MSNBC's Thomas Roberts: A GOP President Would 'Extinguish' Gays
Following the media's relentless coverage of the Bachmann clinic and their semi-humorous insinuations that Marcus Bachmann might be gay, MSNBC's Thomas Roberts, who is himself openly gay, told viewers today the Republican presidential contender would try to wipe out gays and lesbians.
"But you will replace [Obama] with a person who would extinguish you," Roberts protested Friday morning to Jimmy LaSalvia, executive director of GOProud, a gay conservative organization opposing Obama's reelection.
[VIDEO BELOW THE FOLD. MP3 audio here.]
Roberts' outburst came in response to LaSalvia's statement that GOProud was trying to arrange a meeting with the Minnesota congresswoman. "We're reaching out to all of the presidential candidates because, frankly, gay Americans are living in the Obama economy too, and it's important that we beat him next November and replace this failed president."
During the course of the interview, Roberts tried to get LaSalvia to openly criticize Bachmann on air, stating that Bachmann "doesn't believe that you have a right in this country to get married, that believes you don't even have a right in this country to be gay because she co-owns a clinic that will convert you," said Roberts.
LaSalvia kept the discussion on the topic of defeating Obama, and did not openly attack Bachmann. "I think all the presidential candidates should hear our perspective as gay Americans who, like you, live our lives openly and honestly because we bring a unique perspective to our American experience, and think it's important for anyone running for that office to hear that perspective."
A transcript of the exchange, which aired at 11:50 on Friday's MSNBC Live, follows.
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MSNBC Live
July 22, 2011
11:50 a.m.
THOMAS ROBERTS: Well, that is something that affects everybody across this country. It doesn't have to be - it doesn't have to be with the LGBT community, it talks about all Americans. But I do want to talk about what GOProud is doing in reaching out an invitation to Michele Bachmann to take a meeting. Where does that stand right now? Has the Bachmann camp gotten back to you? Will they meet with you?
JIMMY LASALVIA: Well, at this point we are having a dialogue with them. And when there's something to report, I'll let you know. You know, we're reaching out to all of the presidential candidates because, frankly, gay Americans are living in the Obama economy too, and it's important that we beat him next November and replace this failed president. So we're reaching out -
ROBERTS: But you will replace him with a person that would extinguish you. You're replacing him with a person that doesn't believe that that you have a right in this country to get married, that believes you don't even have a right in this country to be gay because she co-owns a clinic that will convert you.
LASALVIA: Well, I think all the presidential candidates should hear our perspective as gay Americans who, like you, live our lives openly and honestly because we bring a unique perspective to our American experience. And I think it's important for anyone running for that office to hear that perspective.
–Eric Ames is a News Analysis intern at the Media Research Center.
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Yep, and I'm all for
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:08pm.
Yep, and I'm all for 'extinguishing libs, welfare addicts, inner-city breeders, illegal aliens, Moooooooooooooooooooooslems, most lawyers and insurance people, useless people living off of somebody else, most politicians (did I just repeat myself???)................mmmmm.......I'm sure I've forgotten something else here.
And this guy can take Dan 'I hope all Republicans f**king die' Savage and the Lemon Squeezer and Bawney Frump and head off to some deserted island for a lifetime of fun and games..........
Bingo!!!
Submitted by Joe W. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:31pm.
I like the way you think, my friend.. I'd love to extinguish those "Hyphenated-Americans" as well. You know...those that refuse to assimilate to being just an American? Mexican-Americans...African-Americans...Progressive-Americans......
This is off-topic, but I'm
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:36pm.
This is off-topic, but I'm just reading about a big blast at the PM's office in Oslo, Norway.........and a shoot-up at some youth camp at the same time - allegedly by Moooooooooooooooooooslem jihadist's who are mad about some cartoons or something.
I'm just wondering how the press will report it here........
killa,
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:43pm.
It will be blamed on white middle-class Americans.
Just like Janet Nobrainatallo said.
:-^)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Yeah, I DID read that
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:51pm.
Yeah, I DID read that Incompitano said that!!! Un-friggin'-believable!!! But these Norwegians are also white and middle-class, and they DID insult the 'religion of peace', so it probably will be THEIR intolerant fault, right???
Sat morning
Submitted by almostacowboy on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 2:43pm.
they're sayin' the guy is an ultra-right wing nationalist that posted his views on Christian web sites. Now, if they can just tie him some how to Rupert Murdock and the TEA Party Reuter's will petition the Pope to canonize him.
Yeah, I saw that.........I'm
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 3:08pm.
Yeah, I saw that.........I'm not sure where they got the 'friends of global jihad' thing. But, in a liberal, socialist country like Norway, how can the guy be an 'ultra-right wing nationalist'??? Weren't the Nazi's called the same thing??? They certainly weren't 'right-wing' to my understanding of the term - although it's all relative, depending on how the press wants to spin it.
Look for the Christianity connection to be played up big-time also.............and, like you say, any other way to connect this with any conservative point of view.
Meanwhile, it's a real tragedy...........like I said in another post, I hope this guy doesn't get some 'slick' American lawyer who can get him off with some BS defense...........
Did you hear that from al jazeera?
Submitted by SLUGGO on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 9:43am.
I'm curious. The guy arrested was a white norwegian. He confessed.
Sluggo
Well, Slugtrail, I see you have your Sunday already planned out.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 10:02am.
"Let's go visit 2-day old posts @NB and everywhere else, get all sanctimonious and pretend like THE WHOLE EFFING WORLD didn't suspect MOOOOSLMS."
That would be your idea of a great Sunday I guess. I'm going fishing.
Whole world?
Submitted by SLUGGO on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 10:08am.
You've been watching "Whole World News"?
That's not what is playing in Europe. You know, where it actually happened?
Good luck fishing today. Stay cool, I hear it's going to be another scorcher in the USA today.
Sluggo
Sluggs*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 11:12am.
another scorcher in the USA today...not sure about the accuracy of that comment. We here in the coastal south are having a very unusual "cooling" period. While some areas are scorching, we are enjoying a week of temps in the 80's. Guess they dont have that in in the news in Europe where AGW is a foregone conclusion, right?
Europe is on board with climate change
Submitted by SLUGGO on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 11:17am.
But that has "what" to do with my comments?
Sluggo
I'm as up to date on the
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 2:46pm.
I'm as up to date on the coverage as anybody else is now, I'm sure..........so my initial post was based on breaking news, and it was incorrect. I"ve been reading a lot of the comments coming out of Norway and the European news outlets - as well as reading some of this guys ranting on the internet. The guy is obviously crazy as a loon..........and since he's a 'right-wing extremist', you can bet your bottom dollar that the MSM will be riding that horse into the sunset.
To tell you the truth - I actually AGREE with some of the things that the guy wrote!!!
Which news outlets were they?
Submitted by SLUGGO on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 9:05am.
News of the World? No probably not that one.
Don't you fret, little one. GoOPers have their own high horse this week. I hear another democrat has copped to a sex scandal.
Sluggo
most lawyers?
Submitted by mandrake on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:19pm.
Man, you must have been in some serious legal trouble if you think there is a lawyer worth a damn.
Actually, I've had minimal
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 6:44pm.
Actually, I've had minimal dealings with lawyers in my life and career, and I even know a couple of 'em. I just think that they have expanded exponentially to where they are a 'skyscraper industry', as opposed to a 'cottage industry'........and they're in positions to make the rest of our lives harder - and at OUR expense!!! You KNOW that in most other countries it's not like this at all.
I can remember saying - many many moons ago, when I was probably too young and dumb to even be making such a statement - that there should have been a moritorium put on lawyers starting somewhere in the 60's.............and I believe that even more today!!!
No Republican Presidential candidate has stated . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:40pm.
. . . that homosexuals don't have a right to be gay, let alone extinguish them.
Once again MSNBC blurts out a complete fabrication to its dim but obedient audience.
And they claim Fox News lies?
Gays extinguished...
Submitted by adamsmith on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 11:19am.
As I've written previously, science will eliminate homosexuals. When the gene for homosexuality can be identified in the developing fetus, most if not all parents will opt for abortion. What parent would willingly have a gay kid? Kind of like what goes on with Downs Syndrome kids now. Most parents choose to abort. People are choosing how many embryos to implant today and choose the sex of the embryos that are to survive. So, it will be science that ultimately thins out the herd when it comes to homosexuals. There won't be any in another 30 years. Like Bob Dylan used to sing, "Oh the times they are a-changin'"............
You cannot be serious!
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:44pm.
In the words of the immortal John McEnroe..You cannot be serious.
"What parent would willingly have a gay kid"..Those are your words.
Given the choice between a 'gay' kid and none at all I'll pick gay..And by the way your post is insulting to all children with Downs Syndrome JERK.
We're all waiting
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:52pm.
for you to source your "Kind of like what goes on with Downs Syndrome kids now. Most parents choose to abort." extremely offensive remark. You do have sources to back up that contention, correct?
Well keep waiting
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:57pm.
It's kind of offensive to anyone who doesn't believe in abortion..I don't have a 'source' but I think there might a few who agree.
Mandrake, read the entire post,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 2:14pm.
it was addressed to adamsmith, not you.
My bad
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 2:24pm.
I'm in the middle of making lunch..so I was distracted.
I just got a "OFF® Gay Extinguisher" for my patio.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 1:24pm.
It's working great so far, except for that unfortunate episode last Monday night... I found three of them under the picnic table and I actually had to hose them down before chasing them off.
Flaming gays.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:20pm.
Who knew they would spontaneously combust.
You Didn't Build That.
So much for the government press.
Submitted by Thalpy on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:02pm.
Bachmann's clinic can't extinguish gays, but you can be assured that Sharia law can-and will. I doubt that the fool Thomas Roberts will discuss that issue.
Dear Jimmy's brainwashed & thus deluded, like most of the world
Submitted by russedav on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:02pm.
There's no such thing as "gay" or the "homosex-" fraud and never was, for those not stupid enough to buy the historical and especially Biblical illiteracy and historical revisionism of today's lying, immoral degenerate antiChristian bigotry leading us to the destruction of true marriage with the asinine betrayal of a counterfeit. See "The gay invention" at http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=18-10-036-f
and www.drJudithReisman.org for how fascist pervert Kinsey almost single-handedly decimated our morals jurisprudence without the world firing a shot. Also see http://exodus.to for how many have excaped the fascist sodomite deathstyle-in-denial and found love and families of their own versus the sterile, narcissistic counterfeit of those who censor them. Why won't pervert "gays" who demand to be heard let "ex-gays" who've rejected their message be heard? Why do they threaten their kids in their successful campaign to censor them? What are they afraid of Americans hearing, the truth that they're not "born that way" but have made a choice to pander to perversion, as has the lying fascist baby butcher Demonc rap party of Slavery, Socialism, mySogeny and Sodomy?
Plant?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:27pm.
Plant? I think so.
Go away, troll.
Sorry....
Submitted by adamsmith on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 11:25am.
But homosexuality isn't a choice. They are genetically predisposed to be attracted to the same sex. To believe it is a choice is equivalent to saying Black people are black because they choose to be. There's no such thing as an "ex-gay". Try to name one.............
David Bowie.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 11:48am.
.
Barack
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:09pm.
Barack Obama????...................oh, sorry, you said 'ex'.
Stephen Bennett,
Submitted by UpNorth on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:55pm.
Richard Weller. There's two for you.
Ok, you're on.
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sun, 07/24/2011 - 1:50am.
Sy Simon. I win.
Homosexual actions ARE choices. You can be predisposed to anything -- everyone has their own struggles. The question is, are you responsible for your actions? You can't be a conservative and argue that you don't have any control over yourself. So, adamsmith, you are faced with either denying that people inclined towards homosexuality can't control themselves (but the rest of us can), or you're arguing that no-one can really control themselves. Either way, that doesn't square with personal responsibility, which a bedrock conservative value.
And I also have to question how much you know about homosexuality. At least in men, there is ZERO scientific evidence alleging any difference in physiology. However, there's quite a bit of evidence suggesting that psychological factors play a role -- specifically lack of love from the father or male role model early in life.
Visions and Principles blog
So is being a pedophile a
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Mon, 07/25/2011 - 7:20am.
So is being a pedophile a choice or a serial killer ... and the list goes on. If one thing is genetic predisposition then all is genetic predisposition. Hitler cant be blamed for his actions because he had no choice.
Thomas Roberts really
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:29pm.
Thomas Roberts really believes that is a GOP POTUS takes over there will be some sort of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp where they would "extinguish" homosexuals?!?
Talk about paranoia and fear-mongering!
Logically, then
Submitted by panzerakc on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:47pm.
There shouldn't be any gay people in the US right now. I mean, there was a Republican in the White House prior to Obama, right? Didn't GW wipe them all out?
Apparently they reproduce like rabbits
Submitted by bkeyser on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:57pm.
oh wait...
Maybe you can photoshop
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 6:46pm.
Maybe you can photoshop Savage and the Lemon Squeezer to look like two little bi-racial rabbits - reproducing.................
Yes, Tommy Bobby does believe that.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:54pm.
In his feverish imagination, an imposing iron gate materializes:
"Abandon All Hope Of Entering There."
Noooo! The GOP's agenda Is nothing less than pure genocide.
Hate Crime?!?
Submitted by scarebear83 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:51pm.
Anyone else notice the graphic that says "hate crime controversy?" So because Bachmann wants to help gay people it's now considered a hate crime? Welcome to the new America.
Neither does Obama
Submitted by Model850 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:54pm.
Roberts: Bachmann "doesn't believe that you have a right in this country to get married...."
LaSalvia should have pointed out that apparently Obama doesn't either.
He does? The New York Times thinks otherwise.
enough
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 2:58pm.
They got their Military rights, marriage rights and most everything they protest about. Enough is in order. There are numerous other policies that need much more attention. Give it a dam rest and go live your live's..........please!!
I couldn't agree more,
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 1:14pm.
I couldn't agree more, grannie................I'm SICK of this gay crap, or this Moooooooooooooooslem crap, or the endangered snails crap, or any of this other way-down-the-lilst crap of useless importance - in an era and a time in history where we are in survival mode. Nobody's stopping any of these people from getting up every day and living their lives, just like you or I do, so get the friggin' hell out of my face and get on with your own damn life - and DON'T expect me to pay for it or give up something that I have worked my ass of for in order for you to get what you want!!!
It's a good thing lefties
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:01pm.
It's a good thing lefties don't fear-monger, huh?
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"Stream of consciousness" interviewing technique?
Submitted by CobraMan on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:04pm.
"But you will replace him with a person that would extinguish you. You're replacing him with a person that doesn't believe that that you have a right in this country to get married, that believes you don't even have a right in this country to be gay because she co-owns a clinic that will convert you."
He's just making this crap up as he goes, isn't he?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Yahda Yahda Yahda
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:10pm.
And Reagan developed AIDS to eradicate gays. Play the gay card, sexist card, racist card, they're all the same. Don't you dare be critical of a gay, feminist, or black, or you are intolerant and you want to eliminate gays, put women back in the kitchen, or return to slavery.
What is really pathetic is that straight white male leftists, misogynist white male leftists, and white male race baiters, are the ones mostly making these claims. Shame on them for using other people to prop up their monstrously wrong political positions.
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http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
If this socialist agenda continues*
Submitted by cajun2 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:27pm.
Ordinary patriotic American private sector wage earners will be "extinguished". They want to destroy the very values, beliefs and the economic system that made us the greatest country. Now they want us to be in line with the same drab boring unexceptional socialist countries in the rest of the world.
I say we KILL the beast!
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 3:20pm.
The media are acting a lot like Gaston from the 'Beauty and the Beast' animated movie. The Beast had existed for years and never harmed a single villager. But because Gaston had an agenda to push, he used scaremonger tactics to whip up a mob. He painted the harmless Beast as a monster with 'killer claws' who would 'make off with their children', that the Beast was 'stalking them at night'. All of which were lies.
When a media figure uses such language, I know they're lying at once. So now BS-NBC is painting horror stories about republicans presidents who will flood the streets with nazis to 'extinguish' gays, eh? What exactly does he mean by 'extinguish'? Conveniently, he leaves that out.
Mob raisers across the ages have done the same thing, saying that the people they don't like are lurking out there in the bushes, just waiting to jump out and snuff you out.
By speaking like this - they're admitting that they're desperate. Their quiet lies aren't working fast enough for their taste and now they want faster results. Pathetic.
Liberalism truly is a mental disease.
Submitted by johnsonl on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 4:15pm.
Have any of you idiots in the MSM considered that since the majority of us (American voters) are conservative, that perhaps the majority of gays are conservative as well?
What's next? "GOP conservatives roast babies. Film at 11."
Good gravy.
Desperation is a stinky cologne. It's only going to get worse as Jan. 20, 2013 approaches. Dems/libs/socialists are going to lose it all, for a very long time, at least four election cycles and maybe more. Now, they'll have to *GASP!* get jobs! It's a good thing that there will be some, come time.
Now, they'll have to *GASP!* get jobs!
Submitted by phryingphish on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 5:41pm.
Only after Republicans make the jobs.
Republicans...
Submitted by adamsmith on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 11:59am.
Republicans don't make jobs any more than the Government does. It's Republican principles of less regulation and taxation that will allow entrepreneurs to start businesses that can survive long enough to create additional jobs as the business becomes more profitable. Amazing I still have to explain this to brainwashed Moonbats. Democrats can only do one thing to get elected, buying votes from the ill informed and the non-educated. If they were honest about what they really stand for, ie. Corruption, they'd never get elected in the first place...
Better yet
Submitted by phryingphish on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 5:43pm.
Why don't the Dems just have the goverment hire everyone then there would be zero unemployment. Ta Da! all our problems solved!
You are wrong again Mr. Roberts
Submitted by BMorgan53 on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 6:51pm.
The only folks wanting to extinguish gays are Muslims.
If a homosexual started on
Submitted by mattm on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:14pm.
If a homosexual started on fire, I'd extinguish him, just to be nice.
~He'd appreciate that
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:21pm.
I think they call it a "golden shower" or something like that.
The Augean stable of of the media
Submitted by needle on Fri, 07/22/2011 - 10:35pm.
More "civil" speech coming to you from MSNBC.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Other armies...
Submitted by DeweyD on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 2:40am.
Islamic fighters' confidence goes up knowing that the US will openly use homosexual infidels in war.
Is this Concentration Camps for Gays a New Thing?
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 8:36am.
I'm just curious, because Nixon didn't do it, Reagan didn't do it, Bush (dad) didn't do it, and Bush "W" didn't do it. Given that none of them thought that a Gayschwitz was needed then, and that there's no support for anything even close to that on the right, where does he get the idea that this is desired by anyone? The man is insane.
Visions and Principles blog
GOP president would extinguish gays?
Submitted by djm159 on Sat, 07/23/2011 - 8:30pm.
Then by all means let's vote the GOP into office forthwith, toot sweet and asap.