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10/28/2008
Towleroad Guide to the Tube #381
PARENTS AGAINST PROP 8: Parents whose kids were featured in a recent Prop 8 ad demand an end to the exploitation of their children for a cause they don't support.
COMMON PHILOSOPHY: John McCain finally gives us a little straight talk.
N WORD? Is that what was shouted at a rally yesterday in Iowa?
MARCEL: One good reason to buy Score underwear.
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Posted 12:02 PM EST by Andy Towle in California, Gay Marriage, John McCain, News, Sarah Palin, Towleroad Guide to the Tube, Underwear | Permalink
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Is that underwear dude standing on a roof?
Posted by: crispy | Oct 28, 2008 12:25:16 PM
Thank you, Sarah Palin, for not going "rogue", stopping in your tracks and telling your audience that racist outburst are not only not welcome, but horribly wrong.
Thank you, Sarah Palin, for staying on message while the throngs react in the background, showing restraint where your running mate at least had the spine and balls to tell the "Crazy lady" to her face that Obama was not a Muslim.
Thank you, Sarah, for emboldening the Aryans with your strong message that all but calls Barack Obama out on the color of his skin.
Thank you, Sarah, for spouting fabricated rhetoric like the neocon terrorist we have been hunting down in other parts of the world.
I hope, some day, Sarah Palin, you reap all that you sow. Perhaps when Alaska secedes from the lower 48 and ordain you "Queen".
Posted by: Rad | Oct 28, 2008 12:30:33 PM
We've been too kind to the republican ticket so far. It's time to set things straight. Sarah Palin is simply an evil person with no morals at all.
Posted by: had enough | Oct 28, 2008 12:36:21 PM
Marcel, if I looked like you in that underwear, I would be tempted to return to my slut days. Very, very tempted.
Posted by: Mike in the Tundra | Oct 28, 2008 12:53:03 PM
I think Marcel is on a roof to demonstrate his support for solar and other clean energy sources.
Posted by: Joe | Oct 28, 2008 12:57:13 PM
Pauline Kael and Carmen Miranda are at The Cheerful Earfull today! Come visit! ;)
http://thecheerfulearfull.blogspot.com/
Posted by: The Cheerful Earfull | Oct 28, 2008 1:46:38 PM
At the risk of being called a "Sarah lover", I have to point out that Palin is speaking when whoever hollered, hollered whatever they hollered. In most situations, speakers in such settings cannot hear what is being yelled from a crowd, and can only react after the fact. To assume that she's complicit with the slur because she continued with her speech is to create a "red herring" when there are many more real differences on the table.
Posted by: KJ | Oct 28, 2008 1:52:27 PM
It's amazing and heartening to see straight parents who are so supportive and vocal about their support for gay rights. It gives me a lot of hope that things are changing for the better.
Posted by: Pierre | Oct 28, 2008 2:13:48 PM
If I had a body like Marcel I would probably stand on my roof in my underwear all the time.
Posted by: txstevo | Oct 28, 2008 2:24:59 PM
"To assume that she's complicit with the slur because she continued with her speech is to create a "red herring" when there are many more real differences on the table."
Judging by her stammer a second after the outburst and her rushed speech pattern immediately following it seems she heard something but did not want to acknowledge it.
Sad for sure but what's even worse is the lack of response from the crowd which instead chooses to jeer Obama's tax plan.
Regarding Underwear Dude on a hot tin roof: Um... works for me : )
Posted by: Giovanni | Oct 28, 2008 2:31:14 PM
I have to agree, KJ, that it is clear by her reaction and speech patterns that she heard the comment clearly. Hell, I heard it through this laptop after someone took a video of their tv screen and put it on you tube. The sound we were getting is coming from the mike in front of her mouth, so it was even louder when it fell on her ears. She should have stopped and reprimanded the person.
thankfully to Marcel, I stopped thinking about it almost immediately. nice basket!
Posted by: Dan B | Oct 28, 2008 2:50:52 PM
damn. I watched them in the wrong order. do-over!
Posted by: Alan | Oct 28, 2008 3:03:22 PM
I am from Iowa and it pains me to think that we have some obvious bigots and idiots living in the state. Please don't think this one idiot speaks for the state. Iowa was the first state to start Obama on his way with our first in the nation caucas and we still stand proudly by him. I agree Sarah should have called out that person like McCain did the crasy lady at his speech.
Posted by: jeff | Oct 28, 2008 3:03:48 PM
@KJ
red herring my ass. you need to get your logical fallacies straight. also, when i am talking to someone, i can still hear a dog barking in the distance. the fact that the mccain campaign is making robocalls besmirching obama's character and palin is misrepresenting him as a marxist make them equally culpable in eliciting these kinds of racist reactions from the white-trash crowds they attract.
i am a latino gay man; ergo, i am twice a minority. i disdain the repug us-versus- them approach which seeks to demonize us queers, hard-working latino immigrants, and blacks. many blacks and mexicans were shipped into or annexed into this country.
be not confused, my family has been in this region for centuries. in short, we did not cross the river, the river crossed us. so excuse me for having zero tolerance for whites who shout out bigoted epithets at repug rallies. it is not for nothing that latinos and other minorities are showing up in droves to vote for obama at early voting sites.
i hope that on nov 5th we can all be celebrating a new awakening in this country -- an inclusive country.
Posted by: nic | Oct 28, 2008 4:03:15 PM
A difference (amongst many others) between Palin and Obama: Barak can read, think, and HEAR at the same time. And he also has the self worth to stop his speech and address the negativity in the audience.
I was watching a PBS spacial on LB Johnson last night... bug eyed about what was going on in this country 40 years ago. Getting into and out of Vietnam, the fight for desegregation....
I, as gay American--with or without marriage rights--have never been prouder of casting my vote for President. The change that will result from this election will alter the shape of out Nation's future.
Posted by: my2cents | Oct 28, 2008 6:32:31 PM
I watched this Palin clip repeatedly as I was a little incredulous that someone would yell such a thing ~ but considering the tenor of her past rallies, I guess I wouldn't think it completely impossible. I too am a native Iowan, and say what you will of that fly-over state, but, democrat or republican, the n-word would be unacceptable in almost ALL social circles.
If you watch the video directly on youtube the reporting from the Daily Kos is now indicating that the individual is in fact saying "re-distributor." I googled the topic and forced myself to click on Michelle Malkin's blog (I feel dirty) where she has a different soundclip with reduced speed. I now would agree that she is saying "re-distributor."
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/28/obama-cultists-cry-wolf-n-word-yelled-at-palin-rally-not/
Sarah Palin still sucks though.
Posted by: Mikey | Oct 28, 2008 9:57:59 PM
wow, MIKEY, you were able to read that harpy's invective-filled commentary without retching? you're a better man than i am, gunga din!
Posted by: nic | Oct 28, 2008 10:13:41 PM