Gay Couple Puts Halloween Hate on Display in West Hollywood
Chad Michael Morrisette, a West Hollywood resident, and his partner are under fire for a Halloween display that depicts Sarah Palin hanging from a noose and John McCain emerging from flames out of a chimney. Of course Drudge is breathlessly flaunting it in red headlines.
Said Morrisette: "We see people stopping and taking pictures, and the tour buses are stopping and slowing down ... people reach out and take pictures...I know if we had done it with Barack Obama, people would've probably thrown things through our windows. The image of a hanged black man is a lot more intense than the image of a hanged white woman -- for our country -- in the history of our country...It should be seen as art and it should be seen within the month of October. It is Halloween. It's time to be scary. It's time to be spooky."
As much as I despise the GOP ticket, mimicking the hate and racist imagery that McCain supporters have been flaunting with regard to Obama isn't funny or original. It's just stooping to their level.
Classic attention-seeking behaviour. That couple needs to get a life.
Posted by: what | Oct 27, 2008 11:39:19 AM
Bravo Andy. I couldn't agree with you more. It's the trolls on both ends of the parties that hinder the rights and freedoms of all people.
Posted by: Matt | Oct 27, 2008 11:39:41 AM
What a couple of fucking twats! The McCain doll isn't that bad but what the fucking hell with the Palin crap? Someone needs to remind them that just because a painting hangs in a gallery, that doesn't make it art. Nor should it be used as a lame excuse for a stupid idea.
Posted by: Bud | Oct 27, 2008 11:47:33 AM
For those that need an example showing that NOT all Gay men have good taste, here ya go.
Posted by: Sargon Bighorn | Oct 27, 2008 11:49:57 AM
I agree with Andy. Inexcusable. And it is the perfect opportunity for the haters to say, "See? Gay people are intolerant!" Thanks for giving West Hollywood a bad name, you morons.
Posted by: Frank L | Oct 27, 2008 11:51:12 AM
This is the most dramatic thing to happen in sleepy old WEHO since Mickey's burned down. I thought everyone living there was over 50 and/or straight with kids in strollers.
Posted by: We Ho's | Oct 27, 2008 11:51:18 AM
Stupid attention whores.
Posted by: Tralfaz | Oct 27, 2008 11:51:59 AM
The Right doesn't corner the market on ignorance. Don't these idiots realize how counterproductive this is? Might as well send their financial contributions dirctly to the RNC.
Posted by: rascal | Oct 27, 2008 11:53:50 AM
Halfwits. That's reprehensible.
Posted by: FASTLAD | Oct 27, 2008 11:54:20 AM
It would have been so much more funny to have Palin shooting wolves from her broom.
Posted by: TikiHead | Oct 27, 2008 11:54:28 AM
Yeah, we've got loonies on the Left too.
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Oct 27, 2008 11:55:34 AM
Absolutely dispicable!
You sometimes wonder what in the heck idiots like this are thinking.
I think it's pretty clear that they are either NOT thinking at all or they are only thinking of themselves and their own desperate need for attention.
Posted by: Zeke | Oct 27, 2008 12:21:59 PM
Yep, the art of being attention whores and not very creative ones at that. They don't seem particularly hateful, just stupid, but they deserve condemnation. Free speech comes with consequences, boys.
Posted by: Ernie | Oct 27, 2008 12:22:52 PM
Mickey's burned down???
Posted by: Dan B | Oct 27, 2008 12:28:28 PM
Mark my words, in a week or so from now when someone brings up the backwards "B" hoaxster or some other right wing nut, SOMEONE will come onto the Towleroad discussion and say either, "It's funny that none of the liberals said a word when those guys hung Sarah Palin in effigy" or "All you liberals laughed DEFENDED those guys who hung Sarah Palin in effigy".
You can put MONEY on it. It never fails and no amount of archival evidence will dissuade them from their delusion.
Posted by: Zeke | Oct 27, 2008 12:29:20 PM
Historically images of violence have been used against those that would fight for the rights of minorities. These clueless douche-bags are as bad as a gay McCain/Palin supporter.
Gay or str8, democrat or repub, the goal should always be reason over passion.
Posted by: UnionStayshyn | Oct 27, 2008 12:31:27 PM
West Hollywood - FREAKS!
“You can take West Hollywood and most of Mexifornia and flush the cesspool down the toilet”
Guess you TARDS don’t realise LGBTs and Latino/as who McLOSER is desperately trying to get their votes….read your GARBAGE.
So when McLOSER loses Arizona, and when Cornyn loses his seat in TX…take a G*D DAMN bow for angering Latino/as.
btw. WHERE is anal leakage Santorum you’re numero uno gay basher?…oh yeah we Tossed him and his weepy fat fugly kids too.
http://brendancalling.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/santorum-cry.jpg
WHERE is J D Hayworth you’re MAJOR MEXICAN BASHER?
Oh yeah, he’s working at a car wash
and WHERE will be Norm Coleman the homobigot, Liddy Dole the empty wig, and Miss Mitch McConnel your minority QUEEN…out on their butts!
PLEASE bring out Boehner to CRY when all the Repigs fall down and can’t get up…bunch of LOSERS!
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=205993&comments=1#comments
Posted by: mark | Oct 27, 2008 12:32:58 PM
Don't you have it in red headlines?
Posted by: ekay | Oct 27, 2008 12:36:50 PM
Goodness everyone's so PC when it comes to white women!
Posted by: David Ehrenstein | Oct 27, 2008 12:36:54 PM
I thought we gay are supposed to be creative. This is just dumb.
Tikihead has the right idea, Sarah Palin as a witch would have been more appropriate & fun, along with John McCain as the Wizard of Oz.
Posted by: Mark in NYC | Oct 27, 2008 12:59:36 PM
It's not funny or artistic.
Palin on broom. That would be funny. McCain as the Devil. Funny.
But this is just stupid and ignorant. These idiots will find themselves on some government watchlist.
As for Drudge, what else should one expect from such vicious, closet case but to do things to hurt other gays. That's his history.
Posted by: noah | Oct 27, 2008 1:09:10 PM
It's not funny or artistic.
Palin on broom. That would be funny. McCain as the Devil. Funny.
But this is just stupid and ignorant. These idiots will find themselves on some government watchlist.
As for Drudge, what else should one expect from such vicious, closet case but to do things to hurt other gays. That's his history.
Posted by: noah | Oct 27, 2008 1:10:52 PM
poor idea, but that guy is really cute. the cuteness is lessened when he opens his mouth, though.
Posted by: jake | Oct 27, 2008 1:17:09 PM
I've always liked to think that only Republicans were capable of all that nasty stuff.
Posted by: Rhea | Oct 27, 2008 1:36:27 PM
Stupid jerks. Uh - this election has turned so ugly I can't wait for it to be over. It just brings out the worst in everybody from all sides. Ugliness, ugliness, ugliness.
Posted by: Andy | Oct 27, 2008 1:56:58 PM