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Normally, I wouldn’t give a rat’s bunghole about what liberal asshat Bill Maher has to say on anything, but his take on the recent forced resignation of the Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich, was pretty surprising.
His comments came during the online-only “Overtime” portion of his HBO show “Real Time” and shockingly, he seemed to disagree with gay rights activists who targeted Eich over his 2008 $1000 donation in support of Prop 8, a ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in California.
Here’s the video of the conversation between Bill Maher and his panelists Carrie Sheffield of Forbes, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, fomer Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA), and rapper Nas.
And here’s the transcript of their exchange:
MAHER: What do you think about the Mozilla CEO having to step down over his donation to a pro-Proposition 8 group.
The Mozilla — which I’m wearing right now, by the way. I didn’t know what Mozilla was. I saw it on my computer, but — it’s Firefix, right? It’s the browser.
So this guy apparently does not want gay people to get married and he had to step down. What do you think of that, the question asks.
FMR. REP. TOM DAVIS (R-VA): Because he gave $1,000 eight years ago and it’s come back to haunt him.
CARRIE SHEFFIELD, FORBES: Well, and he gave it when President Obama was still against gay marriage. So, I don’t think it’s very fair.
MAHER: Good point. Also, I think there is a gay mafia. I think if you cross them, you do get whacked.
Perhaps there are some gay activists out there who like the idea of a “Gay Mafia” because it gives an air of toughness, protection, and street cred to a group of people who have historically, themselves, been bullied and treated badly. Clearly in the Mozilla case, gay activists were tyrants, fascists, and haters of Free Speech. They effectively used Nazi tactics to bully and harass – demanding compliance and inclusion – whilst promoting their own brand of fake tolerance, diversity, inclusiveness, and equality for all.
So is there a “Gay Mafia”? I don’t know. But ask Brendan Eich. I’m sure he can tell you all about it.
Our “Weekend Links” are below the fold!
Great Weekend Blog Reading Links!
Teach at Pirate’s Cove is blogging about “Hooray! How To Talk To A Climate Contrarian (If You Must).”
The Other McCain has many good blog posts up including this one by Stacy on “
#RapeCulture: Fourth Boy Says Teacher Told Him: ‘This Stays Between Us’.”
ST at Sister Toldjah has up this post on “ABC’s GMA runs Westboro video in story on anti-gay marriage @Mozilla CEO.”
Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has up this post today on “Before Brendan Eich, they came for the Mormons.”
Jeff at Gay Patriot has up this blog post called “Even Michelangelo Signorile shows No Self-Awareness.”
Glenn Reynolds or Instapundit has many great posts at his blog hub from all over the blogosphere so go check them out! And you can read Glenn’s latest article in USA Today on “The media hate Republicans”, here.
Dana at The First Street Journal has up a great post called “Today on Truth Before Dishonor!”
As always, Michelle Obama’s Mirror has up a great post called “Free Speech “Evolves” to Pro-Choice: “I Choose Who Gets To Enjoy It.” Yes.
Jammie at Jammie Wearing Fools has up this post “Shaken By Events at Fort Hood, Obama Heads to Texas for Democratic Party Events.”
This Ain’t Hell has up a lot of great posts this weekend, but I especially like this post by Jonn called “Everyone wants a CIB.” Go check it out.
Evil Blogger Lady has this post on “Just another “hit” by the Gay Mafia…”
Donald Douglas at American Power has up this blog post on “Volokh Conspiracy on Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta.” It’s a must read.
Neo at Neo-Neocon is writing about “Mozilla: in the Silicon Valley bubble.” Read it.
Darleen Click at Protein Wisdom has this great post up, “From the “I’ll believe it when I see it” files, “Sen. Inhofe to Force Congressional Review of All New Major EPA Clean Air Regs.”
Jazz Shaw at Hot Air has up this post “George Zimmerman jurors’ names released to public.” Not good.
and finally, Ace at AoSHQ has up this post on “White Liberals: We’ll Say Who the Racists Are.” BOOM. Read the comments, too.
Have a terrific weekend!
VALman says: Along this line, yesterday breitbart.com was done for quite awhile. One comment I came across on the ‘net was they had blocked Mozilla, not to be a rumor-monger. This morning, I had been able to access the site until a strange incident.
I clicked to go to the homepage. Instead of it appearing, there was a page with this logo: http://www.breitbart.com/images/logo.gif. The text reads: “Please Login” with a spaces provided for “Username” and Password”. Not join’ to do it. So, I did a search with “Startpage”. When I click on various links, e.g. breitbart.com/big-journalism. it come up with “404 Not Found”.
Two points. This does seem suspicious, particularly with regards to the comment about their having blocked Mozilla. Also, the other has to do with getting reliable, trusted info.
I think some credible person or persons ought to come up with something along the lines of the old “phone tree”.
For those not familiar, think of a pyramid. At the top, a call is initiated to two (2) persons. Each has a list of other persons to be contacted. And, those persons, in turn, have a list of contacts, And, so on, and so on until all have been contacted. It might be something to give some thought to, especially in time of more urgent matters which hopeful won’t come. Yet, even as I type this history tell me there will be something.
VALman says: BTW, thanks for noting this: “Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection has up this post today on ‘Before Brendan Eich, they came for the Mormons’.” It’s an excellent read.
Kate says: My favorite site! 🙂
VALman says: How’s that, again? Your “favorite site”? Ahem.
Kate says: Hahaha!
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