Chris Dowd,

Have you read Sam Seder's book FUBAR? It outlines, in glorious detail, the link between homophobia like yours and, get this, HOMOSEXUALITY.

People who think that homosexuality is merely a way to "gratify oneself," or whatever nonsense you said, clearly want to gratify themselves that way, but are too "moral" to just go ahead and do it. Normal people know that sexual attraction is fixed, immutably, and cannot be changed. Actual heterosexual men are the most adamant about this.

Those in doubt, well....

Further, comparing Roe v. Wade to decisions involving gay marriage are ludicrous. Abortion, to my understanding, does involve the destruction of a potential human life, and therefore, the right to exercise it does involve some harm. Gay marriage, on the other hand, inflicts no harm except on people with much worse problems of their own. Therapy, not laws is recommended.

Are you familiar with the 14th amendment?

Try to find where it says, "except when closeted bigots get the vapors."

Patg... Did you notice the deafening crickets, after my making such an intemperate statement?

I had read, with increasing fury, the reasonable and legally based arguments attempting to enlighten that character, (h/t, y'all) which rolled like water off a duck's back, and decided to cut to the quick.

I simply can no longer tolerate those who abhor gay rights and reproductive rights, for supposedly different reasons. It's the same reason. Jealousy.

I would rather they all just had sex lives of their own, but I for one am unable, and in fact, too nauseated, to help out in this regard.

Let them stew in their own unreleased juices.

Patg....

My intemperance doesn't extend, fortunately, to misattributing quotes to others and then making an ass of myself slamming innocents. (sorry, Margalis, you know not what you didn't do...)

Call me the proudly, but note-taking, intemperate.

I wear that badge with honor.

As Bystander wrote earlier, King has joined Boylan in the Unintentionally Revealing Hall of Fame.

Not content to allow that a teensy part of their "work" might not have been up to snuff, these absurdly pampered and narcissistic bozos go on to reveal, extravagantly, that they are also out of touch with reality and downright repulsive people.

The air of superiority that drips from that childish, poorly written, and self-discrediting diatribe finally erases any feelings of compassion one might have had for its "wronged" author. Not to mention respect.

Best of all, I'm sure he thinks he really "showed" Glenn. He probably forwarded that letter to all his "friends."

Let's all forward it to ours.

Glenn, you have the best pen pals in the world.

Bill Owen... I almost lost my bourbon when you pointed out the towering credibility of anyone who has ever trod the hallowed halls (behind the gas station) of the the storied Beacon-Journal in the bustling metropolis of Akron. (claim to fame; a dirigible that crashed? tires?) Clearly Prof. Tim showed our "sycophantic" butts what's what. Ah, the smell of fresh troll meat on the barbeque in the evening. Good times.

HRH... You have your quirks, but trolldom is not among them.

lateagain... Please work on your punctuality.... I, for one like to laugh earlier in the day.

Nequals1.... Sorry to make such insensitive comments about your hometown; I'm a provincial myself, and a lifelong and intermittently reluctant reader of the Portland Oregonian. It's owned by Newhouse, same as the Times-Picayune, and really not that bad. But realizing that jobs like those at the Beacon-Journal would be my life, at least at first, I dropped out of journalism school.

WT..... at the hotel in question, I'd be the one in a mink coat with curlers on under my turban, and perhaps my "sweep" might not be so steady, depending on the hour.

Bebop... You also make me smile. The 13th floor isn't as unlucky as it seems. It's honest, anyway. You don't have that leg trophy up on the wall yet, do you? As much as I'm in favor of making lemonade out of lemons, I'd prefer not.

Keep hurling that goose poop. Those GOPers look good in it.

Uh, Mr. Gifford...

I know reading is boring,tiresome, and difficult, but it does add a bit of credibility to what you might say in your canned and pathetically lame rebuttal. Try it next time. Although you were far too busy to read the comment thread, what with depositing your wingnut welfare checks, it was amply discussed and irrefutably concluded that the only valid judgement of any published work is based on what was actually published. This leaves all the quality journalism that no doubt overflowed CNN's dumpster really just a tad beside the point.

The fact is that King's interview was utter trash, of a sort that has amply shown itself to literally derail democracy, and his response was worse than silence. It showed the elitist, disdainful, and really abusive personality behind the crappy, useless babble that CNN put on the air.

Let's leave aside the poor grammar and infantile writing, for the moment.

Your defense of said nincompoop and his contemptuously inane blather only reinforces Glenn's thesis.

What King really needs, besides a conscience transplant, is better toadies. You won't do.