Olbermann Slams Rep. Virginia Foxx Over Her Insensitive Matthew Shepard Comments (Video)

ConservativeXpress ^ | 4/30/09

[oust the louse]

I absolutely agree with Olberwoman and this Rep should get cesured but I just can’t watch this jackazz Olberwomen because he has a small mouth and no lips and no brain to go with it.

[pnh102]

What did Olbermann have to say about Perez Hilton and his remarks regarding Miss California?

[Moorka]

Foxx got her information from this apparently which indicates that this story was spun by militant gay activists.

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=277685&page=1

[ChocChipCookie]

hmmmmm....I've read in more than one article the same account given by Rep. Foxx.

Here's a paragraph from an ABC news site:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=277685&page=1

The story garnered national attention when the attack was characterized as a hate crime. But Shepard's killers, in their first interview since their convictions, tell "20/20's" Elizabeth Vargas that money and drugs motivated their actions that night, not hatred of gays.

I see now that the media is trying to change this part of the story. ABC has a "debunking" story just posted three hours ago. hmmmmmm.... Sorry, but I'm a lot more inclined to believe what was posted more than four years ago when a so-called "hate crime" bill wasn't up for passage in Congress.

[LS]

Everything I saw since this event suggests it had nothing to do with homosexuality and everything to do with drugs.

[xjcsa]

She should be “cesured” [sic] because she openly disagreed with the “official” mythology surrounding Shepherd’s death? Matthew Shepherd was brutally murdered, and there’s no excuse for that, but it had nothing to do with his being gay. He was killed by a couple of predatory meth addicts and that’s pretty much it.

The sister of one of the killers does some public speaking about the killing at churches and youth events; she has a fascinating story.

[Joann37]

Here were her exact comments: “The Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed,” Foxx, a Banner Elk Republican, said. “But we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay.

“The bill was named for him … but it’s really a hoax that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.”

Rep. Foxx just states that the motive for the crime was robbery, not him being gay. And as poster #5 states, the perps confirm their motive (that of robbery) to Elizabeth Vargas.

So what is Rep. Foxx’s big misstatement here? She just reiterated the motives as stated by the perps. Thousands of people are brutally murdered every year, regardless of their sexual preference? Are they any less dead, or did they suffer any less because they were NOT gay?

[Niteranger68]

I believe Fox is 100% correct and is one very courageous lady.

[sneakin]

Hey Keithy boy, I have one name for you, you bung face:

Jesse Dirkhising

You hatemonger.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Jesse Dirkhising

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Olber-twit should ask Jesse Dirkhising for his views on the legislation.

Oh, wait.

(Apologies to the family of Jesse for any unintended offense)

[ChocChipCookie]

Even though it seems to have been Rahm Emmanuel who coined the phrase about not wasting a crisis, it seems that it’s been the homosexual credo for a very long time.

[Non-Sequitur]

And as poster #5 states, the perps confirm their motive (that of robbery) to Elizabeth Vargas.

After the trial. Before and during, one of the defendants and other witnesses said that Sheppard's sexual orientation was a factor.

[digger48]

Former Laramie Police Detective Ben Fritzen, one of the lead investigators in the case, also believed robbery was the primary motive. "Matthew Shepard's sexual preference or sexual orientation certainly wasn't the motive in the homicide," he said.

"If it wasn't Shepard, they would have found another easy target. What it came down to really is drugs and money and two punks that were out looking for it," Fritzen said

[digger48]

Helping fuel the gay hate crime theory were statements made to police and the media by Kristen Price, McKinney's girlfriend. (Price was charged with felony accessory after-the-fact to first-degree murder. She later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor interference with police officers.)

Price now says that at the time of the crime she thought things would go easier for McKinney if his violence were seen as a panic reaction to an unwanted gay sexual advance.

But today, Price tells Vargas the initial statements she made were not true and tells Vargas that McKinney's motive was money and drugs. "I don't think it was a hate crime at all. I never did," she said.

[Neoliberalnot]

Shepard was about a drug deal gone bad. It just so happened that he enjoyed deviant sexual encounters, at least according the press, but he didn’t deserve to be beaten to death. Matt was simply a convenient homosexual to be used by the “gay” community to advance their victimhood political agenda. The marketing of deviance knows no virtue and Rep Foxx is pretty much right on target. Let us not forget that Jeff Dahmer also enjoyed deviance.

[Sudetenland]

How can telling the truth be "'despicable', insensitive and shameful?"

Hate crimes legislation criminalizes thought. It is "despicable, insensitive and shameful" in the way in which it treats our Constitution.

Representative Foxx deserves kudos for daring to speak the truth.

[RedStateGuyTrappedinCT]

I propose enactment of the Jesse Dirkhising hate crimes bill, which states any homosexual killing a child while committing a rape gets gets castrated and the offending organ shoved down said perpetrators own throat.

[catpuppy]

“Hate crime” laws emphasize hate and not crime. When we embrace such legislation we will wind up with more hate, more crime and less freedom.