Posted on 08/25/2009 9:09:11 AM PDT by This Just In
HBO’s Potential New Star ‘Licked Doorknobs’ to Make Republicans Sick
Posted By John Nolte On August 25, 2009 @ 5:03 am In Entertainment, Featured Story, News, Politics
The first reaction to a story like this is get wrapped ’round the axle of HBO’s hypocrisy, so let’s get that out of the way: Of course no Republican who had behaved in the same manner as ”sex columnist” Dan Savage would get a shot at an HBO show. But there’s really no hypocrisy when you realize that Bill Maher’s network is waging ideological war. Through that prism of clarity, the network’s desire to do business with and thrust Mr. Savage further into the American cultural/political landscape is perfectly consistent.
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I’m confident this psycho has more than just the flu. Here’s the article:
HBO’s Potential New Star ‘Licked Doorknobs’ to Make Republicans Sick
Posted By John Nolte On August 25, 2009 @ 5:03 am In Entertainment, Featured Story, News, Politics | 52 Comments
The first reaction to a story like this is get wrapped ’round the axle of HBO’s hypocrisy, so let’s get that out of the way: Of course no Republican who had behaved in the same manner as ”sex columnist” Dan Savage would get a shot at an HBO show. But there’s really no hypocrisy when you realize that Bill Maher’s network is waging ideological war. Through that prism of clarity, the network’s desire to do business with and thrust Mr. Savage further into the American cultural/political landscape is perfectly consistent.
For those of you unfamiliar with Savage, here’s an excerpt from a Salon piece he wrote in 2000 titled “Stalking Gary Bauer.” The set-up was simple, Savage volunteered at Republican Gary Bauer’s presidential campaign headquarters and decided, “…if it’s terrorism Bauer wants, then it’s terrorism Bauer is going get[.]“:
Naked, feverish and higher than a kite on codeine aspirin, I called the Bauer campaign and volunteered. My plan? Get close enough to Bauer to give him the flu, which, if I am successful, will lay him flat just before the New Hampshire primary. …
I went from doorknob to doorknob. They were filthy, no doubt, but there wasn’t time to find a rag to spit on. My immune system wasn’t all it should be — I was in the grip of the worst flu I had ever had — but I was on a mission. If for some reason I didn’t manage to get a pen from my mouth to Gary’s hands, I wanted to seed his office with germs, get as many of his people sick as I could, and hopefully one of them would infect the candidate.
So, much as it pains me to confirm a hateful stereotype of gay men — we will put anything in our mouths — I started licking doorknobs. The front door, office doors, even a bathroom door. When that was done, I started in on the staplers, phones and computer keyboards. Then I stood in the kitchen and licked the rims of all the clean coffee cups drying in the rack.
Acting out his burning hostility in such an inappropriate manner wasn’t a one shot deal, either. As recently as 2006, Savage declared in a videotaped interview that Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli should:
“…be dragged behind a pickup truck until there’s nothing left but the rope.”
Not only does the aptly named Savage take political discourse well beyond the pale, his noxious and dangerous behavior (what if Savage had given a vulnerable child or elderly person the flu?) appears to be what he’s most famous for — unless you count his syndicated sex column “Savage Love,” where Savage’s infamous attacks on Senator Rick Santorum and Pastor Rick Warren are too grotesque to detail here.
For those of you still not convinced, here’s the 2007 transcript from a radio interview Savage did where he joked about “hate-f__king” Pastor Fred Phelps:
INTERVIEWER: You’re stuck in a desert island with Dennis Hastert, Rush Limbaugh and Fred Phelps. You’ll be freed if you f–k one of them. Who are you going to do and why are they the best choice?
SAVAGE: Good God. Must I answer this question? I guess… uh… Fred Phelps, because he’s the most revolting of the three –way out in front of Hastert, and edging Limbaugh by a hair.
Why Fred? Well, I figure I might have an easier time working up a hate-f–k boner for Phelps than the other two. Plus he’s the skinniest and I likes ‘em skinny. But, man, just thinking about it makes me worry that I’ll never get a boner again. Out, out, damn mental image!
Savage’s beyond-the-pale political high-jinks have largely flown under the radar thanks to the indifference of the same mainstream media currently obsessing over average American citizens speaking up in town hall meetings. Thankfully for Savage, an openly gay Leftist, he’s the member of a protected class, which means he’ll never be held accountable for his behavior — on the contrary. True to form, HBO appears ready to reward him with a spot on their influential network.
Alexander Marlow contributed to this report.
“I WON’T be renewing!”
A salute to you.
Amazing what passes for a “star” anymore. This guy sounds like he is full of rage, and he will probably end up stabbing a lover, or getting AIDS from an unprotected romp in some men’s room or rest stop.
parsy, who says his co-stars should be careful what they eat or drink on the set.
“Naked, feverish and higher than a kite stereotype of gay men — we will put anything in our mouths.........
Relevant to your interests ping.
Hey, it’s his tongue and doorknob. Hope he doesn’t get anything cause he’ll have to stand in line to get medical attention. Some people are just plain STUPID.
Stop Funding HBO thru your subscriptions. It will die.
I’ll pay you $100. to have someone video tape you licking his fingers after the guys has just scratched his crotch. Or at the very least, lick a doorknob he’s just touched. I’m serious.
You stalking me?
If they’re doing this, we’re winning big.
“”for every piece of garbage HBO puts on, they also put on a series like Band of Brothers. it evens out for me.””
We used to think that, and subscribed for series like Rome, and John Adams as well as Band of Brothers, but it has really been creeping up on us lately. We have been threatening to drop it for some time now, as it has been far too long between the good, and we have reached saturation levels with stuff like this. I canceled it today, and when the young man asked why, I very nicely said that we were tired of paying to have trash brought INTO our home.
I figure if they produce another good series in the future, then we can buy it outright, rather than paying every month, and encouraging/condoning the garbage.
Tatt :)
I stopped watching HBO decades ago when they stopped playing box office movies.
Calm down Charlie!
Yeah, we’re winning, but practically speaking, I don’t wish to handle a doorknob this guy’s been eyein’.
Furthermore, what he did was criminal.
“So, much as it pains me to confirm a hateful stereotype of gay men — we will put anything in our mouths — I started licking doorknobs.”
Surprise, surprise..
I don't see where this is any different, and he has confessed...book 'em Danno...
“Doesn’t this qualify as a form of assault?”
Absolutely..if anyone got ill, they have a case...
read later
Where were the Baur Mods?
I wonder if that’s illegal. Somebody who purposefully spreads flu in this manner should be jailed.
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