December 15, 2010

Pastor: Dem “Shemales” Hate Real Women (VIDEO)

Screenshot courtesy of YouTube

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.


My new favorite Tumblr, Christian Nightmares, is taking pains to document the not-so-brotherly love of the Lord’s more zealous brethren. And thanks to them, I’ve now been acquainted with the hot mess that is Doug Giles. If you have three minutes to check out the video below, you should get to know him, too! He’s the epic new thing in political crusadin’, replete with mesmerizing MTV-style digital after-effects, a skin-tight dragon-applique henley, and action pics of him shooting a bear. Oh, right—he’s got big-league conservative media backing, too.

Giles is the senior pastor of an evangelical flock in my native South Florida called (sorry, Joe Strummer) Clash Church. And if there’s anything a soldier of salvation like Giles should be concerned with, it’s the subject of this video: “Ten reasons why I believe the dour Democratic dames dislike Mrs. Palin.”

Giles’ smiley spunk is indeed impressive: part 5-Hour Energy commercial, part Limbaugh segment, with none of that dreary Jesus talk you might expect from, you know, a keeper of lost of souls. Before he gets around to his Palin list, he squeezes in some time to happily decry “the shemales at NOW and their messengers’ ilk” for criticizing a woman “if she’s not into being a mannish lesbian.” (The visual prop for this is a before-and-after photo montage of Chastity/Chaz Bono, punctuated by several…um…awkward Giles gestures.)

Then, of course, the Alaskan red meat. First and foremost, Giles tells us, Palin’s hot and she knows it. And Democratic women aren’t. (Yeah, we might have heard that before.) But oh, the cutting analysis! Like some lovable foster-care offspring of Jimmy the Greek and Lisa Lampanelli, he intones:

…We all know how jealous and petty some chicks can be when they’re aesthetically upstaged, right?…Catfight!

Other reasons Dem women hate Palin:

  • She’s had five kids, Giles says, “and she has never considered offing any of them”—[Points to abdomen with both hands.]—”in her belly!“
  • “Her husband’s not some prissy little metrosexual man-child, but an ass-kickin’ Alaskan!”
  • “The Democrats know that if she ever makes it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, she’s going to hand the Democrats their shriveled, BB-sized cojones on a pre-market platter while the majority of the USA gives her big…ol’…standing ovation!”

Doug’s cheery message is produced by “Clash TV,” courtesy of HumanEvents.com. Ever hear of them? Human Events, a journal that’s part of the right-wing Regnery publishing empire, has been around since 1944, and its columnists include such heavyweight luminaries as Oliver North, Mike Huckabee, and Chuck Norris. Nevertheless, its longtime editor, Tom Winter, is a vice chairman of William F. Buckley’s old American Conservative Union, so they’re not exactly on the fringe of the fringe in Washington.

Neither, apparently, is Doug Giles:

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE ON MOTHER JONES' FINANCES

We need to start being more upfront about how hard it is keeping a newsroom like Mother Jones afloat these days.

Because it is, and because we're fresh off finishing a fiscal year, on June 30, that came up a bit short of where we needed to be. And this next one simply has to be a year of growth—particularly for donations from online readers to help counter the brutal economics of journalism right now.

Straight up: We need this pitch, what you're reading right now, to start earning significantly more donations than normal. We need people who care enough about Mother Jones’ journalism to be reading a blurb like this to decide to pitch in and support it if you can right now.

Urgent, for sure. But it's not all doom and gloom!

Because over the challenging last year, and thanks to feedback from readers, we've started to see a better way to go about asking you to support our work: Level-headedly communicating the urgency of hitting our fundraising goals, being transparent about our finances, challenges, and opportunities, and explaining how being funded primarily by donations big and small, from ordinary (and extraordinary!) people like you, is the thing that lets us do the type of journalism you look to Mother Jones for—that is so very much needed right now.

And it's really been resonating with folks! Thankfully. Because corporations, powerful people with deep pockets, and market forces will never sustain the type of journalism Mother Jones exists to do. Only people like you will.

There's more about our finances in "News Never Pays," or "It's Not a Crisis. This Is the New Normal," and we'll have details about the year ahead for you soon. But we already know this: The fundraising for our next deadline, $350,000 by the time September 30 rolls around, has to start now, and it has to be stronger than normal so that we don't fall behind and risk coming up short again.

Please consider pitching in before moving on to whatever it is you're about to do next. We really need to see if we'll be able to raise more with this real estate on a daily basis than we have been, so we're hoping to see a promising start.

—Monika Bauerlein, CEO, and Brian Hiatt, Online Membership Director

payment methods

AN IMPORTANT UPDATE ON MOTHER JONES' FINANCES

We need to start being more upfront about how hard it is keeping a newsroom like Mother Jones afloat these days.

Because it is, and because we're fresh off finishing a fiscal year, on June 30, that came up a bit short of where we needed to be. And this next one simply has to be a year of growth—particularly for donations from online readers to help counter the brutal economics of journalism right now.

Straight up: We need this pitch, what you're reading right now, to start earning significantly more donations than normal. We need people who care enough about Mother Jones’ journalism to be reading a blurb like this to decide to pitch in and support it if you can right now.

Urgent, for sure. But it's not all doom and gloom!

Because over the challenging last year, and thanks to feedback from readers, we've started to see a better way to go about asking you to support our work: Level-headedly communicating the urgency of hitting our fundraising goals, being transparent about our finances, challenges, and opportunities, and explaining how being funded primarily by donations big and small, from ordinary (and extraordinary!) people like you, is the thing that lets us do the type of journalism you look to Mother Jones for—that is so very much needed right now.

And it's really been resonating with folks! Thankfully. Because corporations, powerful people with deep pockets, and market forces will never sustain the type of journalism Mother Jones exists to do. Only people like you will.

There's more about our finances in "News Never Pays," or "It's Not a Crisis. This Is the New Normal," and we'll have details about the year ahead for you soon. But we already know this: The fundraising for our next deadline, $350,000 by the time September 30 rolls around, has to start now, and it has to be stronger than normal so that we don't fall behind and risk coming up short again.

Please consider pitching in before moving on to whatever it is you're about to do next. We really need to see if we'll be able to raise more with this real estate on a daily basis than we have been, so we're hoping to see a promising start.

—Monika Bauerlein, CEO, and Brian Hiatt, Online Membership Director

payment methods

We Recommend

Latest

Sign up for our free newsletter

Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily to have our top stories delivered directly to your inbox.

Get our award-winning magazine

Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights.

Subscribe

Support our journalism

Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation.

Donate