We’re sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it seems that Bryan Fischer — the radio talk show host who claimed that anti-discrimination laws made slaves of Christians, likened gay activists to insatiable leeches and compared gay people to trans fats (all for the sake of black men whom he loves and wants live disease free) — did not get fired from the American Family Association last night.
I guess all those celebratory tequila shots you did were a waste of time. (On second thought, no tequila shot is a waste of time.)
According to the New Civil Rights Movement:
Wednesday night, Twitter and the media exploded upon news that Bryan Fischer, the infamous radio host, spokesperson and director of issue analysis (whatever that is) at the American Family Association, had been fired. Rachel Maddow broke the story, having teased it during the afternoon. It was a huge win for not just the LGBT community, whom Fischer used as a punching bag daily, but for common decency.
But alas, it turns out the stories were, for the most part, false. This morning, NCRM reports that Fischer will no longer be director of analysis or spokesperson, but has retained his radio job.
There’s no word on whether he also received a 66% pay cut.
The bad news is that Fischer will still be able to spew his jibber jabber on the air, continuing to spout ridiculous, senseless bits of trivia (like the Nazi Party was formed by homosexual thugs in a gay bar in Munich and that Hitler himself was gay) to thousands of listeners. Or, one can hope, hundreds.
While the AFA has made no official announcement, its president Tim Wildmon hinted the news last night, telling MSNBC that Fischer is “just a talk show host” and that the AFA rejects “soundbite quotes … the Hitler and homosexuality one.”
Evidently they’re standing by the trans fat comparison.
tdx3fan
I love how when Brian gets called out on his stuff he just goes all silent about it. He has been on Signorelli a few times and has just been schooled. Its like he can continue to spout his stupidity until he actually needs to defend it.
Paul Nadolski
The best thing to do is ignore him (and Rush Limbaugh). Stop giving him an audience.
jwtraveler
@Paul Nadolski: I’m with ya.
artgolden
No intelligent person gives a fuck what this cretin says or thinks.
Bad Ass Biker
@artgolden: The keyword is an intelligent person. There are lots of dumb as a post people who listen to his bullshit.
wpewen
Look at for what it is. The U.S. is not the bastion of rationality a lot of people like to promote it as, and it never has been. For all our successes (Kennedy and the space program) we have a few lunatic dead ends. In the 60’s we went to the moon, since Reagan lots of these types have come out of the woodwork, often to finally self-destruct (Anita Bryant). The ones who talk about hell the most usually wind up there. Vaya con Dios.
Leonard Woodrow
Thank goodness these sad and stupid people are on their way out.
Ladbrook
The sad part (for them) is that this guy is about the best thing they have when it comes to fighting against marriage equality and other gay rights issues. He was their spokesman, for god’s sake. Fischer’s big thing is that gays committed the Holocaust. Apparently, Hitler couldn’t trust the straight guys to do it, so he hired the gays. AND THAT, in a nutshell, is Brian Fischer.
Queer4Life
Im always amazed when some people want to shut other people (like brian fischer) up. “He’s spewing hate” they whine. Good lets give him as much rope as we can. Ignorance should never be censored instead we should encourage these idiots to speak loudly and often.
NiceNCool1
Ladbrook, Pinning the holocaust on gay men is no different than blaming the Jews for the black plague.
transiteer
I hardly think that the Tea Party/Repugnacans need “another” spokeman for Stupid, Intolerant and Hateful for the Christian Cause. I’m sure most of them would rather this half-wit keep his mouth shut. He’s making them all look bad, which of course, is fitting.
gaym50ish
We used to dismiss Fishcer’s infuriating tirades as merely ill-informed, but now they border on the psychotic as he becomes more and more agitated about gay-rights advances.
On his radio show called “Focal Point,” Fischer has said homosexuality is the result of a birth defect, that allowing gays to serve in the military will promote pedophilia (go figure), that same-sex marriage will lead to sex with animals, that gays are driven by a “dark, venomous, demonic hatred,” and that gay biological parents should be denied custody of their own children. He even advocated for an “underground railroad” to kidnap kids from their gay parents.
He has not only advocated criminalization of homosexuality but suggested homosexual acts should be felonies. He said that would solve all the “problems,” as he put it, including gays in the military, gay marriage, gay “indoctrination” in the schools, hate crimes laws and “special” rights for gays.
Was he kidding? Somehow I don’t think he was. The only thing he left out is that it might solve the problem of gay teen homelessness. Instead of tossing the kids out into the streets, parents could have them thrown in jail.
He told delegates to the Values Voter Summit in 2011 that the homosexual agenda was “America’s greatest threat.” He boasted about his role in persuading Russian lawmakers to pass the anti-gay laws that he couldn’t get American lawmakers to pass.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Pretty darn sure if they began poking around this vile, abhorrent, noxious, twisted pigs property what they would find would make John Wayne Gacy look like a rank ametuar…….