Republican, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee,
Randy McNally, has been accused of posting some
pretty salacious comments on the profile pictures,
Instagram images, of a young gay man, a 20 year old gay man.
Now, before I get to the details of what he's posted,
I think we need to be fair and we need to share Randy's side of the story here.
Cuz we don't want him to be inaccurately portrayed or represented.
>> 100% and look, he helped to pass the anti-LGBTQ law.
>> Right.
>> And they've done a ton of discrimination in two different bills in
Tennessee against the LGBTQ community, but he says that's not an issue for him.
So let's go to a spokesperson.
>> Right, so his spokesperson, Adam, tells the Daily Beast,
trying to imply something sinister or inappropriate about a great-grandfather's
use of social media says more about the mind of the left-wing operative
making the implication than it does about Randy McNally.
As anyone in Tennessee politics knows,
Lt Governor McNally is a prolific social media commenter.
>> Prolific.
>> He takes great pains to view every post he can and frequently posts,
encouraging things to many of his followers.
>> Encouraging, he's just prolific and he's so now guys-
>> Prolific and encouraging.
Now we're gonna show you his prolific and encouraging post.
>> Yeah. >> And then you'll get to find out if you
think he's just being generically encouraging or
perhaps he has a certain motivation.
Let's find out.
>> Well, first a few details about the gentleman that he leaves comments for.
He's a 20 year old gay man named Franklin McClur and
apparently Randy and Franklin are on a first name basis,
because the lieutenant governor refers to him as Finn.
Okay, cool.
In November, for example, McClur posted an entirely nude
picture that was narrowly avoided showing his penis.
And the comment from the lieutenant governor was Great picture Finn,
referencing McClur's nickname.
Best wishes for continued health and happiness.
>> Now, guys you see that and say, well, look, maybe the guys working
in the yard and the guys leaving in a normal encouraging message.
He doesn't know that the guy is gay.
I mean, he's calling him Finn which is his handle.
McClur says, yeah, this guy's been my fan for three years.
I know him really well, he leaves comments all the time.
Can we see one of the pictures to see if this is innocent or not?
Well, he commented on this photo saying,- >> [LAUGH]
>> Super look Finn, with a clapping emoji.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah, I can't tell what his interest in
McClur might be, okay, maybe it helps him Finn-ish.
>> He's just encouraging and prolific, okay?
>> [LAUGH] >> Now he commented on this photo of
McClur's butt saying, Finn, you can turn a rainy day into rainbows and
sunshine, along with the heart and fire emojis, by the way.
>> [LAUGH] No, no, no, he's just a prolific social media commenter.
He was just trying to be encouraging him that 20 year old ass.
>> Randy indeed.
>> [LAUGH] >> Now-
>> Best, most fitting name in American
politics.
>> Yeah.
>> Randy McNally, is his middle name, Horny?
[LAUGH] >> By the way,
I can't get over the fact that he's 79 years old.
The fact that he's leaving the comments, that's enough of a story, right?
But he's leaving the fire emoji, heart emojis-
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> Amazing.
>> He's got the game out there.
>> I guess you wanna call it.
Now we've got more.
So McNally's interest actually goes beyond McClur's photos.
In a December 2022 video,
McClur suggestively wiggled his tongue while singing.
McNally responded with hearts and flame emojis adding very good.
>> That is encouraging.
>> He also follows a fan page that posts edited pictures of McClur,
including one with a background declaring him a bad bitch.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, so I'm sorry, we have to get a little bit serious and then we get,
so, I know, I know, so the laws that they pass in Tennessee, okay?
So one is trying to regulate what parents can do with their trans children, right?
So it's a war on parents saying this the jackbooted thugs of the Tennessee
government to determine what you do with your family and not you, okay?
Obviously they don't want women controlling their bodies,
they don't want parents controlling their own families.
But they also pass to say, we've already told you about that law.
But they also passed a second law saying that county clerks, if they have any
religious objection, for any reason, you can just deny you marriage licenses.
Now that is, that means you can't get married in Tennessee if you trigger
the fundamentalist inclinations of any county clerk, right?
So now people have said, they could deny interracial marriage if they wanted to.
Technically, they could, but
they haven't shown that they're going in that direction.
Are they going to deny people the right to get married if they're a gay couple?
Almost certainly, that was the entire point of that bill.
So, our friend Randy is the lieutenant governor and
was the head of the Senate in pushing these bills forward.
So his actions are, no, we cannot let these gays get married,
because they've got to be on Instagram and showing their butts so
I can see it and Finn-ish to it, okay?
I don't want him getting hitched up with a guy, and
then I can't see him on Instagram anymore.
What am I gonna do with my spare time?
And so LGB T Q people shouldn't have any rights,
except it turns out Randy McNally is LGBTQ.
And so, and if you're gonna catch feelings over Randy,
I know you're very encouraging.
Send me an encouraging note, okay, [LAUGH] okay.
So, look guys, this is what we tell you all the time.
Almost all of these cultural wars in regards LGBTQ issues are basically
closeted people who hate themselves versus people who are out of the closet and
don't hate themselves.
>> In some cases, yeah.
In, I would argue in most cases,
it's a way of distracting from the fact that they do nothing of substance for
the very people who voted them into office in the first place, and instead provide
the illusion of governing by choosing whatever group they wanna target.
It's always a powerless group.
It always ends poorly for the powerless group that's already powerless.
But, the voters think like, no, no, this person is representing me, right?
Looking out for my best interest, because this group or
that group that I've been fearmongered about, is a threat to my life.
How exactly?
I don't know.
>> Well I do, so that's the thing, right?
So we always joke about that,
how does it affect you if Finn is doing what he's doing in Tennessee, right?
How could it possibly affect my life?
But it actually in a sense does affect your life.
>> How? >> And so that's what I got of this story.
So everything is projection, right?
So this guy thinks, well, if we let people have rights, as with most conservatives,
and you will see them making this point over and over again.
If we let them have these rights, well,
then obviously more people are going to be gay.
We just did a story about a couple of days ago and other conservatives saying that.
>> And so what? >> Because in their minds, well,
if you could, everybody would be gay, wouldn't they?
So that's why they're saying, this will affect my life.
If we think it's perfectly normal for people to be gay, well,
then obviously I would be gay.
And he thinks he probably thinks that everyone would be gay,
cuz he assumes that everyone thinks like he does.
He's like, well, we can't have that, then you won't have families and
stuff like that.
Everybody will be lusting after Finn, if we let him,
that's why I got to make sure that we don't let him.
No dude, that's your own internal demons that you're battling.
Please leave the rest of us alone.
>> Yeah, no, 100%.
And also, bro, you're 79 years old, go live your life.
What are you doing?
>> No, but the thing is if he wasn't taking people's rights away, I'd be like,
Randy have at it Hoss, okay, go, go, go.
I don't care, look, you might say, he's a perv for leaving it on the young guys page
and stuff, brother, you're 79, how much longer, right?
So, and by the way, maybe a lot longer, and God bless.
I wish everybody good health, right?
But he seems to be at the point where he has less Fs to give, right?
So then live your true self.
What are you waiting for?
>> So Finn was asked about, what the lieutenant governor has been
up to in his career in regard to scaling back any rights for the LGBT community.
And here's what he said to the Tennessee Hauler.
I just thought he was older and out of touch.
I've always taken it as a compliment.
I don't dislike him or think he's a bad person, he's one of the only
people who has consistently uplifted me and made me feel good.
>> He's also made himself feel good.
>> Now, but when the Tennessee Haller told him about the anti-LGBT legislation,
Franklin McClur agreed that it was wrong saying quote,
it's wrong to ban drag, wrong to ban anything that isn't hurting anyone.
I don't support hate of any kind.
And in a series of Instagram direct messages, McClur told The Daily Beast he
thinks McNally follows him because he enjoys who I am.
I hope he can extend that kindness by trying to make sure no bills
are passed to hurt anyone like me.
So, and McNally, you're right.
I mean, he has sponsored some of these awful bills, he has supported
some of these awful bills, but in some moments in his career he has mildly
spoken out against the right wing hatred toward the LGBT community.
In 2019, for instance, he warned his fellow colleagues,
his Republican colleagues, that they were focusing too much on anti-LGBT causes and
said the Senate should be cognizant of people's individual rights.
And then he proceeded to support the bills that were not cognizant of people's
individual rights.
So, let's just be clear about that.
>> Yeah, his actions matter 1000 times more.
>> Agreed. >> And he's a coward, obviously,
he gave in to pass bills against his own community,
because he's afraid that the Republican voters are vicious, and
they hate people like him, and they would vote him out of office immediately.
But Randy, you're 79, when are you going to actually be who you are?
What are you waiting for?
Well, you're worried that they're gonna vote out of, who cares, who cares?
You're worried that they're gonna judge you, dude, we already know you're gay.
Move on with your life, please, however much time you have left,
do something productive.
Tell people who you actually are.
Tell people this was a terrible bill they shouldn't have passed, the both the bills.
And that you guys are doing it to target these people,
people that you literally love in your own way, right?
But no, unfortunately, that closeted self-hatred is destroying the country.