Liberal Celebrities, Radio Hosts Make Baseless Jokes and Accusations That Marcus Bachmann Is Gayer Than Richard Simmons
The gay blog On Top reported that “comedian” Janeane Garofalo is the latest in a string of celebrities and activists suggesting Michele Bachmann’s therapist husband Marcus must be gay, including Cher, Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, and sex columnist/”It Gets Better” bully Dan Savage. Cher even said she wanted to strangle him.
This Marcus-is-gay line has also been a regular trope of liberal talk radio, from openly gay Stephanie Miller to Randi Rhodes to even Ron “Junior” Reagan, who knows something on this subject of aspersions from his ballet-dancing days.
On Saturday’s July 16 edition of the radio show Both Sides Now with Huffington and Matalin, Reagan was sitting in Arianna’s left-wing chair and disparaged the Bachmanns: They are motivated, among other things, primarily by hatred of homosexuals. It may be self-loathing in Marcus Bachmann's case."
On July 12, Stephanie Miller took an early turn: “We've been talking about well, you know wildly gay Marcus Bachmann among other things...A psychologist called from Minneapolis who was talking about really the dark side of this reparative therapy that is you know causing suicides in some places.”
But the big day for this baseless allegation/joking/bullying came on July 14. On her radio show, Randi Rhodes lamented the Bachmann clinic and the accusation that Dr. Bachmann used federal money for “pray away the gay” sessions: “Tthey charge the U.S. government Medicaid patients, OK, to de-gay gay people and then celebrate it! And you know it's interesting because Marcus Bachmann does set off, you know, gay-dar everywhere - so I guess it's safe to say now that even gayness they will hoard!”
That night, Garofalo told a former MSNBC host on Countdown: “This is not a criticism, but he seems to be quite gay to me...He's dealing with an issue that a lot of people who are vehemently anti-gay seem to be dealing with: their personal demons. I believe we were talking about with his reparative therapy, he's like 'You know when you're young you experiment' and so on and so forth, and I think he was referring to himself.” She called it “that Roy Cohn thing, of going after whatever your inner demon is, and the whole culture is dragged down with you.”
On the same night, Jerry Seinfeld appeared on the Daily Show to joke: “Dr. Marcus Bachmann buys Brawny paper towels for the packaging...He's so gay, Richard Simmons tells him to tone it down.”
Jon Stewart said Dr. Bachmann seems to be doing this "so he can hoard all the gayness for himself," and added Bachmann "dances and sounds not only gay, but center-square gay."
On Slate, William Saletan reported that in his “Savage Love” podcast on July 12, Dan Savage said the Bachmanns' marriage was frigid because Mr. Bachmann may have "tiptoed down" the road to homosexuality "just a couple of inches … maybe six, maybe seven." As evidence, Savage cited Bachmann's "mincing" in a YouTube clip, plus "the sound of his voice." He concluded that Bachmann "appears to be a lying closet case." Saletan, who began by noting he’s been wrongly identified as gay, concluded:
There's nothing new about calling somebody gay based on a lisp or a girlish gait. We all saw, did, or suffered it in grade school. What's unusual is seeing grown-up gays and liberals do it in 2011 with such open ridicule. But don't worry: The new queer-hunters are progressive.
Cher may have come first with OnTop reporting on July 1 that she was yelling in capital letters on Twitter: “Just heard Michele Bachmann's OH SO CHRISTIAN husband talk about 'Gays' in the most UNCHRISTIAN way WTF!...tell me what u think … Cause My Gay-Dar is GOING OFF!!!...I'm thinking GAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAYGAY Without Style!” Cher also insisted “I’m going to strangle him with my boa.”
- Tim Graham's blog
- Login to post comments
Comments
Why is the left always using homosexuality
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 7:58am.
as an epithet?
And I must be a practitioner of everything I don't agree with? The thought processes of the left leave little doubt that their tiny little brains are not evolved. There goes that theory!!
show of hands....
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 4:56pm.
Who doesn't think Garofalo looks like a meerkat with glasses?
What did a
Submitted by BMorgan53 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 6:13pm.
Meerkat ever do to you to get receive such a scathing comparison.
As I have no love for bugs, I'll say she compares favorably to preying mantis.
Indeed
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 7:07pm.
You're right. I feel awful. The nearest zoo is about an hour from my home, but I'll make the trip, seek out the 'kat enclosure and ask for forgiveness. Sometimes, I'm so insensitive.
Liberals sure do spew a lot of hate
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:11am.
on one hand they say being gay is "normal", then they use it in a case like this to defame someone. Our dr Sam could have a field day trying to diagnose these people.
That's what I was thinking.
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:25am.
That's what I was thinking. According to them, being gay is just wonderful, and yet they use it as an insult. Of course they will tell you that it''s not an insult; they're just pointing out that it's self-loathing on Bachmann's part.
Well if it is, I guess he is living proof that reparative therapy works.
That's what would have them pi$$ed off about the whole thing.
They don't think anyone who is gay should change, or want to change.
As for their claim that reparative therapy has caused suicides, that's another piece of propaganda. The fact that someone who is gay tried to change and committted suicide when he failed doesn't mean that the therapy caused their suicide.
Would they say the same thing about a pedophile who killed himself while undergoing therapy?
Meanwhile...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:26am.
They perpetuate gay stereotypes by talking about his voice and comparing him to Richard Simmons, etc.
Isn't that wrong when a conservative does it?
Ask their hero
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 11:36am.
Roman Polanksi.
Not quite...
Submitted by David in Houston on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:44pm.
There's a big difference between "defaming" someone and pointing out their extreme hypocrisy. If you want to learn more about self-loathing closet-cases that have made it their life's work demonizing gay people, do a Google search for Dr. George Rekers. Dr. Rekers spent 20 years trying to "cure" gay people. Then he was caught traveling with a male escort, who provided him with sexual services. Suffice to say, Dr. Rekers (and his ex-gay research) have been completely discredited.
The backstory of the Bachmann's is equally compelling. They didn't marry because they loved each other, or were attracted to each other. They married because God told them to. Although, Marcus didn't really want to get married at all. He wanted to travel around the world. So basically their marriage was more of an obligation to God, than to themselves. Did you ever wonder why Michelle believes that being gay is a choice? Well, if your husband claimed that God helped him not be gay anymore, wouldn't that motivate you to be vehemently anti-gay in your politics? If her husband could do it, why can't all those other gays out there? Did you ever wonder why the 23 children they adopted are ALL girls? A gay man wouldn't be a sexual threat around a house full of females, right?
Finally, how many straight people do you know of that refer to children as barbarians that need to be educated and disciplined? If you read his entire quote, you can tell he's talking about himself as well. Seriously, if it quacks like a gay duck, it probably is a gay duck. That's just common sense.
Well, he's not Todd Palin, is he.
Submitted by Texndoc on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:13am.
I'm just surprised the left jumped so quickly from their act that Bachmann was such a "serious contender" but this guy was just to juicy to put on the back burner I guess, and wait until AFTER she got on the ticket. And gee, Markos from "daily kos" had just started his "I really think it's going to be Bachmann V Obama!"
I understand their glee. I was Howard Dean's biggest Republican fan at one time.
Perry/Rubio 2012
Like Marcus cares..
Submitted by Ozconservative on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:14am.
Like Marcus cares about what this long list of irrelevant has-beens say about him. BTW please do not post pics of Garafolo without prior warning. Looking at that makes me nauseous.
Garofalo
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:16am.
Really does have Daddy issues. She's pathetic beyond a point that I can hate her. What a wretch.
Can I hate her for you?
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:47pm.
I've got plenty of room for more revulsion of her. ;-)
What's the latest objective on the gay agenda?
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:33am.
To combat bullying.
QED.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
Savage Dan atheist screed
Submitted by Tim Graham on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 8:56am.
Here's some of what Savage said in the first minutes of the July 19 podcast about the Bachmanns' story of being brought together by God:
You know this vision thing, you know, religious people having visions, like, setting aside the Bachmann's romantic-surgeless marriage, and their alternate-universe Bizarro World courtship, where neither of them wanted to marry the other, but God was giving them both visions of what must be.
This is not really the way heterosexuality works, is it? I say this as someone on the outside, but a frequent observer of the twilight world of the heterosexual, this isn't my impression of how it works. It's not like God drags you from the farm, and rubs your head, smacks your heads together, and then you have to marry this person on your vision quest. And setting aside, you know, Marcus Bachmann's reluctance to get within a million miles of this woman, this whole idea that you know, because you had a religious vision, that it's a good thing or it speaks well to your character, because you're in tune spiritually and you're paying attention to the s--t that God tells you to do.
In a court hearing on July 7 to determine the custody of a four-year-old boy who was left for dead on the side of a Texas highway, thrown out of a moving car by his father – I'm just going to quote from this story – "Rico told the police he choked his son before leaving it. He described it as a religious experience. Rico said to authorities that God told him to kill his son." Those religious visions, it's all fun and games in presidential politics and married faggots, until someone, like a four-year-old child, gets hurt.
When God sends you a vision, that means you need to go lie the f--k down! God doesn't communicate by visiongram. The s--t God tells you by visiongram is your own deluded self speaking to your own deluded self. Really, Michele Bachmann has no one to blame but Michele Bachmann for marrying Liberace's more effeminate younger brother.
Medication is Indicated
Submitted by ItchyZ on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 9:12am.
What a bunch of BARKING lunatics!!!
Homo-self-haters
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 9:26am.
Projection. That's what all this ado really is about.
Bill Maher -- accusing everyone he hates of Racism. But WHO exactly never lets a broadcast go by without a cursory mention of Obama's black-ness? As effeminate as they come ... always threatening to kick the ass off a audience loudmouth ... but he must resort to actually letting his bodyguards to the dirty-work.
Jeanean Garafalo is laughable. Just LOOK AT HER! The thick coke-bottle glasses, and the fat, dumpy house-frau figure ... and she's pointing fingers at ANYONE ELSE'S SEXUALITY!! This is the same girl in high-school that was always the target of picking her own snots and eating them.
Cher talking about strangling someone in her "BOA"? Is that the constricting kind?? Here's a women pushing 70?? ... and she still thinks she's a HOT SLUT! She's "hot" the same way last-nights McDonald's fries are hot after you've microwaved them into a steaming, wrinkled, damp bagful of slop ... good enough for the dog ... but not for today's lunch.
And Dan Savage ... the new King of the Queens -- who secretly has been heterosexual all along -- his problem is the effeminate way he walks and talks ... and the turn-off to everyone female. He resorts to craving boys, because he HAS TO.
Hypocrisy is on the left
Submitted by nkviking75 on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 9:41am.
If any Republican candidate is known to be on the conservative side of Christianity, he or she must be destroyed. The candidate, or the candidate's family, must be portrayed as hypocrites and religious nuts. Yet let their candidate, who is now president, belong to the church of a black racist for 20 years or portray himself as a near-messianic figure, complete with an inordinate number of people fainting in the aisles and pictures shot in such a way that he appears to have a halo, and we get not a peep from the MSM.
The left loves to scream about haters on the right, and yet they are consumed by hate. The hypocrisy is on the left.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
So that's the story?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 10:42am.
The official propaganda of the Democrat party is that any Republican woman who succeeds outside the trailblazing tutelage of a strong political man, must be married to a homosexual?
You know? for a party so accepting of homosexual behavior, Democrats sure do make fun of homosexuals a lot.
Truth is, Democrats know homosexuality is wrong, else they wouldn't use it as an insult so often.
Interesting
Submitted by panzerakc on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 12:49pm.
"The official propaganda of the Democrat party is that any Republican woman who succeeds outside the trailblazing tutelage of a strong political man, must be married to a homosexual?"
Now there's one script that was never used against Sarah Palin!
Alinsky Alert
Submitted by JPP on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 10:59am.
This is right out of the book..... Ridicule your enemy.
Saul would be so proud of his little minions.
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 12: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)
This coming from a woman whose career is
Submitted by Kenyon Schraeder on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 11:22am.
so utterly lackluster that it lends credence to the old line "even bad press is better than no press at all". Her recent gig in the since-cancelled TV series Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior helped to keep her mouth shut all the while she was filming it. Now, once again gainfully unemployed, she's desperately trying to interject herself into anything that might be considered "newsworthy" by the liberal press. Predictable.
Gays can not admit the truth about sexuality.
Submitted by VanPastorMan on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 12:15pm.
Sexual attraction is not as static as people say it is. You hear about a man who has been married for 20 yrs and he suddenly realizes he is gay. You also hear about a woman who, "fell in love" with a woman. Gays and lesbians try to say that for their entire lives these kinds of people have lived a lie. The truth is sexuality is not static. Some people move in and out of different types of sexual relationships. The reasons why people do these things is varied. After saying all this I point out that it works both ways. People move from hetero to homo, and they move from homo to hetero. Whether Mr. Bachmann has ever had sex with other men is immaterial. The truth is reparative therapy does work, because people can move from homo to hetero. This is the dirty secret that the gay agenda doesn't want anyone to know.
Completely false...
Submitted by David in Houston on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:13pm.
The man that has been married for 20 years was NEVER straight. Societal peer-pressure made him do what every other man did 20 years ago... marry a woman and have children. Regardless of his sexual orientation. Regardless if he was attracted to her. Regardless if he loved her. He got married and had children because that was the expected behavior of every man (and woman).
Case in point, Pastor Jim Swilley of a Georgia megachurch. He was married for 20 years. Had four children. And was a closeted gay man the entire time:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/14/jim-swilley-gay-pastor_n_783279...
It is virtually impossible to make a gay person straight, and vice versa. You can get a gay person to "act" like a straight person, and force them to repress their feelings until they're basically devoid of sexual attractions to anyone. But that does not make them straight. Even so-called ex-gay organizations like Exodus International have admitted that it is impossible to change someone's sexual orientation.
Someone throws out a hypothetical, and you rule on it.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:30pm.
Now why don't you come back over here and provide proof of your claim that American wives were once the property of their husbands.
That's the way things work around here... you just don't go around dropping turds and then flounce away to another thread without being held to task for them.
Here you go...
Submitted by David in Houston on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:50pm.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_were_US_women_no_longer_the_property_of_t...
It was my mistake to assume that you had common knowledge about American history. Sorry to have made that assumption.
The incredible hypocrisy and
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 12:42pm.
The incredible hypocrisy and double-standards revealed by those committing the malicious attacks against Bachmann are just completely off the scale.
Argh
Submitted by panzerakc on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 12:44pm.
Stupid comment placement!
Must be slim pickin's in the...
Submitted by P. Aaron on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 12:47pm.
...gay world lookin' for love when they gotta project their desires upon the straight.
Oh Yah?!!!
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 1:37pm.
Well...that limp wristed Obama is gayer than cross-dresser Flip Wilson. So there. Is Moochelle getting any lately? He he he he...
______________________________________________________________________________
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
And they call us homophobes!
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:13pm.
And they call us homophobes!
Chastity's harsh words for her Mother
Submitted by felizagain on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:15pm.
Again, the tolerant left on parade. Bachman is speaking what he believes as a Christian and a therapist. He's not dragging people in off the street or doing a Phelps protest. He's being respectful and talking. That's about it. Right or wrong, agree or disagree, the man is not doing anything illegal or flamboyant or mean.
Then again, if I recall correctly, Chastity Bono had some very harsh words for her mother, and her reaction to the fact her daughter is gay, and had a sex change. Cher's acceptance of that took a long, long time. That's for a legendary gay icon.
Her book, and past interviews, show Chastity has some ugly words for Mom's unhappiness w/her coming out early in life.
I love how Miller and others, who ask for respect and privacy, are the first to toss out slurs and accusations. Based on what?
The fact the guy is a therapist, talks like a therapist, isn't a lumberjack or community organizer.
From Perry, Romney, and now Bachman's husband....typical.
The left is going to label anyone they dislike and question gay, w/o anything other than a dislike of them as a reason.
If they are, that means what? They're hypocrites? They're closet freaks? Or, they aren't, and that means what? To be
labeled gay isn't a slur...oh, I get it. It's a compliment. I guess so, that would mean your income is above average, as is your
education level.
So - what then? Liberals admitting here that they hate gays?
Submitted by Slyrr on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 3:49pm.
Leftist loons seem to be mocking gays with all this talk. What's up with that? I thought Leftists loved gay people, adored them and flossed gay people's toes with their own tongues to show how much they love them.
Yet these leftists speak now as if being gay is something to be ashamed of, to mock, deride and laugh at.
Where's you're consistency, lefties? Is being gay 'cool' or not?