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If Bob Tyrrell can be banished from CNN because describing President Obama as “a stealth socialist” is considered “rude” then one would must wonder what exactly CNN’s standards of rudeness are.
Well, check out Don Lemon compare Mitt Romney’s statement, “Marriage is between a man and a woman” to George Wallace’s infamous “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever.” (H/T to Jonah Goldberg at NRO). Yet notwithstanding Obama’s public support for same sex marriage his statement doesn’t prevent North Carolina from prohibiting it. Imagine if JFK had stated he favored integration but said that Wallace had a right to keep schools segregated and did not send in the National Guard. Or as Ross Kaminsky put it so eloquently:
If “gay rights” are the moral equivalent of civil rights for blacks or voting rights for women, as Obama claims, how can he justify leaving the issues to the states — something few people (other than true racists) would have said about key 1960s civil rights legislation.
So if likening Mitt Romney to George Wallace is how people at CNN behave then Bob is better off staying far away from such contemptible company.
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glenny| 5.15.12 @ 2:54PM
CNN will do everything in it's (limited) power to chase away every viewer that it can. So far, they're having quite a bit of success.
You gotta luv 'em.
glenny
Questions| 5.15.12 @ 3:17PM
So get this, it's the position of Democrats and the left that the Tuskagee Airmen are the equivalent to the Village People, that the Buffalo Soldiers are the equal to those frolicking and prancing about in your typical gay pride parade. Yet they dare accuse us, US of making a mockery of the claims advanced.
Paul McGrath| 5.15.12 @ 4:49PM
Several years ago on some local television show, the reporter was interviewing an overweight, bearded guy wearing a red nun's habit and cowl and high-heeled shoes--it was a gay event in S. F. I think--and he was bemoaning the fact that nobody--nobody!--was taking them seriously .
The reporter nodded her head sympathetically.
Questions| 5.15.12 @ 5:33PM
Surreal Paul, simply surreal...........
Skippy| 5.15.12 @ 6:07PM
Hardly unique though, here near the city that was called "Baghdad by the Bay" for decades.
If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to leave your delicate sensibilities in the car.
Paul McGrath| 5.15.12 @ 6:55PM
The big controversy now is public nudity. You see, a few years ago, a certain number of gay men decided that the custom of wearing clothes was just too restricting, don't you know, so they simply threw them off, wandering around to and fro freely and proudly. The practice was mostly limited to the Castro area, but now I understand the practice is slowly slouching into into other parts of town.
It occurred to one of the city's brilliant supervisors that this new freedom--it's only a matter of time before they start referring to it as a right--could create a health problem, so he publicly mused about the idea of requiring the liberated ones to bring a towel along with them should they decide they wanted to eat in a restaurant, or for that matter, perch their rear end on any flat public surface.
Of course, he was howled down by the enlightened.
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 3:32PM
Standard:
1. One must be rude and ridicule any Republican President.
2. One must never be rude or ridicule a Democrat President.
At least admit there IS a standard.
Trinacria| 5.15.12 @ 4:13PM
CNN has standards?
Occam's Tool| 5.15.12 @ 5:24PM
CNN has the same standards on matters of foreign policy that Ron Paul and his supporters on this site have, and the same standards on domestic policy that Cynthia McKinney and her supporters have---oh, and in 2008, one of them was Ron Paul.
Isn't that special?
Skippy| 5.15.12 @ 6:08PM
Who was Ron Paul?
Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 7:08PM
Homosexuals should/do have the right to practice their acts of homosexuality, but not the right to have the sacrament of G-d/marriage placed upon and santifying said acts. They have the right to practice said acts without being arrested/tormented etc [as long as they do so in compliance with public decency laws, just as hetersexuals must comform to]. However, since their acts are contrary to Natural Law, upon their deaths they will be judged by G-d and punished accordingly!!!!!!!!!