They used to be phresh and phun, but the WBC is just phoning it in these days. I hate to admit it, but there’s no more zing in our hatred of them. With Bernie Mac they’ve jumped the shark- maybe it’s the stress of the multimillion dollar verdict or maybe it’s just old and they want to move onto new projects, but if this were on VH1 they’d be at the “but backstage things were phalling apart” music.
They became superstars for their irrational hatred and harassment of gays. Gays MADE them- and now they’ve abandoned us. They’re not even trying to find a gay angle anymore; they’re like some comedians who start out edgy and hilarious but end up self-indulgent and masturbatory and just acting weird. Case in point: Bernie Mac’s funeral.
Okay, Matthew Shepard’s funeral- well, they were pieces of shit for picketing it obviously, but at least there’s a gay connection. Same with any hate crime victim. Heath Ledger- ended up not picketing it (due to airfare and the desire not to be shat from dingos when their remains are et in the outback) but thereagain- he made Brokeback and he’s in a faggy business like movies, I can understand it.
The servicemen funeral was really really contrived and strained and an obvious ratings booster ploy. Picketing the first world’s most anti-gay army for being… too pro gay… what exactly? Excuse me? But… okay, they’re our WBC, and he’s our Phred, and we’ll kind of overlook the obviously plotholes- they felt they had to do something phresh I suppose and at least they didn’t do something really disgusting and tasteless like bringing in Ted McGinley as a hot cousin you never heard of or having some obnoxiously adorable kid join them who goes from birth to 3 in one year and utters lines that no 3 year old would ever say, so, whatever floats your boat.
But Bernie Mac? WTF?
I didn’t mention it during his obit threads as it seemed neither the time nor the place, but while I enjoyed his stand-up act in general, I was bothered by his homophobia. The man referred to his 6 year old effeminate nephew- in an admittedly often hilarious routine- as “the faggot”. Six year old kid mind… and then says “Oh don’t get me wrong, I love him… but he’s a little faggot…”- that’s despicable, especially when you know what hell effeminate boys go through, and this coming from someone in his family and a father figure (assuming the kid exists- I know he really took in his sister’s kids, no idea how autobio the act is).
So anyway, WBC boycotts the funeral of a guy who calls kids faggots…
No, I’m sorry Westies, but I stayed with you when you wanted to picket hate crime victims. I kind of just went along when you wanted to picket service men funerals as a cheap ratings ploy- business is business. Even when you picketed Mr. Rogers funeral… well, let’s be frank, he may never had knocked puppets with the boys but none of us would have been surprised to learn he had some “experiences” in his youth, and any excuse to picket Jerry Falwell’s funeral is fine. But Bernie Mac- he was a responsible husband and father with no major scandals I know of regarding women/drugs/anything else and was even homophobic… Westies, I’m sorry, but I can’t go on this one. You’re just attention whoring. You’ve jumped the sharkie.
I hate to stop supporting my favorite crazed fanatical exhibitionist performance artists, but I’m really seriously looking to better deal the Phelpses now. I’m hoping for something in a bipolar Scientologist maybe, or nudist closeted Pakistani Sikh wannabes, or even some Fundamentalist Mormon cheerleaders all married to the same man who support themselves between demonstrations by streaming porn (nothing in the Bible or Book of Mormon against WebCams). But I want some hate filled religious nuts who know who they are and who they want to picket.