other!!! thanks!!

Purp| 7.6.12 @ 11:06AM

Who cares if he's gay?

canuckistani| 7.6.12 @ 11:14AM

Apparently AmSpec since they made the satire piece a page one for today.

The venom of the self-hating gays on here was the payoff.

JD| 7.6.12 @ 12:23PM

Apparently we're supposed to care, because they make such a big deal of their coming-outs. Then they tell us we've violated their rights if we say "I disagree with that lifestyle", and further condemn us for "forcing our morals on them".

As if they weren't the ones who started the whole conversation with their self-important announcements. Who's forcing what on whom, anyway?

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 2:28PM

We do.

We're putting together an "Enemies List"...you know, like Obama?

FYI, you're on it.

Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:55PM

Bring it on, girlie man.

Oldefarte| 7.6.12 @ 11:40AM

Who gives a rat's ars if he or anyone is homosexual. I'm personally sick and tired of all of this liberal BS concerning race, sex, etc [and I don't think I'm alone either, especially by members of my generation]. This crapola is all Hollywood generated from their movies and TV shows promoting this alternative politically correct garbage. The morality of this country is in the toilet and simply deplorable from its gay this, black that, etc. How disgusting is the Chaz inclusion on DWS and the constant drumbeat of putrid distortions that we've invaded with by the MSM and the Hollywood pukes of liberalism? When is America going to WAKE UP and begin putting a stop to his garbage? when is enough enough? This country is dying and the typical citizen here does not care. It's accepted, it's usual, it's no big deal to the snotnosers of the next generation; and then America bemoans the facts of life that they are faced with daily. Do something....stop it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mars the Avenger| 7.6.12 @ 12:44PM

At the end of the day, who gives a shit?

Mars the Avenger| 7.6.12 @ 1:01PM

Among other things, I fail to understand the fascination of some for a bunch of semi-literate script readers posing as journalists who wouldn't know an original thought if it bit them in the butt. As I said above, at the end of the day.....

Bob Grant| 7.6.12 @ 7:26PM

Anderson Pooper, that's who!

wolf| 7.6.12 @ 1:40PM

cornell west is gay...?? who knew..

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 2:28PM

In addition to being an intellectual fraud, I guess...

doramin| 8.1.12 @ 4:33PM

Cornell West? With his three marriages?

Then again, there's that weird neckerchief/scarf/choker that he's made his fashion trademark...

Drunken Sailor| 7.6.12 @ 2:18PM

Oh thank god he finally came out of the closet! With so much going on in the world this was the one thing I was losing sleep over.

Sarcasm off.

Bob Grant| 7.6.12 @ 3:06PM

So Anderson Pooper's gay? And this is a shock to whom? And what effect will this have on my life?

Doctor Right| 7.6.12 @ 3:26PM

You have NO idea...

Purp| 7.6.12 @ 6:57PM

He is heir to the Vanderbilt fortune ... Billionaires needed, anyone?

Gary B| 7.6.12 @ 4:00PM

So, with this announcement, does Coooper want a trophy? I mean, really, who cares?

Skippy| 7.6.12 @ 4:06PM

He's a 1%er in more ways than one.
1% of the general population is gay.
1% of Americans have his inherited wealth.
1% of Americans dye their hair gray to look smarter.
1% of TV viewers have ever heard of him.

Jackphat| 7.6.12 @ 4:14PM

Who cares, he's still boring and biased as heck. Actually he may have lost a few more viewers. Come on guys, you really want to look into a gay man's face?

Purp| 7.6.12 @ 7:01PM

Do you watch him?

Bob Grant| 7.6.12 @ 7:25PM

Sounds like you do...with your pants around your ankles.

Dwimby| 7.7.12 @ 12:55PM

How does one run from the TV with his pants around his ankles? Hippity hop?

Bob Grant| 7.8.12 @ 12:24AM

I'm sure he's been in a few "sack races", if ya know what I mean.

Purp| 7.7.12 @ 4:48PM

Really? Tell me all about it. You seem to know what to do. How often do you do that, why do you do that? What's in it for you? Come on, give, don't hide in the closet, freak.

RadicalRighty| 7.7.12 @ 8:25AM

Sheppard Smith?

Bob Grant| 7.7.12 @ 10:58AM

The next fashionable men's shoe to drop!

Dwimby| 7.7.12 @ 1:01PM

Say it isn't so!

Dwimby| 7.7.12 @ 12:53PM

Yes. And I have been on pins and needles about this for years...

Kathi| 7.7.12 @ 9:32PM

If I could just get my hands on all you old mean-as-hell men (old farts) on here, I would give you something more than a swollen prostate to complain about.

And take my advice: You keep mouthing off on this blog, and your prostates will continue to swell until they pop.

Get off your broad asses and do something constructive for a change. You're all a bunch of curmudgon jackasses. I'd like to knee everyone of you in the groin and watch you flap about the floor in agony. You don't mess with me.

That'd learn you.

Bob Grant| 7.8.12 @ 12:15AM

Thanks for the comedic relief but what's your beef sweetie? And give us specifics.

To come here and call us curmudgons...curmudgons...is like writing a whole article about Anderson Cooper's "big announcement".

Occam's Tool| 7.8.12 @ 1:59AM

You know, Kathi, I hate to tell you this, but unlike the movies, usually the physically aggressive woman gets her ass kicked in by an average male. It's a matter of mass and muscle, usually. Especially if the male is on guard, and not caught by surprise. I doubt you have 50 inch shoulders, for example. I also doubt that you have been trained to take down agitated psychotics. Try kneeing me in the groin, lady, and see what that gets you. Hint: I won't be the one flopping on the floor, gasping for breath, capisce?

Every day, lady, I do more useful, socially constructive things than you do in a year. And so do a lot of us. STFU if you can't be polite.

Suzi| 7.7.12 @ 9:34PM

Atta gal, Kathi.

You go get 'em, girl!

bjb57| 7.7.12 @ 10:10PM

My wife had a great comment when I said to her, "Anderson Cooper came out today". She said, "Didn't he come out a couple years ago?"

Suzi| 7.8.12 @ 12:30PM

He "came out" all right; he came out in your wife's sexual fantasies many times.

Hey, Mr. bjb57, if you stood beside Cooper, you would look like the Pillsbury Dough Boy, you pathetic, overweight pussy.

And speaking of fantasies, I pity your wife, who has to accomodate your depraved fantasies.

And thank God we are not privy to them. If we were, we would have the dry heaves for days.

Bob Grant| 7.8.12 @ 3:43PM

Hey Suzi,

How about you and your favorite female pal act out Thelma and Louise. For the sake of time, just skip to the final scene.

Mrs. Overton| 7.8.12 @ 12:38PM

Does anyone care that it is the Sabbath?

And here I am, having just returned from teaching a Sunday School class, and I am subjected to the rudest invective imaginable by, what appears to be, the trashiest women imaginable.

Suzi and Kathi and Company are no ladies; that's for sure. Their language! It just hurts my heart to read such profane utterances.

What ever became of ladies and manners? Are they a thing of the past.

My head aches from reading this. I will have to lie down and take a nap.

But let me say this:

This is the last time I will return from church and log on to Am Spec. I am horrified by the tone, and the language is disgraceful!

tasine| 7.9.12 @ 9:55AM

These actors and media people don't seem to have a clue how unimportant they are.

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