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Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Sponge Bob's 15 minutes in the news has proven once again that the Sex Starved Trinity (evangelical, born-again, fundamentalists) still sees homo sex, baaaad homo sex that, dadgummit, don't even produce no babies. The homos are anywhere and everywhere they look for it and they want YOU. Under the table, in the MICR line of your checkbook, in cartoons. "They" are recruiting, so watch out. We're pretty sure there was a confirmed homo Cabbage Patch Kid, but the awakening really began with the she-tubbie, Tinky Winky. A Purple-Pursie was observed by a keen-eyed SST (none other than Jerry Falwell) flitting around his arm whilst seductively luring in the innocents by the lusciously plump, hypnotic sway of the Teletubbie bottom. It all but screamed, "Backdoor Babylon!" It's not that we're not all for the SST's revelations of rampant homo hedonism, the heightened awareness of active homo recruiting, or that we don't appreciate our enlightenment on the pervasiveness of homo perv, since frankly, we'd like to know where to find more of it and we really appreciate the tips. But we find it remarkable they care so much about what goes in or out of other people's asses. After all, we'd definitely rather not know the ins or outs of theirs.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:00:00 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

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Word on the street

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:55:54 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

The Falwell-Teletubby thing is actually skirting the realm of urban legend. The truth is that 1) Falwell never made the claim himself, and 2) secular sources were making it before his organization did. See:

http://slate.msn.com/id/20251/

I think the issue is ridiculous personally, but I don't like to see half-truths continue to spread whatever the case.

Varenius

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:30:42 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Media Watchblog wants to be corrected anytime there might be an error since our sole reason for existance is the correction of media misinformation. How dare we be another source of misinformation. This is a sticky one; you can find 100 legitimate sources (including http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/276677.stm even where I'm no fan of the BBC) which quote this article. Do I believe Slate? BBC? What's the real story?

It seems it might be a combination of the two; It was Jerry Falwell's publication which made the claim, and ask the recently dethroned head of CNN news if the fact that problems in the CNN news room were not his fault meant anything. Falwell is the publisher and content owner of the publication in which the gay teletubbie reference first appeared. MWB believes with all its soul Mr. Falwell knew well in advance that this was to be the word of his magazine. The fact that they stole the idea from Gay people who like the show doesn't change it one lick. How strange that MSN would be defending Falwell... there's enough leg to stand on that he--at least via a dotted line--quite owned the proposition.

Michele

Thursday, February 17, 2005 12:04:17 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Clearly Falwell's magazine did make the claim; what I have a problem with is the widespread assumption that the idea originally started with Falwell (or his ilk) and that he was, say, personally making public appearances trumpeting the claim. Or from another angle, the portrayal of it as a "crazy" idea when it comes from Falwell but unremarkable when it comes from the gay community is unfair. There's enough to criticize about Falwell without stretching the facts.

By the way, I have seen this clarifying information repeated in places other than Slate -- that article was simply what I could easily find off-the-cuff. It would be nice if Snopes or The Straight Dope would investigate this, but they don't seem to have yet.

Incidentally, the "Spongebob Controversy" has a milder truth behind it too:

http://getreligion.typepad.com/getreligion/2005/02/dr_james_dobson.html

It seems to be another case of people leaping to conclusions based on popular caricatures of the Religious Right rather than the facts of the matter.

Varenius

Thursday, February 17, 2005 1:35:54 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

Agreed Varenius. Absolutely true. Frankly, what I love about the religious right, whatever that is, is that they are only amusing. They by and large stick to themselves. The lefties are the truly frightful ones, they hide behind free speech while regularly stifiling ours. They regulargly pursue policies that stifle safety and freedom.

Michele

Friday, February 18, 2005 7:30:50 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)

I realized there's another reason these stories seem so plausible to me. When I was in college I worked for a veterinarian. A real religious guy, but until he put literature from his church secretly all around the waiting room, I had no idea how much. This literature spoke of how satan is everwhere, and showed various bill statements with "666" in the account number, and other signs of the devil. It used these very odd cartoons to emphasize the point.

Then, take the case of Andrea Yates. Here is a mother suffering from post-partum psychosis (forget the depression) and she and her husband are hooked up with a guy who dresses in satin satan suits (was that irony or what) and holds pitchforks and makes videos about how satan is everywhere. So it's not as though these 'cartoon-characters-as-homo-erotica' seems that far out of line. They do believe that the homosexuals actively recruit people to join the club.

Michele

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