Cindy McCain was allowed to be part of the NOH8 campaign because she was sort of part of the 2008 election, we guess, the election in which Proposition 8 was passed. So she thinks gays should have some rights or whatever, even if her husband doesn’t because he will say anything to stay in the Senate forever. And now she is in some sort of Web video about this? Which implicitly says her husband IS MAKING GAY KIDS KILL THEMSELVES? Politics news.
Yes, there are a bunch of celebrities saying this speech, and they put in all the government parts from Cindy’s take, because she is tangentially related to the government.
So to sum things up: Cindy McCain is still in favor of gay rights and still looks pretty scary.
Friday politics news. [Gay AMERICAblog? Okay, whatever]
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I say good on ya' Cindy. Speaking out for Gay Rights and aging gracefully, too.
hell yeah, I think she looks pretty hot w/ her new 'do too, seems like NOT bein' President is going well for her! and anytime she wants to leave the crippled geezer- penniless hopefully- I'll be waiting to console her for all those long years of suffering (5 YEARS!!! at least!)
I think she's the most credible one in this vid – the rest being tied to Hollywood = liberal.
I got nothing funny to say about kids being bullied to death.
To be fair, her husband also supported repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell until he got a challenger from the right and it conflicted with his most cherished political principal, pandering.
I regret that I have but one thumb to give up for this excellent comment.
It's true that nobody likes a pandering philanderer.
You'd think that this late in his natural life the only self-preservation he would be concerned with is waking up in the morning. But, no, he's still out to save his Senate seat. Talk about not knowing how to bow out gracefully, and how to actively destroy your legacy.
That baby-headed bastard'll do anything for a conservative vote, these days.
Good for Miss Buffalo Chip!
Wanna see her tits Henngh
While it may be true that there are 100-200 suicide attempts for every successful suicide by persons with proper initiative, it should be pointed out that Gene Simmons and Slash each personally account for 89% of those botched attempts.
When I need a refresher course on how best to lead a moral life, I inevitably lean on a shameless, depraved marketer/rock star, someone who thought marrying Charlie Sheen represented a good idea, and a guy who presides each Sunday night over videos of people getting whacked in the balls.
1) All I was thinking was "man, just when I wanted to hate these people, they go and get all helpful and non-stupid."
and
2) Perhaps others might have the same idea about your spouse. Mote/plank/whatever.
But we can still bully the fatties right?
Considering the number of kids who are… good luck. Only thing is that the skinny kids can still out run them.
Bully them? Nah. Publicly mock them and slash the tires on their Hoverrounds? HELL YEA.
That's in the constitution.
Meagan says 'no'.
Only the quiet ones.
How did bullying get to be a gay issue? Lots of people get bullied who aren't gay: kids who are different in some way, e.g., smaller kids or kids who wear glasses or are overweight or smarter than the other kids. The US government bullies people and nations all over the world who are not gay. So I guess that's okay, right? Bullies can terrorize you all they want if you're not gay. Well, that clarifies things. Thanks, Rachel! Thanks Anderson!
There have been some pretty high-profile suicides of bullied gay kids recently, so it's become a "hot topic." I'm glad people are addressing bullying of any kind – if this gets the conversation started and has any impact whatsoever, then it's a good thing.
No. The gays want to coopt this issue. Schools will develop programs against gay bashing, not against plain bashing. That's not helpful to the het bashees.
oh thats a false equivalency if I ever heard one. sheesh…….you all think the gays are going to take away your bone if they get civil rights and people have to treat them equally.
It is helpful to the other bashing…ie….see Jonny? If you cant bash the gay kids when you want to, you cant bash the fatties either.
I dont see bullies killing fat kids or kids with glasses and leaving them tied to a barbed wire fence, do you?
Other way around;some people have been trying to co-opt the "it get's better" campaign into general anti-bullying, which is an important and related issue but not the same thing.
Here's someone saying it better than me: http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/why_i...
"The Gays" aren't trying to co-opt this issue. That's like trying to say black folks co-opted civil rights. It's stupid. Gay kids and teens are particulalry vulnerable to harrassment because the harrassment is pretty much sanctioned and approved by adults that should know better. Shining the light on this issue doesn't mean all other bullying will somehow be OK.
Signs point to our greater interconnectedness as to an increase in the harassment they endure. I don't know for certain, but that's what the prevailing winds keep saying.
That, and half of all our Facebook friends are assholes, though it's not very polite to de-friend anymore.
Um, you might want to watch the video clip again and actually listen to what they're saying. American society has generally and historically been perfectly okay with telling non-heterosexuals that they are scum, mentally ill, deranged, anti-Christian child molesters who would be better off dead (recall that just two weeks ago, a school board member in Arkansas said exactly this). When you've got laws that say you can't get married, can't serve in the military, can't visit your lover if they're in the hospital or make critical life decisions for them, or even put them on your health insurance, then the whole "second class citizen" thing starts to seep in to people's brains, telling them that it's not only okay but actually acceptable to treat gays as lesser persons.
I'm not saying that any bullying is ever right, but because gays have little or no protections, it's an even bigger problem.
Yep, that's how it works. Just like if you collect money for cancer research, it means you hate people with multiple sclerosis. QEDerp.
Help! Look at my popularity score! I'm getting bullied by teh gays!
Jesus zappa – you recruit some friends to come blow up the p scores of anyone who disagrees with you? Let me tell ya a little secret – no one here much gives a fuck about their p scores, so regardless of how many thumbs up you trolled for your initial comment is still retarded. And wrong.
While I understand your point, I think you might have been able to put it in a slightly more diplomatic way. I also think that the overarching problem of bullying should be tackled; however, having it addressed as part of the "It Gets Better" campaign doesn't diminish the problem as a whole; if anything, it sheds some light on at least some portion of the issue.
Or, to put it another way, they're saying the bullying of gay kids is a problem — that doesn't mean they're saying the bullying of heterosexual kids is okay.
Yes, you're right, and the bullies of those other children are always careful not to blur the issue by calling the kid with glasses a fag while they're smashing his face in with rocks. "We're doing this to you because of your appearance!" they helpfully clarify.
What is your point?
I was bullied in grade school, not for being gay but for being weird. And no one acted like there was anything unusual or wrong about it.
So if organizations like NOH8 are going to stand against any aspect of school bullying, then good on NOH8.
That's not very snarky. So, zippa, you are a poopyhead.
Also, I must be getting a severe case of teh olds, because I couldn't tell you the names of any of those celebrities except Slash and Cindy (who almost fooled me with the new 'do).
And speaking of olds, be sure to scroll over my avatar and cast your vote on the all-important ballot measure posed there. Thank you, and god bless America.
I kept thinking Denise Crosby looked pretty good and was waiting for Cindy to show up. It wasn't until your first comment that I realized that was Cindy. Giving up on the Skeletor look was a good choice for her (hopefully that doesn't count as bullying, since I didn't throw anything about dry-humping marines in there).
I thought the Ellen DeGeneres look really worked for Cyndi. WAIT A MINUTE…
Ellen I can actually identify. It's been a decade or two since I've seen Denise (how long has it been since Star Trek TNG went off the air?). So for the two celebs I recognized in this (ball-whacking video guy and Denise Crosby), I was only right on one of them. Clearly I need to watch more telly and quit wasting time on Wonkett.
Because of Crosby we all know not to trust talking oil slicks that look like seriously bad special effects.
wait a minute indeed, that's what she's always telling the old man when he wants to get frisky…
Well, there was Gene Simmons (sans maquillage) who looks like an older Otto from the Simpsons and who was sporting a stylish band-aid on his right middle finger.
Okay, I voted in your picture clicky thing…do I get some sort of parting gift? And, the kids are calling a 1981 bike "vintage" these days? God, I am getting old.
Buy it!!! Just don't run god-damn straight pipes on it.
Hell, no. That thing's a time capsule practically. Going to stay bone-stock if it's parked in my garage. (My old KZ Police Bike was pretty quiet; I like 'em that way. )
OK, then definitely get it!!!!
I just don't want to hear someone's mid-life crisis every time they ride up the street!
I vote yes, get it. It's really nice, you need a reason to live now (only kidding), and you clearly want it.
The real question is: are you married? And will the wife and/or husband let you buy it? It's been my experience that spouses have inordinate sway when it comes to buying bikes.Only partially kidding on this one.
Hahahaha. Married 17 years now. I think I can handle this. It involves a little trickery and an old dead motorcycle currently inhabiting my carport that my wife has been complaining about for years.
Switcheroo!
Good for you, Happy Birthday, and Congratulations!!
Happy Birthday Caveman! I hope it's nice and sunny out in the rain shadow today! By that bike. Believe me, nothing bad has ever come from buying a motorcycle. It is blessed.
She always seemed like she had some liberal in her, and I would be more than happy too add some more.
While I get the feeling that "relations" betwixt the Cindy and the Walnuts is probably fairly dusty and chilly, it looks like someone's not hitting that back door any time soon
I thought that was why he and Lindsey Graham were together so much?
Wasn't Johnny hitting a youngish lobbyist's backdoor instead?
Speaking of her "back door", I really wish our beloved Editors would run this here Cin-Cin pic alongside these types of stories — not only is it more ghey-ish, it has the added virtue of being absolutely, 100% true!
ALSO, here are a few random things that I like about this video:
- I like how the subject of suicide is first raised by the host of Survivor
- I like how the subject of transgendered youth suicide is raised by the bearded lady from Jane's Addiction
- I like how the AFHV and DWTS host reads his lines in the exact same goofy-glib way that he does on his shows
- I like how Dr. Drew's face looks like Cindy McCain's freshly-waxed pudenda
- I like how Cindy McCain's face looks like Meghan McCain's freshly-waxed fupa
- I like the words "pudenda'" and "fupa"
- I like referring to a fat vagina as a "fupenda", a word I coined two seconds ago
- I LIKE LAMP!
I like pie.
The things you learn on Our Wonkette. Never heard of fupa, not sure I'm glad I know about it now.
Do vaginas really get fat? And if they do, how come penises don't? And if penises did, would the flabby part get erect? Why am I asking you?
oh fuck, you did it again…it's getting to be a hassle cleaning the wine off my monitor every time!
So, this is NOT good news for John McCain?
Too easy?
What has to be said has to be said. May as well be said by you.
The image of Cindy duct-taped into quietude reminds me that although she has a few years on her chassis, she also has millions of beer-distributor-$$$ to keep those boobs professionally sculpted into 19-year-old perkiness. <sigh>
Gene Simmons did something that didn't invoke his tongue, or making gobs of money wearing a twelve-pound codpiece? Holy shit, the world's coming to an end.
He will probably get his hair "styled" for free now.
Walnuts confuse.
Money Mommy likes ghey, but in the closet self loathers don't. Money or showing how RW Walnuts is. Too tuff.
Walnuts sad.
Anti-gay bullies grow up to become tea baggers, so if these folks want to do some real targeted messaging they need to get Hank WIlliams Jr. and Kid Rock in on this.
Just finish the dang repeal.
Good for Cindy…. Maybe she should cut John's allowance??
Why is Dr Drew wearing so much blush? He looks like he just pulled his head out of a pot of boiling water…
If you were in that room, you'd also want a good boiling (see mookwrth's comment below)
Makeup sucked for a LOT of them, not just Dr. D. I was really creeped out by Dave Navarro's mannequin like complexion as well.
You might as well asks why he makes a living by pretending to help people with serious substance abuse problems but really just exploiting them and putting them on display in a modern-day behavioral freak show.
The original Love Line with Drew and Poorman on KROQ was a great show. Used to really enjoy listening to it.
But a pseudo-celeb's gotta' do what a pseudo-celeb's gotta' do to make a buck.
I actually kind of liked the old MTV Love Lines too (also was just a college student at the time) but both Drew and Carolla later became complete douchebags, in different ways.
TV has a way of doing that…
She looks like an ice queen, but I'll bet she's one hot cougar in bed.
Pity John hasn't had the pleasure for a while now.
Who knew it would take 2:27 to convince me that I shouldn't be mean to people because of who they are and the things they do that aren't even any of my business.
That's why I simply try to be mean to everyone.
I admire her for doing it. But that trollopy cunt is going to get an earful from her jowly, angerbear mate.
Wonder if she ever thinks about where she and her millions could be without dragging his repugnant corpse along and having to throw money down his campaign hole?
At the dinner table…
J – Cunt
C – But John!
J – Cunt
C – now hold on a minute mis
J- Cunt
C – This is important!
J- Back stabbing cunt
…ad nauseum.
And, this is why I keep coming back.
It's why they live in different houses/states.
Owning a senator has some compensations I'm sure, as to the rest of the package, I'm sure that the Maverick is usually in DC while she is back in Arizona not missing having him around to shriek the C word at her.
But it's more fun in the long form. And it is cool that she's doing this. Get a clue, WALNUTS!
This just exemplifies the difference between right-wing causes and all the others (what are those — bipartisan causes?) When normal humans want to get an indea into the population's heads, they give you statistics, sentiment, and implore us to use reason. If this had been a right-wing cause we'd have actors dressed as truck drivers and moms saying that bullying gays destroys American values, pisses on Jesus and makes Big Macs more expensive.
Only if libs started hating on the gays would wingtards would take up gay rights as a cause.
I want to applaud this, however, all it does is remind me of when the George H. W. Bush campaign leaked the fact that Barbara was pro-choice in a craven attempt at peeling off a little female political support from his Democratic challenger (Don't recall if ths was 1988 or 1992).
If you really want to impress me, Cindy, then convince your husband that he's being a fuckwad and to stop fillibustering a DADT repeal.
If Babs really wanted to show folks how pro-choice she was then she would have waved that fetus jam jar W whines about at the US American public.
John McCain can't possibly be responsible for gay kids killing themselves:
1. If he was responsible, we wouldn't be having this conversation at all, since all the gay kids since the beginning of time would have already killed themselves.
2. He's WALNUTS, people. Gay kids like nuts. QED, bitches.
I really hope they sprayed that studio with some disinfectant…I bet half of the people in the video have multiple strains of VD…
Between this and Dubya wanting to endorse Obama, not a good week for McCain, hengh?
Was that Slash? Ooops, I thought it was Christine O'Donnell's vagina.
You were mistaken….COD's vagina is gash…I can see how you might get confused….
Ka-Thump! The sound of Cindy's well manicure foot kicking Walnuts right in the nutsack.
A smart guy wouldn't have left that rich hottie cooling her heels in Arizona these last 25 years but John was never one of our brainest. As for Cindy, well I hope she has been availing herself of all those splendid young University of Arizona track lads.
The real question of course is where did Meghan gets those impressive titties?
But I digress…
Let me guess Senile McFive-and-a-half-year's response:
"Piling on the makeup like a trollop is so GAY you cunt! henh henh henh."
+1 to Cindy for doing a video _before_ a vote, when it actually matters.
This is just Cindy being smart. Gramps isn't gonna life forever and when he's gone, Cindy will pick up the folded flag– with grace and dignity, of course– wait three months, and then turn up on a red carpet somewhere on the arm of Tom Bergeron.
Or possibly Susan Sarandon.
to a$k the obviou$ que$tion here… Ju$t who i$ letting who $ay what in that family?
/stops with the amateurish posting
//returns to immature posting
Have we finally found an issue McCain does not flip-flop on every few minutes?
Not as scary as Gene Simmons without the makeup.
Well, this would make for a fairly awkward silence around John McCain's Thanksgiving dinner table, except that he's probably having a TV dinner by himself at the Watergate.
He won't be alone, Lindsay Graham and Joe Loserman will be there. Both will be in their Santa's elves costumes to kick off the season and the old man will wear a fake white beard to cover his jowls–ho, ho, ho.
Well, there's one thing that both gays and straights can agree on: that video is really tricky to masturbate to.
I can tell one thing from this video. They didn't hire any gays to do the make-up.
I never thought I would ever say this, but kudos to Cindy.
And I know he's trying to 'help', but seriously, please can Gene Simmons just fade away? His marginal to nonexistent talents passed their expiration dates years ago–somewhere around, say, 1974.
He's a Doctor, ya know.
You mean like Dr. Phil's a "doctor"?
The important question here is: Who has the most political power in this country, the senator, or the corporate heiress?
One of the principles this country was founded on is "Money Talks." Is there really anything else to say?
How about putting the Hate Crimes legislation that the Tea Baggers hated so much to work. If someone commits suicide or attempts suicide and it can be proven that it was the result of bullying, prosecute the bully to fullest extend of the law.
I admit that I've probably over-simplified the solution, but its fairly obvious that the American Taliban are never going to be persuaded that EVERYONE deserves equal rights. And, if anything, they have gotten bolder in their attacks.
Just spitballin.
Aren't they considering prosecuting the fuckwads at Rutgers who videotaped that student who jumped off the GW Bridge? Last I heard they were.
Cindy McCain is aging so gracefully. It's inspiring what lots of money can do . Let's hope that her opportunist husband never loses his job. Cindy is really one of us beneath those plastic surgeries and spa treatments. It would be so wrong if this brave lady could no longer afford her country club dues.
Except the money's mostly hers, from the beer company; she doen't need John for that.
Cenk Uygur is scolding gays while Cindy and Meghan are supporting them. Republican is the new Democrat.
I appreciate her attempt, but if she really wants to make a difference she needs to close her wallet as well as her legs. Load up his pureed cabbage dinner with Viagra and then make him beg for it.
I'm sorry Cindy, but you're just a little too blonde.
That's racist!
When McCain first picked Palin to be his running "mate," I remember posting somewhere that I thought his motivation in so doing was to possibly arrange a threesome in the Lincoln Bedroom involving Cindi, Caribou Barbie and him. Now I'm thinking that had that taken place, there might have been a disagreement or two about gay rights during the love-making. Oh well. Now, we'll never know.
Someone in Kiss had talent?
Um, you know she took it back, right?
http://gay.americablog.com/2010/11/cindy-mccan-is...
She later tweeted that she stands by John McCain on DADT . . .
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