With Rush Limbaugh out of commission due to a “pre-scheduled treatment,” right-wing gasbag Mark Steyn wasted no time in continuing Limbaugh’s long history of homophobia.
Styen filled in for Limbaugh for the March 17 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show. During the broadcast, he made the ugly (and false) statement that San Francisco had gone on lockdown to prevent “all the gays dropping dead on the San Francisco mayor’s watch.”
London Breed, Mayor of San Francisco, placed the entire city on 24-hour curfew on Monday. Residents may only leave home to go to the grocery store or for medical appointments.
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Styen blamed the lockdown on San Francisco’s gay population. “It’s a big gay town,” he said, “San Francisco, and they’re the ones with all the compromised immune systems from all the protease inhibitors and all the other stuff. And they don’t want all the gays dropping dead on the San Francisco mayor’s watch. So that’s why they’ve got all that sheltering in place there.”
“And even if it dropped, they all dropped dead on the San Francisco mayor’s watch,” Steyn continued, “if there was a big gay apocalypse, you know, the way this thing is going now, it would be Trump who would get blamed for it anyway. He’d be — it would be his homophobia that would have struck down all these people in San Francisco. So that’s why they’ve all been ordered to stay home. And it’s not easy staying home.”
Styen’s remarks allude to HIV, and insinuates that HIV+ people are at higher risk for the coronavirus. His remarks somewhat mischaracterize data that identifies immunocompromized people as being at higher-risk for COVID-19 infection. For the record, that doesn’t automatically mean HIV+ people are at higher risk; rather, HIV+ individuals who are not getting treatment for the virus are at higher risk. Therefore, Steyn’s remarks are patently false. Furthermore, he overlooks the fact that the inaction and disorganized response by the Trump administration has largely been responsible for the chaos and misinformation surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19
Styen’s homophobic remarks will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his rhetoric. Earlier this year, he frequently targeted Democratic Presidential Candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg with homophobic remarks.
Smith David
I hate myself for clicking on this article and then commenting on it. God, da F*** is wrong with me.
Chrisk
This bigot clown is not only a complete dumb ass but dangerous. Reminds me of the Nazi’s stigmatizing Jews.
ryuichi
Of course he’s an idiot, but what frightens me the most are that there are so many bigots who listen to his show and actually believe him.
Dick Gozinia
tRumpublicans are ramping up the anti-LGBTQ, anti-abortion and pro-religious-freedom rhetoric prior to the November election. They are really counting on those 3 issues to carry tRump into a 2nd term. And it might work….
Kangol2
Don’t forget Drumpf’s overtly racist anti-Chinese rhetoric too. His impeached, grotesquely incompetent, racist, lying, treasonous @ss is flailing now that the markets are cratering, in large part because of him and his utter lack of leadership, so he’s throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks.
Jim
Stupid is as stupid does.
garybw
In the Abscense of legitimate federal government, a frightened people will believe whatever their told or hear.
RExxx59A
We haven’t had a legitimate federal government since 2016. What we HAVE had is a miles long line of pigs coming out to feed at the trough “Trump’s Friends & The Super Rich”.
We have Congressional members selling huge chunks of stock prior to the most recent “crash.” Making fortunes off of other people’s disasters. I know this is often human nature and has happened thousands of times before. But really, stop blaming The LGBTQ+ Community for EVERYTHING that goes wrong or bad, in your life or the whole world/universe. WE AREN’T THAT POWERFULL!! I’m sorry it rained at your daughter’s wedding. BUT REALLY IT WASN’T OUR FAULT!!
Just sayin’
Mr-DJ
If he wants to paint it that way – guess we are the heroes once again – being the first to do the smart thing. So I guess the lockdowns happening everywhere ELSE that aren’t “big gay cities” would then be blamed on the Straights? And should we then also call this the great “Breeder Plague” of 2020?
anticnn
I don’t understand the alarm here. The facts are the truth. SFO is indeed concentrated with gay people, anda get deal of them under retrovirals. If the city would not take proper measurements people would indeed drop like flies. I saw it there when I lived there in the 80’s. There is no lockdown anywhere but in cities like NYC/SFO and others that are control by the liberal Democrats. They want to also create a panic, and bring the economy down for blame the administration. Period.
Kangol2
Well, if you think it’s not an issue and believe the hateful nonsense from this Limbaugh-wannabe right-wing crackpot homophobe Steyn, then just spend some face-to-face time with people with Covid-19, say at Mar-a-Lago, where 16 members of Brazil’s delegation who were cavorting with Adolf Drumpf and co. have now come down with the novel coronavirus, and the come back and tell us how this is “a panic [to] bring the economy down for blame the administration.” I mean, if you think it’s not serious and a Democratic plot or scheme, as loony as that sounds and is, you do it and let us know how it works out for you. With inadequate testing, no respirators, not enough hospital beds, and so on to boot.
Chrisk
You mean alternative facts? Didn’t you see the news that people on retroviros are no more at risk than the rest of the population.
Also I’ve been to San Francisco recently and it’s no more gay than any other place now.
Den
You must have missed the memo to all you regressive dull types saying that the talking points have been changed. Now that Trump is finally convinced the public health people really know what they are talking about, you are supposed to believe he has always encouraged people to shelter in place, and cities like San Francisco were simply slow to get on the Trump Train.
And really now CHILD. Try reading a bit. People with HIV who are undetectable no longer get opportunistic infections. The ones with compromised immune systems are cancer patients, transplant recipients, the elderly and so on.
Learn to think, if you have a nervous system capable of it.
Cam
Sweetie, if you’re going to troll, tell your manager at the troll farm to get you into an English Grammar class.
Norm
Well I blame the straights for the misery of the ENTIRE world. If it wasn’t for that straight whore Eve eating the apple, we’d be living in the Garden of Eden right now and that guest and Rush Limbaugh would be burning in hell, LOL.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Anyone wanna lay odds on how long til this vile puddle of puke piglets Gay sex scandal errupts??
LamarTrotsky
Well, he HAS written extensively about musical theatre.
Chipper
WE CAN BLAME IT ON THE BIGOTTED HYPROCRITES
Jon in Canada
Lance: “Mark Steyn is an asshole and I wish there was a way we could rid ourselves of his evil”
Teddy: “I 2nd that”
woodroad34
Yeah, ’cause taking responsibility for your Clown in Chief’s inadequate response, republican representation and ignorance would be so difficult. Children never take responsibility–only adults do.
Heywood Jablowme
Gay people can’t even afford to live in SF anymore. Now SF is full of rich, straight, young, homely, tech nerd incel types.
batesmotel
It’s always us that did it. Saying that has no affect. I’m busy working, then he says oh just created this COVID epidemic. Thank you. Well, then hopefully you get it and then we don’t need to listen to your lies and damnation anymore.
Man About Town
I love how Mr. Reddish goes back & forth regarding spelling the man’s last name.
djmcgamester
It’s great to know that we’re so INCREDIBLY powerful that even God bows to us. I’m sure Styen wasn’t looking at it that way but that’s what it boils down to.
Josh in OR
Rush Limbaugh’s guest host is a bigoted piece of gutter trash who votes Red…
Breaking News at F***ing Eleven…