Right-wing non-profit Eagle Forum's Executive Director Colleen Holmes needs a pair of eagle eyes herself!
Holmes and homo-journo Jack Jett exchanged a number of emails earlier this month as the two attempted to coordinate an interview for Jett's new radio show. Jett wanted to discuss Holmes' work with the Forum, which was founded by Phyllis Schlafly in 1967, and has been especially virulent in their battle against feminist and gay rights.
Though Holmes originally agreed to be interviewed - and after much back and forth - Holmes at the last minute backed out, citing scheduling problems. The conservative activist apologized profusely and even joked that she didn't want to be seen as "pulling a McCain," a reference to Republican presidential candidate John McCain's threats to skip last week's presidential debate against John McCain. And, in addition to this sorry email, Holmes accidentally included a tactical note to an unidentified ally.
It is definitely not for the children…
Holmes, who previously worked for the Christian Broadcasting Network and the Christian Legal Society, opens her email thus: "I was giving more thought to why people are hesitant to get involved in this issue, which led to trying to brainstorm ways to counter the Will and Grace effect." Said effect, we imagine, is the slow social and cultural acceptance of gay people made possible in part by the popular NBC sitcom. That show and others, many activists say, opened a Pandora's box that must be closed at all costs.
Referring to progressives quite effectively as "the other side," Holmes then decries gay rights activists' "bullying," like the time Rosie O'Donnell and others shouted down Kelly Ripa for telling Clay Aiken not to put his hand over her mouth. "I don't know where that hand has been," said Ripa at the time, which led many people to assume she thought the then-closeted Aiken had been fisting or pumping or whatever gross things gay people do with their hands. And from that vilification comes the email's most outrageous comment: "The issue [gay rights] has become such a tar baby…"
From the horse's mouth - or, rather, fingers: Rosie O’Donnell and other gay media advocates blasted Ripa – the actual wronged party in the situation - insisting that the comment was a homophobic slur. The issue has become such a tar baby, people don’t want to go anywhere near it, because the “homophobe†moniker is so dreaded and so liberally applied.
Infuriated by what he read - and the use of the exceptionally racist term "tar baby," which comes from the black-face doll that trapped children's book character, Br'er Rabbit - Jett demanded she explain herself. Holmes simply said she didn't mean to say that - or write it, we're sure.
As for Holmes' tactics, the activist goes on to advise her reader to find sympathetic veterans and use their "horror stories" to counter Don't Ask, Don't Tell, a policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military.
One thing I thought that might be somewhat helpful in your efforts to recruit members of the military for your cause is to do what Pete or Peter, the gentleman seated to your left against the wall during the meeting indicated – use “horror stories†to illustrate that allowing homosexuals in the military is not simply a matter of respecting one person’s personal choice, but they actually threaten our national security and in some cases individual soldiers’ personal safety. I know
the horror stories are very difficult to find as you explained. It sounded like you did have some that illustrate the very serious issues.
If the reader would like to take a different route, writes Holmes, he or she could take a page from the Family Research Council, a right wing group that recently hosted an event highlighting childrens' horror stories to scare up support:
…The most compelling arguments were the “horror stories†in which children were being intimidated on playgrounds for being “homophobes†(synonymous with Christians) and one parent was actually arrested for peacefully dissenting against his child’s being forced to participate in a pro-homosexual “educational†presentation.
Holmes and her allies often accuse gay activists of having an agenda, but rarely have we seen an agenda more clear than the one found in Holmes' final statements on the matter: "These are just some ideas about the PR battle that it seems needs to be waged first against any hesitation military leaders who support the current law might have to taking a stand for it."
This "arrest" tale is also regurgitated over at youth-oriented iProtect website and concerns a Massachusetts man named David Parker who cops took in for criminal trespassing after Parker, who objected to the school's use of a book called King and King, refused to leave a school meeting. Parker and wife Tonia ended up suing the school district, but the case was dismissed.
The Holmes email only provides further evidence of how the right-wing's prepared to twist facts and logic to further their prohibitive, repressive and all-together Un-American initiative. It gives her and her organization bad names; if not for its unsurprising homophobia, than for her racist language. And she calls herself a Christian? Indeed!
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What a whore. I mean, really, just a fascist, race-baiting, gay-bashing POS.
Meh, these people are mediocre on their best day.
"…Pete or Peter, the gentleman seated to your left against the wall during the meeting…"
Can we assume this is Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality? He's awfully fond of horror stories and constantly looks for the extreme or the unusual to photograph and claim is typical of gay folk. You can find him and his cronies at just about any sleazy event from Folsom Street to IML. If there's nudity or BDSM, there's The Peter and his camera.
Wow.
Just…. wow.
Hey guys…
Jack sent this email to me when he got it. I posted an article on this last Friday.
Personally I think the Queerty article is better. However, I'm not sure the "tar baby" jab was an exclusive reference to gay rights, but probably homophobia itself. The gist of the email was about homophobia and how being labeled as such can be damaging. That's what I got out of it.
If anyone wants to read the actual email it can be found at:
http://likastarr.com/the-eagle.....bia-agenda
If wanting to exist and move in the socioeconomic and cultural as freely as heterosexuals do is part of having an agenda, then yes I have an agenda.
Shame on you Ms. Holmes.
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she is an arrogant, self righteous, self aggrandizing woman on a mission to seem more powerful than she really is!
insecure and self promoting.
if you read the Eagle Forum website, you will find that she is new there. they should let her go.
when she speaks its like she just loves to hear herself talk. she has that look too of someone who would reject anyone who gives her flack.
why was she the topic of an interview in the first place isn't the woman who founded Eagle Forum the person of interest?
anyone have those answers.
she looks like she has a drinking problem. i have four alcoholics in my family and i know that look. she claims she is a christian, but don't they taboo boozing and arrogance?
she is a little jerk with a big ego.
sad really.
SHUT UP! Oh no she didn't! GAG.
Anybody around?
Up late and blogging about such things after Bill Maher's appearance on Conan.
Interesting title here, "Leader at Eagle Forum".
For one didn't the ditz just start there like this month? See her "BIO". So what did she ever contribute that constitutes "Leader at"?
Isn't her position the proverbial overly sort of glorified personal assitant/secretary thing? She has some college under her 'Bible belt' and fancy schmancy job titles here and there, but what has she really ever done in policy and politics?
What a WAnnabee! Sheesh.
Jinny you said she has a look of an alcoholic. I don't know if you can tell something like that from a look. Although when you look at Donny Banaduche (spelling) you CAN tell he is high or drunk whatever. One thing you see on her face, (love the double photos) is a sneer and a whopping phony looking out at you! She's a charmer and a hopeful elitest. What a joke.
Wonder if she reads the actual Bible and what it says about love and grace. She creeps me out. Love that you said she apologized profusely. That's what a phony would do don't you think?
What made me speak on this was Bill Maher's new flick Religious. There was a link on that about this. Yeah she is like the gaffing Christians in his film. But what is so awfully off is her being called a "leader"! How so? Who says?
Let call Bill and get him to interview her too. lol gauff gauff. She pokes fun at McCain as though she is so cavilier with his personna and political name. Yeah like he would take her calls. What an aggrandizer schmoozer baby.
Like to know what he would think of her rude comment. What an arrogant…
Hope she doesn't have secret ambitions to run for office someday. She seems the type. What has the girl ever contributed THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD OR IN THE COUNTRY. That is how she is presenting herself. Blah blah blah blah. Don't let her words get to you. No seriously, no really!
There is such an air of pretense and power in her wording. Like she is trying to sound important. She doesn't come across as very sophisticated and her wording is confusing. What a douche bag!
Ignore her. She would hate that the most of all.
I won't call her what I really think she should be called. Be nice right?
Oh by the way if Missie Holmes is listening, my Dad is a Senator. So think on that. Won't mention names my dear. But your pompusness and approval seeking baloney is pitiable. I don't know what she meant by tar baby. What is she a Civil War fan?
No says Marge and Homer, she is her own fan.
Snicker. Snicker. Snicker.
Look just to be fair and honest.I am not a fan of all things gay or all things agenda.
But definitely not a fan of Missie Holmes.
Love this article.
Since she wants to be a star, send this to the Associated Press. To be fair again, Mrs P.S. of the Eagle Forum is a spry rights oriented lady. You have to be impressed with all that she has done even if you don't like what she focuses on inherently. She is a doer and a contribution in some areas that merit a few kudos and tribute.
To be fair. She has a gay son too. But that's another story.
When I saw Missie Holmes face starring out at us next to Clay's outing story, had the thought that she was outed but not in the way she would probably have liked as the new 'leader' at Eagle Forum in DC.
Let's see how much pity and attention she will garner from the story from her friends as they find her someday in this article. This is just the beginning.
She is a wise wise savy ole sage and her words are so important cunning nobilious. Uh yeah.
She might know my sister who went to Wellesely.
Wonder if she thought Missie Holmes was a bigot a blow hard a wannabee and a sleezy so called Christian. Watch her claim that all of this is that famous Christian persecution thing. Think not. But then who cares what she thinks?
She's just in time for Halloween, what a witch!
She seems grabby and like as if, please, her opinion matters, when uh, it doesn't.
Hey Jack mabye God himself used you and you don't even know it! Can God use a gay guy?
Phyllis get yourself a new girl. You actually deserve it. I may not like everything you do and say, but you are one heck of a go getter and there are things you have done that are respectable. Don't let that sprite Missie Holmes steal your thunder. She seems the type.
well if she were a good christian she would "shut up" and get her man "another pot pie" all the while spitting out some kids!
Where is her man to whom she is supposed to be subservient?
Actually, Bill Maher's new film is actually called Religulous. Looks like "religious" but sounds like "ridiculous"….
Just like that silly, silly woman with her misguided "PR Battle". BINT!
I could be totally wrong about this, but I believe that the founder of the Eagle Forum's son turned out to be gay. Phylis Schafley has a gayboy for a son.
After I got this email, I phoned Mrs. Holmes to let her know what a pathetic excuse for a human being I thought she was.
The clincher was….she claimed that she could NOT be homophobic because her Uncle had died of AIDS. Like that somehow made her venom spewing appropriate.
Racism and homophobia are closely connected. Look at scum like CHURCHILL-Y and tallskin (no matter what aliases they use.) They're ugly examples of internalized self loathing homophobia and racism.
Racism had it’s origins in the slave trade and is as old as the European invasion of North American. A year before the landing at Plymouth Rock a ‘cargo’ of 20 African slaves were landed in English Virginia. A lot of people don't know it, and certainly it's never mentioned in school books or by jingoists but racism was invented by the Engllish and their American colonists to justify slavery and the horrors of the slave trade.
From 1638 until 1865 as many as 10 million slaves were kidnapped and shipped to American colonies. The slave trade caused a terrible loss of life that probably exceeded the horrors of our time. Millions may have died being kidnapped and on the slave ships. The depopulation and chaos created by the European and later American slave trade was enormous: it shattered the once vibrant African states centered on the Niger, Senegal and the Congo. In Swahili it was called the Maffa, the ‘great disaster’.
In English North America preachers were urged to justify this barbarism and they began soon to sermonize of the god-given inferiority of Africans. They used the myths of Ham and Cain and one demented cultist even claimed that Africans were the descendents of Nacath, the snake-devil who tempted Eve in the creation myth. Where religion leads, the law soon follows. In 1663 the Maryland Assembly passed a law that legally described African as ‘perpetual servants’. Soon laws were passed in the other colonies forbidding intermarriage, legalizing the torture and murder of African slaves, annulling their baptisms and making it a crime to teach African slaves to read and write.
Racism is still a money maker for non-union businesses that want to pay lower wages and sell predatory mortgages. Incidentally, that’s one of the reasons the real ENDA was important – before the Democrats gutted it to please the Chamber of Commerce it would have vastly opened up the possibilities to sue for redress for everyone, not just the LGBT communities. The gap between the incomes of African Americans and imported workers and Euro American workers is still very large. With that shameful history the idea that African Americans or immigrant and imported workers might now be used as scapegoats to deflect attention from the economic chaos created by the corporate rich and their political lapdogs is adding another massive insult to massive injuries.
Go to www dot splcenter dot org and get the link to the Southern Poverty Law Centers analysis of ‘Coloring Crime’. The SPLC are the folks who broke the back of the KKK with a series of landmark lawsuits that led to the confiscation of their assets to compensate their victims.
When is Lambda Legal or the NCLR going to do that to the baptist, mormon, and catholic cults. Unfortunalty the Congress won't permit us to sue them so we can't go after them for DOMA. DADT and what that quisling Frank did to ENDA.
They assert that we have an "agenda" because theirs is so steadfast. It is projection, diverting from what they are doing by accusing us of doing what they are doing. Habitual in politics.
I think it's important to hear from these religious extremist end-of-days fanatics, so younger generations will move away from these spit-fires and toward a more secular society and communal interest.
Also, she totally copied Sarah Palin's look but it's "Knock-off cheap" kind of like American Christianity when compared to the actual words in the Bible.
BTW - God picked Obama, get over it!
Sounds like grasping at straws to me. "Tar Baby" is racist? As fucked-up as the Eagle Forum is, I'm sure there's worse stuff than this out there.
here's whats really funny, she probably doesn't even know that we are discussing her.
and she is so addicted to hearing herself speak and getting out her opinions that she would rather link herself up with as many politicians as she can. that's okay though because at some point that girl's real problems and real agenda will come out. she can schmooz her way through a lot but then that is what manipulative, two facers do.
@alan brickman: You know, I too get the same vibe from women! Heck, even many of our labia licking cousins, the dykes, do not shy away from expressing their disdain at us! What gives? I believe it is genetics. Something inherent in them kicks in making them worried that we might steal their prospective mates. Point is, those bitches should be thankful that we are weeding out the man loving men out for them and, hopefully, leaving them the ones that are die hard "fishermen"! I am telling you–gratefulness is a lost virtue!
No.15- I can still remember back when Old Phyllis was flitting about the house in a pink peignoir, trying to re-kindle her (ex)husband's waning interest.
If that doesn't turn your kid gay, nothing will!
No.18- I never got my copy of the "Agenda"…can anyone send me a copy of theirs?
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this colleen 'girl', she is a troubled cookie.
its not just her penchant to be one person in yourface and then another when she thinks you aren't listening.
look at her. she is whimpy people pleaser with a chip on her shoulder. enlarge her photo and then step back from the comp. she looks like a dyed in the wool phony and a woman whos mommy didn't give her enough attention after the age of 3. doesn't she?
she looks like a crook. someone who would display verbosity at whim and then con you out of your mind if she could. i do believe you can tell a kook by its cover.
colleen if you read this, you have real problems honey and you have that greedy little smile that says you would be the last person in the universe to admit to any of them.
falling star. poor you.
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did you see that queerty girl mzz holmes? she is the one who dissed and lied to jack jett a few months back. what a scag. stumbling over her own words like a high schooler and constantly petting herself and touching her glasses. she looked like a mental patient with a high on the whole doings. funny thing tho she got virtually no laughs at her stupid jokes and she walked away like zena warrior tromping down the stage with a bounce that reminds me of the arrogance many of the cpeckers are used to dishing out.
she sounded like she was 15 years old and boys, her mouth. her mouth looks so bitter and nasty. holmeszy is a nasty girl.
pretty ugly too.
good thing there were like 50 people only when she stood up to introduce johnnie whats his name. this twit is a real wanna-be and she probably had the high of her short dull life being on cspan.
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let's all vote for mzzy colleen holmes!
now you get to see her live, well almost live touchy feeling her glasses and trying to force a laugh and like two 20 somethings slightly laughed. she was like some pathetic high school kid wanting her momma to see her on great big cspan. pass the prozac.
she had so much dubious arrogance in her voice in her walk and her anecdotal quips, what a scarf bag.
is eagle forum proud of this girl?
hey i'm offer deep apoligies bloggies. to make it all more clear.
colleen holmes is the girl who is the manipulator hater from a few months back who messed up when LYING TO JACK and she was introducing the congressman or senator from texas at the CPAC conference in Washington DC over the weekend.
i use to intern in frank's office and have seen these Washington egomaniacs many times. what the hell is an executive director at the eagle forum? a personal assistant who does the mail and has little meetings that make her feel like barbie in the real world? what a ditzo. bet she runs the blog. i felt sorta bad for her when i read the posts around. until i saw her. i want to watch it again and count how many times she touches her glasses when being self important or when trying to do mindish controllo over the young people who are yearning to bring republicans back to power.
hope you chewed her out jack.
she might need it again.
have you seen this?
[[News and Notes
COLLEEN HOLMES INTRODUCED SENATOR JOHN CORNYN (R-TX) AT CPAC. Eagle Forum's Executive Director Colleen Holmes was invited by CPAC to introduce Senator John ...]]
if you type her into google, she has herself published for her "excellent introduction" for the senator. omg.
also note the all caps unlike every other google connection.
how old IS this person!?
her egocentric narcissistic whackedness is way out there.
jack must have gotten to her deep need for positive attention.
one can only imagine what this girl's mother must be like.
her need for public accolades and for a simple intro at a conference is just sad.
hey colleen are you on medication?
will you have lunch with me and a friend of mine who's a shrink?
you must be reading this because you can't tear yourself away from yourself.
you are just bit GROSS!
too bad you don't realize just how disgusting you can be.
who told you it was an excellent intro? your mom and dad?
some ditzy friends you have in the DC circle? do they even know what narcissism is? you do and it shows!
liked your crooked scarf and your contstant self comforting touching of yourself over and over. all of the other intro's were superior to yours.
didn't go to that ridiculous school that pat robertson is the head of? he would have thought you were ridiculous and sophmorish just like YOU WERE. try getting a degree from a real university and then maybe you will be introduced.
you would like that wouldn't you? that's your big goal.
jack has more noteriety than you ever will prima donna girl.
grow up or take some meds, do something you need it.
from now on we will call you the ALL CAP GIRL.
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hey all that nit colleen holmes is posting about herself again!
yesz! first phyl schaf is posting her normal fight about gay marriage and all and then if you do a bit more diggin' you find colleen all dolled up on herself and the forum at a regent u alum page.
she is like the never ending ego train that keeps chuggin' along.
the way she talks is like a dreamy teen with a big crush on phyl.
she is a gross one.
you wonder how many mirrors does the lady have in her home?
how many cats does she have? creepy.
she has this tone of someone who really wants to be prestigious right, but then she hides it with some version of self effacing but not really. all mixed up and trying to be a player. you wonder what magic she works on ole phyl because there has to be a con job there some where. maybe its the degrees and the unsnazzy scarf on cspan. snicker.
good luck with that dream miss holmes as you waft about.
do you practice road rage? you have that glimmer of hostility on your face and in your eyes. do any gay bashing but only amongst your 'friends'? do you actually have any friends? you also look like the type that would go and have you tarots turned or your palm read. you have that look of a psychic. my aunts run a psychic shop they might hire you on a part time basis. its actually in DC you might pass it sometimes. stop in and ask for Carey's favorite nephew whose name starts with J.
wait though, don't you say that you would quit your job if "God told you to". what the h is that shit? do you even know God?
the hate on your face and the greed in your eyes say that if you do, you are pretty cold terms with the big guy.
you are pitied.
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ah, like schafleys son is gay. so is the son of randall terry, the daughter of alan keyes and the son of the concerned women of america leader.