I can only imagine that it was complete pandemonium in the hallways of CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and CNBC yesterday as the word filtered out through well-connected Washington media-types that President Obama was coming out of the closet in favor of gay marriage.

If you were a booker at CNN, what’s the first thing you’d do on the occasion of a sitting American President forcefully (if only rhetorically) endorsing marriage equality? Why, of course, you’d scramble to invite a small-minded Christianist bigot like Tony Perkins to offer HIS opinions, wouldn’t you?

And that’s just what CNN did… THREE TIMES.

I can’t think of a more important and relevant voice on the whole matter than Tony fucking Perkins, can you? It’s logical: The President of the United States says something important, lets get a non-entity who runs and is the figurehead/mouthpiece of what the Southern Poverty Law Center has designated as an anti-gay hate group to puke his opinions into viewer’s homes.

Point, counter point, CNN style. No wonder no one watches anymore.

At least, though, when Piers Morgan drew the Tony Perkins card that day (imagine his reaction!) he had some fun with it. At a certain point during this interview, Morgan deftly sank his teeth into Perkins’ ass (metaphorically speaking of course) and did not let go.

It gets really good when Morgan asks Perkins how he’d react if one of his own five children announced to him that they were gay and you see Perkins bridle uncomfortably at the suggestion, pursing his lips and getting very terse with Morgan. Perkins claims that his children would not be gay because he and his wife have been “teaching them the right ways.” (Five kids? What are the odds that one might be gay? Good luck with that Tony!)

Why the hell was this clown on CNN three times in less than 36 hours? What a failure on every level for CNN, even if their anchors DID give him shit. The CNN bookers really need to enter this century and tell this reedonkulous asshat to shove off.

But anyways, I really hate this guy. It was good fun to watch him squirm here.

(And if you enjoyed this, too, here’s MSNBC’s Martin Bashir making mincemeat of religious conservative Rep. Joe Barton of Texas (the fucking idiot who apologized to BP) and his reference to a non-existent Bible verse to bolster his threadbare “moral” arguments for an austere Republican budget that would end Meals on Wheels and free school lunches for poor children.)
 

 
William Tapley, the 71-year-old retired furniture engineer from Forestport, NY and self-described “Co-prophet of the End Times” and “Third Eagle of the Apocalypse” actually made it on to CNN the other day.

And here, I thought he was just another obscure Christian crackpot making preposterous “biblical” predictions in YouTube videos, that we and a few other sites linked to just to goof on him…

Now, Billy the Tap is goin’ international!

Even though Tapley is, of course, being ridiculed here, I’m sure in his mind, this will be interpreted as a good thing anyway, because his God’s message will be “getting out there” more. Even though he must get slammed with “you’re an idiot” type comments and emails all day long, I’ve never seen Tapley address the subject of people ridiculing him. I guess he’d have to be impervious to Internet hecklers in his role as “Co-prophet of the End Times” and “Third Eagle of the Apocalypse.”

All part of God’s plan… All part of the plan!
 

 
More William Tapley on Dangerous Minds

If You Use Condoms, You Will Not Be Raptured

Via Christian Nightmares

 
Too, too good.

Via Joe.My.God

 
Is this CNN’s desperate attempt to grab Fox viewers?

Turns out, CNN intended to use the ‘Dumb And Dumber’ scene to introduce a piece about men’s digestive diseases and someone slipped the clip into the wrong spot. Laughter ensues.
 

 

Via HD

 
(via TDW )

It’s always instructive to compare how a particular news story is reported by different media outlets. Case in point, how CNN covered Barney Frank’s town hall meeting with some of his less intelligent constituents in Dartmouth, Massachusetts vs. the way Fox News handled the same story. Any commentary would be entirely superfluous, but it does go to show why flipping the channels can provide interesting insight into how opinion is manufactured. (And bravo to Frank for calling these folks out on their total know-nothing idiocy).

First CNN:

Then Fox News (featuring zany idiot Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann)