Discussion for article #232667
Weak
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“Stand up to bullying”? As in, go beat up a homosexual for existing?
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“He also noted that the paper ‘strongly’ supported the bill’s passage.”
Funny way of showing it, eh?
“…it’s just that, well, we support the kind of money they were willing to pay us to run the ad even more…”
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Only in the United States of Bigotry could the group of people who routinely get harassed, abused, and driven to depression and suicide simply for who they are get accused of bullying.
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I wish TPM would include captions on their photos a little more often. Does anyone understand the context of this photo? Who are these people? Do they work for the newspaper in question? Who’s the lady with the blue folder? Why are people crying? Or are they not upset but smell a bad fart (presumably coming from the one person who’s not holding her nose)?
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A couple of years ago I noticed that TPM was running ads that had a clearly deceptive message. I forget the content exactly, but I think the ad contained a dishonest spin on a consumer-friendly credit card bill, saying that it would hurt consumers. The ad was paid for by a credit card industry group disguised as a consumer group. I wrote to TPM suggesting that they not run ads by groups who conceal their mission and membership, and got the (sensible) response that there’s a separation at TPM between advertising and editorial. This article reminded me of that incident because it’s basically the same issue, but in this case TPM is tacitly criticizing the publisher.
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(KTVB 7). Sen. Cheri Buckner-Webb, D-Boise, encourages Add the Four Words proponents after the Idaho House State Affairs committee voted to keep HB2 in committee on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015.
I take the paper and it just serves to highlight the closed minded people in this state. Those asking for this had three days of testimony where story after story gave examples of how they have been discriminated against. They are not asking for special protection, they ask only what others have and take for granted. It is such a shame that our Idaho Legislature is so narrow minded.
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The Statesman prints for the money
So hard for it, honey
Prints hard for the money
So you better leave 'em alone
Everyone knows, papers’ seen better times
Everyone knows, now’s their desperate climes
But the Statesman’ll sell out, or claims it will
For a rainbow check like for a greenback dollar bill.
Yes, it prints haaaaaard for the money …
So, what if the Christian KKK folk (I’m not talking about mainline Christians, but the KKK who proclaim their path is directed to them through their Christian teachings) wanted to take out a spread explaining the only true way to restore America, etc.? There are definitely two sides (at minimum) to that issue. By this guy’s explanation, I believe his paper would willingly take the dough and pint away.
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That’s how I took it.
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I expect not the slightest insight or generosity of spirit from anyone that hails from a state that can’t think of anything better to put on their license plates besides ‘Famous Potatoes’.
Potato Heads and starch brains with eyes that cannot see.
If you don’t read the news pages, the sticker seems innocuous. What makes anyone think the advertising department actually does read the news pages?l
Going to the website is confusing at first-- it’s some singer/songwriter’s promotional site for his music, then you see the blurb/link about “the REAL nature of homosexuality” down below. Typical boilerplate stuff that eventually cites the Bible as “proof” that homosexuality is evil. News Flash for Lance: you can’t cite the Bible in court as evidence, and you can’t make laws that reference religion and pass any Constitutional test (be thankful for that, it protects you from Sharia Law.)
The whole “bullying” aspect we’ve heard before, he applies a definition of “bully” that would just as easily apply to anti-abortion protestors as it does gay activists (but I bet we all know where he stands on that issue)-- basically anyone who holds loud public protests is a “bully” IF he is opposed to their point of view.
What the hell is this picture?
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Yep, you would think a professionally-run website would be able to add captions to photos. This is a longstanding pet peeve of mine. I really don’t get how the photo relates to the article either.
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A day later and I still have no f’ing idea what the photo here is. Why not just a pic of the website in question? Or a generic newspaper headline? Or a duck and a kitten?
Forget it. I’m going to go watch the gif of Maria Von Trapp firing off Mac-10s because it makes more sense.
Yes. The homosexuals are bullying him. That’s what it’s trying to imply.
If the law passes, Lance Wells is afraid that these homosexual bullies are going to get him alone, tie him up, take off all his clothes and make him do things.
He worries about this every night. For hours. In great detail.
They ran the ad because $$$$$$.