RE: "Fischer's" Homosexual Agenda
January 30, 2015 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2015 at 12:45 pm by Crossless2.0.)
An article at towleroad.com reveals that the AFA sent a letter to the SPLC, distancing themselves from Fischer's bigoted rants and arguing that the AFA should no longer be viewed as a hate group. The responses from the SPLC and from Right Wing Watch are priceless:
SPLC President Richard Cohen sent a reply letter to AFA saying he wasn't buying any of it:
“Without ending Mr. Fischer’s talk show, without apologizing for the bigoted statements that he, Mr. Wildmon, and others associated with the AFA have made, and without making it crystal clear that the AFA will not tolerate any such statements in the future, the AFA’s 11th-hour disavowal of Mr. Fischer appears to serve only one purpose: to give the AFA a degree of plausible deniability while it continues to spew hateful rhetoric. It’s a shell game and a transparent one at that.”
Right Wing Watch has also called bullshit on AFA's distancing efforts:
...the AFA has literally accomplished nothing with this stunt and has completely failed to distance itself from Fischer's utterly despicable views. The primary venues though which Fischer has managed to spread his bigotry for the last six years have always been owned, operated, and funded by the American Family Association and that relationship appears to remain intact.
Stripping Fischer of his title as AFA spokesman in no way alleviates the AFA of its responsibility for Fischer's toxic views given that the only reason Fischer even has a platform from which to spread those views is because AFA is providing it to him and paying him to spread them!
From the very start of Fischer's time at AFA, the organization has pathetically attempted to have it both ways: providing the very microphone from which Fischer speaks while simultaneously claiming that it bears no responsibility for the message that he sends.
The AFA latest effort to rid itself of Fischer's rancid reputation is little more than a rhetorical accounting trick aimed at creating the false impression that the organization has wiped Fischer's bigotry off of its books.
So Fischer is no longer "Director of Issues Analysis" for AFA -- coveted position that! -- but he remains to spew his vile bullshit. The AFA is so pathetic. Strider nailed it. This is all about the AFA cozying up to the GOP. Fischer had to be symbolically driven into the wilderness, but the AFA can't get rid of him entirely. After all, as depressing as it is, Fischer does have his audience, and the far-right Christian knuckle-draggers who listen to him donate to the cause.
Yeah, the AFA is all about principle.
SPLC President Richard Cohen sent a reply letter to AFA saying he wasn't buying any of it:
“Without ending Mr. Fischer’s talk show, without apologizing for the bigoted statements that he, Mr. Wildmon, and others associated with the AFA have made, and without making it crystal clear that the AFA will not tolerate any such statements in the future, the AFA’s 11th-hour disavowal of Mr. Fischer appears to serve only one purpose: to give the AFA a degree of plausible deniability while it continues to spew hateful rhetoric. It’s a shell game and a transparent one at that.”
Right Wing Watch has also called bullshit on AFA's distancing efforts:
...the AFA has literally accomplished nothing with this stunt and has completely failed to distance itself from Fischer's utterly despicable views. The primary venues though which Fischer has managed to spread his bigotry for the last six years have always been owned, operated, and funded by the American Family Association and that relationship appears to remain intact.
Stripping Fischer of his title as AFA spokesman in no way alleviates the AFA of its responsibility for Fischer's toxic views given that the only reason Fischer even has a platform from which to spread those views is because AFA is providing it to him and paying him to spread them!
From the very start of Fischer's time at AFA, the organization has pathetically attempted to have it both ways: providing the very microphone from which Fischer speaks while simultaneously claiming that it bears no responsibility for the message that he sends.
The AFA latest effort to rid itself of Fischer's rancid reputation is little more than a rhetorical accounting trick aimed at creating the false impression that the organization has wiped Fischer's bigotry off of its books.
So Fischer is no longer "Director of Issues Analysis" for AFA -- coveted position that! -- but he remains to spew his vile bullshit. The AFA is so pathetic. Strider nailed it. This is all about the AFA cozying up to the GOP. Fischer had to be symbolically driven into the wilderness, but the AFA can't get rid of him entirely. After all, as depressing as it is, Fischer does have his audience, and the far-right Christian knuckle-draggers who listen to him donate to the cause.
Yeah, the AFA is all about principle.
