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Monday, October 22, 2012

Media Because Ending a Phone Call Is Exactly Like Rounding People Up into Death Camps

Posted by David Schmader on Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:34 AM

Last week, CNN achor Carol Costello ended a phone call with the AFA's Bryan Fisher after Fischer started to trot out thoroughly debunked "facts" about the risks of homosexuality. In response, Fischer summed up the event as "the gay Gestapo in action." In response to the response, Carol Costello delivered this:

Thank you, Towleroad.

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We need a new mass murderer who outdoes Hitler so we can get some new names to call people. The entire Nazi meme is really old. I'd have thought we would use Stalin but for some reason it just wasn't marketed well enough to catch on.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on October 22, 2012 at 11:13 AM

@1: No, see... when we're talking about someone being harsh, we use Hitler. When we're talking about someone being compassionate (!?) that's when all the communism and socialism rhetoric gets pulled out.

Posted by pheeeew!crack!boom! on October 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM

I am annoyed that I watched that guy wanking it to his own martyrdom.

Posted by sahara29 on October 22, 2012 at 12:11 PM

The Gay Gestapo: A great Halloween costume, just in time.

Posted by Becker on October 22, 2012 at 12:25 PM

WHAT A ZINGER

Posted by Foggen on October 22, 2012 at 1:06 PM

This video cuts off before she really lays into him. It sounded like she was winding up to do that, anyway, but now I won't know unless I go looking for more. Which, frankly, I don't need to do.

Anyway, it IS good to see some in the media stand up to the lies, but it would have been more satisfying for her to have debunked him while he was on the phone.

Posted by Matt from Denver on October 22, 2012 at 1:08 PM

They really do get off on the martyrdom. Christians haven't really been "persecuted" in the West since Emperor Constantine's day - but SO MANY of these guys make it clear that those were "the good old days."

Posted by Pope Buck I on October 22, 2012 at 1:57 PM

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Posted by PCM on October 22, 2012 at 5:03 PM

Good for CNN for immediately ending the interview when it was clear that the interviewee had nothing but repeatedly disproved lies upon which to base their arguments. If only the rest of the media would do this more often.

Posted by Knat on October 22, 2012 at 5:47 PM

Bullshit. If she had challenged, debated and defeated him, bravo! But she deserves no points for hanging up like a pompous Hannity or O'Reilly. She took the chickenshit way out.

Posted by menace2society on October 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM