I'm certain a number of people by now are aware of the WBC and their rhetoric. For those unaware, they are essentially a gang of bigots who think every disaster and tragedy, from soldiers killed in duty to school shootings, is because God is punishing us for tolerating gay marriage. Often they love to picket the funerals of the victims and said disasters.
To give you a sense of just how twisted and evil they truly are, two things: One, they picketed Fred Rogers funeral. And two, the Ku Klux Klan think they are too extreme. Think about that for a moment.
Today, I just learned they plan to picket, of all things, a funeral for a group of firefighters that died in Arizona during the recent wildfires there.
If we weren't so in love with media saturation, we would dismiss them as nothing more than a group of whackos desperate for attention. Unfortunately, because the news just has to have something to fill airtime, they continually cover them in articles and press reports, which only gives them attention they do not deserve.
So yeah everyone, if you wish for the WBC to go away or fade into obscurity, please stop giving them attention, thank you.
I agree, it is a bit unfair. There's no outsider commune of radical, pot-smoking, dreadlocked, partial-bith-abortion-loving, patchwork hippie loudmouths that gets the airtime that the Westboro psychopaths do.
ReplyDeleteYou'd think the FOX news people would dig up at least one such group and put them on the air all the time.
Actually, even FNC considers them insane.
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