Not only is he an asshole, he’s a bigoted asshole. Not only is he a bigoted asshole, he’s an ignorant, offensive, loudmouth, cretinous bigoted asshole. Not only is he a … oh fuck it, you get the picture.
Not ‘Let’s not forget gays were persecuted too’, true and worth reminding people of. No, this libtard blowhard has to go further. He doesn’t want Jews, Gypsies, trade unionists, etc sharing the spotlight with his chosen minority. Gays were the ones suffering the real persecution.
How does this idiot still have a job? Oh that’s right, nobody fucking watches MSNBC anyway, even liberals. They’re all watching Fox.
This tweet is so stupid I honestly wonder if the man was drunk or high.
I mean, it’s not even “I’m politically warped to the point of saying offensive things” stupid. It’s just literally stupid, sort of like saying “three times five is twenty-eight.”
I endorse this pitting. Despite the fact that Ed’s ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum, he’s nothing short of a crazy old man sitting on his porch and yelling at the dead leaves to get off his lawn.
You know, this is a perfect example of why Twitter is one of the most ridiculous things ever invented. I personally think Schultz is a pompus blowhard, but really? One tweet, the Internet equivalent of a fucking bumper sticker, and we’re supposed to go all Two Minutes Hate on the guy? Please.
This is being reported by something called ‘The Tea Party News Network’
The author provides no clue as to in what context Shultz was tweeting his frankly asinine opinion
The author himself says:
OK, so we’ll take the author’s word for it, right? After all, he clearly has no partisan axe to grind:
I did find this line to be comedy gold, however:
Yeah, like people get their history lessons from tweets.
Sorry, I’ve only got half a quart of outrage today; I believe I’ll save it for something a bit more rewarding.
I watch neither, as I detest the ranting from both ends of the political spectrum. The only difference between them is that MSNBC has a few wack-a-doos, Fox has an entire clown car full of them. CNN jumped the shark long ago and the network news shows are more about who has the hottest weather girl nowadays. The only decent, measured reporting on TV is PBS.
I can kinda maybe sorta see the point? (Is the point that gays were even more persecuted in the camps than other groups?) But even if that’s it, it’s not just a matter of wording–it’s not really much of a point, IMHO. Pretty dumb thing to tweet, even if worded better.
Well, I think the point is that it’s dumb and more than slightly offensive to say that gay people are acting like nazi stormtroopers when historically, actual nazi stormtroopers treated them worse than anyone else. I agree, badly worded.
His tweet makes perfect sense in the context of being a reply to someone else making the obnoxious claims that gays are acting like Nazis:
Some asshole: Gay people are acting like Nazis!
Ed: Gay people were really the ones being persecuted in Hitler’s Germany.
Slightly awkwardly worded, but inside the context of talking about Nazis and gays, it’s saying that gays were on the receiving end of the persecution, clearly a correct point.
Take away the context and it sounds like he’s saying that gays were more persecuted than Jews, etc. So, trust Fox to take away the context.
There’s blame to go around. Tweeting things that look stupid out of context is stupid. Reporting on tweets that look stupid out of context without reporting the context is dishonest.
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