|
-- tips@phblend.com
PHB Mobile
| Best of the Blend |
|
Blog Posts
Special Events and Interviews
| Blend-o-licious endorsements... |
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend:
"a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego)."Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist."
(Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger."
(MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
--"Joe"
|
Support the Blend
|
|
An Online Magazine in the Reality-Based Community.
|
Mon Jan 21, 2008 at 19:00:00 PM EST
|
| (A news note: tonight the Dems debate in Myrtle Beach, SC. It's hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and CNN, and co-sponsored by The National Black Justice Coalition, the national black LGBT civil rights organization. It begins at 8PM.)
***
I've been talking for some time now about political desperation to win the Democratic nomination was going to drive candidates, political consultants, surrogates and hangers-on to a dark place -- invoking gender bias, race (and class) into the campaign when we as a society have so few emotional or logical tools to handle the base instincts awakened when stoked by overt and covert tactics.
LowerManhattanite of The Group News Blog has an essay that you must take in, Down That Dark Alleyway-Part One. As the campaign season heats up and attrition has winnowed the Democratic field of participants down to the seemingly inevitable two and the potentially kingmaking one, we are headed-like it or not-for an ugly place indeed. Down that dark alleyway ending at a brick wall and filled with the stinking detritus from three overturned dumpsters in said alley.
Dumpsters labeled "Race", "Sex" and "Class".
Don't breathe in too deeply...you'll retch from the recent stink.
There is no outlet, or side exit in the alleyway. The only way out is back the way we came in. But it seems people don't want to leave the alley unless they can manage to leave their opponents sprawled unconscious in it-covered in the muck from those dumpsters a ways in.
Hell...we're not even going there. We're in it now. Post-Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada-knee deep in the trash and stinking to beat the Goddamned band. More after the jump. |
| Pam Spaulding :: Heading down that political dark alleyway...can they turn back? |
While the whole post is a must read, one paragraph hits the nail on the head about the radioactivity of the word "racist" The fear of being labeled racist is so unnerving (certainly more so than "sexist" or "misogynist") that people fear bringing the topic of racial bias up in any context that is critical. This is a terrible mistake. Both sides are using well-honed political tactics are playing with fire and leaving an American public, clearly unprepared to deal with the complex issues of race dynamics, many not self aware enough to dig deep to assess their own biases cultivated not out of malice, but ingrained by the culture we live in. The media's approach to the issues isn't helpful either. LowerManhattanite:["Racist" is] such an amazingly freighted word and is so easy to abuse when more precise language should be used. What I think the Clinton camp is is not above using America's longstanding issues with race in politics as a distraction to put another candidate off his game and distract would-be voters from Mrs. Clinton's exposed flaws when matched against a Barack Obama. These people are first and foremost, political operators as skilled and gutter-capable in campaign theory as anyone-including Karl Rove. (The gamesmanship in Nevada with the Cuilnary Workers Union is marked "Evidence Sample One") It was a move to "muddy the waters" (pardon the pun) if you will, trotting out established Black politicos and luminaries to do the facade-sullying, and the mangling of the King/LBJ power dynamic was a distaff toss off a match onto a fireworks barge. Casual enough in appearance, but destructive nonetheless.
And with that strategy, we were off Main Street and down that dark alleyway in a flash.
Note how the media, always at the ready to pimp a race story, bit at the hook and took it all the way down the gullet, tearing their innards on the way. And note also how the Obama camp, eventually, and in spite of trying again to "transcend" the dynamic, found itself forced into responding (and in some respects over-responding) lest it come off "soft". |
|
|
