Archive for August 23rd, 2011
Please leave comment on Sidetrack’s official page and ask them about hypocrisy of hosting a Ben Cohen anti-bullying event just two weeks after Sidetrack aired the Only@Brunch video bullying Trig Palin
Here is Sidetrack’s official event page for the “Ben Cohen Standup Foundation” anti-bullying event they have scheduled for August 30th, 2011. “Anti-bullying” in this sense is actually the gay community claiming it is bullied by conservative and Christian people…when in fact Sidetrack the Video bar here in Chicago routinely shows videos that aggressively bully conservatives, Christians, women, and children with special needs. The “victims” are actually the victimizers at Sidetrack.
Please leave a comment on this page telling Sidetrack’s owners what you think of the hypocrisy of this bar hosting an “anti-bullying” event on August 30th, when on August 16th, 2011 Sidetrack screened the “Only@Brunch” talk show that featured a tasteless and unjustifiable bullying attack on Trig Palin…in addition to bullying attacks on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (five minutes of pure hatred directed at the Congresswoman because of her looks, on top of an attack on Trig because of how he was born).
For the complete story, click here.
Please also note how you feel about Bradley Thomas Balof being the MC for an “anti-bullying” event, after being one of the co-hosts of “Only@Brunch” featured prominently laughing while co-host Jesse Budlong made the bullying attack on a toddler with Down Syndrome.
The hypocrisy is too much to stand…so I ask you with all my heart to stand up for special needs children against the gay bullies of Sidetrack, who chose to air this “Only@Brunch” video and now want to host an “anti-bullying” event where the gay community will complain about being victimized by conservatives.
Sidetrack cannot have it both ways. Please tell them so by leaving a comment on this event here.
I have been told the Ben Cohen Standup Foundation is convening a special emergency board meeting to decide what to do about this, so I know your comments on this Facebook page will be viewed by them.
Please comment, and also write to the Board directly here.
Together we can standup against hypocrisy and the gay bars who bully people with special needs, small children, conservatives, Christians, and women.
Do not let Sidetrack the Video Bar get away with this hypocrisy!
UPDATE: Here are the screengrabs of comments Sidetrack has received as of 600pm CST 8/23/11
In case you missed it, here’s Rush Limbaugh reading HillBuzz on the air last week
Here’s Rush Limbaugh reading from one of my essays last Thursday.
The full essay is here:
Here is Rush’s full transcript from last week
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_081811/content/01125107.guest.html
HYPOCRISY ALERT! Ben Cohen to hold anti-bullying event August 30, 2011 at Sidetrack the Video Bar in Boystown, which is a bar that airs videos bullying special needs children, conservatives, Christians, and women
On Tuesday August 30th, Ben Cohen is making an appearance at Sidetrack the Video Bar here in Chicago to promote his “Ben Cohen Standup Foundation”, which claims to work against bullying of gay people. Cohen is a straight rugby player who started this foundation to assist various gay charities that support gay youth who are bullied growing up.
It’s a noble cause, but quite hypocritical of Cohen to hold the event at Sidetrack the Video Bar, because this same venue aired a high-profile bullying attack on Trig Palin on August 16, 2011 in the premiere episode of the gay talk show “Only@Brunch”. Because of national criticism of this bullying, The Jared Hall Company and Downtown Cupid Productions edited the attack on Trig out of the current video they’ve posted on YouTube (while deleting all comments calling their bullying out for the tasteless and unjustifiable attack that it was). Sidetrack the Video Bar, owned by Art Johnston and Jose Pepin “Pepe” Pena (and managed by Chuck Hyde), approved the original “Only@Brunch” video complete with the vile attack on Trig Palin and aired it in the most high-profile and prominent part of the bar.
As I’ve covered this week, “Only@Brunch” features Sidetrack bartender Bradley Thomas Balof as one of its co-hosts. Balof did nothing to stop the bullying of Trig Palin that aired in the “Only@Brunch” pilot. In fact, he sat there and laughed along with Jared Hall, Terrence Chappell, Craig Rathwell, and Brian Felder when co-host Jesse Budlong bullied Trig Palin.
Balof is scheduled to be the MC for Ben Cohen’s anti-bullying event at Sidetrack, despite appearing in a video mocking a toddler with Down Syndrome just two weeks before.
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Sidetrack stands to make a large sum of money on August 30th, as Ben Cohen is quite the beefcake pinup in Chicago’s gay community; he’s guaranteed to bring in huge crowds to see his handsome face and athletic build, and to listen to his Foundation’s speeches about how bad bullying is.
Sidetrack enticed a large crowd on August 16th to view the attack on Trig Palin contained in the “Only@Brunch” premiere episode, by dispensing free mimosas to those who came to Sidetrack and watched a video not only bullying a special needs child, but also attacking his mother and other conservatives and Christians with malicious zeal.
The hypocrisy in the gay community is obvious and endemic.
So, this morning I sent the below email to the Ben Cohen Foundation asking them for comment on the appropriateness of hosting an anti-bullying event in a Boystown venue that encourages the bullying of children with special needs.
We have a clear situation here where leaders of the gay community claim gays need to be protected from bullying because of the way they were born…when the very same gay leaders encourage the bullying of children with Down Syndrome because of the way they were born. On top of that, the gay leaders who scold conservatives and Christians for not accepting them are the very same men who revel in attacks directed against women who are conservative and Christian.
Someone has to standup to this hypocrisy.
Since Ben Cohen’s foundation is actually named “The Standup Foundation”, perhaps he can show some leadership and address these matters with Art Johnston at Sidetrack so attacks on special needs children, conservatives, Christians, and women are no longer prominently made in Sidetrack the Video Bar.
Please email the staff at Ben Cohen’s Foundation either a link to this open letter or your own personal letter asking these people to “Standup to Hypocrisy!” and reconsider the appropriateness of hosting an event at Sidetrack the Video Bar, where the “Only@Brunch” attack on a toddler with Down Syndrome originally aired.
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We’re Aghast: Obama parody of Beauty & the Beast “Be Our Guest” highlighting Obamas’ lavish spending
Here’s a parody of the Obamas’ lavish spending and complete disregard for the privations and austerity most Ameriacans are suffering in this “The Golden Age of Hopeychange”: rework Disney’s “Be Our Guest” into “We’re Aghast!” and list all of the ridiculous things the Obamas have done while in the White House, proving they are completely out of touch with the voting public.
Since the original “Be Our Guest” song features so many references to food the Obamas already copiously devour (they’re two gore-mates, in case any of you bitter-guns-and-religion-clinging, pedestrian Midwesterners hadn’t heard), it’s actually pretty easy to rework.
All we need to do is make up some photoshops of them going to town on all sorts of lavish foods, at any of the umpteen fancy events they schedule for themselves, and add the new lyrics karaoke-style to a YouTube video.
Voila!
Something fun for people to watch…so they can recall just how many horribly ostentatious things the Obamas have crammed into their two and a half years in the White House so far.
Can’t you just see Joe Biden as Lumiere…with perhaps Harry Reid as a broke-down, dingy clock. What sort of inanimate objects would other members of the Obama administration be (apart from the near-inanimate objects some of them are in real life)?
If you have been reading this site for more than two days you already know which of the Obamas I think should be twirling around in a pretty dress…and which one should be hulking out awkwardly in weird, ill-fitting, monstrous clothes.
In the thread below, take your stab at some of the parody lyrics and contribute other ideas.
We’re aghast, we’re aghast, we’re aghast!
The original words are here:
HillBuzz Open Thread: Today in History August 23rd 2011
Today in History:
1994 – Eugene Bullard, The only black pilot in World War I, is posthumously commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. It’s a shame that so many honors fall into the “better late than never” category.
1990 – West Germany and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3. This gives me hope, here in 2011, that, per chance to dream, Shelley Long and Bette Midler will some day do another movie together. What? Am I the only “Outrageous Fortune” fan around? Why, yes. Yes, it appears I am.
1990 – Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western “guests” (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War. Here in 2011, Oprah Winfrey’s attempting the same strategy to get people to appear on her OWN (Oprah’s Weird Noises) network, taking various people hostage and forcing them to appear as guests or audience members on her low-rated cable network. If it worked for one racist maniacal dictator, it can work for another.
1970 – Organized by Mexican American union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history. You know what’s funny? Half the kids who walk around college campuses think the tee-shirt they’re wearing, with the guy in a beret on it, is Chavez. Another percentage of them think “Cesar Chavez” was either the guy who played the Joker on the TV Batman or “some woman dancer”. Uh, that would be Cesar Romero and Cyd Charisse. The jury’s also still out on whether Chavez invented a certain salad (hint: not him either!).
1775 – King George III declares that the American colonies exist in a state of open and avowed rebellion. King Putt, the current American president, probably thinks the same thing of the tens of millions of people who don’t support his efforts to “fundamentally transform America”.
What are people talking about in your part of the country?
