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eHarmony is a bigot

Tue, Oct 13, 2009

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It’s about six months since eHarmony launched “Compatible Partners“, the website they were forced to create as part of their settlement of a discrimination complaint with the New Jersey Attorney General. eHarmony made several long-term promises and commitments as part of this settlement, including the following:

We have made the commitment to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office that we will put our business effort behind the new site to make it successful.”

An assertion to which we can only reply:

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As one would expect from a site founded by a lunatic homosexual-hating evangelical Christian like Neil Clark Warren, eHarmony have done their level best to drag the chain and comply only nominally with the court-backed settlement.

Let’s have a look at the “eHarmony vs Compatible Partners checklist” (click through for full-size) published over at eHarmony blog to see how eHarmony, who spend $10M in advertising a month, have done so far flexing their marketing muscle on behalf of Compatible Partners.

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Wowzers. Pretty damning. For interest’s sake, let’s now take a look at eHarmony.com’s landing page, as it appears today (click through to view it full size).

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Wow, sure does offer a lot of information. And sure does sound enthusiastic! Success stories, how-to guides, dating advice articles, photos plastered everywhere of grinning couples in LERV!

… and now lets take a look at the Compatible Partners landing page (as above, click through for the full-size image)

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Now even aside from the hilarious fact that all the photos on the Compatible Partners are of the straightest-looking bunch of “gay” people the stock photography world can provide (and that none of the photos are of actual site users or of couples facing the camera–in stark contrast to eHarmony’s love-in landing page of hetero heaven) there is a DISCLAIMER on the page ABOVE THE FOLD, which essentially amounts to “The system we’re using to match people on this site probably doesn’t work. For you homos. Hey, soz!”

I mean, this is a site clearly designed to fail; to be swept under the carpet, ignored, and never mentioned sans imminent threat of coercion. Reflecting, I’m sure, the eHarmony top brass’s wishlist when it comes to homosexual society.

And like eHarmony blog, we find outselves having to wonder:  can someone sue somebody for court order non-compliance? And have eHarmony’s marketing department  considered taking their backroom high-fiving, handkerchief-sniggering brand of homo-hate to the Westboro Baptist Church?

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Lou Dobbs is a bigot

Tue, Sep 29, 2009

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(Lou Dobbs comes within a hair’s breadth of describing Condoleeza Rice as “cotton-pickin’”. Good look, Grand Dragon Dobbs. The white hood really complements your tie.)


There are more than a few groups around now agitating for Lou Dobbs’s removal from television. The long-time broadcaster and host of CNN’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” has in recent years become a central figure in the trend toward scapegoating (particularly Hispanic) immigrants and promoting the credibility of ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theories.

Among his crimes:

  • Stated “Illegal immigration is costing this country at least a hundred billion dollars a year in depressed wages, social costs, the cost of incarcerating. Just about a third of our prison system is made up of illegal aliens.” This (yet again, entirely false) statistic has been contradicted by none other than the U.S. Department of Justice, which reports that immigrants make up only a tiny proportion of the US prison population.
  • Dobbs often reports on the “Reconquista” movement, a supposed Mexican effort to reconquer the southwestern United States. At one point, Dobbs used evidence from a white supremacist group to make his case. This myth, which has been discredited as a view found only in the lunatic fringe, is another blatant attempt by Dobbs to characterize Mexican immigrants as “fearsome disease-bearing invaders.”
  • Dobbs repeatedly raises fear about alleged efforts to create a “North American Union,” between the United States, Canada and Mexico, despite the fact that the notion has been dismissed as a conspiracy theory by politicians and media outlets across the political spectrum, including by Dobbs’ CNN colleagues. Amusingly in the video he looks like a guy trying to make a mountain of a molehill; determined to see sinister Orwellian machinations where none exist, as others in the news item repeatedly point out.

Hysterically, Dobbs regards the groups that are organizing to pressure CNN to get his hate speech off the air as sinister “hateful” entities, “funded” by “a foreign agent” in order to “try to create an illusion of some sort of movement to get [him] off the airwaves.” He’s also keen on indulging in the kind of namecalling and snitfit schoolyard propaganda of which he accuses his opponents.

Spend a lot of time wandering through the intellectual quagmire of nutjob right-wing conspiracy theories, Lou? I bet you do.

Click here to join the campaign to get this bigoted turd magnet off the air
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UPDATE:

CNN got so sick of the bad press they were getting over this fucktard they paid him 8 million dollars to quit. Unfortunately he might be thinking about running for office now, Oy Vey.

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Pastor Steven Anderson is a bigot

Tue, Sep 22, 2009

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Pastor Steve decides that giving checkpoint guards armed with Tazers a hard time is a great idea. Click through and watch the video. Belligerent retard much?

I was reading this article about Jimmy Carter’s latest controversial statement when I came to the bottom of the first page and saw this guy‘s name. I did a little investigation, and it turns out he’s received a lot more press attention than he merits by giving this sermon, entitled “Why I hate Barack Obama”. A sermon which includes such impressive feats of thousand-mile-staring brainsnatched-douchebaggery as praying that President Obama should melt like a snail, that “his children [should be] fatherless and his wife a widow,” and extensive polemic equating Obama with Hitler, Stalin, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

I honestly wouldn’t even recommend listening to it, because I did, and now I feel dirty. Suffice to say that he’s a poster-child for every negative cross-hugging fundazombie stereotype you can imagine, and a few that you can’t. There’s a pretty good post over here that outlines his position on homosexuality (Cliff’s notes: they should all be put to death and they’re busy recruiting and raping your kids.) Pastor Steve doesn’t even balk at publicly calling Barney Frank a ” faggot”.

Really, the more I read the more I realize that it gets much worse even than what I’ve outlined above.

I’d suggest checking out a few of the following links to try to get your head around this guy and his lunatic cult church. Expect to have your day ruined.

The Secret Service pays Pastor Steve a visit
Gospel of Hate: Arizona pastor Steve Anderson spews bile toward Obama, Frank, and homosexuals
Pastor Steven Anderson Allegedly Beaten, Tazed on US Soil By Border Patrol Agents
Pastor Steven Anderson prays for Obama’s death
Gun-toting Arizona protester belongs to hate-mongering pastor’s flock
Faithful Word Baptist Church
Steven Anderson Flips Out, Admits Business and Church Share an Address, Says He’s Been Contacted by U.S. Secret Service (w/Update)
Pastor Steve’s YouTube account

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