{"id":63,"date":"2006-03-03T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T22:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/wordpress\/63"},"modified":"2006-03-03T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T22:57:15","slug":"see-see-homos-do-die-in-their-forties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/63","title":{"rendered":"See? See? Homos Do Die In Their Forties!"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m watching my local NBC affiliate do their nightly news thing, and I notice that the story about the West Virginia police chief who prevented a gay man who was dying of a heart attack from getting CPR<\/a> had drawn the attention of the mainstream news media. I’ve been meaning to say something here about that, because the story really shines a cold hard light on the reality of what decades of relentless gay bashing by the religious right and the republicans does to gay people, but I’m still deep in this sleepless funk I’ve been in for weeks now and my outrage buffer is so maxed out now that I’m like that dog in those David lynch cartoons<\/a> that just stands rigidly at the end of its leash completely immobilized by anger and I haven’t been able to type a word or skritch a line on paper for weeks now. But…I digress…<\/p>\n

So…anyway…the news story deliberately obscures key facts of the story because the facts are so completely damning and journalists can’t take sides, and especially they can’t take sides when there are dead homosexuals involved. So when someone says that police chief Robert K. Bowman prevented Claude Green’s friend Billy Snead from giving him CPR, and tried to discourage the paramedics from doing the same because according to Bowman Green had HIV, never mind that they don’t bother pointing out that the reason the EMS workers ignored the drooling moron and kept on giving Green CPR was because you can’t fucking catch HIV from giving somebody CPR, they basically leave out of the story the part about how Green actually didn’t<\/em> have HIV, and Bowman only assumed he did because he knew that Green was gay. Hey…he’s a 43 year old filthy homo, and didn’t Paul Cameron say that 43 is about as old as a homo gets? I’m surprised NBC News didn’t give Bowman credit for his remarkable restraint in not evacuating the entire town. But there’s still time for that I reckon.<\/p>\n

Can I mention here how much I hate the news media? This is my blog…right? I can say what I want to here can’t I? Good. I fucking hate the news media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m watching my local NBC affiliate do their nightly news thing, and I notice that the story about the West Virginia police chief who prevented a gay man who was dying of a heart attack from getting CPR had drawn the attention of the mainstream news media. I’ve been meaning to say something here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}