The debate over the new red and green cups from Starbucks rages on.
Last night, professional Chaz Bono impersonator and self-proclaimed “Social Media Evangelist” Josh Feuerstein somehow managed to weasel his way onto CNN where he discussed his outrage over the new paper cups from Starbucks, which he, like many Christian extremists, interprets as an act of war against Christmas.
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The segment begins with a YouTube clip of Feuerstein bragging about going into a Starbucks and telling the barista his name was “Merry Christmas” just so she would write the words on his cup.
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“Guess what, Starbucks?” Feuerstein says in the clip. “I tricked you into putting ‘Merry Christmas’ on your cup!”
Once the clip is finished, host Brianna Keilar asks Feuerstein why the cups are making him “so angry.”
“It’s much more than just a cup!” Feuerstein replies. “The cup is very symbolic … It parallels a society that is trying to remove Christmas from Christmas! … Here in America, 73 percent of people identify as Christian! We’re founded on Judeo-Christian principles!”
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Feuerstein was also joined StandUP with Pete SiriusXM host Pete Dominick, who accused him of being an “entrepreneurial bigot,” a charge with Feuerstein didn’t seem to understand.
Later in the segment, Keilar mentions all the Christmas-themed items Starbucks carries, including its “Christmas Blend” coffee.
“If they were really anti-Christmas,” Keilar asks, “wouldn’t they be anti-Christmas across the board?”
Feuerstein dodges the question and instead talks about how many views his YouTube channel has gotten in the past three days and spewing off some Donald Trump nonsense about being tired of political correctness before launching into an anti-Obama rant.
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“If this was not a Judeo-Christian society,” Feuerstein asks, “then why did Obama have to pretend to be one to get elected?”
“I do have to fact check you, Joshua,” Keilar replies, “because the President is a Christian.”
Watch the insanity unfold below.
Robby Saner
People will do anything for their 15 minutes
Manny Yoko
Melinduh Kaye
he is so pathetic.
Jeff Phillips
what if they had picked green????????
Luis H. Lopez
Another Christian lunatic butthole ! Ha Ha !
Neil Ballantyne
What a fucking idiot
Georgie Land
Geez, it’s not the holy grail, for f*ck’s sake!
Rocco Vader
Who likes the minimal statement ……I do …
Erin Capuano
That’s because the christian crazies are self absorbed lunatics
José Ramón Harvey
This guy is, literally, forcing his religion on others. Lol.
Mark Pointon
Ummm, no, it IS just a Cup.
Scott Mitchell
Starbucks wants Christmas off its cups . . . and yet they sell their Christmas Blend coffee! Hmmm . . . me thinks taking anti-delusional medicine might be a good idea! 🙂
Ralph Love
you are stupid. all of you who are following this idiotic fight about a paper cup. most people in the world do not have even the chance to see such a cup, even an empty one. so screw you all and one. think about tiny tim. okay but a cup will ruin your day. leave christmas for you to celebrate at home and at your churches. but leave the rest of us out of this. it is just a cup of coffee. you indeed are STUPID. we do not have to make you look stupid. you just are stupid.
Paul Fucetola
What a pathetic asshole.. It’s a cup moron not the next coming of Jesus. Go back to your twisted church and complain to them ð???ð?»ð???ð?»
Mark David
No. It’s just a cup. Empty. Like his head
Cam
CNN always would bring on Tony Perkins or somebody from NOM or some other bigots whenever gay rights were discussed. And now they bring on this guy about the Starbucks cups??
Maybe if CNN stopped giving these people all the free airtime they wouldn’t be as big a deal.
Luis Collazo
Why is anyone wasting out time with this bigot? I don’t get it! This is why aliens won’t visit us!
Tom Pollack
Jesus Christ just bring your own damn cup to Starbucks
Travis Cooper
I am all for throwing assholes like him to the lions, society would be infinitely richer.
Kevin Kopjak
“What Would Jesus Drink?”
Xzamilio
I guess being Kevin James impersonator wasn’t paying as well as batshit crazy evangelical.
Adam Palkovic
#psycho
Jc Rodriguez
Paul V. Vitagliano
His blowhard douchebaggery is next level…
Amaurys Arias
When are people going to realize this types are insane.
Jaime-Arturo Rodriguez Luevano
Isn’t this the same nut job who was recently on the Doctors against a straight father who had no problem with his son playing with an Ariel Little Mermaid doll?
Maxie Grant
What shocks me is someone is giving this loser airtime. We surely have bigger problems than his self-pity party.
John Wadsworth
OHHH PLEASE get a life and worry about the important things!
Carl Able
The funny thing about this is that Starbucks went with the color red. It’s a choice that is symbolic of the Christian faith for one reason and one reason alone: Christians believe that they are washed in the blood of the lamb of God aka Jesus Christ. Blood is red.
Santa Clause and reindeer have nothing to do with Christianity. If Starbucks were indeed trying to take Christ out of Christmas then don’t you think they would have a chosen to keep the cartoonish figures and dumped the color red in favor of a more winter-esque color like say, blue or silver? I mean come one people! Stop being sheep and start thinking for yourselves.
Last thing, this idiot thinks he is a capitalist but is offended when Santa disappears from the Christmas narrative. Santa is the anti-capitalist. He sneaks into people’s homes and leaves free things. That’s not capitalism, it’s not consumerism, it’s actually a story of socialism. Oh, I should add that the early church was a socialist organization. So socialist that the apostles killed, literally KILLED, two of their members when they concealed part of their earnings from the sale of their personal belongings instead of turning it all over to the church. That’s not very capitalist.
Derek Perron
Why is cnn devoting time to this nonsense
Randy Judd
Jesus! And I don’t mean on a cup.
Let’s bring our panel out, with expert cup analysts and Christmas guru Pagan Grinch., Santa was unavailable for comment.
Christopher Hayward
There are hungry children in America and these rubes have nothing better to do than rant about a coffee cup. Give me a break with these beyond idiotic masses, that lack real insight into our nation’s true problems. One of these is not the color or colour of a coffee cup.
Kevin Nichols
Christopher DeRosa
The Christians careless use of the word ‘war’ shows just how out of touch the crazy religious people are. War. Lmao.
Tony Chaplinski
this whole conversation just goes to prove that people really are sheep in every sense of the word. To top it off it appears that the donald wants to make this political as well. This alone should prove how stupid this whole thing is.
Bob LaBlah
Why aren’t they protesting the “ungodly” act of making people come to work on Thanksgiving? That’s the one day where people are involved with FAMILY, friendships and life in general. Lets say thats the one day shared by the entire country where no racial, sexual, financial, cultural…..just about all societal bullshit takes a holiday that day.
Fuck Christmas. Once again, their priorities are wrong. Christmas is now a “holiday” that I no longer give a shit about because of the commercialization of it. The meaning of it is now irrelevant since it has been doubted by all religions that that day, the 25th of December, is the actual day of his birth. No one knows for sure.
Sheldon Siegel
The Starbucks cup seems to be the Holy Fail to these Christians nut jobs.
Orlando R Montoya
Omg this made me laugh this homophobic who calls himself a christian is just crazy. He’s the definition of a religious freak and not a Jesus follower
Avery Alvarez
have you guy seen some of his Youtube videos? He is fùcking crazy.
In one of his videos he talked about the Supreme Court ruling on marriage equality, brandishing a gun while he had a small child with him, a talking about how the government is coming for christians.
Then there was the video where he drove around an empty Wal-mart parking lot, and claimed the military was guarding Wal-mart because the government is about to bring martial law.
He is your typical religious, crazy gun nut, and judging by the fact that a coffee cut outrages him, a right-wing SWJ, too. I feel like some day soon we’ll see him again on the news, not as a guest, but as what they’re reporting on.
jheryn
Why do we give these fame whores attention?
It’s a fucking cup.
The end.
Chuck Stevenson
This guy is such an idiot.
Lucas LeDain
Why put antigay in the title? Yeah he is but this is a seperate issue to his views on homosexuality.
Roger Donato
get real
Chris Sledge
James Landa
These people need to get a grip.
alphacentauri
Meh it’s Charbucks way too expensive and overrated burnt coffee I haven’t gone to one in years or bought their overpriced products in years.
Dave Stevenson
Well, he is certainly getting his 15 minutes.
twinkie1cat
The guy’s name, Feuerstein, sounds Jewish, not Christian.
The guy is clearly also a Republican since he doubts the President’s faith. Christians are not supposed to deny the working of the Holy Spirit in the lives of other people. He is another one of those boring political christians (lower case intentional) who give God a bad reputation.
Giancarlo85
A cup is the most important issue for these imbeciles and most of the republican party. Stupid republicans… that’s all these people will ever be. Making a big fuss about a fucking cup. What about more important issues? Oh that’s right. Republicans have no ideas and their supporters are a bunch of sycophants.
Paul Castilonia
Josh Feuerstein looks gay.
tmewrpagn
It bothers me that in the name of ratings that media outlets like CNN bring on uneducated personalities and juxtaposes them next to people who have fully thought through their opinion. They do it all the time in reference to LGBT reports when they bring on hate filled bigots and make it sound like their opinion is a legitimate opinion and not just a homophobic rant. Placing their talking head next to someone who is educated only legitimizes and validates snap reaction opinions.
Jason Rayburn
This is too funny
Giancarlo85
And someone on here thinks the republicans party will win next year… LMAO. You’ve got to be shitting me.
CNN is Fox News Lite.
Todd Buchanan
What a complete and utter idiot! What do reindeer and snowflakes have to do with Christianity?? This ENTIRE commotion is an embarrassment to all on board- the color and/or design of a cup have nothing to do with being Christian.
onthemark
It probably happened this way.
Okay… very sneaky of him, he told the Starbucks barista that his name was “Merry Christmas.”
Barista makes the drink, goes to the counter and yells out: “Mary! Mary!… MARY!!!”
Tony Knuth
Nope I’m pretty sure its still just a fucking cup no matter whats printed on there people are just whiney little bitches
Sweetie Pie
I celebrate Festivus…I want a Festivus cup !!
Bob LaBlah
That ol’ hillbilly from brother Huckabee’s state is going to lose. He would make a better president than her. At least his jokes are funny. And he has a kind, grand fatherly face too. The kind we are used to seeing down here.
Richard Wilson
Michael Haynes
its a damn cup get a life you waste of dna
Nick Grillo
J.r. Graff
Too bad I’m not still a barista for them and this guy to come in. I’d write “Mary Krissmuss” on the cup.
zooby
This guy needs to get a job…. It is obvious his wife is the one who makes the money while he sits on his fat ass looking for controversy. Quit giving this fat F any attention!!!
John Assali
John Assali
Much Ado About Nothing
Kieran
Since when are gays against Christmas decorations?
Cam
So right wingers already called a boycott on Starbucks because the CEO supports gay marriage. So they already weren’t going. I know that CNN wants to become FOX lite, but why do they put every single bigot they can find on the air??
Jim Philbrick
He clearly worships the God Loseronious
Hussain-TheCanadian
I never understood the meaning behind this phrase: “This country is built on Judeo-christian” beliefs” – When I read the American constitution, nothing about it strikes me as Jewish or Christian – Did I miss something?
Realitycheck
Who cares? Christianity is a dying institution no longer relevant to our society,
99% of people that call themselves christians do not practice and with good reasons……
Keith Perdue
Uhhhh, no, it isn’t….it’s just a plastic container to put coffee into, anything more is all in your mind…maybe you should apply all your hatred & bile onto something really tangible, like world hunger, helping starving children, building homes, fighting diseases, you know, REAL stuff, whuddaya say?
Josh447
“Meltdown”?!!! This is pure tame gabgook. You obviously haven’t seen a three year old when his dad refuses to by him the lollipop he was promised while shopping at the local grocery store. BOOM!!! Now THAT’S a meltdown.
James C Gray
Cookoo Bing. Cookoo Bing. Cookoo.
Glücklich
Ugh, these people. Between this and the Campbell’s thing, I actually hope they all decide to boycott all of the godless, home-a-SEK-shul food manufacturers and purveyors. A nice thinning of the turd – er, herd – by starvation would be great.
Cielo Perdomo
https://youtu.be/BKZqGJONH68
Nick Marriott
I would SOOOOOO love to jizz in his coffee………Merry Christmas,asshole!
BlueDude
As I continue to say: the more lunacy that comes from these fu©k-tards, the more sane folks will turn away from the GOP.
o.codone
Queerty. Free of an agenda. Except that Christian-hating one. 🙂
David Barney Wilson
Merry Christmas everyone!
Mike Smith
These kkkhristian wackjobs need to take that cup and put it where the sun don’t shine! Time declare war on kkkhristo idiocy
goluboi
@Jeff Phillips: Well as you know green is the color of Islam, so clearly that would just go to prove that Starbucks stealthily promotes radical Islam, hand-in-hand with their clear hatred of Christianity. That’s why they chose green for their company logo, obviously, in order to hint they are allied with Islamic extremism. If they didn’t hate Christianity obviously they would have chosen Christian colors for their logo which we all know is red, white, and blue.
BlueRoyale
@o.codone: Christians are doing great a hell of a job by themselves, portraiting the crazied lunatics. They don’t need anybody’s help with that.
Also, even if the laughable idea that Starbucks engaged in a personal crusade against Christmas were true, so what? I thought Christians where so keen about their rights of free speech and expression, but once more they go out of their ways to prevent others from exercising the same rights.
And finally, this dude is totally setting off my gaydar.
Glücklich
He left out the part where the barista actually wrote “MARY Christmas” on his Venti soy chai hazelnut viennese ultralite sugar-free pumpkin pie spice caramel macchiato cappuspresso marshmallow half double decaf caffinated half-caf with sprinkles and a twist of citron.
http://www.tubechop.com/watch/7175418
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NkaqoOELg
Giancarlo85
@o.codone: Where is the christian hating here? Keep doing the drugs… like your hero Rush Limbaugh.
Nathan Eidelson
Awesome ð???
Steven Burr
GET A LIFE ASSHOLE!
Alan David Smith
my mom died 3 weeks before christmas. if i didn’t have my niece. i’d sleep through the holiday every year. and starbucks is a coperation. not a moral guide. move on people
Louis
Yes this guy is a whiny and uneducated bigot….who needs to be committed.
Ive seen the comments from these Christians about this stupidity and their responses range from the typical holier then thou self righteous hypocrisy to the truly insane.
Its a fucking cup these people are mental period.
Love the guy who responded to this whack job.
Lawrence Poon
This is the best example of what evangelist on coke like. Is a coffee cup. Why don’t they care more about our homeless veterens.
LaVero Gutierrez
I am Christian (Pentacostal) with massive amounts of flaws. We are not all like this. Im not embarrassed by who I praise, but we are not all like this. I was taught to show who my God is through my words, my actions and my character. Im embarrassed by some of my “brothers & sisters”. This is not what my God is or represents. Blessings to all
Craig Buxton
Oh boo hoo! Just walk across the stree to Panera!
Joe
Moron! More like Mary Christmas.
BlueRoyale
@BlueRoyale: wow sorry, just re-read my last message and how the autocorrect brutalized it. Ignore the typos please ahem ehehe
Giancarlo85
So to sum it up… is it just a cup? I went to a starbucks… I saw a cup. Yes, it’s just a cup. Apparently this extremist sees something more there. I suggest perhaps a psychologist and/or neurosurgeon… hallucinations can be a serious matter. Perhaps a tumor even.
@goluboi: Green is also the color of Ireland and a color of the environmentalist movement. I guess that means Starbuck would endorse a Irish Islamic environmentalist according to these Christian nutcases. They probably also think Obama is a Kenyan Communist Islamist Atheist (say that three times fast!).
mzvee
I’ll fix’em. When I go to Starbucks I will tell them to stick their Christmas hating cup up their snowhole and I’ll take my coffee in my newly purchased chalice, with the smart looking glitter snowflakes on the side. Just so everyone knows I love an old fat man that puts me in debt up to my ever lovin eyeballs every year.
1EqualityUSA
They could put jokes on their cups such as, “Why was Frosty the Snowman’s pants down? He knew the snow-blower would be around soon.” or “What did the two female reindeers do for fun? They went on into town to blow a few bucks.” It would resonate with these turd-blossoms.
I’m a Mr. Peet’s drinker. Why does the mermaid have two tails?
seaguy
Pathetic right wing christian extremist with nothing better to do. How sad.
DCFarmboy
To be fair, the cup complaint seems to be limited to one guy — Feuerstein — and his FB page. Social conservatives in general don’t seem to be joining in.
alphacentauri
@o.codone: Yes, and queerty refuses to admit that there are LGBT people who are Christian, and refuses to write anything about muslims who hate LGB people and want to kill us all.
_Jordan_
LMFAO! This guy is a professional troll – and not a very good one, at that. He’s not even remotely subtle about it. Consider yourselves had. Hilarious.
scotty
this is what happens when you let crazy people on tv