Anti-Gay CPAC Speaker Booed Off The Stage
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Just when it looks like this country can’t get any more divided, there comes a tiny glimmer of hope. Just minutes ago here at CPAC, California Young Americans for Freedom’s Ryan Sorba launched into a denunciation of the conference for inviting GOProud, and as he railed against gays, he was roundly booed off the stage.
There’s not a lot to add, as the video kind of says it all. I was on the balcony as Sorba was jeered, and when I came back into the Blogger’s Lounge, I said “I’m really proud of you guys.”
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What a thug. Well done, CPAC, that was the reception he deserved.
Bravo, CPAC people.
What a dick!
This must have been the group Rachel was talking about last night. Good for CPAC for booing this nut.
imnotyourkind said…
This must have been the group Rachel was talking about last night. Good for CPAC for booing this nut.
You are right, he may be a nut, somewhat akin to the Madcow, except one is part of the lamestream media, the other not.
marigrace your “madcow” reference to Maddow is as uncalled for as this nut’s behavior at CPAC.
Jerk.
People who behave like this, many times, have their own skeletons hiding somewhere in their closets….maybe someone should take a look.
I nominate TC.
Good on CPAC. It would behoove conservatives to shed the radical right so we can engage in actual debates about ideas.
Impressive.
Does this douchebag know that Dick Cheney’s daughter is a lesbian?
blueblogger said…
marigrace your “madcow” reference to Maddow is as uncalled for as this nut’s behavior at CPAC.
I consider the radical liberal poison Maddow spews, equally as disturbing as the young man who got booed. The difference is she part of Lamestream, the other is not, making her garbage more widespread.
Lamestream media? Did you read that off of Sarah Palin’s hand?
Wow, never thought I would say this, but credit where credit is due. Good show for booing this dick off the stage, well done CPAC audience, you get cookies I made earlier today.
Cancel that, he was in a room full of GOProud members, plus there was some clapping to his statements. I’ll take my cookies back thank you (And I’ll take some of those GOProud members with me).
So, just now Olbermann’s over the top hypocritical hyperbole is getting attention? Reminds me of his horrendous slur against Michelle Malkin (mashed up bag of meat with lipstick).
You liberals really should get rid of this guy. I don’t like Rachel Maddow, but at least she’s not a full bore, 120% tool like Olbermann.
Oops, wrong post.
By the way, “homophobe” has come to mean those who merely express moral disapproval of homosexuality? They’re irrationally afraid of homosexuality? No, instead it seems “homophobe” has come to mean “those who don’t unquestioningly genuflect before the gay rights movement.”
Way to cheapen a word Mediaite. “Homophobe” used like this is the new “racist,” an accusation that will become quickly drained of its meaning when thrown at whomever you disagree with, as we see rampant with liberals regarding CPAC.
How about covering the absolutely ludicrious racism that The Caucus blog over at the NYT cooked up? http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/cpac-speaker-bashes-obama-in-racial-tones/
And the very reasoned reply from Tommy Christopher’s buddy Ed Morrisey over at Hot Air?
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/18/cpac-interview-jason-mattera-responds-to-nyt-accusation-of-racism/
Ladies and Gentleman of the left. Allow me to introduce myself. As a proud member of the Ron Paul R3VOLUTION I can proudly say it was the liberty factions of CPAC, my friends and I that heckled the homophobe. There’s a new movement afoot on the right that respects the individual liberties of our friends in the gay community. Let’s give credit where credit is due. Follow my profile on Facebook for more information and inside scoop on the movement that’s taking back our country. Facebook.com/austinwpetersen
The thing about me that is most liberal is my support for gay rights, and if anything boils my blood, it’s the knuckledragging scum, piece of inbred trash that is Ryan Sorba and homophobes like him that shill out this homophobia.
Thank you conservatives at CPAC for booing this Neanderthal off stage. It goes to show that there are a lot of good conservatives out there who won’t stand for fringe hatred. A supporter of gay rights, left or right, is a friend of mine.
I’m not a hateful person, but I’d really like to kick Sorba’s behind….to put it mildly.
There’s a new movement afoot on the right that respects the individual liberties of our friends in the gay community.
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I hope you’re right. Any conservative who has any appreciation of and respect for individual rights is a most welcome change.
As to Dick Cheney’s daughter, I am not bothered in the least, but I have always scratched my head over the rightists who have acted as if her Lesbianism is the exception, some Immaculate Gender Identification, and all others similarly situated are sinful monsters. Just one of the inherent conflicts in modern American conservatism. I am led to believe this is ending, that conservatives of this mind are Neanderthals. If true, it strikes me that makes the Cheneys far less special and mainstreams the former monsters. Who wouldn’t welcome that change?
I am shocked and shocked I tell you (also pleased) that all the posters on this topic are on the same wave length. At last a topic we all can agree on!!!!
Tommy, I’m so proud of you for growing from surprise that we Conservatives didn’t tar & feather Rachel Maddow to actually just being proud sans surprise that some of us are actually decent human beings sometimes. :)
I think you may have been reading too many of those ultra lib press releases that pretend to speak for conservatives while not having a clue.
Keep up the good work.
God loves the homo. He hates the sin. He calls it an abomination (Leviticus 18:22). He calls it un natural affections. What they do is unhealthy. One homo friend of mine died young this year. What can be done, they can be saved by the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ. So, I know that you are all applauding the agenda today. You like it. You like the fact that this guy was booed and heckled. Homo’s have no place in conservative agenda. What they stand for is against the natural law of God. I do pity those attracted to it. They can exit the lifestyle thru accepting that it is a sin and that Jesus shed his blood for this sin. He will forgive and clean up the sin.
Christine, you’re delusional. You’re exhibit A as to how organized religion poisons societies.
When you swim in filth, you tend to think clean water is poison to you. People used to junk food sometimes vomit on nutrition. Organized religion is irrelevant to truth and cannot be used to deny truths that come from reality. Nobody can blame the Catholic Church for the Bible, they tried to ban it and that didn’t work.
The word “homophobe” is an invention of the Truth (is Lies) Ministry of Oceania, a George Winston concoction from the cauldrons in the dungeons of cackling plutocrats to fool the gullible into swallowing their poisonous dribble.
It’s a pill that causes fear of truth (veriphobia) at the mere mention of it. It is gleefully consumed by those who aspire to be elites, because they are told by the masters of political fashion that it will make them “fair”.
The word homophobe is a nasty lie and the last laugh is the depopulators of the planet who are using it to bring the population down to levels their plutocrat masters can control.
Malthus would be proud. Trick people into inflicting genocide upon themselves by voluntary sterilization practices, and make them think it’s a “right”. Like the insidious use by Planned Parenthood while it was still Birth Control League during the Jim Crow days to trick black pastors into encouraging their campaign for sterilization of blacks at evangelistic camp meetings, as a charity work!
Now we get them claiming a “right” to “be themselves”, as if a man could “be himself” by acting as a woman.
During Jim Crow days there were blacks who could pass for whites. “Uncle Tom” was a pejorative for those black folks who acted like they were white, or didn’t like having to be black. Some took medications that blanched the color of their skins.
Why should we be encourage the gender equivalent of an Uncle Tom? What happened to encouraging maladjusted people to learn to be happy and make the most of what they really truly are?
Why do we despise these people so much that we encourage them to mutilate their bodies out of recognition so they can ‘be” somebody else?
It reminds me of a science fiction story I read once of a world gone completely mad, in which one small town in Connecticut “repealed the law of gravity”.
And that’s what we have come to today, we have entire nations repealing the laws of biology wholesale.
George Malthus, the advocate of mass deaths for the poor, is cackling from his hellish grave… The world has joined his insanity…
–trutherator
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