Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Brownback: 'Fruits' comment not gay joke
KansasCity.com ^ | January 30, 2006 | Associated Press

Posted on 01/30/2006 4:25:27 PM PST by DBeers

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last
To: laney

No, your honor, I was not calling the fairies "fruits."


41 posted on 01/30/2006 4:52:22 PM PST by CheyennePress
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Hardastarboard
I'm surprised that the phrase "Dumb as a journalist" hasn't entered our language by now.

*Yoink!*

42 posted on 01/30/2006 4:52:28 PM PST by detsaoT (Proudly not "dumb as a journalist.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: JOE6PAK

lolz


43 posted on 01/30/2006 4:52:47 PM PST by Stellar Dendrite (There's nothing "Mainstream" about the Orwellian Media!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: One4Indictment

44 posted on 01/30/2006 4:52:51 PM PST by NCjim (The more I use Windows, the more I love UNIX)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

Yeah, even the article about being misquoted misquotes the Bible.


45 posted on 01/30/2006 4:53:00 PM PST by digitalbrownshirt (http://digitalbrownshirt.blogspot.com)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: DBeers

It's a good thing he didn't comment on frugality and call them niggardly. Then the proverbial stuff would have really hit the fan. PC garbage.


46 posted on 01/30/2006 4:56:01 PM PST by SALChamps03
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ElkGroveDan

Moby and Mick.


47 posted on 01/30/2006 4:56:39 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: All
Senator Pulped by Grape and Lemon Alliance
48 posted on 01/30/2006 5:02:08 PM PST by dighton
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hardastarboard

You could have never heard of the Bible and it still doesn't refer to gay people. Apparently the queer (their word, not mine) lobby hasn't ever heard of the fruits of ones labor. Maybe they should get a job instead of sitting around waiting to be insulted. (Not that they should have to sit for long considering the effort they put into be worthy of insult)


49 posted on 01/30/2006 5:20:13 PM PST by bpjam (Now accepting liberal apologies.....)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: DBeers

So anyway, how do you make a fruit codial?;)


50 posted on 01/30/2006 5:30:09 PM PST by Frank_2001
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NormsRevenge
more like holy Lutafisk batman
51 posted on 01/30/2006 5:37:59 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DBeers
Brownback appeared to be calling gay Swedes "fruits," a derogatory term for homosexuals.

Forty fags - no big problem...


52 posted on 01/30/2006 5:48:39 PM PST by Libloather (An impeached president, a felon and a rapist walk into a bar - and that's just Bill...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DBeers
I hope I don't get flamed for this but......

I don't think Senator Brownback has ever told a joke about anything.

53 posted on 01/30/2006 5:57:03 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Recovering_Democrat

yeah it's not like he called them rump rangers or ass pirates.


54 posted on 01/30/2006 5:58:30 PM PST by mrmargaritaville
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Sonny M
He is a Catholic and purportedly a member of Opus Dei -so he takes Sacred Scripture seriously and applies his faith to all aspects of his life personal and public.

I am sure the reference or thought of a fruit joke was not something he even considered...

55 posted on 01/30/2006 6:02:59 PM PST by DBeers (†)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: madprof98

Man, you beat me to it. I was going to say that he quoted the Bible, a book which they have never read and it through them for a fruit loop.


56 posted on 01/30/2006 6:42:13 PM PST by ichabod_65
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: DBeers
He is a Catholic and purportedly a member of Opus Dei -so he takes Sacred Scripture seriously and applies his faith to all aspects of his life personal and public.

He is not actually a member of Opus Dei, he was introduced to Catholism through a member and knows several members, but he himself is not one of them.

My referance to him joking, wasn't regarding religion, I mean, literally, I have never heard him make a joke about anything, for any reason.

I do like him (except his immigration views), but he doesn't seem like a guy with a sense of humor.

However, he is great on policy.

57 posted on 01/30/2006 6:42:59 PM PST by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 55 | View Replies]

To: ansel12

Yes, Matt. 7:20 says "by their fruits you will know them"--but so does Matt. 7:16 (and the intervening verses are on the same subject of tree and fruit).


58 posted on 01/30/2006 8:02:07 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: DBeers
Let me be the first to say, re: Sen. Brownback's statement:

HATE CRIME!


59 posted on 01/30/2006 8:41:34 PM PST by Antoninus (The only reason you're alive today is because your parents were pro-life.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DBeers

I think the Senator proved his heroism by even consenting to and participating in an interview with ROLLING STONE. You can bet that whatever was said or not said, RS would find reason for "outrage" and demeanment of the Senator, along with any and all who could be associated with him.

It takes a third grade education, at best, to recognize that what the Senator was saying was quoting a Biblical passage and that the quote referred to DEEDS. That people are known by the deeds they do. By WHAT THEY PRODUCE, as in, "fruit", "fruit of their labor."

RS is a crazed organization. Oh, yes, and, "d'oh." I'm surprised RS hasn't tried to now claim that the Senator is "homosexual" because he used the word, "Sweden" in an interview. Or, similarly, RS alleging that anyone who speaks to RS is "gay." That sounds, all to sincerely, like how they DO, in all seriousness, today opine.

It's a rag organization. Jan Wenner, Editor and Publisher, campaigned for Clinton and apparently, still is.


60 posted on 01/30/2006 10:47:40 PM PST by MillerCreek
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson