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The Worst Fox News-Google Debate Moment: Audience Boos a Gay Soldier
The Atlantic ^ | September 23, 2011 | Garance Franke-Ruta

Posted on 09/23/2011 12:19:04 AM PDT by lbryce

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To: VietVet

If you say you will put DADT back—you will get the military vote.
The privacy of the ballot protects from being arrested by the PC MPs for the new military thought crime of “homophobia.”


21 posted on 09/23/2011 1:03:12 AM PDT by Happy Rain ("Yer it!")
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To: Darkwolf377

The Democratic party of John F. Kennedy (before the commies took control) had to deal with this kind of thing in the 60s when some Strom Thurmond Dixiecrat goons stood up and went wacko with a cheer or a boo from time to time. It wasnt always cut and dry blatent or intended to be an intentional symbol of hatred, but it looks terrible on television.

the only difference is that the media was not against the Dems in those days. they are against us


22 posted on 09/23/2011 1:05:26 AM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative
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To: icanhasbailout

The economy is collapsing in unsustainable debt and this is the most important issue........MY A**!

(No Pun Intended)


23 posted on 09/23/2011 1:05:26 AM PDT by Nextrush (President Sarah Palin sounds just right to me)
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

I don’t think people are thinking strategery... ;) ...but they should.

I hope people enjoyed that boo, cuz you can be sure we’re going to be seeing it over and over and over in the coming months leading up to the election. And it won’t be our side repeating it.


24 posted on 09/23/2011 1:09:10 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (undecided)
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To: Nextrush

Exactly. Anyone who thinks the gay rights agenda is worth a place in the national conversation has way different priorities than the average person.


25 posted on 09/23/2011 1:14:23 AM PDT by icanhasbailout
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To: lbryce

How do we know that some of the booers at these debates weren’’t agents-provocateurs planted by the other side? (Inquiring minds want to know).


26 posted on 09/23/2011 1:14:39 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Anybody but Baracchio in 2012)
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To: All

Santorum got it dead on.

That soldier wanted to out himself as gay and people didn’t approve—just like that gay military magazine said—GET OVER IT.


27 posted on 09/23/2011 1:15:21 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: lbryce

The Germans heckled 0bidi0t on his 08 Euro tour. He cancelled France the next day.


28 posted on 09/23/2011 1:19:06 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: Darkwolf377

Ever stop to think they were booing the question? The fact that he exposes himself (no pun intended)opens him up for reactions such as this. His service is respected; his lifestyle is not.

We have had to grant special status to homosexuals and told to shut up. Just as this soldier exercises his free speech and freedom of association, so too did the audience.


29 posted on 09/23/2011 1:29:10 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: lbryce

There is a difference between booing a question asked, which was a “gotcha” question and the person asking it for his personal beliefs, actions, etc.

This author is doing what all liberals do in pulling the race card on anyone who asks a similar question of OZERO or criticizes him in any way.


30 posted on 09/23/2011 1:35:22 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: NTHockey

With gays, it is “Hi, I’m GAY” first and foremost. That they are soldiers, or teachers (or whatever) appears to be secondary to their gay agenda. This is an indicator of the narcissism that permeates their “me first” thinking. It is they who can’t seem to “get over it (being gay).” In essence, they are proclaiming their “special status” and expectations to be coddled like babies.


31 posted on 09/23/2011 1:54:06 AM PDT by EverOnward
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To: EverOnward

The vice that dare not speak its name has become the vice that won’t shut up.


32 posted on 09/23/2011 2:03:40 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: icanhasbailout

The unbridled narcissism of gays is the reason people dislike them. It’s ALWAYS about them and their precious sexuality - world wide, 24/7/365.

Economy tanking? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

Country overrun by illegals? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

War in Afghanistan/Iraq/Libya/Somalia/etc a disastrous embarrassment? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

Government schools turning out indoctrinated morons? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

Government trying to disarm the citizens through Fast & Furious? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

Terrorist cells forming throughout the land? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

Feral gangs taking over large swaths of our country? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

EPA ruining our energy and industrial and agricultural competitiveness? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

Dollar worthless? Earthquakes and tsunamis? Corruption and graft? Public union thuggery? Iran getting nukes? People don’t like where I like to put my penis.

Aren’t you people listening??? I said, people don’t like where I like to put my penis!!! I’m gonna get the government to FORCE you to like where I like to put my penis. My PENIS! My precious PENIS!!! You understand? MY PENIS!!! It’s a Gay Penis! It’s ALL I care about, and I’m gonna force you to care about it and love it like I do. You hear?!! MY PENIS!!!!!


33 posted on 09/23/2011 2:06:40 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: lbryce

I agree in principle, but in both these cases (the previous debate) I saw it as more booing the policy, not the individuals involved.

That said, don’t go there!


34 posted on 09/23/2011 2:12:44 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Santorum gained a lot of ground tonight, IMHO.

I think once Perry fades (and he will), Santorum will emerge as the candidate best-suited to take on Romney and win.

And I’m not a person who has paid the least bit of attention to Santorum in this race. But in the last two debates he has spoken with authenticity, not in canned soundbites. He also seems quite relaxed and simply focused on making points that are meaningful to the country’s problems.


35 posted on 09/23/2011 2:15:57 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
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To: lbryce
Wow! Go, Rick! I hope Santorum hangs in. He is a terrific conservative, regardless of the grudge held by some nincompoops around here because he made a political miscalculation and didn't endorse Pat Toomey over Arlen Specter back in 2004. (Ironically, Toomey has said he supports the sodomization of the US military. He will not get another vote from me.)

Faggot soldiers who want to push the radical homosexual agenda on the US military make me throw up in my mouth a little.

36 posted on 09/23/2011 2:16:43 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Speaking of that, has Obama ever gotten around to getting the UCMJ changed or is he expecting homosexuals to be celibate so as to be compliant with the Code?


37 posted on 09/23/2011 2:17:24 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
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To: Marty62

That’s a little over-dramatic, don’t you think?

Most people understand that boorish behavior is representative of the individuals engaging in it.


38 posted on 09/23/2011 2:19:11 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
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To: EverOnward; All

We can all do our part to stop this “I’m special” treatment by refusing to use PC jargon. These people are NOT gay; they are homosexuals. Just as the terrorists are Mohammedans, not Muslims.

I am sure that there are many other instances where we have been forced t accept an increasingly “words mean what I say they mean” environment. STOP IT NOW!


39 posted on 09/23/2011 2:20:15 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: Darkwolf377

I didn’t think he was being booed for his behavior. I thought the policy was being booed and then the booing stopped as soon as it became clear that the soldier was FOR homosexuals in the military.

IOW, at first, I thought, and perhaps the audience did as well, that the soldier was in the process of saying “what are you going to do about this atrocious politicalization of the military that was the repeal of DADT?”

Anyway, clearly people should be more measured in their responses.


40 posted on 09/23/2011 2:22:44 AM PDT by fightinJAG (Please stop posting "helpful hints" in parentheses the title box. Thank you.)
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