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In the discussion thread: "Keith Olbermann has more pink slips than Marcus Bachmann" LOL! White House Correspondents Dinner. [View all]

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Sun Apr 29, 2012, 01:34 AM

Bladian (475 posts)

8. How the hell is that calling someone gay?

Are you crazy? That doesn't make any sense.

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50 replies	Author	Time	Post
"Keith Olbermann has more pink slips than Marcus Bachmann" LOL! White House Correspondents Dinner. [View all]	applegrove	Apr 2012	OP
LOL!	GoCubsGo	Apr 2012	#1
THat wasn't Marcus Bachman that stood up, but the actor who plays Cameron on Modern Family.	hlthe2b	Apr 2012	#2
Oh thank god. I thought that was really nervy to actually call Marcus out to his face and then make	applegrove	Apr 2012	#3
No, Eric Stonestreet is straight, he's just a good actor.	Zookeeper	Apr 2012	#4
Didn't some people with pro gay signs or shirts get a picture with Marcus and he looked really happy	JI7	Apr 2012	#5
That is a great line.	hifiguy	Apr 2012	#6
Ha! Yeah. Calling someone gay is always hi-larious!	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#7
How the hell is that calling someone gay?	Bladian	Apr 2012	#8
Teasing him because of perceived effeminity	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#13
Marcus deserves a little teasing. His "Cure the gay" thing at his clinic, surely has done a lot of	crunch60	Apr 2012	#15
And there again, the word "hypocrite"	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#16
Because Marcus himself is as "gay as a daffodil", Living his life in the closet.	crunch60	Apr 2012	#19
How do you know he is gay?	cthulu2016	Apr 2012	#23
I see - so if he is gay and closeted, then he should be made fun of	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#24
I have worked much of my life with the homosexual, transvestite transgender, bisexual community. I	crunch60	Apr 2012	#32
Again, I agree with your opinions of their beliefs	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#36
What does that have to do with the "joke"?	obamanut2012	Apr 2012	#37
So, the best way to call out someone closeted is by mocking him for being gay?	obamanut2012	Apr 2012	#35
It is the hypocrisy that people don't like about M. Bachmann. He tries to 'fix' the gayness	applegrove	Apr 2012	#9
And you believe Bachmann is a "hypocrite" because...	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#12
Because his own issues bleed into a fetish for curing gay people, which actually hurts them. He	applegrove	Apr 2012	#17
And "his own issues" are... what?	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#18
Painfully obvious and doesn't need explained to you.	phleshdef	Apr 2012	#20
And you know he's gay because?	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#21
Are you always this creepy?	lunatica	Apr 2012	#25
I find the gay-taunting of Marcus Bachmann to be creepy	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#26
No. You don't get the humor	lunatica	Apr 2012	#27
A great thing about being human...	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#28
I've heard my gay friends laugh and joke about Backmann	lunatica	Apr 2012	#29
My gay friends are gayer than your gay friends	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#31
You can have the last word	lunatica	Apr 2012	#33
Is Jimmy Kimmel gay?	obamanut2012	Apr 2012	#39
Well, by the distributive law of gay baiting...	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#41
Exactly	obamanut2012	Apr 2012	#42
Don Lemon on CNN and another gay pundit were laughing at Will's complaint that it was unfair to make	applegrove	Apr 2012	#47
Actually it's VERY different from	ohheckyeah	Apr 2012	#30
I agree with you -- it wasn't funny	obamanut2012	Apr 2012	#38
Because he sets my gaydar off. And my gaydar has yet to be wrong.	phleshdef	Apr 2012	#43
Suggesting there is something wrong?	jberryhill	Apr 2012	#44
No, what makes the joke funny is the fact that a likely hypocrite is being ridiculed.	phleshdef	Apr 2012	#46
How do you know this?	cthulu2016	Apr 2012	#22
I took it that way, too	obamanut2012	Apr 2012	#34
The ole' transvestite put-down...	cthulu2016	Apr 2012	#10
People think that sexist asshole is funny?	Fawke Em	Apr 2012	#11
It says more about Kimmel and those supporting his joke than it does about Bachmann. nt	NCTraveler	Apr 2012	#14
+1	obamanut2012	Apr 2012	#40
Agreed. I didn't think it was funny. n/t	tammywammy	Apr 2012	#45
Don Lemon can't stop laughing at this joke	JI7	Apr 2012	#48
That's it then. It's all good.	NCTraveler	Apr 2012	#49
I have to question anyone that finds this type of stereotype humor funny or appropriate.	The Link	Apr 2012	#50

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