Gay Conservative

Afrocity posted a video clip of Keith Olbermann’s show a couple of days ago that momentarily shocked me into stupefied silence. Take a look:

In case you missed it, between the infantile jokes about teabagging (I think Walter Cronkite turned over in his grave), actress Jeneane Garofolo had the patent nerve to look into the camera and say that the Tea Party movement was all about racism. It has nothing to do with Obama’s continuation of Bush’s horrible economic policies; nope, all of us who supported the Tea Parties are a bunch of “teabagging rednecks” who “hate a black man in the White House.”

Okay. I’m done being shocked. Now I’m pissed.

Jeneane, exactly where do you get off accusing me of racism and being a redneck, you self-righteous, stuck-up, liberal, elitist media whore? Who made you the judge of all things racist? If you wanna hate yourself for being white, go right ahead, but leave me out of your little guilt trip. I’ll tell you exactly what I tell my counterparts in the gay community who whine about “hatemongering”: dissent does not denote hate. Disagreeing with someone doesn’t make them a hatemonger or a racist. It just means they don’t like what that person believes. I could care less about the color of Barack Obama’s skin; my issue is that he tries to push socialist ideals into my free country on the basis of bringing about some twisted version of “hope and change.” That is what I don’t like about him.

Guess what, Jeneane? Tea Party attendees booed Arnold Schwartzenegger. They booed Orrin Hatch. They booed Jon Huntsman. They booed Bob Bennett. They booed Gresham Barrett. ALL OF THESE MEN ARE WHITE REPUBLICANS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN HELPING MAKE THE MESS WE’RE PROTESTING. It’s not about being white, it’s not about being Republican, it’s not about hate. It’s about wanting the current state of the politics in Washington to change drastically. The change Obama promised has become one for the worse. THAT is what we’re angry about.

I am fed up with all of the celebrity/media/liberal assaults on my character. I take it personally because they’re describing me: a white, conservative American who doesn’t like Barack Obama and would have been at my local Tea Party if I could have been. They’re attacking those like me because they can’t come up with a single intelligent rebuttal. I will not be labeled a racist, a hatemonger, or a bigot simply because I refuse to agree with you. If that’s going to be your only mode of debate or argument then you can kiss my Texan ass.

And if you ask me, the Hollywood establishment needs to be banished to the same hell as our politicians.