Henican: Deal With Real Issues 'Instead of Getting Yahoos Revved Up Over Gay Marriage'

Fox & Friends First/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

by Mark Finkelstein

June 19, 2006 - 06:32.

To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy: if you're an American who wants marriage to be reserved exclusively for one man and one woman . . . you might be a yahoo!

Don't believe me? Ask liberal Newsday columnist Ellis Henican. He appeared on Fox & Friends First this morning to debate radio talk show host Mike Gallagher on a variety of topics, including the Democrats' recently announced six-point plan to be implemented should they take back the House in the November elections.

Gallagher argued that this was something the Dems cooked up on the spur of the moment, frustrated by the good news for the Republicans generated by the killing of Zarqawi, the exculpation of Rove and other events.

But Henican saw great value in the Democrats addressing 'real issues' like high gasoline prices. That's much more important than, as he put it, 'getting the yahoos revved up over gay marriage.'

Henican thus unwittingly provided yet another example of Dem elitism and hypocrisy. This is the party that claims to worship at the altar of 'working men and women.' But when those same 'kitchen table' folks express concern about an issue not in line with the great liberal agenda, why, they're nothing but a bunch of yahoos to be scorned.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Fox & Friends/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.

[Miss Marple]

I heard it. Gallagher got Hennican to admit that his Iraq policy would be to come home tomorrow. Hennican is a waste of space.

[MNJohnnie]

Notice the Democrat plan does not address even indirectly HOW they would do any of their "plan"

The Democrat Party, for those who prefer slogans to solutions.

[SIDENET]

What a dork.

[PGalt]

Outstanding observation!

Tremendous insight into an irrational mind.

[mgist]

He is right that the gay issue is something that has hurt the Democrats. He is just trying to let down major constibutors, while still pandering to them. They aren't all that dumb.

[johnny7]

Ellis is a sh_t-for-brains, NOLA joy-boy.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Thanks, PG - fish in a barrel!

[YaYa123]

Democrat talking heads must be in a quandry at all the mixed messages and snappy soundbite themes Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid come up with, to use against Republicans in the fall elections.


"Culture of Corruption"

"New Direction for America"

"Take Back America"


But no matter which page Pelosi is on, there's no Democrat plan on how to win the war.

[sgtbono2002]

They dont have any plans --period. Just slogans.

[LS]

He's a dork but a happy hater. He's one of the happiest liberals I've ever seen. In fact, he appears to be the ONLY happy liberal I've ever seen. I'd go to lunch with him, and then stick him with the bill . . . in love.

[YaYa123]

DNC = Slogans R Us

[governsleastgovernsbest]

I've had some email exchanges with Hennican, then met him at a talk radio conference recently. As you say, he does seem to be a pleasant, positive person - however misguided ;-)

[MarkL]

Is it just me, or does anyone else find Ellis Hennican to be a smarmy, weasal-y, whiny little bi*ch?

Mark

[Little Ray]

Sure lets talk about taxes and how they hurt our economy. We need the Fair Tax or SOMETHING that takes power away from Congress and the IRS.
And about guns - what is so hard about "shall not be infringed?"
And about property rights - since when did tax revenue become a "public good?"
And about abortion - why do you folks support infanticide?
And about immigration - secure the effin' border, if, for no other reason, to protect the USA from dangerous diseases that we almost never saw here until the invasion peaked.
And about immorality - why are we teaching sodomy to elementary schoolers? With taxpayer dollars?

And...

Oh? You didn't want to talk about that?

[theBuckwheat]

If the issue was what two or more sodomites were doing in the privacy of their own romper room with the doors locked, then that would be their own private business, as revolting as it may be to me.

But "gay marriage" is not private business! A marriage is a public union. Marriage is public because it is a social and legal institution that in today's tax environment enjoys tax and employment advantages.

It is a social endorsement of the relationship.

Further, because gays yearn deeply for approval of their relationships, they have already started to bend our legal, media and educational institutions to for the rest of us to treat those relationships as "normal". This distortion of reality is insulting to common sense, but that has not for example, stopped the gay lobby from getting the Kali legislature to alter elementary school textbooks to propagandize children about "alternative lifestyles".

The simple truth is that God defined marriage. He said it is between males and females. He further says that homosexual acts are morally wrong and will judged accordingly. Humans are free to define other relationships, but they are not "marriage". They may be "civil unions", or whatever other name we give them. They can never be marriage.

Gays can (somehow) procreate. But don't call what they have a family. It may be a boarding house, or a bunch of people who are friends, but it is not a family, as God defines it.

People who can read, can easily read for themselves what God says about the subject.

[ClaireSolt]

So what does any of this have to do with government? Promiscuous gay sex spreads AIDS and that costs $1300/mo just for medicine, more than Social Security. Do something about that! What are they going to do about gas prices? The only proposals I have seen from Democrats are designed to enrich the government. They won't affect prices at all.

[LS]

I like him. For a lib, I think he's ok. He's a far, far cry from Dean, or Pelosi, or Murtha, or Sheehan, or the hateful left. I think Ellis and I could actually go bowling.