[republicofdavis]

"I was asking what insults did he have ready to lob (it sonded as if you were implying he is a closet "homophobe")."

I just think that the vast, vast majority of people, even those who are the most against homosexuals, would bust out with "Go get AIDS and die." That just sounds like something he normally says or likes to drop on liberals when he knows he's off the air. I could be wrong of course and we'll probably never know. But I doubt he would have said it if he'd known the mike was on.

[weegee]

I won't defend AIDS jokes (but then I won't defend leprosy, ebola, or alzheimer's jokes either).

That said, Hong Kong films have a number of AIDS jokes/insults in them. No one is shown with graphic AIDS sores. Maybe they offer some gallows humor on SARS over there as well.

Tiny Tim recorded a cut about how Santa won't be around because he has AIDS this year.

It is an illness. Anyone could get it. There has been an extensive campaign to tell Americans that it is not (just) a homosexual disease.

It would seem that AIDS is unlike other illnesses though because it has been politicized. The CDC doesn't even track infections the same as with other STDs (anonymity is big).

Homosexual are also a politically protected class of individual.

This was Michael Savage's crime, not being PC.

BTW, should administrators pull all ONION threads since they made a fake article that was in bad taste refering to Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer's?