Ladies and Gentleman, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC):
“I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- the hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay...
"This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.
"This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.
And that concludes your quote of the day.
you see, Agi, my conspiracy of immediately posting to move your posts down the page is proving surprisingly effective.
this wasn't here last i checked i swear!
Posted by: Montag | April 29, 2009 at 05:36 PM
Readers may or may not find it amusing that Foxx's district includes the charming city of Mt. Airy, the real-life inspiration for TV's Mayberry.
Posted by: eric | April 29, 2009 at 08:00 PM
And the 13th Amendment, sometimes known as the "No Slavery of Anyone Including American Black Former Slaves" amendment is also incorrectly phrased.
Those Africans and their descendants weren't enslaved because they were Black. They were enslaved because the righteous White Man was putting them to work to make up for their naturally lazy & shiftless nature.
Posted by: Mike | April 30, 2009 at 03:31 AM
Montag: I'm onto you now.
eric: Well she's just a regular Aunt Bee, ain't she?
Mike: Speaking of amendments, I wonder if Ms. Foxx laments women's suffrage.
Posted by: Agi | April 30, 2009 at 08:27 AM
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. A right-wing Santa Claus, anyway. His real name is Rupert Murdoch. Or is it Roger Ailes? Hmmmm. So Matthew Shepherd's case is a hoax, eh? So Virginia is against hate-crime legislation, eh? HEh... Scheisse.
Posted by: Snave | April 30, 2009 at 09:33 AM
That last comment of mine was fairly nebulous. Sorry, I have had far too much caffeine this morning.
Anyway, what I was getting at from some oblique angle is that maybe Virginia should legally change her last name from Foxx to "FOX".
It's funny, but it seems like when someone is running for office and their last name is Cross, Christ, Foxx (FOX), etc. they are invariably Republican. Has anyone with the last name Gunn run for office recently? Or anyone named Mann, or Manley? Surely they would all be GOP candidates. (Whereas I suppose if someone with the last name of Gaye or Sinner ran, they would by necessity be Dems, right?) Good grief.
Anyway, Virginia Foxx is sorely misguided on this one.
Posted by: Snave | April 30, 2009 at 09:40 AM
Don't forget to add Lynch to that list of names. Someday Florida will elect their first Latino governor. He will be a Cuban-American man named Jesus.
Posted by: Agi | April 30, 2009 at 10:14 AM
Because they often crucify guys who's wallet they just stole....
Posted by: actor212 | April 30, 2009 at 02:05 PM
So MS was a thief as well as sexually identifying as a necrophiliac who was into a little bestiality when he couldn't get his hands on a corpse? Well then of course it's okay to murder him! Why ever should people like that have any constitutional rights at all?
Posted by: Thorne | May 01, 2009 at 11:08 PM