Hm, you mean this 20/20 report?  Yeah, this has been discredited for over 4 years now…

Let’s just note that while everyone’s laughing at Michele Bachmann for her “Hoot-Smalley” line, she used the House floor last night to conflate gays with pedophiles in the debate over the hate crimes bill.

(for pedantic accuracy, it was Wednesday morning, presumably at the same time as Foxx’s nasty little speech.)

I love how people like Foxx believe that a convicted murderer who robbed and pistol-whipped a man and left him to freeze to death would never, ever lie about the circumstances surrounding said murder.  Because, as we all know, murderers always tell the truth the instant they’re put on trial.

Has anyone else noticed that when wingers try to look pleasant and smiling for their photos, they invariably end up looking threatening, smarmy, contemptuous (think Cheney’s “smile”) or just plain batty?

It’s like they’re human sized robots pilolted by teeny aliens who haven’t learned the intricacies of human facial expressions yet.

And let’s not forget, that she pushed her lying hatefulness in arguing against a hate crime bill.

I have a gay brother and sister who, apparently, Foxx would rather see dead.

I called all three offices and told whoever answered the phone that they should be ashamed to be working for a bigoted liar.

Only got the answering machine at one, but perhaps they’re tired of being called liars and bigots.

Cowards is right.

Good assessment of Foxx’s political future, here—Could Foxx be replaced by Blue Dog?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/29/725608/-Rep-Virginia-Foxx-Calls-Matthew-Shepard-Murder-a-hoax

GOOD NEWS: The bill in question passed the House 249-175, despite the other lying liars:

The right wing, unsurprisingly, was up in arms over extending protection to victims of anti-gay crimes. Led by Rep. Steve King (R-IA), House Republicans took to the floor last night to warn that the bill would impose “tyranny,” create a “Big Brother” government, and end religious freedom:

REP MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN): I feel that this hate crime legislation could be considered the very definition of tyranny.

REP. GRESHMAN BARRET (R-SC): This bill would inhibit religious freedom in our society—a scary thought.

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX): You think a pregnant mother does not deserve the protection of a homosexual? You think a military member doesn’t deserve the protection of a transvestite?

REP. STEVE KING (R-IA): I, Mr. Speaker, oppose and I defy the logic of the people that would advocate for such legislation the very idea we could divine what goes on in the heads of people when they commit crimes.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/29/hate-crimes-hysteria/

Has anyone else noticed that when wingers try to look pleasant and smiling for their photos, they invariably end up looking threatening, smarmy, contemptuous (think Cheney’s “smile”) or just plain batty?

It’s like they’re human sized robots pilolted by teeny aliens who haven’t learned the intricacies of human facial expressions yet.
kristin on 04/29 at 08:03 PM

Oh I’ve noticed all right.

Then again, maybe I don’t the clearest gaze. Am I just nuts, or is the US flag behind Foxx draped strategically so that it is actually evocative of the Confederate battle flag?

Because at first glance she looked like she was posing in a Daughters of the Confederacy portrait.

Wow. That is one fucked up statement. And the apology is even worse because there are people who will believe that bullshit as well.

*FACEPALM*

That’s really some serious fucked-up-ness going on there.

Yeah… it works that way face-to-face, too. If someone smiles at me insincerely for too long, I inevitably end up finding their religious/political views make me sick. I think all the compartmentalizing and all they do makes it hard to express real emotion.

REP. LOUIE GOHMERT (R-TX): You think a pregnant mother does not deserve the protection of a homosexual?

Actually, yes I do, but somehow I don’t think he is agitating for law and policy on violence against women.

I thought about calling, but now is not a good time.  I feel such hate for this woman.  She is so ugly and her ugliness is stamped all over her face.  To have said this at all…but in front of his mother?  Such ugliness in one person, how does she contain all of that ugliness?

Let’s just note that while everyone’s laughing at Michele Bachmann for her “Hoot-Smalley” line, she used the House floor last night to conflate gays with pedophiles in the debate over the hate crimes bill.

Yeah, there is another vision of human ugliness.  I liked that KO called her a buffoon last night.  It was such a good word, because it was so gender-neutral.  One of the things I hate about having women like Bachman and Palin rising to prominence is that they are terrible mixtures of stupidity and viciousness, and can raise negative stereotypes.  You know, stupid bimbo, bitch, etc.  Buffoon, that is a good word, especially for Bachmann.

Katherine:  I agree.  When are we going to add women to the hate crimes bill?  Every time a woman is raped, every time a woman is beaten, I consider those to be hate crimes.

I guess we aren’t really people, less deserving of protection than the other groups.

To use us as a scapegoat for allowing hatred of these others groups to persist and bloom into violence…makes me want to punch those men right in the nose.

somehow I don’t think he is agitating for law and policy on violence against women.

Actually Katherine I think he’s agitating for a law which would provide every pregnant woman with a homosexual bodyguard, which I fully endorse!

This is what happens when you kowtow to your base…
They should have vetted the hate screed before letting her on the floor with it.

I’d forgotten about the whole Matthew Shepard case.  Then I re-read it.  Appalling calling a garden variety robbery.  I’m ill.

I also have reservations about the whole hate-crime thing but had I a vote I would have voted for it.  If there are “unintended consequences” we’ll fix ‘em.

To all right-wingers asking “why isn’t group Y a protected class?  Aren’t they as good as group X?”...  It’s the same reason no one is advocating for a federal statute prohibiting unicorn poaching on the unicorn preserve.  You make laws against things that _actually happen_.

And pregnant women, attacked by their partners because of the pregnancy (being pregnant is a huge risk factor for domestic violence)—I’d certainly be in favor of that. Oh, wait that would be the Violence against Women Act, which republicans oppose.

Thank you so much for posting this and saving me the trouble of having to look it up. I made a note to contact her today to demand that she go on television and publicly apologize to Judy Shepherd. The woman has been through enough—like having her son viciously murdered and having closeted loon Phelps picket her sons funeral. She doesn’t deserve these kind of attacks from a bigoted congresswoman.

Oh and the so-called advocating for special protection of pregnant women isn’t about the women at all—it’s about fetuses. They don’t give a damn if the woman bleeds to death right in front of them, it’s just the fetus they care about and want to set up special laws to protect them.

You cannot be in possession of a soul or even half a brain if you can stand up and call what happened to Matthew a garden variety robbery gone bad. I guess she chooses to believe the murderers version of events because they’re like her—bigots.

I’d forgotten about the whole Matthew Shepard case.

Those of us who are queer, especially the ‘visibly’ queer, don’t get that luxury.  And as we’ve seen in reports on two boys, hounded by bullies using homophobic language, who committed suicide, you don’t even need to be actually queer or visibly queer to be a victim of hate.  Yes, I think gender should be included in the definition of hate crimes.  Rape, in a rape culture, is an act meant to terrify women beyond the individual women raped, and is used to try to control the behavior of all women.  I’m sure Reps. Foxx and Bachmann et al. would have objections to that, too.  Which is hardly surprising; when you’ve based a career on pandering to the population most paranoid and insecure about their loss of privilege, it’s probably hard to stop.

You think a military member doesn’t deserve the protection of a transvestite?

Exactly, because so many Marines and airmen are getting the shit stomped out of them just because they have the audacity to walk around in public and be all ... military. Which is totally disgusting to right-thinking people everywhere.

Yep, completely the same thing.