No Depths Too Deep For Bryan Fisher Or His Republican Guests

by: Bill Egnor AKA Something The Dog Said

Thu Apr 07, 2011 at 07:05:14 AM MST

Yesterday one of the questions that we though was for the ages was answered. Was there anything that you could say on Fox "News" that was too far out there, too crazy even for the propaganda arm of the Republican Party? Now we know the answer is yes, but you have to do it for nearly two years before it has an affect.

There is a question that is a corollary to that one; is there anything that Bryan Fisher of the American Family Association, and a radio personality on the Right, can say that is so crazy and offensive that Republican presidential hopefuls won't go on his show?

The answer to this one is; apparently not. For those who really don't have time to follow abject assholes like Fisher he is one of the Terry Jones and Fred Phelps type of Christianist.  He has insisted that there be no more Mosques built in the United States, he believes that American Muslims don't have First Amendment Rights and that the U.S. military is run by homosexual and Muslim activists.

You know, just your average foaming at the mouth Religious Right Conservative. It is possible that he has gone too far this time though. Recently in a rant against the War on Poverty he said (From RightWingWatch) :

Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. Welfare has subsidized illegitimacy by offering financial rewards to women who have more children out of wedlock. We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.

Now, I already considered this guy a bigot, but he is getting into open racism with this stuff, and as we found out with Glenn Beck when you do that, you are probably a bridge too far.

In recent months his show has hosted many of the 7 dwarfs of the supposed Republican field. Fisher has hosted Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Michele Bachmann, Haley Barbour and Newt Gingrich on his show. It would be great to think that they would understand that Fishers brand of toxic crap against Muslims and Muslim Americans was enough to keep them away, but we all know that the Right is not going to punish you for bashing Muslims.

However, folks like Gov. Barbour have enough race issue problems already without being tied to someone who is comparing poor African Americans to rabbits and saying that they are willing to be paid to fornicate.a>

It kind of amazes me that they are not learning the lesson that there are no backwaters of political speech these days. There is nowhere to go and speak just to your base in the sotto voce way where you can let your hair down and let your freak flag fly.

Mike Huckabee learned this lesson recently with his over the top acceptance of Birtherism. He has been rescued a bit by Donald Trump using Republican politics to try to keep the Apprentice on the air, but it is still a lesson every politician should no by now, there is nothing you say to any media outlet that won't be found and exposed. If you want to be a Birther or a racist or a religious bigot, you might as well wear it on your sleeve.

I wish I could say that I thought the Republicans would disavow this hate filled bigot and his organization. Sadly I don't think that is going to happen. It would probably actually make any of them who do more viable  as a national candidate if they did. It would a "Sista Soljah" moment for them, but it is not going to happen.

The modern Republican Party is build on a total lack of remorse, a pathological inability to admit a mistake and a psychotic hate of anything to do with civil rights. As a result they will probably only try not to appear on Fishers show again and claim, fairly, that they went on before he took the swan dive off the high board of racism.

All of which means we should hang this around their necks as closely as we can and as often as we can. There might be less policy difference between the Democrats and Republicans than we like (that is an argument for another post) but there are differences in things like being willing to accept bigotry and racism. That alone should show who is a better choice in any election.

The floor is yours.