Rev. Phelps' Church to Picket AZ Tragedy Victims' Funerals

This post isn't really about outrage over Rev. Fred Phelps and his crazy Westboro Baptist Church (which is mostly populated by members of his own family). What WBC does is very predictable: take a high profile tragedy, and glom onto it in the most profane way possible. It's what they do.

Image of former Democrat, Kevin Dujan
from Joe.My.God.

What caught my eye was a post by a "former Democrat" Kevin Dujan, who runs the anachronistic website, Hillbuzz. Dejected after Barack Obama won the Democratic primary for the 2008 presidential election, Dujan became a PUMA, that unusual political breed of Hillary Clinton supporters who pivoted 180 degrees, and inexplicably became staunch tea baggin' conservatives.  He (and they) became so disenchanted after their preferred candidate lost, they decided to go against everything she stood for. Which makes very little sense, but there you go.

Such cognitive dissonance can generate amusement and/or frustration in a reader of Hillbuzz. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a regular reader, only clicking through when Dujan says something stupid or embarrassing enough to garner a mention on a site I do read. This time, I was at a worse site, FreeRepublic.com, having my curiosity stoked by Saturday's shooting spree at Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' public event in Arizona. Any time something tragic happens, FR can be counted on for some of the most extreme, hyper-partisan, far-right wing stuff, and I like to keep tabs on that.

Anyway, someone at FR linked to Hillbuzz, which is odd, because Dujan is openly gay, something loathed and detested--it's a requirement to post there--by FReepers.  I guess when they agree with something, they can ignore certain things. There's that cognitive dissonance again. Hillbuzz wrote an article about Rev. Phelps' despicable plan to protest at a nine-year-old victim's funeral. But what does Dujan focus on? The fact that Phelps once considered himself a Democrat. Yeah, Kevin sweetie, I don't think the man's past affiliation with the Democratic Party is the lede here.  There isn't a Democrat alive (outside of whatever members of his church who might consider themselves thus) who'd claim him. And there isn't a thing about Phelps' whack job philosophy that lines up with Democratic politics.

Dujan himself once considered himself a Democrat. Democrats wouldn't claim him either.

[Excerpt (emphasis added)]

BRACE YOURSELVES: Democrat Fred Phelps and Westboro Hate Group announce plans to picket 9-year-old shooting victim Christina Greene’s funeral. A new low for Democrat hate groups.

The Left does some truly despicable things in this world, but this is a new low for Democrats.

Former three-time Democrat gubernatorial candidate Fred Phelps Jr. (commonly called just “Fred Phelps”) and his Westboro Hate Group have announced plans to disrupt the funeral of 9 year-old shooting victim Christina Greene. . .

You can read more (but I wouldn't recommend it) at: Hillbuzz

I Love You, Rachel Maddow!

Photo from GlaadBlog

I thought this song--performed by David Sharrocks--was cute, and the writer, (Gregory Jacobs-Roseman) must really watch The Rachel Maddow Show. He's got the same take on her appeal that I do. He does have the pronunciation of her name wrong. It's Mad-O, not Mad-OW. That's a minor criticism, because the song is a lot of fun. As a fan of Rachel's, I just had to post this.

As a side note, I get frustrated while doing research for this blog, when I run across a blog post or comment that is overly critical of Rachel. Not because they dare criticize someone I like, but because they often, very clearly do not watch her show, and are commenting out their asses. Rachel is not combative, does not scream or shout, or "slavishly" follow Barack Obama or other Democrats. Her sexuality, while public, is never made the focus of her show.

But often, the comments--when not simply a homophobic littany of sophomoric insults--insist that she's a lock-step liberal, an Obama worshiper, a shrill and shrieking harpy. All of which can be disproved by watching a single episode of her show. OK, rant over. Watch the video.

Post edited and reposted 02-03-09 for clarity, accuracy and grammar!