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Stalwart monogamists nationwide cluck their tongues in disapproval! Conservative pastors blame the gays! It Gets Better Project shuttered in Breitbart-funded video splicing scandal!
Oh hell, yeah
You and John Wilkes Booth.
Don't worry about it.
Hey, if you want to hear Dan say how he wants to kill 50 percent of the people in America, HBO said they'd "post the episode shortly":
http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-m…
*the National Post is a complete effin' joke, by the way.
Thank you for the apology..
i got your back.
I usually enjoy your commentary, but I really enjoy your commentary a lot when you are self-reflective. Like in your TAL appearence, and here.
Your sentiment in re: Republicans is noted, and however, agreed with. They are awful people with no good intentions for America.
Keep up the good work, Dan.
We live with the social rule that being impolite to an elected official is a greater crime than the elected official committing murder. For those of you that may disagree with me please make an argument that sending thousands of Americans off to a war that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths based on demonstrably false pretense is somehow more just than individual murder. Go ahead. Please. Make me OK with bombing innocents because Saddam masterminded 9/11.
In order to engage in the public sphere, you have to buy into a certain acceptance of public wisdom. Public wisdom is totally fucking insane. We accept monstrosity because it's our government that does it. And our identity as the good guys is more important to us than honesty so we choose forget some stuff, but really, rage is an appropriate and sane reaction to Republican policy.
Wishing death to people that are promoting policies that will torture and kill millions of people isn't insanity. What do you think healthcare vouchers will do? They will kill thousands of seniors. What do you think self-regulation of industrial pollution will do? It will give millions of people cancer. Ignoring climate science will have global consequences. Who leads the charge in ignoring scientific fact of global warming? There are two kinds of Republicans, monsters and the fools that believe in them.
I can say all this shit because I've got nothing to lose. I'm not a public figure. 99.9% of the population would be at all-out war with these sociopath shit-head Republicans if they valued their lives and their children's future.
Anyway, some realistic, truthful emotion escaped your lips because it'll do that once in awhile whether you want it to or not. We shouldn't wish death upon the evil. We are better than them. As long as they live, they have hope to change. It's cheesy, but it's true. Do better next time. We need someone speaking truth in public.
Dan's GOP list is almost as impressive as Pat Boone's "gay" friends.....
Does he appeal to the 18-35 demo?
I'm in a better mood already. Thanks, Dan.
we'll give you the same pass you gave Clint McCance.
Remember him?
The Illiterate Bigot who mused on his facebook about homosexuals commiting suicide?
Remember?
The Illiterate Asshole for whom there was a Facebook page calling for his firing?
The page you linked to?
Remember?..."Give 'em Hell"
Is it coming back?
Can you provide a link to the page calling for Dan Savage "Illiterate Bigoted Asshole Extraordinaire" to be fired?
Clint resigned. Classy.
Man up, Danny.
You pulled a Clint. See it through to the conclusion.
All will be forgiven.
Dan, you're clearly not a sociopath, as so, so many right-wing talking heads are. Toss a Coulter or Malkin in the face of anyone who gives you shit for a statement that, as #31 said, is essentially a colloquialism for "You're pissing me off".
In Vino, Stupid Ass
A motto that I will be using at some point tonight.
I'm glad that you brought it up. I cringed last night when I heard you say it. The first thought that came to my mind was that it was the kind of comment that could lead to you being put on the list of being too controversial to have on the air. That would be devastating to me and my friends, as you are one of the best spokespeople our community has.
Other than that, last night's show rocked, and you came out with some real zingers.
Hang in there. Let's hope that you coming out in front of this early is enough to blunt the worst of the screaming and wailing that is sure to come your way now.
Big fucking deal.
Love,
Your new fan Ray
http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/mobile/…
Thanks, Dan.
Just kidding, of course. I was actually thinking much the same thing when I saw Ann Coulter on Real Time last week. I do wish someone would giver her her Syphilis meds. Her mind is almost entirely gone.
Republicans -or at least their politicians and pundits - are dreadful people. Their followers are naive, xenophobic rubes. Everyone wonders why there's so much spam. I blame it on Republicans. Only a Republican would be a big enough jerk to send it out, and only a Republican would be naive enough to open it.
You were intemperate. That is all. Have two Bloody Marys and something festive with an umbrella on it. Go in peace to sin no more.
If this thing is going to start apologizing for stupid rude and thoughtless comments, it'll have to become a Trappist, though. Don't think it's capable of anything else.
Granted it's good that even a thing like Savage isn't so far gone as to hurt its' father intentionally. There may be hope for it yet.
A human being who's foregone all that makes one human is 'it.' Savage is such a human being, as I've written fairly consistently.
Any chimp can mate. With love and comittment human beings turn mating into marriage and family. Savage wishes to turn its' unwillingness to love and comitt to another into a social change. It wants to turn its' animal nature into a norm, preaching universal rejection of the social codes around sexuality that help define humanity.
Humanity is partly about reflection on the things we do and experience, and here again, Savage has chosen the path of the animal over the human. Raising a child with another man? Well, that matters less than being 'monogamish' as the urge takes it.
To be clear- This has nothing to do with its' homosexuality. A man who chooses homosexuality (or a woman) and accepts the joys and costs of that choice has made the adult human decision. One who makes this choice, then deflects all the costs onto others has made at best the childish one, at worst the animal.
THAT can fucking die gargling its own blood, the sooner the better.
Oh, Seattleblah, let it go. Liberace's been dead for twenty-five years. He didn't love you. That wasn't a "choice", that's just the way love works. I know that hurts, but you have to move on. You'll always have those memories of Palm Springs, and that candelabra on your sideboard to remind you of happier times. Mrs Seattleblah will never know the story behind it. I promise you that.
25 years ago I was in at Woodrow Wilson Jr High.
Who's Liberace, btw?
Anybody who won't admit to momentarily and briefly wishing that harm would come to people who annoy them is lying. We've all been there, we just don't always get caught on tape.
Poor Liberace was terrified, yet he tried to do right by that odd little fellow that followed him everywhere. That candelabra was a gift, not a bribe!
It must mean something to you, for you insist on having it in the bedroom whenever you and Mrs. Seattleblah have "relations", yet you deny knowing him? Remember Peter and the crowing of the cock, Seattleblahs - ungrateful youth will be visited by ungrateful youth of their own loins (Edna 3:27)
I am sincerely impressed. Dan just went up several notches in my list of cool people.
And for contrast, the statement "I wish ( X political rival group ) was dead!" would normally not only NOT be viewed as an intemperate remark, but more often be the tag line on the cover of a Republican pundits book.
Tried digging to China once as a child. I got 2 or 3 feet deep in the garden before my mother made me stop for fear of cave in of the walls of the pit I'd dug. And my dad was worried I'd damage his tomatos planted nearby.
Anyway, China publicly dirty (though most private homes are scrupulously clean,) abysmally crowded, and most unforgiveably, without cheese. Cheap though, if you have local contacts to avoid tourist prices.
Public spaces being dirty is something you get used to if you travel with any frequency outside the US or Western Europe. It even becomes part of the experience. Crowds you can get away from if they annoy.
But without cheese? In 3 millenia of civilization they couldn't realize that no cuisine is complete without a good variety of cheeses for goodness sake?
This from a suspected republican who publicly states CONSTANTLY that homosexuality is some abhorrent "choice" and homosexuals are morally diseased.
Nice one, asshole.
I've voted for exactly TWO rethuglicants in my entire life. Dan Evans and Dick Marquardt.
I would not give a bucket of warm urine for any of the rest of them....and I totally agree with Savage. Whose remarks were figurative rather than literal...but intemperate for the setting none the less.
For fuck's sake, WHY?
Also, with Troll Seattleblues' new low (who is far less of a human being than Dan), I suppose I'm only human for briefly wishing for its death. Heaven knows its life isn't accomplishing anything.
(Done feeding the troll.)
Sheesh!
Someone forgot his meds again...
Here's a free tip: If Stephanie Miller and Savage are too far right for you, the US may not be your best choice of home countries. Move someplace like China or Venezuala for your workers paradise, since this country will never swing left anywhere near where you'd be happy.
Here's another- Bradley Manning is a traitor who should be charged, convicted and hung for his betrayal of this nation. Julian Assange is a trouble making idiot trying to make international diplomacy impossible with a special hatred of this country which you share. Maybe he just was exposed to copious amounts of lead paint like you obviously were, or contracted syphilis from one of his promiscuous encounters. Who knows? Who cares? A world without his ilk would be a better one, whatever the source of his various mental illnesses.
Though, be thankful it happened on HBO; had it been MSNBC, CNN or even Comedy Central those networks would never have you back again. HBO probably will let it slide.
not "i was misquoted" or "taken out of context" or "the media is really piling on me" or so on or so forth. not "i'm sorry i wasn't given a chance to clarify what i said", either.
just: i said it, it was stupid, you may not have heard it, but i fucked up, i don't really feel that way, and i'm sorry, and if i could do it all over again, i wouldn't say that.
you're a good man, dan.
In a panel where Republicans trying to defend the fiscal strength of the nation (right or wrong about this interpretation) were directly compared to serial murderer Arafat, Savage ups the ante. It says it wishes 40% of this nation dead.
And now it wants to apologize. Not because it doesn't feel that way. Of course it feels that way. Every sentence it writes or speaks, its' vulgar attacks on the character and person of anyone who dares disagree with its' opinions (see Rick Santorum or the Palins) its' stated hatred of one of the greatest presidents this nation has had all clearly indicate that of course it feels exactly that way.
It just didn't want to offend its' father.
It's a good thing Savage is becoming a national laughingstock rather than a local one. Laughing at evil is the best way to defeat it.
Which is the only reason we haven't banned your IP address, asshole.
Buffalo Bill? Eh? Didn't he die nearly a century ago?
But I'll leave you to it. Fishing with my son seems more interesting than trading barbs with liberals. Have a pleasant weekend.
1. "Republicans defending the fiscal strength of this country..." If that's what you want to call taking a box of matches to a gas-doused building--that we're all in.
2. After reading all of biblical pontifications on Goldy's bible quote Slog posts, I wonder what your god thinks of you dehumanizing someone. Hypocrite.
3. Its in the possessive needs no apostrophe.
I know not much can penetrate your thick skull. Why not stick ITS on the end of a needle and inject, along with your daily infusion of right-wing pablum? Maybe ITS will swim through the ice-water to whatever passes for your brain.
I see where if Dan would have been able to make what he said into a joke had he five-ten more seconds to construct it better in his head. The show moves so fast you have seconds to get something funny out and it's hit or miss. For all his hit's I'd say he gets a pass on this miss.
Overall I'd say 9.6 out of 10 stars.
Well, to you maybe. Who knows that sonny-boy doesn't have a countdown clock to his 18th birthday hidden on his iPhone? Goodbye to that stupid boat, no more fishing with that pompous blowhard. Freedom at last.
It really does gets better.