Westboro planning protest at Tony Snow’s funeral.
By on Jul 14th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Westboro planning protest at Tony Snow’s funeral.
Right-wing preacher Fred Phelps’s Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), an “anti-gay hate group,” is planning to picket former White House press secretary Tony Snow’s funeral. WBC members are upset because Snow was a “critic” of their operation and “a high-profile representative of godless Big Media and Big Government.” In the past, WBC has said that “war casualties are divine revenge for America tolerating gays and lesbians.”
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Hate is right…
Instead of worrying this nonsene and upsetting a grieving family, why don’t these religious nuts spend their time helping single mothers raise their children, feeding the homeless, fighting poverty, or other such useful things?
That hardwork of one is worth more than the prayers of a million.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:34 pm“Divine Revenge” – what an ignorant, pathetic, human created idea.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:34 pmIf W makes an appearence, it would throw a monkey wrench in their plans. But, then, W does not do funerals.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:35 pmBy best to Tony Snow’s family.
My worst to the Phelps family.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pmIt’s actually the most religious countries that have the highest rates of crime, murder, teenage pregnancy, STDs, infant mortality, etc.
Therefore, if we want to be a more peaceful and healthy nation, it’s organized religion that should be blamed and protested.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:39 pmChristianity on parade.
What should happen, is they be confronted head on, by Christians who oppose their twisted version of the belief.
Onward Christian Soldiers, and reclaim your captured standard.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:41 pmYes jabberjaw but what does Nader have to say about all of this?
July 14th, 2008 at 12:41 pm#1 I would not want these people near single mothers or the homeless. These people are disturbed and the thought of them being people who actually need help is scary. These whack-a-doos need to be allowed to express themselves and practice their religion but they need to be watched because it would not surprise me that they would turn violent if give the right trigger. (shiver up spine).
July 14th, 2008 at 12:44 pmjabberjaw Says:
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None of us were railing against the “godless media.”
July 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pmI wonder if Daryll is feeling at all conflicted…
July 14th, 2008 at 12:47 pmLet me ask every single resident of Topeka Kansas to go to the next service at the Westboro Baptist church and shout God Hates Bigots at the top of your collective lungs.
thank you.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:48 pmj swift Says: #1 I would not want these people near single mothers or the homeless.
My point was that these nuts fight for and against the wrong things, while doing nothing useful or humanitarian. Instead, they waste their time protesting non-issues that don’t impact anyone.
If they hate it here so much, then they should move to another country. Perhaps El Salvador where abortion is illegal in all cases and women who have back-alley abortions, even after being raped, spend 30 years in jail for doing so. It’s a terrible country as a result of its oppression of women, but the rabid religious nuts should feel right at home amid all the violence and oppression.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pmdbadass, it’s clear that Daryll is a self loathing closeted gay. His only succor is to immerse himself in his phony baloney Pharasee church and condemn libs and gays while
July 14th, 2008 at 12:50 pm‘quoting’ scripture to tell us not to judge.
jabberjaw Says:
Disagree with Snow’s politics or not, but this kind of hate is not progressive.
From someone whose first posts on this site contained the words, “america-hating,” I find this highly amusing.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:51 pmLast week Daryll said that he would be fine in life with nothing more than a cot and a hot (meal I assume), and then went on to brag about all the money he’s made investing in big oil. He then went on to say that he did not feel sorry for all of the people who are suffering right now. And then these religious freaks want to claim moral superiority…
July 14th, 2008 at 12:56 pmMy respect for Tony Snow actually went up a few notches; anyone who can inspire these dirtbags to protest his funeral has to have something going for him.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pmThese fake “Christians” have no business protesting anyone’s funeral. I may not like Snow and what he did, but to do this to anyone’s family after losing a loved one is unspeakable and shows a total lack of what Christianity is supposed to be.
Fred Phelps and all the members of the Westboro Baptist Church should burn in that imaginary Hell, if it only existed…
July 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pmjabberjaw Says:
Shayne: Time to put on your Daryll hat and bring him out for a few posts.
You really are delusional, and not just about Nader.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pmThe first tenet of sociopaths like Westboro, republicans and politicians is to claim the moral position of your opponent while actively acting in the opposite, all the while claiming your actions lead to your opponent’s goal. (Remember McCain claiming Obama’s presidency would be a “bush 3rd term?”)
War is peace.
Hate is love.
etc.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:57 pmJabberjaw you forgot you’re not a cheerleader for the administration anymore you’re all Nader all the time. And before getting all self righteous you were pretty happy when Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
July 14th, 2008 at 12:58 pmWayne,
m not certain, after reading the Catholic version of the bibles that these are real Christians, and that the ones who pick and choose, ignoring all the violence in the “good” book are really something else entirely – Buddhists for the good mood Christ perhaps.
Jesus, in Matthew 5:18-20 clearly supports the Old Testament brutality, and encourages his supporters to hate – in spite of the other Jesus who delivers the Sermon on the Mount.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:01 pmthat these are NOT real Christians
July 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pmSsshhh JJ, don’t tell everybody I’m Daryll. It’s all very top secret, hush hush.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pmPardon me for enjoying when they eat their own.
This is the nuts attacking the nuts for not being nutty enough.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pmSince the thread is wandering, let me slip in, and say Perino was just questioned (with follow-us) by the press corp, about the weekend revelations regarding Bush library contributions. They asked for WH visitors’ logs, and were assured access to them, lawsuits permitting.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:03 pmChristian or not what kind of human being has no empathy for the family of the deceased. It makes me hope there really is a hell because Phelps will have a very special place there.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pmMake that “follow-ups.”
July 14th, 2008 at 1:05 pmAnd each sect believes they are the only ones that are right. Pretty scarey how many crazies are running around loose. At least T.Snow and I agreed on one thing.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:06 pmWas Tony Snow not religious?
I never understood an Atheistic or Agnostic conservative. Seems a stark contradiction to have reason in religious matters, but abandon it in political ones…
July 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pmOur tax dollars at work!
July 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pmI have no idea what I was thinking (probably the heat) but I was going to try to get on to the Freeper thread about this and say “As a liberal, maybe this is ONE thing we can finally agree on — The WBC f**kers should fry in hell”
But wouldn’t you know — If you read their thread, they’re saying that WBC is a Democratic front group, Fred Phelps was a Gore Delegate in 2000 and George Soros funds the church. The Gringrich era Reich wing, clear thinking since 1994.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pmLOL. wow, you really are one wrong MF
Is your ignorance a result of your cowardice or is your cowardice a result of your ignorance? Perhaps they feed each other. Perhaps it is a chicken or egg kind of argument. The only thing certain is that you are both cowardly AND ignorant.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pmShayne is Daryll?
Nice work. ;)
July 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pmBaptists, especially Southern Baptists, are as conservative as Christianity gets. No way they’d approve of the Democratic agenda of pro-choice, women’s rights, a living minimum wage, etc. if they clearly protest gay rights…
Inane troll logic.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pmThe name of the Westboro Baptist Church’s homepage is actually:
http://www.godhatesfags.com/
July 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pmHi Tanqueray:
July 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pmYou know most institutes of higher learning do not acknowledge Wiki as a real source, right?
Good Morning poster’s…Clearly these fanatic’s have a message….Seem’s to me they choose these event’s to recrute more hateful people to their fold and draw attention to themselve’s..
I have a neighbor who has Munchousen’s (sp) is skitso and paranoid..These people do anything for attention even to doing evil to any one to try and draw more crazie’s close to them…They also can not function at all on the home front, don’t clean, do nothing productive and in general only want attention….Hate and spreading more of the same is their main purpose….Mental illness is more visable with all these type’s running loose since most of our institution’s were closed year’s ago… They should be banned from all funeral’s……Blessings
July 14th, 2008 at 1:14 pmAngstone Says: George Soros funds the church.
LOL. Don’t they ever research anything? George Soros is an Atheist.
http://www.celebatheists.com/index.php?title=George_Soros
July 14th, 2008 at 1:15 pmjabberjaw Says:
Shayne: Time to put on your Daryll hat and bring him out for a few posts.
Slobberjaws, you are batsh!t insane. Shayne is a long time poster and is not your partner in insanity, Daryll
Keep showing us that you are dumber than a bag of hair though, as it is very entertaining. LMAO
July 14th, 2008 at 1:19 pmFrom Westboro’s website about Tony Snow:
July 14th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
jabberjaw has clearly run out of gas as a Concern Troll (or is he more properly classified as a Fake-Progressive).
Does he still think he’s fooling anyone?
July 14th, 2008 at 1:21 pmYou’ve telling people for days that I’m Daryll and now you’re calling me a liar?
July 14th, 2008 at 1:27 pmOne thing I have to say about Phelps and his unholy gang — they crap on everyone equally.
I wasn’t a fan of Tony Snow while he was alive, but his family and other mourners don’t deserve this.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pmFred Phelps’s must be taking notes from John Hagee. These
evangelical ministers rant hatefully that God hates gay people. I guess they both don’t like the part of the Bible that says love thy neighbor. They pick and choose the parts of the Bible that suits their warped and twisted causes.
What is even more tragic as some of these crazies have taken their sideshows to the airwaves. They have been able to sway people with their Christian Facism. If the press would start doing their job many of these charlatans would be outed for the hateful, bigoted messages they broadcast.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pmBathtub Gin Says:
Right wing Phelps family? They’re a bunch of Al Gore supporting, Castro loving democrats, hardly right wing.
Phelps “loves” Castro because Castro has campaigned against homosexuality.
And Gore? “During the 1992 presidential campaign, Phelps protested Hillary Rodham Clinton during a campaign speech in support of the Clinton-Gore ticket at the University of Kansas on October 14, 1992. In Bill Clinton’s second presidential campaign, Phelps and the Westboro church also opposed Clinton and Gore because of the administration’s support for gay rights. The entire Westboro congregation picketed a 1997 inaugural ball,[47] denouncing Gore as a “famous fag pimp.”[48] In 1998, Westboro picketed the funeral of Gore’s father, screaming vulgarities at Gore and telling him, “your dad’s in Hell.”[48]”
Those lies will make you sick, Gin.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:29 pmTanqueray Says:
Right wing Phelps family? They’re a bunch of Al Gore supporting, Castro loving democrats, hardly right wing.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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You’re going to need to back that up with some facts, there, buck-o.
I think you may be confusing Westboro Baptist Church with the Landover Baptist Church parody.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pmradical cleric?
July 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pmAnyone taking odds on Fred Phelps getting caught in a choir stall with a gay prostitute?
July 14th, 2008 at 1:33 pmAnd TPers are excoriating him for his actions.
If he were a registered Republican, however, Tripplekick, Tanqueray and the other trolls would defend him to the hilt.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pmAngstone Says
July 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
But wouldn’t you know — If you read their thread, they’re saying that WBC is a Democratic front group, Fred Phelps was a Gore Delegate in 2000 and George Soros funds the church. The Gringrich era Reich wing, clear thinking since 1994.
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That’s the problem with a lot of narrow people — they can only comprehend two possible ideologies. And if you don’t fit into one pigeonhole, then you MUST be part of the other. The wingnuts look at Phelps and say, “nope — he’s not us, so therefore he must be a liberal Democratic moonbat funded by George Soros.” They don’t realize how stupid this sounds.
It completely escapes them that there are people in this world — even this country — who are far removed from any conventional mindset.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:37 pmTrippleKick Says
July 14th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Fred Phelps is a registered Democrat.
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Your point being what, exactly?
July 14th, 2008 at 1:38 pmSo, it falls directly in line with all of your other pointless posts, eh?
Thought so.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:42 pmMy personal hatred for Tony Snow aside, I will show respect for the dead. He is gone now, there is no sense in us harping on him any longer. Cancer is horrible way to die, and I’m sure his children, all of whom are under the age of 15, really miss their father right now. Fu(k ideology and politics, I weep for his children, so sad.
I hope Phelps gets what is coming to him and when he dies, he finds out who god really hates.
My personal hatred for Snow aside, I would never wish this on anyone. No one deserves to have these freaks show up at their funeral. No one.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pmVIDEO: SHIRLEY PHELPS ROPER OF WESTBORO SAYING HEATH LEDGER IS GOING TO HELL SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH
July 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pmTripplekick:
July 14th, 2008 at 1:49 pmTed Bundy worked for the GOP. Is it relevent?
Fred Phelps is pretty much anti-everything and every culture. A failed, disbarred attorney turned preacher. Tried everything else and was able to find other crazies to join him.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:56 pmAh, don’t think he is Democrat failed in 5 primaries to be elected to anything including dogcatcher.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:57 pmHow is it relevent? Simply saying it doesn’t make it so especially if it makes no difference to you.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:00 pmIGNORE THEM
July 14th, 2008 at 2:01 pmjabberjaw Says:
The only reason the Rev. being a regiserted Democrat became relevant is because TP called him a “right winger.” The church sucks. The reverend sucks. But he is not a “right winger.” He is a Democrat.
There are plenty of “right wingers” in both parties, you blathering idiot.
Just like both parties have a left wing and moderates ( though left wing or moderate Republinuts seem to be an endangered species lately ).
Ted Bundy was a Republican, I guess from your (non) logic that makes you a serial killer too, eh slobberjaws?
July 14th, 2008 at 2:06 pmjabberjaw Says:
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In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote. Scary.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:08 pm—
Far less than David Duke gained during his republican run. Again what is the point? Are you just trying to paint with a big brush? Is that what Ralph Nader would do? Come on jabberjaw, you’re bigger than that aren’t you?
jabberjaw Says:
The only reason the Rev. being a regiserted Democrat became relevant is because TP called him a “right winger.” The church sucks. The reverend sucks. But he is not a “right winger.” He is a Democrat.
He may still be a Democrat but he’s also a right winger. Up until he lost the primary, Joe Lieberman was a right wing Democrat.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:08 pmJust to note: despite what the right-wing blogs say, when a lib-ral dies, the right wing blogs are full of vitriol.
Reading the above, while Snow wasn’t exactly the poster child for the left wing, I see a marked absence of personal vitriol directed towards Snow.
Conclusion: Lib-rals show much more class and much less hate than O’Reilly, Limbaugh and the other wingnuts.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pmjabberjaw Says:
In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote. Scary.
Bundy worked on the re-election campaign of Washington’s Republican Governor Dan Evans. Evans was elected and he appointed Bundy to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee. Bundy’s political future seemed secure, when in 1973 he became assistant to Ross Davis, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party.
Scary.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:11 pmInteresting. The “Fred Phelps supported Al Gore” part of the Wikipedia entry footnotes such unimpeachable sources as WorldNet Daily and the Georgia Chapter of the Log Cabin Republicans. Consider the source guys. The guy is a hate monger and seems to be equal opportunity. The fact that the people trying to tie him to the Democrats vote exclusively (whether they admit it or not) for a party that incorporates gay hatred into its platform and which won the last presidential election by sponsoring a series of anti-gay marriage ballot initiatives just makes the value of this thread more dubious.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:12 pmLet’s hope the tomato throwers have strong arms and good aim.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pmjabberjaw Says:
Third party anyone?
I’ve voted third party candidates a number of times, including Nader in 2000 — because I vote in a state that was solid Democratic and I knew my vote wouldn’t support the Republicans. I’ve voted third party in a lot of local elections, as well. In my state legislative district there hasn’t been a Republican nominated for years so I vote for who I like even though the Green or Socialist candidate doesn’t have a chance.
I’m not willing to throw the vote to McCain under any circumstances at all.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:38 pmbut jabberjaw is NOT a Fake-Progressive™ Troll…. right?
Not.
Fooling.
Anyone.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:44 pmralph the wonder llama:
July 14th, 2008 at 2:48 pmIt is sort of weird. I have been asking jabberjaw to share with us their efforts on behalf of Mr. Nader all day. jabberjaw hasn’t had a chance to reply just yet. I really respect jabberjaw on their dedication to the foundation principles of the Nader platform especially when faced with such a herculean task. I just wish they would be more forthcoming with their experience with this campaign
Wayne Says:
Fred Phelps and all the members of the Westboro Baptist Church should burn in that imaginary Hell, if it only existed…
He would have company because that’s where Daryll will be when he meets his maker.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pmjabberjaw Says:
In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote. Scary.
The thing our newest idiot troll misses about this post was that was in 1992. We have no idea what kind of a person this nutjob was back in 1992. That is 16 years ago. People can change an awful lot in 16 years.
But, it’s a convenient talking point for trolls like jabber to be able to point out people who are crazy were registered to vote as a Democrat. Problem for him is that if we really gave it a go, I’m willing to bet we can find way more religious nuts registered as Republicans than as Democrats.
July 14th, 2008 at 2:57 pmI wasn’t a fan of Tony Snow but no one deserves to be treated like this.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:00 pmTrippleKick Says:
I see you didn’t miss your chance to bash Christians though.
July 14th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
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The fact that you’re showing up here to defend a “Christian” like Fred Phelps shows just how pathetic TP trolldom has become. Whoever is hiring you guys is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:07 pmgummitch Says:
Those lies will make you sick, Gin.
Their lies don’t make them sick, because they have no souls. Trolls sleep fine at night for the same reason, they have no conscience and they have no soul.
All this blather about this nut being a registered Democrat mean absolutely nothing. It’s how he behaves that says the most and as far as I am concerned, he behaves way more like a Republican than a Democrat.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:12 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
Whoever is hiring you guys is really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
I can’t help but think these trolls are actually liberals who have infiltrated the wingnut welfare program. Their arguments are so weak lately, and the polls would indicate they create another progressive with every nonsensical post.
Thanks trolls! Heckuva job!
Oh and RIP Tony. Here’s hoping Phelps gets run over by your hearse.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:28 pmPhelps is a small-minded, ignorant, self-important attention whore… AND that’s just me be nice in my opinion of him and his “following”.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:34 pmTK, the only one embarrassing himself here is you.
wait, that’s not true — jabberjaw is, as well. my bad.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pmNot a word from Darryl. Maybe Phelps is too extreme even for him.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:51 pmI didn’t care for Tony’s politics, but no one’s memorial service should be disrupted in this way by this fringe sect.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:59 pmthomasjs says;
I wasn’t a fan of Tony Snow, but he deserves to be treated like this.
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There, I fixed it for you.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pmYou can be pretty sure that you have created God in your own image when he/she/it hates all the same people that you do.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:27 pmOoooh, this is gonna be gooood!
I hope the Phelpses don’t chicken out this time.
July 14th, 2008 at 5:02 pmI wasn’t at all fond of Tony Snow, the man who shilled for Evil, Inc. I’m less fond of Fred Phelps and his inbred crew of mouthbreathing bigots.
I suppose I can be forgiven for enjoying the teensiest bit of schadenfreude for the irony that the spokesman for Evil, Inc. should be haunted in death by those for whom he shilled, defended, explained and lied.
And yes, if you reach all the way down through the sludge to the bottom of the Republican barrel and scrape it, you’ll find Fred Phelps and the rest of the haters like WeinerSavage, Coultergeist, Limpballs – Tony was one of them.
It’s only a matter of degree…
July 14th, 2008 at 5:06 pmThis is not what Christianity is about. As far as I know Jesus was about Peace, love and forgiveness.I was not a fan of Tony Snow but his family does not deserve this kind of treatment nor does anyone else that is going through this ordeal of burying a husband, father, son or a friend.This is a disgusting protest in God`s name and is unforgiveable in my book ……..
July 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pmAw, shucks! Those Phelps people really know how to celebrate.
July 14th, 2008 at 6:10 pmFred Phelps is proof positive that God does not exist…otherwise this bastard would have been “divinely” aborted!!!
July 14th, 2008 at 7:11 pmEvery day billions of people of different religions pray for world peace and it never happens!!
Why?
God to too busy listening to Fred Phelps’s God Hates Fags Rallies!!
If it weren’t for Fred Phelps the world would be at peace tonight.
July 14th, 2008 at 7:14 pmAnyone know were I can make a donation to the Westboro Koolaid fund?
July 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pmThe Wesboro wackos are not a real church. They aren’t even Christians.
They are a bunch of CRAZY, lunatic, wacko family that belongs in a sanitarium.
This bunch of One flew over the cookies nest need to go with the guys in the white coats.
July 14th, 2008 at 10:09 pmBoy, when Fred Phelps visits the afterlife, he’ll probably be surprised it’s not where he expected.
July 15th, 2008 at 12:59 amJim Jones and Reverend Phelps,
sittin’ in a tree,
P-I-S-S-I-N-G
on real world values
and the lives it carries.
First comes the Kool-Aid,
then comes death,
and out falls a sparrow
from it’s mother’s nest.
‘Nuff said.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:15 amThis trashy charlatan and his family have been doing this kind of thing for a few years now.
Now all of the sudden it is getting through to some people that it is wrong? The right wing have had this kind of minister speaking for them all along. It is too bad about Mr. Snow. But if the news sources would stop giving this idiot and his idiot family and parishoners the publicity they crave, his reason for being might collapse.
The Republicans have at their base many like this man.
July 15th, 2008 at 3:04 pm