The Blaze’s Will Cain Calls Out CNN Anchor for Laughing at Marcus Bachmann Gay Joke
- Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:22am by
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The White House Correspondents Dinner is known for pushing the limits of politically correct comedy. But what happens when host Jimmy Kimmel cracks a gay joke at the expense of a former candidate’s husband? The answer over at Don Lemon’s CNN show is apparently laugh.
That‘s what happened on Sunday night when Lemon welcomed ESPN’s LZ Granderson and The Blaze’s Will Cain. After all three chuckled about the president poking fun at himself for eating dog as a youngster, Lemon played video of Kimmel’s more racy joke about Marcus Bachmann. Kimmel cracked that Keith Olbermann had received “more pink slips than Marcus Bachmann“ and that Bachmann played the flamboyant gay character ”Cam” on ABC’s “Modern Family.”
Granderson and Lemon — who are both openly gay — laughed, but Lemon especially lost it. That led to a question from Cain.
“I’m genuinely curious here,” Cain wondered. “If, as the joke suggests, Marcus Bachmann is gay, but he hasn’t come to grips with himself, — now I’m asking two guys who have been through this process — honestly, I’m honestly curious, why is it okay to make fun of him, then? Is it just because of his politics or because he’s public figure? I’m really curious. Why is it okay?”
Lemon brushed aside the question and said Cain had analyzed it more then he had, while Granderson scolded, “Stop it, Will.” CNN played an unflattering clip of Bachmann dancing, and the chuckles started again.
Granderson eventually responded, while still laughing:
You know what, Don and I have been friends for years, but, you know, I wasn’t around Don as a teenager, so I don’t know if he tried to convert gay people or not. But it just seems funny that when you are having flamboyant mannerisms and you’re livelihood is converting, you know, gay men to being straight, it’s just funny. It’s funny, man. I don’t even care what his politics happens to be. It’s just kind of a funny thing when you juxtapose the two images.
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Comments (97)
Dave.the.Blaze
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:42pmCain was trying to make points on something that wasn’t there. Kimmel’s “joke” wasn’t homophobic, so that‘s why the two gay men weren’t offended by it.
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:13pm“Phobic” doesn’t mean whatever you want it to mean, we actually already have a definition for that.
Report Post »Dave.the.Blaze
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:33pmOK, maybe homophobic isn’t the best term–offensive is better. The point is the Cain‘s phony umbrage didn’t work. Sex is funny — both straight and gay — and people just need to lighten up about it.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:23pmDave – If conservatives tell the same gay jokes about their favorite liberals, they would be labeled as bigots and homophobes.
Report Post »Babci
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:32pmWell done, Will Cain…well done! Subtle, but deadly spot on!
Report Post »lbyrd26
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:02pmNow, this is the example of the left being the only adult in the room, right?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:02pmBachmann and her husband are funny regardless of the issue or subject matter. Almost as funny as anyone who takes either one of them seriously. They are both a JOKE. So one should laugh.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:23pmJROOK..not nearly as funny as Obama’s deficit right?
Report Post »Open Mind
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:37pmIf you look the word hypocrite up in the dictionary and then look for listed synonyms and the word “liberal” shows up.
Report Post »Debra
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:38pmbefore i read any comments I would like to make my observation. Am I the only one who didn’t see a gay slur here? my first thought was pink slips = firings = Olbermann. it wasn’t until i heard these guys that i even got the reference. maybe i am naive but my mind doesn’t go right to the gutter all the time.
Report Post »I agree with the being called on the double standard. But to make this slur on Michele’s husband is so reaching.
edmundburk
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:36pm@JROOK- what is your major malfunction numbnuts?!
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:37pmjrook;almolst as funny as the one about obama bieng an american patriot.LOL:
Report Post »Churchill
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:20pmHomophobia, like racism is ok, as long as its done by the left. It’s amazing the stuff the left get away with.
Report Post »laserblast92
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:46pmIn their case it is hetero-phobia.
Report Post »armyofnibiru
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:28pmI love how the (bundles of sticks) laugh when its someone from right.but say it about some leftest they love they want to bite off your padoinker.
Report Post »Anse
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:30pmThe “left” told a gay joke at the expense of somebody who’s essentially made it his livelihood to shame gay men and stigmatize homosexuality
pretty different from what the right does, even you morons can figure that out
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:19pmAnse – You mean like you morons try to stigmatize anybody who’s religious?
Report Post »rosecityken
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:19pmhardy har har! so funny…but ONLY when its about a conservative…will had a great point, and got shot down by to gay men….So to recap…Liberals are STILL RAGING HYPOCRITES! its ok for everyone to poke fun at gays ONLY if your gay. its like black people are the only ones that can call themselves the “N” word. or the president saying we cant see osama corpses because he “isnt going to take a victory lap” and then using the killing in a campaign ad, where he asserts that a REPUBLICAN president wouldnt have taken OBL out.(not mentioning that as senator he fought against the methods that led to osama discovery and eventual assasination.) Or an even more hypocritical example is this so called “anti- bullying D bag” savage bashing and bullying christian kids as he is supposed to be talking about NOT BULLYING PEOPLE. seriously how do these people sleep at night……
Report Post »HappyHaloHousewife
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 4:04pmHear hear. Well said.
Report Post »truth hurtz 3000
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:14pmTwo feminine dudes laughing like little girls, childish.
Report Post »gsp9993
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:05pmTwo fembot dudes ready to do the deviant dance.
Report Post »Oilbama
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:27pmAgree’d, why don’t those_bitches wear dresses?
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:48amWhat they really are doing is making fun of Michelle Bachmann’s husband by implying that he is gay. It’s just another way of the left targeting a conservative by suggesting that he is a homosexual under cover. It’s just a subtle form of persecution through ridicule!
That’s really despicable of Kimmel to do something like that with Marcus in the audience. Bachmann, by the way, is a PhD with a company that provides professional counseling. Thus, the whole purpose of the laughter is to ridicule him and suggest in a tongue-in-cheek way that he really is one of them — gay!
I have a good friend that has a rather flamboyant manner. He used to rent a room from me. He often told me how people thought that he was gay, but he wasn’t. He is now happily married. We still stay in touch via Facebook.
Report Post »taxpro4u03
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 5:38pm….Speaking of “degrees…” here’s one to try on for size: B.S. is just what it sounds like, M.S. is More of the Same, and PhD is just Piled higher and Deeper — by and large ‘degrees’ today mean absolutely nothing – they are ‘hi-dollar institutional PROPS‘ for an ’educational industrial complex’ as demonstrated by the nearly 50% (estimates we’ve heard) unemployed or underemployed ‘graduates.’ — Autodidactism doesn‘t REQUIRE a ’sheepskin.‘ The ’statutory requirements of Public Policy’ “require” certain expenditures to obtain a ‘license to do business’ with Corp USA — that’s IT. Lincoln was a self-educated lawyer — ;-)
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:45amHey, STUPID WHITE GUY…your two black friends hate your guts. Can’t you see that? They’ll do absolutely anything to support Obama, because he’s black, and they want all us white guys to go die. How sickening to watch this white guy act as though he’s in their black, racist, anti-white club, groveling for their stupid approval, while they roll their eyes, act like the white guy is a drag, and act like Obama is the coolest thing ever. Enjoy kissing black ass, you disgusting white morons. Go grovel some more.
Report Post »edmundburk
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:40pmnice racest rant….
Report Post »Cruelnunusual
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 6:56pmThanks!
Report Post »Zeke48
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:41amThe President we have now has pushed the gay thing more than anyone other than Hillary, and that’s because they are both Bi. Obama is queer as a three dollar bill. There is so much material out there on the net about Berry being gay, and he hasn’t tried to shut that info down. It’s not just pandering to queers, like letting them come out in the Military, it’s because he is also. That queer he hired to be Education Secy; the one that had something to do with the man/ boy relationship group. This administration s sickning, and all the people he surrounds himself with are the worst of the bunch. They want to teach our kids about sex in grade school. Parents need to stand up and stop this BS of running this Country into the ground, both morally and financially. We have seniors and children suffering and his Bimbo wife just blew another 500 thousand dollars on a vacation in Spain. All they do is party, just look at this new scandle with the GAO.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:32amWhat’s the joke here? I really don’t understand the “pink slip” reference at all aside from on the firing aspect.
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:39am@Beininny
I think the pink slip is a double entendre: pink slip as in termination of employment and pink slip as in lingerie.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:10pmI wondered about the lingerie angle too, but then heard them on GB talking strictly about flamboyance. Hmph. Somehow related to the Freudian type of slip, maybe?
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:26amLike I said in the past, there is no “homosexual agenda”. The “homosexual agenda” is the socialist agenda painted as a target on the back of a minority group.
The socialists despise gays as much as they despise other minority groups like blacks or Jews.
If you shoot at the target to which the socialists point, you do their bidding without even knowing it.
Report Post »vehoae
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:36amWhy is it that when you mention “minorities,” you usually refer only to Blacks? For your information, the number of Hispanics in this country is exponentially increasing to where estimates are they will be equal, or more, in number than Blacks when the next federal census is taken. And speking on behalf of non-White and non-Black races living in this country, why are Alaska Natives and Native American Indians rarely – if ever – mentioned?
Lord, come quickly.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:36pmVEHOAE – don’t get your panties in a bunch…he mentioned blacks and jews…is he supposed to rattle off a long list of every self-identified minority group every time he mentions minorities?…the term is useless anyway, it assumes whites are some homogeneous group when they’re not…and so-called minorities wear the term like a badge of honor…there are more important things in life than that for Christ’s sake.
Report Post »bdandsl
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:18amSo I guess it is ok, according to the left, to make fun of gay? Wow, I wonder how that would have went over if it was directed at a real gay like Barney Frank or how about that creep Savage? Or a liberal? Bet they wouldn’t be laughing at that.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:33amI feel sorry for gay guys, I mean , that has got to be painful….
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:58amGays don’t want equality, they want special rights.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:09amNo equality. Its Christians that are demanding special rights, like the right, in a secular nation, to define what is and is not a marraige.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:32amENCINOM I am thinking that the Bible says very well what the definition of marriage is.. If I remember.. in the beginning God created a man.. and then he put him into a deep sleep and removed a rib and created a woman.. He created a man and a woman to procreate and bring forth children.. he I know for a fact didn’t create a man and a man to procreate. its impossible right?? The Bible speaks of gays.. they are a abomination before the Lord! And here’s my take on gays…. they have such an identity problem. that they push their lifestyle on all American’s… they are a sad lot.. they want their actions to be accepted.. when we, know the destiny of them unless they turn from their immorality. Thats what we all are here for.. to turn from sin and become better .. those who do not turn from sin will be damned.. And for the unbelieving.. when Christ comes an see’s the Savior, they will be shocked.. but it will be to late! We all know the story of Sodom and Gommorah.. the men who sought out men.. and we know what happened to Sodom and Gommorah.. God destroyed the wickedness therein! God help us!
Report Post »DAS_NIETZSCHEAN
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:55amequal Rights????? not so much, they are the most intolerant group out there besides Muslims they will cut off your head for a drawing. Gays are only want to be accepted for their “SIN” known as Normalization of something that will never be “normal: conforming to the majority” these minority of people make the most noise for their agenda. like LAMB OF GOD says“ an empty barrel makes the most noise” these people are empty and confused. Trying to make everyone think as they do. They never question what is right because “RIGHT” is relative only to what they believe/Feel. you’ll know who they are they say “I feel that right because……..”
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:56amApparently, enconom the uninformed didn’t know that it was God that created marriage at the time of Abraham, and government that usurped it and licensed it. Christians don’t seek to change marriage. They seek to preserve it! It’s been the same for 4000 years. Progressives do!
God created marriage as a covenant between man, woman, and God. Satan seeks to make marriage a covenant between man, another man, and government!
Report Post »remorammo88
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:56amencinomics is tre chic. go see “Monumental” to see some facts. I have a vandetta with you and in time it will be settled. You don’t know me. I don’t post much. But….I know you and am working on finding out who you are.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 2:01pmabbygirl1994
Report Post »Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:32am
ENCINOM I am thinking that the Bible says very well what the definition of marriage is..
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And if we lived in a theocracy, like Afghanistan or some other nation under Sharia law, than what a 1,500 year ago collection of nomadic myths would be law. But we a democratic republic, with a secular law making body. In other words what the bible says is not law, our laws come from men.
Git-R-Done
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:20pmEncinom – If we had your way, we would be living under the former Soviet Union with no religious freedom and no freedom of speech. You have NO right to legislate your version of morality and what YOU consider to be equality.
Report Post »vigibill
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:53amGET BACK IN THE CLOSET YOU IDIOTS!
Report Post »CNN is the gay channel, that‘s why I’ve deleted it from my channel list.
Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:48amI don’t care.
Report Post »Oilbama
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:00amMe neither…waaaaaaaay to FN gay.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 1:10pmI am Yawning too.
Report Post »MignonMallon
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:41amI wonder if the two gay guys would find it equally amusing to make fun of the unusually deficient dating life of BO? I mean, are there any women out there that dated Barry before Michelle latched on to him? If there are I haven’t heard of any. Anyone?
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:37amWhat about the MEN that have dated Obama? I’ve seen some photos that raise eyebrows of Obama with some of his male “partners”. Let us know forget his “boyfriend” that left the White House last fall.
He also has a lifetime membership at gay bath house Man Country in Chicago. I’ve heard testimony, filed with affidavits, by gay men who say they have engaged in sexual relations with Obama, some more than once. Rev. Jeremiah Wright is known in Chicago for arranging sham marriages for gay Chicago politicians for the sake of their public careers.
And yet the MSM continues to ignore this story. That’s not bias. That’s complicity!
Report Post »remorammo88
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:44amI million dollars to any one that can prove Obama was a virgin before he met Mooshell
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:00pmRemoram, I think your money is safe. Put it in a CD for a loooong time! But he wasn’t a non-virgin with women!
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:25amHow was it that Cain was calling them ‘out’ when he was yucking it up with both of them. Look at Cain at the end of the clip ,he can barely contain his laughing and Cain is laughing because the joke was funny.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:35amCause, everyone knows the true joke is the marriage of the Bachmans.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:41amGays are flamboyant and funny for the most part, not to detract from your mindset or previous posts.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:21pmEncinom – The true joke is your stupidity, LOL.
You’re dumb enough to buy the lie of born this way, LOL.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:15amThose gay people cannot get their minds around anything but sex. They are eat up with themselves and those who fall into that trap. They cannot quit talking about it, trying to justify it, and convince others that it is normal. It is sickening and is not doing them any good. Their “friends” do mock them behind their back. They only tool they have to work with to keep their friends in line is to black mail them into being on their sides from their own indiscretions. That is why you see so much drugs and alcohol around gays, they love to get people drunk and see if they can seduce them. Stay away from people like that, they will ruin you.
Report Post »disenlightened
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 7:44pmTheir very existence is defined by sex. You can’t define the word homosexual without referring to the sex act. What a sad life that must be. Here’s the Webster definition:
ho·mo·sex·u·al (adj) . . . . of, relating to, or characterized by a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another of the same sex.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:07amIt is laughable when grown men and women go around playing house with their mates being the same sex. It is laughable when they sodomize each other in the name of sex. What is not to laugh at? They are wanting to get “married?”
Report Post »Wake up America. Marriage is the greatest institution next to The Church and they are trying to trivilize it even more than it is. God has to bless marriages for them to be real. God is not going to bless some perverted union that He calls an Abomination. Get real. It is laughable how ignorant these people are. For this reason they are trying to cross God out in all facets so their conscious will not nag on them to where they are reminded what they are doing is wrong. It is wrong in the eyes of God, then it is Sin and it is wrong. Stand up for what is right.
mechanic4109
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:45amI agree
Report Post »Midwestgirl1116
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:33amSo agree. I have a friend that is gay. The most lonely and unhappy person on the planet and always in and out of relationships. How sad.
Report Post »remorammo88
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:52amKudos to you. I have a step brother that is gay. He has tried to commit suicide because his “relationship fell through”. Moved back up to Mn and has destroyed relations with his sibling and uncle in the new found hopes that the house he inherited from his evil grandmother will make him happy. He has disowned his sister because “he just can’t deal with it”. My mother, his step mother has been putting up with his alcoholic, bullish attitude since her husband, his dad, has passed away. He is nice but only when it benefits his agenda. His maternal mother refuses to get involved in her childrens lives. She cant deal with it either. Bunch of nayer-do-wells. Narcacistic in the least. If it doesn’t get him a shiny new car he is not involved in the family events.
Report Post »theaton
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 12:05pmI will stand up for what is right. “Life, Liberty and the Prusuit of happiness.” That is what is right. How other pursue those things is up to them. As long as they are not infringing on my rights, it is none of my damn business what they do. If you can explain to me how same sex marriage affects your rights, I’ll be glad to listen. Before you spout off some bible saying, remember the bible also says that you shouldn’t judge others.
Report Post »deadbeatjoe
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:57amI don’t get it.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 11:53amI don’t either, the man has an attractive wife, been married for years and a bunch of kids. What the hell is gay about that?
Report Post »TxGold
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:52amWhy is necessary to be ‘open’ and preach about being gay? I’m straight, but don’t feel the need to preach about it. Are there a lot of gays that are really straight, but just don’t want to come out of the closet? Should we be laughing at them?
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:39amYou’re normal. They seek to create a new normal.
Report Post »The tail does not wag the dog.
kevin542
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:48amOH man.I’m so sick of this GAY crap I could puke….For the alst time.we dont care that you are gay…stop shoveling this stuff down our throats.One cant watch any thing on TV anymore with out there being a gay on the program…this political BS drives me nuts..If you’re gay…..I DONT CARE….does anyone else feel the same way ????
Report Post »Epic Fail
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:52amI feel exactly the same way. Why is it that gay people think we are so interested in the fact that they are gay. I don’t care what your sexual habits are! Save it for yourself and your bedroom. Always hear about people coming out of the closet. Well stay in the closet. We don’t care!
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:07amI definitely do. Is being gay more important than being straight? Don‘t care and certainly don’t want to know!!!!!!!
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:10amThey cannot procreate so they must recruit. They must sway and convince everyone that his mess is acceptable. It is not. It is not normal and is an abomination to God. God makes the rules, no one else does so it seems they are trying to take God out of people conscious as well as their own.
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:14amalso
Report Post »Cavallo
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:23amThe ultimate goal is to use the force of law to make you accept their lifestyle as normal. To encourage your children to engage in the practice via public school (which has already occurred), and to attack institutions like the various religious denominations that advocate any kind of sexual morality. Honestly, it doesn’t matter to me what sordid practices consenting adults do behind closed doors, but when they use force via government to cajole the acceptance and association of that conduct I have a severe problem with them.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:46amOk we know the progressives think they have the upper hand, and it is good to challenge their thinking. let us see what happens over the next twelve months…………
Report Post »grimmy
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:38amYou want to be gay, fine, keep it at home. But try and force your life style on me,by demanding you get special treatment, then ill hang my boot in your already reamed ass.I’m really getting tired of seeing gay stories, black stories wet-back stories and commie stories in the news.Why not have the media do a story, on whats going to happen to all the commie left wing gay groups,when they finally start there civil war they want so badly. It wont be pretty, or end well for them…..
Report Post »ENDtheFED2012
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:57amThe REAL GOP primary delegate as of 4/10/12…you won’t see this in the MSM or the Blaze.
Romney = 601
Paul = 391
Santorum = 197
Gingrich = 77
Dr. Ron Paul has just won the States of ( as of 4/29/12) … Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Alaska, Massachusetts, Louisiana and has picked up 200 more delegates.
This brings Dr. Paul’s delegate count to (as of 4/30/12) … [ 591 ].
There are 14 more State GOP prinaries to go with most of them by Ron Paul States like TX, Cali., WV, NC, KT, etc.
In 1920 Warren G. Harding went to the GOP convention with the lest amount of delegates and walked out with the GOP nomination.
Report Post »Dr. Ron Paul is in it to win it.
chips1
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:44am“In it, to win it”, sounds like a gay slogan.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:49am@ENDtheFED2012—Are you hinting that Ron Paul is gay?,because that’s the only connection between your comment and this story?!
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:37amWhat the heck is on that guy’s head?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:54amHe actually looks like a black Puli…. Just sayin….. Ick! I can just imagine what’s living in those dreds, or whatever they’re calling them nowadays…. Uuuuggghhhh!
Report Post »chips1
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 10:50amThe’re called Whoopies.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 30, 2012 at 9:36amListen Politically Correct comedy as with anything done for PC reasons is still offensive at the least and hypocrisy at the worst; either way it is still wrong.
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