Andromeda Cast Down Her Sign & Vega Lights My Way
Rule of Threes: whatever you send out from yourself will come back threefold.
[the following text is lifted straight from the petition because I'm having trouble thinking up a title for this post, let alone construct a coherent sentence...]
"On Wednesday, June 25, 2008, during a live broadcast of a wedding reception on the TODAY Show, Kathy Lee Gifford gratuitously referred to Pagans as "nasty, bad Pagans." Ms. Gifford's hate speech has done harm to American Pagans' ability to live in peace with our neighbors of other faiths. By allowing her hate speech to be broadcast, her direct employer the TODAY Show, and their network, NBC, participate in that hate speech.
This is a petition calling for, at the very least, an on-air apology. A TODAY Show program devoted to dispelling misconceptions about Pagans and Paganism would go a long ways toward undoing the damage.
Signers of this petition are also putting the sponsor of that TODAY Show segment, Samsung, on notice that we are conducting a BOYCOTT against them until such time as we receive justice."
Basically, KLG decided to ad lib, rather than read a question straight from the stupid little wedding quiz they were doing on the Today Show. Instead of reading "pagans believe it was bad luck" she said "pagans, the nasty bad pagans, believed it was bad luck..."
Here is the video, if you can stomach watching her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anFqvwQoaR8
Here is the petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/quotnasty-bad-pagansquot-protesting-hate-speech-on-nbc
Seriously, would she have said that if it were any other religion? WTF?
[the following text is lifted straight from the petition because I'm having trouble thinking up a title for this post, let alone construct a coherent sentence...]
"On Wednesday, June 25, 2008, during a live broadcast of a wedding reception on the TODAY Show, Kathy Lee Gifford gratuitously referred to Pagans as "nasty, bad Pagans." Ms. Gifford's hate speech has done harm to American Pagans' ability to live in peace with our neighbors of other faiths. By allowing her hate speech to be broadcast, her direct employer the TODAY Show, and their network, NBC, participate in that hate speech.
This is a petition calling for, at the very least, an on-air apology. A TODAY Show program devoted to dispelling misconceptions about Pagans and Paganism would go a long ways toward undoing the damage.
Signers of this petition are also putting the sponsor of that TODAY Show segment, Samsung, on notice that we are conducting a BOYCOTT against them until such time as we receive justice."
Basically, KLG decided to ad lib, rather than read a question straight from the stupid little wedding quiz they were doing on the Today Show. Instead of reading "pagans believe it was bad luck" she said "pagans, the nasty bad pagans, believed it was bad luck..."
Here is the video, if you can stomach watching her: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anFqvwQoaR8
Here is the petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/quotnasty-bad-pagansquot-protesting-hate-speech-on-nbc
Seriously, would she have said that if it were any other religion? WTF?