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odd couples

"God Hates Fags" Woman And Famous Drag Queen Are Friends!

Shirley Phelps-Roper is the spokeswoman for Westboro Baptist Church, the truly execrable fringe group of psychos known for picketing the funerals of dead US soldiers because they believe their deaths are the result, somehow, of God's hate for gays. Josh Kilmer-Purcell is a gay New York author, ad executive, and veteran of the drag queen circuit under the name "AquaDisiac." But Kilmer-Purcell is busy being friends with the crazy lady [Ad Age]! "Like any good gay person, I'm trying to render her powerless by turning her into an anti-diva," he says. "She thinks I'm going to hell, and I think she's a bit overzealous, but beyond that, we have a surprising amount of things in common." It's the oddest couple since Devito and Schwarzenegger! Seriously, we have no idea. After the jump, a clip of Shirley Phelps-Roper being too insane for even Sean Hannity to bear:
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1:32 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,742 views, 52 comments

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journalismism

Newspaper Feature, Like Story Of Jesus, Is Fiction

On March 23, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an uplifting story about "Virginia Gillis," who had lost her perfect life when her husband started using methamphetamines, burned down their house, and attacked her with a straight razor, cutting her throat "almost all the way through." After a stint of homelessness, she slowly rebuilt her life, and now works as a chef at a homeless program, feeding hundreds of people a week who are stuck in the position that she once was. The paper compares her story to the resurrection of Jesus Christ—this was an Easter-themed feature. But further investigation revealed that, like Jesus, Virginia Gillis' story had a bit of mythology in it. Such as: her name, her age, her location, her outstanding warrants, and everything else about her story! It might have been easier if they just told us what was true in the original, rather than false. The entire, and truly epic, editor's note from page one of yesterday's paper [via Romenesko], after the jump. More »

1:41 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,932 views, 37 comments

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anne rice

Vampire Woman Worships Undead God

Anne Rice, the author of all those books about Vampires (including the one that they turned into that Tom Cruise/ Brad Pitt movie with the twin themes of latent homosexuality and glorification of the dark side), has opened up to the world about her bizarre and stunning deity worship [WP]. The famed creator of monstrosities publicly proclaims her allegiance today to a strange "God Man" who supposedly performed impossible miracles in days long past. Now, the Dracula-loving storyteller has "consecrated" herself to this mythical "Jesus"—who can die and revive himself at will—and nothing will change her mind about his magical powers. The bloodsucking aficionado will not abandon her hallucinatory reasoning for anyone! More »

10:16 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,447 views, 36 comments

Latest by Medda: I seem to be suspended between several thoughts on this subject. There was the part about a choice between ridicule and thought police which threw me for a loop when I wondered to myself, "must one choose between asserting a more »

Religion and Politics

What Would Jesus Kill?

I tuned into "The McLaughlin Group" this morning all giddy about the prospect of panelist and Chicago Tribune writer Clarence Page (who is black) getting into a sweet shout-off with MSNBC talker Patrick Buchanan over Buchanan's recent column calling for blacks to show some "gratitude" for the way America has treated them. But moderator John McLaughlin threw me a Christian curveball for Easter, asking his guests, "Would Jesus support the death penalty?" More »

11:56 AM on Sun Mar 23 2008
By ian spiegelman
1,988 views, 29 comments

week in review

The Week We Exhausted "Seven Diamond" Jokes

So. Monday was a big day! They canceled Tucker!
Oh, and then the New York Times revealed that New York governor Eliot Spitzer was "linked to" a high-class escort service. Things got kinda nuts from there! Go here for all of our exclusive and comprehensive coverage of the scandal that rocked New York for a week until it morphed into an excuse to post racy photos of an attractive young woman.
There were three basic threads to our coverage of the Spitzer thing. First, the scandal itself! The apology! Our controversial position! The muppet picture! The wife! Client 9! PR experts had no advice. He embarrassed the Jews. We sought solace in astrology, but Eliot resigned anyway, after a car chase. All in 3 magical days!
Second, the meta-media beat. We topped the tabloid headlines, we charted everyone else's headlines, and we analyzed the nutty behavior of the New York Times, the outlet that broke the story, then didn't call for Spitzer's resignation. Their Metro desk was the hero of the week, though their extensive coverage led us to ask when, exactly, the New York Times became a tabloid. Or at least tabloid-y. Then we noted that they seemed a bit eager for crazy charges to be filed, which might justify the whole sordid mess. The mess got even sordider by week's end, by which point everyone's prurience was no longer even thinly veiled, and the whole thing became All About Ashley.
That would be Ashley Alexandra Dupre, alias "Kristen". She's the classy call girl who Spitzer met with that fateful DC night. We tried to find her on day one, and then thought we had. But the Times tracked her down for the interview and linked to her MySpace and set off another media frenzy. We helped with our DEFINITIVE GALLERY OF KRISTEN PHOTOS. And so much more on America's Newest Sweetheart, who is 22, or maybe 32. She is available for music videos.
MEANWHILE: That one lady we used to write about—Juliet something?—has toned it down a little. Thankfully, her good friends the Rambin sisters haven't. We're still not sure who they are but they spent the week doing various notable things.
Our own Hamilton Nolan waged an increasingly hilarious war on PR guru and man who doesn't know when to stay quiet Ronn [sic] Torrosian. It started with The Epic Ballad of Ronn Torossian and just got wackier from there.
Tom Cruise had the best birthday party ever ever EVER!
Lots of other things happened this week! We all made Facebook friends with the the Superdelegates, and Glamour fired their dudeblogger, and then Neel Shah bro'd down with the fired Dudeblogger, and then we actually read Vogue, and wept for the greatest reality show never, then some film students terrorized Kate Hudson with guns, Tim Gunn was not sad, a reporter hurt himself on YouTube, and the coolest old man ever sent a crazy email about how news is the new rock and roll.

7:10 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Pareene
1,044 views, 23 comments

Latest by AndSheSaid: @collegecallgirl: I suspect that Goddamn Pareene made you in charge so he could see your boobs. Also, we haven't completely worn out the 7 stars joke: CCG's stars go to eleven! Okay, now we have. more »

jared paul stern

Woe Unto You Who Wearest The Fedora

According to Radar, disgraced former Page Sixer Jared Paul Stern has been hired by BlackBook as books editor. EIC Steve Garbarino rationalizes it for you: More »

2:50 PM on Tue Sep 26 2006
By abalk2
58 views, 2 comments

press releases

What Would Jesus iTunes?

This has got to be our favorite press release of the young week: More »

jesus

Jesus Lives

You guys so came through and did our work for us today! Many thanks. Jesus lives to poo on our hand another day. In fact, He pooed just now. And it looked like Jesus. More »

6:15 PM on Thu Oct 13 2005
By noelle2
96 views, 8 comments

jesus

Save Jesus

Okay, we realize we re basically talking to ourselves here, but Yom Kippur is no excuse for the paltry amount of readers tips coming in today. For shame, Unchosen Ones, for shame. We know you're there at your desk not doing any work (because we can see you — you may want to rethink that shirt, by the way). Therefore, we re taking matters into our own steepled hands to encourage you to send us more juicy emails. Since it just so happens that one of us has a parakeet named Jesus, we ve decided that unless the tips starting rolling in, Jesus is going down. You have till the stroke of 5:00. What would Jesus do? He would send us links to Britney's homemade porno and guesses about which rapper likes to eat manloaf. So start acting more Christ-like or the 'keet gets it.

3:15 PM on Thu Oct 13 2005
By noelle2
127 views, 5 comments

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new york politics

Where Would Jesus Vote?

With only two weeks to go till New York City's primary-election day, the Sun has uncovered rampant fraud in the registration rolls. "Dozens of voters," says the paper — and, yes, that's not just a handful, but entire dozens — are claiming to reside at demonstrably false addresses. And it gets worse, reports Meghan Clyne: More »

11:00 AM on Tue Aug 30 2005
By Jesse
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Gawker

One More Thing

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