Washington Times columnist calls AIDS ‘the gift of the gays.’

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Washington Times columnist calls AIDS ‘the gift of the gays.’»

In a op-ed yesterday attempting to cast doubt on man-made global warming, Washington Times columnist and editor emeritus Wesley Pruden opened with a line stating that the AIDS virus is “the gifts of the gays“:

We were all supposed to be dead now, done in by AIDS, the gift of the gays. After that it was SARS, bequeathed to the world by China. Then it was avian flu, which, to be fair to the alarmists, did in fact result in the deaths of millions. The millions were all chickens, true, but chickens have feelings, too. You could ask the folks at PETA.

As Media Matters has documented, Pruden has a history of writing that heterosexuals having AIDS is a “myth,” even though the U.N. reported that, in 2005, 32 percent of all new AIDS infections in the U.S. were contracted by heterosexuals. (HT: Huffington Post)


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/18/washington-times-columnist-calls-aids-the-gift-of-the-gays/

[MrScorpio]

1. Idiocy "The Gift of the conservatives"

People like Pruden is going to kill us all

[ruggerson]

2. So if you're a gay, chinese chicken

you can basically give up any hope of ever becoming a Moonie.

[marmar]

4. Suddenly I want to become a gay Chinese chicken......

:)

[Faygo Kid]

6. Hey, "chickens have feelings, too." Gay ones can even marry in California now.

These people are nuts.

And their gay chickens, too.

[TZ]

3. ....

Fucker. There are a lot of dead asians from bird flu. But much like gays...I suppose their deaths are just as important as chickens.
Washington Times is a rag of the worst sort.
And no scientist of respectability said we were "all gonna die!" from these diseases.
Yet another scientifically illiterate, "compassionate" conservative...:puke:

[1620rock]

5. Asshole.

[notadmblnd]

7. Sounds to me like sarcasm.

[Beregond2]

8. Granted he's a homophobic jerk,

it seems clear he is satirizing the hysteria the media loves to whip-up over every new health threat.

[pt22]

9. I worked with a guy with that same surname 25 years ago. He too was nuts

the cops had to collect him from the corner of 5th and Broadway where he was standing in his underwear directing traffic. An interesting coincidence.