{"id":107,"date":"2006-01-24T20:03:36","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T01:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/107"},"modified":"2006-01-24T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T01:03:36","slug":"mainstream-guardians-of-our-civil-discourse-continued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/107","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream Guardians Of Our Civil Discourse… (continued)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Atrios, More fun with Tweety<\/a>…(you have to scroll down the article a bit…)<\/p>\n

Gay-rights activists are blasting Don Imus and sidekick Bernard McGuirk as gay-bashers, Last week, when fellow MSNBC talker Chris Matthews asked Imus if he'd seen the cowboy love story \"Brokeback Mountain,\" Imus sneered, \"Why would I want to see that?\" He added that McGuirk had his own name for the movie - a crude candy reference we'll skip. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called the \"slurs\" a \"juvenile display of homophobia.\" MSNBC has apologized for the banter.... <\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Let’s review, again via Atrios<\/a>:<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS (1\/18\/06): Have you gone to see it yet? I've seen everything else but that. I just...<\/p>\n

IMUS: No, I haven't seen it. Why would I want to see that?<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: I don't know. No opinion on that. I haven't seen it either, so...<\/p>\n

IMUS: So they were...it was out when I was in New Mexico and...it doesn't resonate with real cowboys who I know.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Yeah...<\/p>\n

IMUS: But then, maybe there's stuff going on on the ranch that I don't know about. Not on my ranch, but you know...<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Well, the wonderful Michael Savage, who's on 570 in DC, who shares a station with you at least, he calls it [laughter]...what's he call it?...he calls it Bare-back Mount-ing. That's his name for the movie.<\/p>\n

IMUS: Of course, Bernard calls it Fudgepack Mountain... <\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That wonderful Michael Savage. Heh. Wonderful. Yes. Even more Tweety wonderfulness here<\/a> and here<\/a>. I used to think he was just a TV talking head idiot. But no…he’s a thug, just like the rest of them. A Bush base thug. And scratch a Bush base thug and you’ll find a bar stool bigot every fucking time. I guarantee it. When CNN started the first 24 hour cable news network it was hailed as a revolution in journalism. But what you have to realize about revolutions is that most of them end up becoming a tyranny of despots. CNN and MSNBC have been racing each other to the bottom of the gutter ever since Monica, and there is no bottom.<\/p>\n