I suppose we should all send him one.

I actually thought their response was kind of funny.

That was a great skit.

...NOM is probably assuming any publicity is good publicity.

I thought their low quality video was satire....



/you would think the religious right would have some money to spend on production.

The group is called National Organization for Marriage. NOM. NOM.

I saw this skit. I really liked it.

NOM!

What do you expect? They call themselves a "rainbow coalition" without a hint of irony.

I guess submittard is too much of a moran to not comprehend satire responding to satire either - or did you miss this part:

"Thank you Stephen for playing our ad in full on national television--for free."

Stupid people are stupid. But some are reaaaaallllyyyy stupid.

driven to quit: I saw this skit. I really liked it.

The original or the Colbert version?

The Colbert spoof was hilarious.

"Oh God! The homo storm got me!"

This is deeply weird! But I think what's going on here is that NOM has embraced a tired bit of election year conventional wisdom: the belief that getting your commercial played, in any venue, even if its subjected to ruthless mocking, constitutes "winning the media cycle," or something.

It doesn't! But don't tell them that!

Rick Reilly nods approvingly.

The press release (homophobopops)

Donald_McRonald: driven to quit: I saw this skit. I really liked it.

The original or the Colbert version?

I saw them both but I was talking about the colbert version.

"I've always thought Stephen Colbert was a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over Hollywood. Now I'm sure," said Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

... My brain hurts.

I called the number on the release, and the voice told me I had reached "Creative Response Concepts".

They sound like a right bunch of bastards

Any publicity is good publicity! All it costs is your dignity!

pootsie: I called the number on the release, and the voice told me I had reached "Creative Response Concepts".

They sound like a right bunch of bastards

Or... it just means they employ an outside PR company to handle media contact. It's pretty common. Of course, that sort of middleman use kinda undermines any hope of wanting to seem grassroots or approachable, but it's not particularly surprising.

I love how the ad is complaining about their right to discriminate against gay people is being taken away. Mean bigots.

Bloody William: pootsie: I called the number on the release, and the voice told me I had reached "Creative Response Concepts".

They sound like a right bunch of bastards

Or... it just means they employ an outside PR company to handle media contact. It's pretty common. Of course, that sort of middleman use kinda undermines any hope of wanting to seem grassroots or approachable, but it's not particularly surprising.

Interestingly, CRC isn't just any PR company. It's the PR company that handles a few conservative/Republican groups (along with Time Warner, AT&T, and Viacom.)

Its clients include:
-Republican National Committee (and the National Republican Congressional and Senatorial Committees)
-Contract with America
-Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (Newspeak is FUN)
-Regenry Publishing

And a bunch more.

brainiac-dumdum: I love how the ad is complaining about their right to discriminate against gay people is being taken away. Mean bigots.

How dare you persecute Christians! What is it with the continued persecution of the followers of Christ! Will there ever be freedom for our religion?

The irony is that this same group probably pushes for any pro-choice or pro-atheism messages to be buried.

/free speech is only okay if you agree to it

NOM president and also president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Maggie Ghallagher




She is afraid you homos are gonna take her mens away!

pootsie: She is afraid you homos are gonna take her mens away!

I think there are other reasons men stay far away from her than just the gays.

/*Cue Jabba the Hutt laugh*

pootsie: Maggie Ghallagher

Now that's just mean.

Bloody William: "I've always thought Stephen Colbert was a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over Hollywood. Now I'm sure," said Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

... My brain hurts.

Haha, they so don't know he was gay for pay in Strangers with Candy, which was as much about Chuck Noblet's awkward romance with Geoffrey as anything Jerri-related. And Colbert co-wrote the damn show.

/Actually I've also wondered if Colbert is secretly conservative - he has what, six kids? but I've concluded he's just one of the cool, committed progressive Catholics. They're around and they're good people.
//Silly NOM, your campaign was irrevocably pwned by probably the most pro-gay high-profile comedian this side of Ellen Degeneres, and you thank him for making you all look like damn fools?

pootsie: NOM president and also president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Maggie Ghallagher

She is afraid you homos are gonna take her mens away!

AHH!

Eye Bleach!

brainiac-dumdum: The Colbert spoof was hilarious.

"Oh God! The homo storm got me!"

I had to watch that bit twice. Pure win for Colbert.

bobbette:
/Actually I've also wondered if Colbert is secretly conservative - he has what, six kids? but I've concluded he's just one of the cool, committed progressive Catholics. They're around and they're good people.

You can see when Steven Colbert speaks, that above all, he cares about people. I think above all, he's neither liberal nor conservative, but wishes the best for all mankind, and values a good joke.

bobbette: Bloody William: "I've always thought Stephen Colbert was a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over Hollywood. Now I'm sure," said Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

... My brain hurts.

Haha, they so don't know he was gay for pay in Strangers with Candy, which was as much about Chuck Noblet's awkward romance with Geoffrey as anything Jerri-related. And Colbert co-wrote the damn show.

/Actually I've also wondered if Colbert is secretly conservative - he has what, six kids? but I've concluded he's just one of the cool, committed progressive Catholics. They're around and they're good people.
//Silly NOM, your campaign was irrevocably pwned by probably the most pro-gay high-profile comedian this side of Ellen Degeneres, and you thank him for making you all look like damn fools?

he has three kids, and it's not a cold sore. I hit my lip on a biscuit.

NOM doesn't care that they were mocked. They think that their commercial got out there and got more exposure and that maybe it might have influenced some people who saw it, even in that context.

/Fark NOM

pootsie: NOM president and also president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, Maggie Ghallagher

She is afraid you homos are gonna take her mens away!

Yuck! I wouldn't touch her with your dick.

Aar1012: brainiac-dumdum: I love how the ad is complaining about their right to discriminate against gay people is being taken away. Mean bigots.

How dare you persecute Christians! What is it with the continued persecution of the followers of Christ! Will there ever be freedom for our religion?

Oo! Oo! Invisible Sky Wizard! There! I RIDICULE CHRISTIANS!!! The persecution of Christians by means of presenting an alternative will continue as long as I have breath.

So there. Nanny, nanny, boo boo.

FilmBELOH20: I guess submittard is too much of a moran to not comprehend satire responding to satire either - or did you miss this part:

If you have ever followed Maggie Gallagher, her writings, or her interviews you will know that she is incapable of satire or anything remotely approaching a rational thought.

Bucky Katt: Yuck! I wouldn't touch her with your dick.

Let me be clear. NO ONE is touching her with my dick!

sloppy shoes: You can see when Steven Colbert speaks, that above all, he cares about people. I think above all, he's neither liberal nor conservative, but wishes the best for all mankind, and values a good joke.

Seriously. Both he and Jon Stewart seem to be well-meaning, genuinely nice comedians before anything else. Their shows are political, but they seem pretty down to earth. I saw one of each shows taped live. Waited outside for like two hours before getting intot he studio, but it was still awesome. Also, he did a signing at the Union Square B&N when his book came out. I have an autographed copy of I Am America (And So Can You!).

Anyway...

Honestly, how is marriage being "attacked?" Especially compared to the bullshiat marraige-undermining garbage straight people engage in every day?

I know several happily married gay people. I also know a few straight people whose marriages fell apart.

Also, John Barrowman is committed to Scott Gill and has been with him for over fifteen years and became civil partners, legally, three years ago. And John Barrowman is farking awesome, so I think that's all the proof anyone needs on the subject.

bobbette: /Actually I've also wondered if Colbert is secretly conservative - he has what, six kids? but I've concluded he's just one of the cool, committed progressive Catholics. They're around and they're good people.

Colbert has three kids and he stated in interviews that he doesn't have a problem with Republicans - just their policies. Pretty much puts him in the liberal camp.

bobbette: /Actually I've also wondered if Colbert is secretly conservative - he has what, six kids? but I've concluded he's just one of the cool, committed progressive Catholics. They're around and they're good people.

Funny that he and Papa Bear are both supposedly Catholic. Colbert is my kind of Catholic (the social welfare kind).

Bloody William: pootsie: I called the number on the release, and the voice told me I had reached "Creative Response Concepts".

They sound like a right bunch of bastards

Or... it just means they employ an outside PR company to handle media contact. It's pretty common. Of course, that sort of middleman use kinda undermines any hope of wanting to seem grassroots or approachable, but it's not particularly surprising.

Let's take a look at somebody CRC handled...

From wiki:
Creative Response Concepts (CRC) Public Relations is an American public relations firm best known for helping to devise the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign attacking John Kerry's Vietnam War record in the 2004 presidential race.

Nuff. said.

FTA:
"To schedule an interview with Maggie Gallagher, President, or Brian Brown, Executive Director of NOM, contact Elizabeth Ray (x 130, er­aysnoita­lercilb­upcrccom) or Mary Beth Hutchins (x.105, mhu­tchi­nss­n­oi­talerci­lbu­pcr­ccom) by calling 703-683-5004."

Colbert MUST take advantage of this opportunity. If he passes on it, I will be sorely disappointed.

Bloody William: sloppy shoes: You can see when Steven Colbert speaks, that above all, he cares about people. I think above all, he's neither liberal nor conservative, but wishes the best for all mankind, and values a good joke.

Seriously. Both he and Jon Stewart seem to be well-meaning, genuinely nice comedians before anything else. Their shows are political, but they seem pretty down to earth. I saw one of each shows taped live. Waited outside for like two hours before getting intot he studio, but it was still awesome. Also, he did a signing at the Union Square B&N when his book came out. I have an autographed copy of I Am America (And So Can You!).

Anyway...

Honestly, how is marriage being "attacked?" Especially compared to the bullshiat marraige-undermining garbage straight people engage in every day?

Ironically (or Obviously, I suppose) the biggest source of sham marriages is the heartthrob of conservatives, the United States military.

I've never see so many fake-ass "marriages of conveniences" in my life, either from Townie "You don't need them dang ol' rubbers, I'm on the pill, I swear to Gawd!" Skanks looking for a ride out of the shiathole hometowns.

Or, the "Hey, we should totally get married! Housing Allowance, baby!" guys.

Bucky Katt: Yuck! I wouldn't touch her with your dick.


pootsie: Let me be clear. NO ONE is touching her with my dick!

Sgt Otter:
Ironically (or Obviously, I suppose) the biggest source of sham marriages is the heartthrob of conservatives, the United States military.

I've never see so many fake-ass "marriages of conveniences" in my life, either from Townie "You don't need them dang ol' rubbers, I'm on the pill, I swear to Gawd!" Skanks looking for a ride out of the shiathole hometowns.

Or, the "Hey, we should totally get married! Housing Allowance, baby!" guys.

You know what I've always wondered about?

Things like 'I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry' where they investigate to make sure a gay civil union isn't a sham, but people don't really seem to connect that to straight marriage.

The reality is, marriage has been used for a long time as a moral or financial out, rather than a stoic institution.

Phil Herup: irrelevant image

Well at least Phil is in another gay marriage thread.

Phil, can you tell us how cool Maggie Gallagher is? Especially how she pointed out that Colbert is a double-agent. That was a stroke of genius!

Maggie Ghallagher is an evil coont and NOM is a collection of hateful bigots who all deserve to be cockpunched/vagpunched for their stupidity.

How is a group like NOM not the same as Stormfront or White Aryan Resistance? Replace "gay" with "black" or "interracial" in their ads (or specifically, "same-sex" with "mixed-race", and it's pretty much the same message as all the white supremacist groups:

"There's a storm gathering...
• The clouds are dark, the winds are strong...
• And I am afraid...
• Some who advocate for mixed-race marriage are taking the issue far beyond mixed-race couples...
• They want to bring the issue into my life...
• My freedom will be taken away...
• I'm a California doctor who must choose between my faith and my job...
• I'm part of a NJ church group punished by the government because we can't support mixed-race marriage...
• I'm a Massachusetts parent helplessly watching public schools teach my son that interracial marriage is OK...
• But some who advocate for mixed-race marriage have not been content with mixed-race couples living as they wish...
• Those advocates want to change the way I live...
• I will have no choice...
• The storm is coming...
But we have hope...a rainbow coalition of people of every creed and color are coming together in love to protect marriage. Visit Nation for Marriage.org. Join us."

Changes in bold. All I did with this was change "same-sex" to "mixed-race" and "gay" to "interracial". Suddenly, the hate is even more obvious, and the hypocrisy (from Damon Owens, a black organizer in NOM) is clear.

Hateful people spreading their message of exclusion and bigotry... And while I defend their right to say whatever they want in their ads, I condemn them for being so terribly bigoted and for making other peoples' happiness a target for their religious furor.

pootsie: homophobopops

That would make a great name for a breakfast cereal.

Seperated at birth.