LEAVE IT TO FOX NEWS TO COME UP WITH A SEGMENT THAT IS
INFURIATING, AND MONUMENTALLY STUPID.
THEY ARE GOING TO
QUESTION ANDERSON COOPER'S MOTIVATIONS ON CNN AS HE IS
COVERING THE ORLANDO SHOOTING.
WHY?
THEY'VE COME UP WITH A
CLEVER TWIST.
IT TURNS OUT, ANDERSON COOPER IS GAY AND THE
PEOPLE WHO WERE SHOT WERE GAY, SO DOESN'T THAT MAKE AN BIASED?
TO BE FAIR, FOX NEWS HAS ALWAYS SAID BEFORE COVERING STRAIGHT
STORIES, THEY WON'T LET ANYONE BUT A GAY REPORTER REPORT ON THE
STRAIGHT STORIES.
OH, THEY HAVEN'T?
I HAVE A LOT OF BONES
TO PICK WITH THE STORY.
THIS IS WHERE THEY TRY TO ANALYZE
WHETHER THE MEDIA HAS BEEN FAIR.
BOY, THAT IS WONDERFULLY IRONIC.
WATCH IT AND I'LL COME BACK TO TELL YOU WHAT I THINK.
AFTER THE BREAK WE LOOK AT ANDERSON COOPER, TWO GAY
JOURNALISTS FEEL A SPECIAL ANGUISH OVER THIS SENSELESS
SLAUGHTER, AND DOES THAT AFFECT THEIR COVERAGE?
CNN'S ANDERSON COOPER, WHO PUBLICLY CAME OUT AS GAY
YEARS AGO, CHOKED UP AS HE READ THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS.
THEY ARE MORE THAN A LIST OF NAMES, THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO
LOVED AND WERE LEFT, WHO HAD FAMILIES AND FRIENDS AND DREAMS.
COOPER ALSO GRILLED FLORIDA'S REPUBLICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL
FOR HAVING ARGUED IN COURT AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
I RESPECT ANDERSON COOPER AND I THINK HE'S GENERALLY FAIR, BUT
IN THIS INTERVIEW DID YOU THINK HE WAS ACTING AS MORE THAN AN
AGGRESSIVE JOURNALIST?
HE SEEMED LIKE AN ACTIVIST, AND I SHARE YOUR SENTIMENTS AND
GENERAL THOUGHTS ON ANDERSON COOPER, OF COURSE I ONLY WATCH
ROCKS ALL THE TIME BUT I'VE HEARD HE'S GOOD AT HIS JOB, A
VERSATILE JOURNALIST.
IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE I THOUGHT THE LINE
OF QUESTIONING FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF FLORIDA UNDER THE
CIRCUMSTANCES AND GIVEN THE CONTEXT OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED IN
THAT STATE WAS A BIZARRE NON SEQUITUR, AND IT SEEMED LIKE HE
WAS BROWBEATING HER FOR REALLY UNRELATED POLITICAL THOUGHT
CRIMES IN HER PAST, WHICH DID NOT RELATE TO THE TASK AT HAND,
WHICH IS ROUNDLY CONDEMNING THE HORRIFIC ATROCITY THAT HAPPENED.
IN OTHER WORDS EVEN IF SHE HAD GONE TO COURT TO ARGUE AGAINST
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN FLORIDA, WHAT DID THAT HAVE TO DO WITH
IT?
THAT MAKE HER A BIG?
WAS THAT THE UNDERLYING PREMISE OF THE QUESTION IN?
IT WAS, AND I THINK THE ONLY WAY THIS LINE OF QUESTIONING
MAKES SENSE IS IF YOUR UNDERLYING ASSUMPTION IS THAT
ANY OPPOSITION TO ANY FORM OF GAY RIGHTS LEGISLATION IS ROOTED
IN BIGOTRY OR HATRED.
I HAPPEN TO DISAGREE WITH PAM BONDI ON MOST OF THESE
PUBLIC POLICY QUESTIONS, I HAPPEN TO BE GAY MYSELF,
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS IN HER HEART, I'M NOT GOING TO
ASSUME THAT BECAUSE SHE DEFENDED THE STATE'S GAY MARRIAGE
BAN SHE HERSELF IS HATEFUL.
THAT IS FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR GUY BENSON.
THIS IS AN INCEPTION
OF IRONY.
IT IS IRONY WITHIN AN IRONY.
FOX NEWS CRITICIZING THE
REST OF THE MEDIA ON WHETHER THEY ARE FAIR, BRINGS ON A GAY
CONTRIBUTOR TO TELL US THAT GAY CONTRIBUTORS SHOULD NOT HAVE
ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THE ORLANDO SHOOTINGS.
OKAY.
NOW, LET'S USE FOX'S RULE ON OTHER SHOOTINGS IN OTHER
NEWS EVENTS.
OBVIOUSLY IF YOU ARE BLACK YOU CAN'T COVER THE
TRUST IN SHOOTING, THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR, YOU ARE BIASED.
YOU HAVE
A DOG IN THAT FIGHT.
BLACKS WERE SHOT AT A CHURCH, YOU ARE BLACK.
YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR FELLOW BLACKS, OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE
BIASED.
SEE, IF YOU'RE WHITE OR ASIAN, YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT
THOSE BLACKS WHO WERE SHOT, WHO CARES.
YOU ARE STRAIGHT?
YOU GET
EMOTIONAL OVER THAT, WHO CARES.
BUT IF YOU ARE GAY, OKAY, FINE.
AND THIS IS THE FOX MENTALITY.
IF YOU'RE IN MY CLAN, I CARE
ABOUT YOU.
IF YOU AREN'T, I DON'T LIKE YOU, LET ALONE CARE
ABOUT YOU.
SO IF YOU HAVE A GAY ANGER COVERING A STORY WHERE GAY
PEOPLE GET SHOT, OBVIOUSLY IT WILL BE BIASED LIKE WE ARE
BIASED TOWARDS OUR CLAN.
BY THE WAY, FOX NEWS, HAVE YOU
ELIMINATED YOUR WHITE ANCHORS FROM COVERING ALL THE WHITE
STORIES?
HOW ABOUT THE CHARLIE HEBDO SHOOTINGS, THAT WAS ABOUT
JOURNALISTS.
ARE NO JOURNALISTS ALLOWED TO COVER THE SHOOTINGS
OF JOURNALISTS BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE BIASED?
ARE YOU GETTING
A SENSE THAT THIS MIGHT BE A PREPOSTEROUS STANDARD, AND ONE
THAT IS NEVER USED EXCEPT IN THIS CASE?
AND WHAT IS THE REAL
MOTIVATION?
IS POLITICS.
PAM BONDI IS A REPUBLICAN IN
FLORIDA, AND ANDERSON COOPER ASKED HER THE MOST FAIR QUESTION
OF ALL TIME.
YOU'RE NOW SAYING THAT YOU ARE A FAN OF THE LGBT
COMMUNITY, BUT YOU WERE JUST ARGUING TO TAKE AWAY SOME OF THE
RIGHTS OF THE LGBT COMMUNITY.
HOW CAN YOU, WITH A STRAIGHT
FACE, SAY THAT YOU ARE SUPPORTING THEM WHEN YOU WERE
LITERALLY FIGHTING AGAINST THEM LEGALLY, POLITICALLY, JUST A
MINUTE AGO?
SO YOU CAN CLAIM MANY OTHER THINGS, BUT YOU CAN'T
CLAIM YOU ARE ON THEIR SIDE ON THESE LEGAL AND POLYGONAL
MATTERS BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T, YOU WERE ACTIVELY ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN SHE'S THE SHOOTER, COURSE NOT.
ANDERSON
COOPER DIDN'T SUGGEST THAT, NO ONE SUGGESTS THAT.
BUT I WILL GO
MUCH FURTHER THAN ANDERSON COOPER AND SAY THAT IF YOU ARE
PART OF THE CULTURE THAT SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULDN'T HAVE THE
SAME RIGHTS, AND THAT GAY PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE LESSER RIGHTS -- I
MEAN, MAYBE A CIVIL UNION, BUT PROBABLY NOT EVEN THAT, MARRIAGE
IS SPECIAL FOR US STRAIGHT AMERICANS, AND UK PEOPLE DON'T
GET TO HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS US -- WELL, I WOULD SAY THAT YOU
ARE PART OF A CULTURE THAT CREATES HATRED AND BIGOTRY
TOWARDS GAYS, SO DON'T COME AROUND PRETENDING YOU ARE IN
FAVOR OF GAYS WHEN THEY GET SHOT UP BY A GUY WHO HAD HATRED IN
HIS HEART AND BIGOTRY AGAINST GAYS.
THAT CULTURE WAS CREATED
BY ALL OF RELIGION, BY THE RIGHT-WING FUNDAMENTALISTS IN
THIS COUNTRY WHO ARGUE AGAINST GAYS ALL THE TIME, SAY THAT THEY
ARE LESSER THAN US, THEY SHOULD HAVE LESS RIGHTS THAN OTHER
AMERICAN CITIZENS, THAT CULTURE IS ALSO CREATED BY MUSLIM
CULTURE, RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALS, THAT DOES SIMILAR PROPAGANDA.
AND WHEN MUSLIMS DO IT, FOX NEWS IS RIGHT THERE.
MUSLIMS, YOU
KNOW HOW THEY ARE, THEY HATE THE GAYS.
RIGHT AFTER THIS, WE WILL
COME BACK AND TELL YOU WHY THE GAYS ARE TERRIBLE.
BUT THAT'S
OKAY BECAUSE THAT IS QUESTION FOR THE MENTALISM, THAT IS
WONDERFUL, WE TAKE THE RIGHTS AWAY BUT WE DON'T KILL THEM.
AREN'T WE SO MERCIFUL?
IT APPEARS THAT YOU ARE A LITTLE
BIASED ON THIS, FOX NEWS, I WONDER IF YOU SHOULD COVER THIS
OR ANY OTHER STORY BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN ARGUING FOR YEAR AFTER
YEAR THAT GAY AMERICANS SHOULD HAVE LESS RIGHTS THAN STRAIGHT
AMERICANS.
SO DON'T COME TO TELL US THAT PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CARE
ABOUT THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS ARE TOO BIASED TO COVER A STORY.