With the moderator's permission . . . This made me laugh and made me think about the recent exchange in this group.
Jon Stewart: Is Fox News `turning into The 700 Club?'
Annoyed over Fox News attacking President Barack Obama for not saying "God" in his Thanksgiving Address, Jon Stewart asked Monday evening if the network was "turning into The 700 Club?"
The Daily Show host took the network to task once again for their latest, peculiar over-reaction in a segment titled "Much Ado About Stuffing."
"Seriously, failing to mention God in you Thanksgiving address, not a huge Thanksgiving faux pas," Stewart said. "I could understand if instead of pardoning two male turkeys, he had married them. Then I could understand Fox getting bent out of shape."
Stewart wasn't even accepting Fox's attempt to "be fair" to Obama, as the network mentioned that he wasn't the first president to leave out God in his Thanksgiving address.
"Who did you make look up that shit on a holiday weekend?" he asked. "Who did you do that too?"
Fox News later told its viewers that Obama did indeed mention God in his written Thanksgiving address instead of the Youtube broadcasted message. By that time in the segment, Stewart was ready to move on.
"This is about turning Thanksgiving into yet another one of those Christian persecution culture war type things," he said. "Don't you do it! Don't you do it to Thanksgiving! I'll give you the war on Christmas, we are trying to fuck that up. This is all reformed Jews have left."
WATCH: Video from Comedy Central, which was broadcast on November 28, 2011.
Andrew Jones
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--- In Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com, "BillBearNJ@..." <BillBearNJ@...> wrote:
>
> Well, it made me laugh when I read it.
>
>
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Mark Fischer
> Date: 11/29/2011 12:01:37 AM
> To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Male/Gay
> Health-Discussion-PICS Re: Twink Wars-Nov 26, 2011-BoycottTrump-TARGET-FOX
> NEWS-Salvation Army
>
>
> Actually, I was chuckling when I wrote my comment . . . hoping others would
> do the same. :-)
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Mark Fischer fischerwdc@... wrote:
>
> I'm calm . . . It take way more than this to get me worked up. LOL!!
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 10:43 PM, BillBearNJ@... BillBearNJ@verizon
> net> wrote:
>
>
>
> I didn't say it was a religious holiday.
> All Jake said was no one goes to church.
> I said I did.
> My choice for expressing thanksgiving.
> Y'all need to calm down.
>
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Mark Fischer
> Date: 11/28/2011 10:37:51 PM
> To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Male/Gay
> Health-Discussion-PICS Re: Twink Wars-Nov 26, 2011-BoycottTrump-TARGET-FOX
> NEWS-Salvation Army
>
>
> If Thanksgiving is a religious holiday because some churches have services
> on that day, then New Years Eve is a religious holiday because some churches
> have services that night.
>
> Neither is a valid connection.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Jake jakewest_tn@... wrote:
>
>
> Bill;
>
> I am happy for you. But, thanksgiving is not in the bible. Jesus has not
> returned. I guess if Mormens have taken over, ThanksGiving in the USA is not
> a religious holiday. Period. It is a American Holiday. If you go to Church,
> than the church has found a reason to collect money. Didn't thew church hear
> about the expense of Turkey? And than the expense of Black Friday and Cyber
> Monday?
>
> Poor time to be in service when poeple should be out feeding the homeless;
> Gay Yourth Centers; etc!
>
> Shame! Shame! Shame!
>
> Don't expect me to be feel good about religion, You are marching down the
> wrong road here! LOLOLOL
>
> ...Jake
>
> --- In Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com, "BillBearNJ@" BillBearNJ@
> wrote:
> >
> > Jake, I go to church. Is New Jersey part of the USA? lol. --Bill
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -------Original Message-------
> >
> > From: stanley blanc
> > Date: 11/28/2011 4:15:09 PM
> > To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Re: Twink
> > Wars-Nov 26, 2011-BoycottTrump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
> >
> >
> > I don't know about trevor's experience but most of the people I lnow, even
> > som eJewish peopkle, have Turkey for Thanksgivinbg. It is a statutory
> > holiday an dthe American Thanksgiving started because they couldn't
> > celebrate the Thanksgiving omn the Church calendar in October because the
> > Pilgrims were building their cabins and at first didn't have enough food
> to
> > make it a worthwhile celebration.
> > I don't understand about why Trevor played down Thanksgiving.
> > We just don't make it like Christmas which is what Americans do.
> >
> > University students go home for Thanksgiving etc.
> >
> > Bucth
> >
> > Moderator: Butch, some Jewish People? eat Turkey? Well, Thanks giving the
> > USA is not a Religious holiday at all. Period. It is more spiritual and
> > thanks for the food and the land. No one goes to church. Indians gave the
> > pilgrams Turkey, so Turkey is eaten by everyone, regardless of religion,
> > ethnic. Unless one is vegeterian. shame we must go so off topic. Has
> nothing
> > to being alone on a holiday. and i did not start a conversation on relgion
>
> > ..jake
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Trevor Scott trevors02@
> > To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 12:34 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Re: Twink
> > Wars-Nov 26, 2011-BoycottTrump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
> >
> >
> > Thanks, Jake.
> >
> > In Canada, Thanksgiving is not really a big deal, our biggest Holiday is
> > Christmas. Several years ago, I got fed up with feeling sorry for myself
> at
> > Christmas and started organizing what I called an "Orphan's Christmas." I
> > call a few lonely friends and had them come over, but there was a catch;
> > they had to bring someone else who was also alone for Christmas. This
> extra
> > guest could be a street person, someone sick (as long as not actively
> > contagious), an acquaintance from work, or whatever. The result was many a
> > great and memorable "Orphan" Christmas Dinner!
> >
> > BTW: if we knew the background of the "extra" guestin time, we always have
> a
> > small token gift.
> >
> > Regards
> > Trev
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Jake jakewest_tn@ wrote:
> >
> >
> > >Hi, I hope that you all had a good thanksgiving. I know that many of you
> > live a lone and have no family and may have had no friends to be with. I
> > hope you did get out, go to a diner, grab a paper, a book, or made dinner
> > your yourself. I know it feels lonely on a holiday. i should have said
> > something beforehand. I had not been feeling well lately and not in the
> > mood to openly tal. For some reason, today, i feel pretty good. Anyway,
> > sometimes it helps to volulunteer to feed the homeless on a holiday, or
> some
> > think like that. Try to plan out in advance and give yourself something to
> > do. Even a movie. Or a movie and a diner! perhaps there is a friend who
> > is a lone. Get togehter. A neighbor?
> > >So start planning on christmas! There may be a gay youth center, HIV
> > center.
> > >Anyway, i put up a article in Twink wars today called: The
> Self-Destructive
> > Insanity of Pro-Palestinian Gay Activists. I was wondering if any one read
> > it. It is some what of a trick article. Opps, I just made it easy for you.
> > Now, right what is wrong, right, or what well know public person could
> have
> > written it?
> > >It could be fun!
> > >...jake
> > >
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> > >> You can also use olive oil as a "dip." Just drizzle a bit into a
> > >> shallow dish. Then dip small pieces of bread into the oil. Use
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> > >> not just marriage. "They should not be able to marry," he said. So why
> > >> does NBC keep the Apprentice when Donald Trump has stated he may run
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> > >> Self-Destructive Insanity of Pro-Palestinian Gay ActivistsFront Page
> > >> Magazine; Nov 25, 2011; Bruce Bawer
> > >> On November 22, the New York Times ran an op-ed by the radical leftist
> > >> lesbian Jewish playwright Sarah Schulman which did a great public
> > >> service รข€" it provided a perfect illustration of the utter lunacy of
> > >> the anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian queer left.
> > >> Schulman opened her piece, entitled "Israel and 'Pinkwashing,'" by
> > >> quoting a line from William Butler Yeats (a writer who, incidentally,
> > >> would have found both her work and her politics utterly vile). The
> > >> line, also the title of a famous short story by Delmore Schwartz, was
> > >> this: "In dreams begin responsibilities." Schulman maintained that
> > >> Yeats's words "resonate with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
> > >> people who have witnessed dramatic shifts in our relationship to power.
>
> > >> She meant by this that while gay people have won rights and respect in
> > >> various countries around the world, "these changes have given rise to a
> > >> nefarious phenomenon: the co-opting of white gay people by
> > >> anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim political forces in Western Europe and
> > >> Israel."
> > >> Schulman went on to express her revulsion at the enthusiasm of some
> > >> Dutch gays for the late Pim Fortuyn and for the very much alive Geert
> > >> Wilders, and at the fact that the English Defense League has over a
> > >> hundred gay members. She also took me on: "In Norway," she wrote,
> > >> "Anders Behring Breivik, the extremist who massacred 77 people in July,
> > >> cited Bruce Bawer, a gay American writer critical of Muslim immigration
>
> > >> as an influence." (In fact, Breivik made it clear in his writings that
> > >> I was not an influence on him - he considered me too much of a
> > >> libertarian. But no matter.)
> > >> The "depictions of immigrants" by people like me and Wilders "as
> > >> 'homophobic fanatics,'" wrote Schulman, "opportunistically ignore the
> > >> existence of Muslim gays and their allies within their communities." On
> > >> the contrary, I and many other anti-jihadists have written extensively
> > >> about gay Muslims. What Schulman "opportunistically ignores" is that
> > >> gay Muslims in Western Europe tend to live in terror of being found out
> > >> by their families and communities. Their very lives are at risk. So
> > >> dire is their plight that until recently there was not a single "out"
> > >> gay Muslim in all of Norway, where I live. I am now personally
> > >> acquainted with the country's first openly gay male Muslim and its
> first
> > >> openly lesbian Muslim, and I can inform Schulman that their lives have
> > >> been made exceedingly difficult by the Muslim communities that Schulman
> > >> is so eager to defend.
> > >> To depict Muslims as antigay, Schulman further maintained, is to
> render
> > >> invisible the role that fundamentalist Christians, the Roman Catholic
> > >> Church and Orthodox Jews play in perpetuating fear and even hatred of
> > >> gays." Yes, there's hostility to gay people all over the place. The
> > >> difference is that even the most famously gay-hating Christian on the
> > >> planet, Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps, doesn't call for the murder of
> > >> gay people and, as far as I know, has not killed any gays himself. By
> > >> contrast, sharia law prescribes the death penalty for homosexuality - a
> > >> punishment that has been carried out innumerable times by the
> > >> governments of several Islamic countries as well as by countless Muslim
> > >> families both in the Muslim world and in the West.
> > >> But does Schulman care about that? Apparently not. She is the kind of
> > >> leftist for whom ideology will always trump reality. What she is
> > >> exercised about is the fact that Israel is, according to her, marketing
> > >> itself as gay-friendly: Tel Aviv's tourism board, for example, is
> > >> spending about $90 million "to brand the city as 'an international gay
> > >> vacation destination.'" Also, Benjamin Netanyahu told the U.S. Congress
> > >> in May "that the Middle East was 'a region where women are stoned, gays
> > >> are hanged, Christians are persecuted.'"Every gay and lesbian person
> who
> > >> has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a
> > >> survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face
> the
> > >> same challenges."
> > >>
> > >> ....Jake <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ObamaBiden2008/join> Important
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> > >> and discuss end of DADT, etc... There are 3 gay teen suicides in the
> USA
> > >> - daily! There are Hate crimes against gay people. There are gay people
> > >> who are fired over their sexual identity. There are gay people who died
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> > >
> >
> > --
> > Science teaches how set fire to the mind. Religion teaches how set fire to
> > one's underwear.
> >
>
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