What is your opinion about this clip?

[Behind the Aegis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sODx1RZnQPE (the clip is 3:13 minutes long)

This is about the idotic "Pastor's Banner Links Obama to Osama" flap. It is is posted in Political Videos, here at DU. The commentator makes some good remarks, but it is when he gets to his "comparision" situation that bothers me.

So this post doesn't get locked or moved to GD: P, please limit comments to the "comparison" and not comments about Obama or the "flap," unless in passing. Thanks.

[LakeSamish706]

1. Well does the Pastor sleep with his brother? hmmm Maybe. n/t

[Ian David]

2. I think it's okay, because I think The Young Turks are gay, too, and do each other in the ass.

Actually, I don't THINK they do. I just WONDER if they do.

I should put it on a sign and stimulate conversation.

[Cant trust em]

3. I think that TYT is trying to use an example

of the last thing this reverend would want to talk about. In this case, a gay love affair with his brother.

That being said, they probably went too far with the imagery, for lack of a better word.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. I understand what they are doing.

So, why not use an analogy of him beating his wife, having an incestuous relationship with his mother or daughter, or robbing the 'poor box'? I loathe when liberals use anti-gay imagery to "prove a point" when other examples would be just as "electric." IMHO, it is relying on homophobia. Was the incest not powerful enough?

[Cant trust em]

6. For the Rev.'s congregation, incest might not be powerful enough

Unfortunate as it may be, there's nothing that would cripple this Rev. more than a gay love affair. It's sad, but the example used would be the most incendiary thing that could happen to that church.

I completely understand your disdain for this though.

[tishaLA]

4. an example of why

analogues are best left to rhetoriticians.