of his own expertise
At running off at the mouth
Posted on 04/03/2015 3:08:32 PM PDT by drewh
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo has aggressively attacked those who support Indiana's religious freedom law and on Thursday night he brought on Charles Barkley to slime Christians as "religious nuts." The former NBA player, who is from Alabama originally, sneered, "All these rednecks hide behind the Bible. That's what they do. That's one of the reason the south is behind in everything. They always hide behind the Bible. It's strictly about discrimination."
Complaining about the lack of gay people invited to discuss the Indiana law, Barkley lamented, "We got some of these religious nut jobs" speaking out. Cuomo did not interrupt or challenge the sport star's hateful attack on the "nut jobs." Instead, the anchor asserted that his show had featured plenty of gays.
Cuomo introduced Barkley with awe: "Now he says he knows discrimination when we see it. And he sees it in this religious freedom laws." The anchor described Barkley as part of the "impressive combination of business, sports" and others fighting the law.
The best Cuomo could do is to briefly play devil's advocate:
CUOMO: Now they say it's about the government discriminating against them, not them discriminating about anyone else. They say that that this is a false narrative, that this is the left just pilling up on the religious and it's the next step in assault against faith in America.
This is the same Cuomo who said that resistance to gay marriage is "about discrimination."
In 2008, CNN brought on Barkley to rail against "fake Christians."
A partial transcript of the April 2 segment is below:
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CHRIS CUOMO: In just past week would started as a kind of quite discrete state law being past just blow up into a national situation, even involve NBA legend Charles Barkley. Now he says he knows discrimination when we see it. And he sees it in this religious freedom laws. He became part of this impressive combination of business, sport and state to push back, he joins us now by phone. So Charles, thank you very much for joining us. Mr. Barkley, always a pleasure. Let me ask you why did you get involve with this?
CHARLES BARKLEY, NBA LEGEND: Well I think anytime you see discrimination you have to stand up for it because, you know, they're make this strictly about gay rights. But what next if they have Muslim customer coming there or they have somebody who come in on a military and they're against war. I think we have to really be careful because any form of discrimination you have to check it.
CUOMO: Now they say it's about the government discriminating against them, not them discriminating about anyone else. They say that that this is a false narrative, that this is the left just pilling up on the religious and it's the next step in assault against faith in America.
BARKLEY: Listen, I don't think gay people went out to try to go after, they came out as a gay people let get that straight. I don't -- I think that's absurd. And listen, don't try to make this thing about the left or the right. That just politicians pandering to their group, trying to get elected.
This is just about discrimination. Listen, I saw your story about -- if those people just want flowers, they're not trying to trick you into their gay lifestyle spouse, they just want flowers. And love it, you know, typically of the south where I'm from, all these rednecks hide behind the Bible. That's what they do. That's one of the reason the south is behind in everything. They always hide behind the Bible. It's strictly about discrimination.
CUOMO: Well you know growing up in the faith the Word is the truth. And that's what the Bible is and the Bible says that this is sin specifically in the Old Testament specially. And you're asking them to participate in sin, which makes them as bad as the sinner.
BARKLEY: Well, I thought that was interesting the little flower girl talks about -- you ask her about adultery and different types of sins, she put that over a whole separate category. So they want to have selective about their sins. That's another example why they're full of it. They have selective their amnesia, they don't -- they just like gay people. I wish they would just say that. And let me just this: If they want to be like that, I think they have the right to be like that. I think the biggest problem I have, we as a country or have state of Indiana, they make it a law. You have the right in this country to be against gay marriage, but it can never be against -- they can't put it on the books. That was my biggest problem with this whole thing.
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Nobody would say let me be gay so I can't eat at certain restaurant. Nobody is going to serve my wedding or my commitment ceremony. Nobody would choose that. But listen, let's don't –, this is about discrimination. And I know you said blacks are -- first of all, I don't -- we can't act like racism does not exist now. Let's don't act like racism doesn't exist. But I think if you open up this kind of can of worms, it just to opens up, they can say obviously, they can say I'm going to serve black people. I'm not going to serve Hispanics. I just think you have to really be careful when it comes to discrimination. But it just fits what you want it to fit.
CUOMO: LGBT is particularly vulnerable though because they don't get the protection that other specific minority groups do. And ironically...
BARKLEY: Chris, Chris, you know, why?
CUOMO: Why?
BARKLEY: I've been following the story a week, you know, the one thing I haven't seen on all these networks all week is gay people. And see, that's the problem. We got all the straight people. We got some of these religious nut jobs, I might add. But we got all straight people discussing gay problems, issues. That why the system is wrong, that's like a bunch of white guys getting around trying to make a law for black people unless you had black people in the room or like gays in the room. That's the problem with this whole thing. We got a bunch of straight people trying to make law over something that we don't really know anything about.
CUOMO: I understand your point. One, you're assuming all these people are straight who're passing these laws, we don't really know what's in their heads and hearts other than support for the law. Two, we talk to a lot of people who're hetero and homosexual about these issues. Charles, you guys are watching my show in the morning it's called New Day. And we talk just the head of GLAAD right now.
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2015/04/03/cnn-features-charles-barkley-rant-about-bigotry-religious-nuts#sthash.rEDfgppE.dpuf
Gee Charles, here’s an idea, go into a Muslim bakery and demand a homo wedding cake see what happens..oh yeah I almost forgot, Muslims are allowed to be anti homo since they are a “protected class” and how nice of Charles to come out of the woodwork, guess they ran out of prostitutes to serve him this week
Charles, you ignorant slut.
He can’t he is a freaking racist moron, someone should ask him to pontificate on his racial theorizing, I’m sure the world will be a better place for it, uhhuh.
Do they even realize that they are being bigoted by now letting people follow their religion, hell this country was founded on religious freedom and it certainly was not founded on homosexuality and their demands for acceptance.
The only hate and bigotry here is being done by this Cuomo and Barkley and I’ve left CNN and Cuomo a note expressing how we feel in this family .
by not letting people follow their religion and hey how about muslims,. Jews, Hindu’s etc
Charles has stated, on live tv, that he’s a “dumb @ss”.
of his own expertise
At running off at the mouth
Seems he is not very bright because he is asking that we get rid of the 1st amendment, freedom of religion, and the right to associate. In the meantime these two bigots can’t even understand at how pathetic they’re being with their drama queen roles and how bigoted they are with their hate.
Wonder if he can tie his shoes yet.
The left doesn’t care about looking like racist intolerant bullies..they just don’t care..their agenda is to destroy the meaning of marriage, that has been their objective from the start..they pretend to be the tolerant ones yet spew hatred and death threats against anyone that differs from their sick ideology
Someone should ask Barkley if he thinks Muslims are crazy for not eating pork.
Charles is the real nut.
“At running off at the mouth”, badly. Dumb, lazy brains and mouths are running off everywhere, and I’ve just about had it.
Did anyone actually understand the garbled syntax and incomplete thoughts of either of these buffoons?
Too much twittering and texting, but I’m sure these geniuses were incapable of producing a cogent sentence, or complete thought, ten years ago.
I don’t hold with the grammar police, but come on! As if the subject hasn’t been ground down enough into the dirt, nonsensical humbuggery like this makes my brain want to jump off its stem and trot around screaming for mercy. God help us.
He did win a Gold medal but he had Jordan, Magic, Bird and the rest of the NBA Superstars....but if that team didn't win the gold then something was wrong somewhere.
His new nickname....The Loud Mouth of Rebound.
I will try to bite here,
Regardless of my personal view of gays, gays in the US have the right to be with each other, for we are not Iran or Uganda.
I will not lie, back then yes there were those that did use the bible to justify a lot of things from Jim Crow, slavery, to what woman we dated in our private lives which was wrong and against personal freedom and Jesus would not have done any of that, but its wrong to compare what happen back then to this issue which does have a valid point, and not all the protesting gays want flowers, if they wanted flowers they would not have attacked Carrie Prejean, or Chick-fil-A, sorry but he is off, way off.
Charles “Knucklehead” Barkley.
Barles Charkley may know a little bit about basketball. Period.
I wonder if he views Ernie Johnson as a religious nut?
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