Discussion for article #229200
He should, in fact, accept the honorarium and donate it to a group that opposes ADF. Not accepting it just gives the group more money, right?
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expressed regret =/= true accountability for one’s actions
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Douthat’s a right-wing Catholic nut-job himself, so I suspect he knew exactly what he was getting into. Just got caught is all.
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“I understood this to be a public conversation about religious liberty. This was my fault for not doing due diligence, and I’ll be declining the honorarium.”
This was my fault for either (a) being entirely oblivious of current events, even though I fancy myself a journalist or (b) me being a RWNJ fundamentalist Christian conservative trying to hide my bias and bigotry behind a disingenuous apology.
FIFY
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Douthat has felt bad about this ever since people found out about it. As an act of contrition, he has declined to accept payment for helping the hate group to raise money, and instead his work for them will be pro bono.
Fuck this self-righteous jerkoff. And fuck the New York Times for hiring him.
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Now if only he could be sorry for using supernatural fantasies to justify oppressing others…
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DooDoo Dilgence on Douthat’s part.
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Douthat looks like a puzzled pug dog with a fake beard.
Sadly for Douthat, the average pug dog is far smarter and much better company.
Douthat knew exactly what the group was, and exactly what the event was—despite his protestations, he isn’t the type to give a speech without checking thoroughly into the group who’s paying him to spout his usual right-wing horseshit.
It would be better if he had accepted the honorarium and donated it to the Human Rights Campaign or to Freedom To Marry.
But Douthat lacks the necessary ethics and compassion and intelligence to do something so fair and honorable.
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not doing due diligence … a pattern especially when it supports l’il timmy
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He knew exactly who the group was and what the purpose of his speaking fulfilled. These are the types of people he associates with, the type he’s on equal ideological ground with.
They are – in a word – extremists, and so is Douthat. Yet it’s somehow okay because he justifies it the same way he justifies all of his authoritarian, bigoted, openly discriminatory positions – by hiding behind the shield of religion.
I can’t for the life of me figure out what value he brings to the NYT.
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Douthat reduces the NYT to birdcage liner or fishwrap—at least the part his tripe is printed in.
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Bigot Douthat truly IS sorry, but only of getting caught.
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the only thing he is sorry about is that Media Matters blew his cover.
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Appearing with Hugh Hewitt should have been a tip that something was wrong, you moron.
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But I’ll bet he cashed the check, the rotten little scumbag.
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Interesting. He won’t accept money from a known hate group, but he will speak before one. Associating with them is good, but accepting payment from them is bad?
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The failed HGTV star/bigot DAvid Benham said the following at the same event:
“Unfortunately, the church, now that we have the keys to authority that Christ gives the Christian church, we give that dominion back through our silence. And so what we see now is the struggle for dominion. And one of the ways that we’ve lost dominion is because Christians, unfortunately, don’t believe in the sovereignty of God. God is sovereign over all things. The Bible says in Psalm 24 ‘the Earth is the Lord’s and everything in it,’ including government, entertainment, media, education, the legal system, everything. My finances, my sexuality, everything is under God. Does this agenda, this sexual anarchy agenda, does it want dominion? Take a look. Has it got dominion in government? Has it got dominion in entertainment? Has it got dominion, I mean, you name it, in the marketplace? Yes. Absolutely it does. How does God get dominion back? The government exists for the punishment of evildoers and for the reward of those who do good. The problem is, is when we switch good and evil and evil and good. There’s only one institution that can fight that dominion battle, and that’s the church.”
Douthat also spouted anti-LGBT nonsense—which is why he was invited after all----which makes his non-apology apology even more hollow—which I did not think possible.
Lat’s face it–Douthat is a run-of-the-mill right-wing prick who will shill for any bunch of bigots who offer to pay him for his hateful speech.
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“NYT Columnist Regrets Appearing At Anti-Gay Group’s Fundraiser”
NYT Columnist Regrets Being Caught Appearing At Anti-Gay Group’s Fundraiser
FIFY
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The Google is weak in this one, as is his honesty gene.
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