George Brauchler’s remarks on KHOW
I was listening to KHOW’s Caplis and Silverman program on Friday July 6, 2007 and was very upset by the bigoted remarks made by guest host George Brauchler about gay service members in the military.
He was interviewing Jason Knight who was discharged from the Navy for being gay. During his interview Mr. Brauchler made disparaging comments about gays and the United States Navy as being “light in the loafers” and gay people in the service of our country would be “like a kid in the candy store”.
I cannot understand how George Brauchler is permitted to remain on KHOW after those offensive remarks. If Don Imus can have his feet put to the fire for the hateful comments he made, why isn’t George Brauchler held to the same standard? Don Imus also shrugged off his intolerant remark of “nappy headed ho’s “(sic) as “humor” and yet when aspersions are cast against gay people on KHOW, they, and Clear Channel think it is OK. Is this the standard of KHOW? The Caplis and Silverman show is promoted as ”Not left or right, but right or wrong.” So I ask what is right about Mr. Brauchler’s degrading and demeaning comments. I truly would like to know what if anything is KHOW planning to do to hold Mr. Brauchler accountable for his vile remarks.
If you changed the issue/word of gays with Jews, women, blacks, Latinos, Asians etc, and attached similar debasing stereotypes, would that be tolerated? KHOW is seemingly treading down a shameful and intolerant path.
Furthermore, as Mr. Brauchler serves in the law firm and employ of [DAN]Caplis & Deasy it calls to question if such vitriolic assertions are condoned in the office as well.
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Letter writer Michael is right.What is wrong with a gay man being in the shower with the rest of the males in the service.I have long believed we men should be allowed to shower with the women in the service.Are you so small minded that you think that would turn us on.We Democrats will push for this new freedom.
Posted by True on July 16, 2007 06:01 AM"Do people tell jokes about gay people because gay sex is not natural? Yes."
That is a quote from Caplis on his radio show. He is just as homophobic and bigoted as Brauchler.
Posted by conservative media on July 16, 2007 07:36 AMTrue
Isn't it time to come up with a new "schtick"
Posted by conservative media on July 16, 2007 07:38 AMIt's a free country folks...we don't have to agree with homosexuality if we don't want to.
Posted by on July 16, 2007 07:48 AMAlthough there is no need to become personally upset with Brauchler's remarks, except for the fact that he is engaging in propaganda, and playing to the base nature in people and their prejudices. Such people have never grown up, either intellectually or emotionally. That is why they are still formulating their "opinions" and views with the mental acumen one might find on a grade school playground. They would rather "believe" something than do some serious "thinking" which, in most cases, is way beyond them. As a result, all we see or hear from them is a regurgitation of what "others" have said, or what others believe. By doing that, they don't have to do any work.
If one examines the records of those with the loudest voices in this regard, what you will find, is that most of them have never even been in the military. If they had, they might have come to the realizaton a long time ago, that most in the military do not "give a damn" if a person is "gay" or not. What they do care about is if the person does his/her job.
As one who has been in uniform, we knew that some were "gay" but did not at all worry about "taking a shower". Those who fixate on this "imaginary" danger of somehow being "attacked" under such circumstances have been listening to too many fantasies or looking at way too many "prison stories." They are living in a constructed fantasy world, one where they see danger where there is none.
Some also have the erroneous view that all "gay" people are "limp wristed." For their sake, we can only hope that they don't pick the wrong person to say that too, like a former Army Ranger, Seal, or Marine. Well, maybe we should hope that they do, as that may correct their misconceptions.
I think Robert I Laitres is 100% right and now I need him and others to back our new agenda of letting us hetrosexual men shower with the women in the military.Are people so small minded they think we would attack naked women in the shower?We may have some fantansies later about the experience but how will that hurt anyone.I know that women will be open to this in the same way men will be open to having gays in the shower with them.Women are very open minded about these things.I have to go now I am getting a little excited thinking about it.That is showering with the women not the gays.
Posted by True on July 16, 2007 12:44 PMConservative Media ,what is a "schitick" and will you support the new Democrat Party movement to let us men shower with women in the military.Got to go getting excited again!!!
Posted by True on July 16, 2007 12:56 PMWhy am I not getting any support for my idea?Are there only homosexuals writing on this page or are you all hetro-phobic?
Posted by True on July 16, 2007 01:06 PMTrue,
No, people are ignoring you because you are not cute and everyone sees straight through your BS act. If you were being even half-way serious about what you are doing, people might be tempted to respond. As it is, everyone knows that you are a virulent conservative that hates liberals and everything the DemocratIC Party stands for, so no-one wants to fall into your stupid, Tucker Carlson-style "gotcha" trap you are so clumsily setting. Got that, O Transparent One?
And give it up with your "innocent" act, you know what a schtick is and you also know that's all you are doing.
Posted by Paulie on July 16, 2007 01:43 PMThank you Paulie!
Posted by conservative media on July 16, 2007 03:06 PMPaulie,
If True is a virulent conservative, then Rush Limbaugh is a tree-hugging liberal.
conservative media on July 16, 2007 07:36 AM ,
Disagreement with the homosexual lifestyle doesn’t make one a “homophobe.” A phobia is an unreasonable fear of something or someone. I don’t have an unreasonable fear of gay men or lesbian women. It’s just that they make up only less than 10% of the human population, so I see them as just a little weird, that’s all. The human body was not made to perform the types of sex acts in which they indulge.
Just as the minority should not be subjected to tyranny of the majority, the majority should not be subjected to the tyranny of the minority. Time after time ballots contain issues concerning special rights or even equal rights for homosexual people, and time after time the majority of the public vote against them. The large majority of humans do not approve of the homosexual lifestyle. But homosexual lobby groups get activist judges to overturn those wishes and force their agenda down the throats of the majority of the voting public. Hence, the minority is making rulings against the majority.
Democrats and liberals scream that Bush cheated his way into office believing that he lost the majority of popular votes and only got into office through the courts. Homosexuals essentially do that very thing. They don’t care that they are not accepted by voters, they are going to force their beliefs onto our society anyway.
Paulie,I think you have proven my point and thanks for helping Conservative Media.He was at a loss for words.Paulie you are either a homosexual or a hetro-phob.Which are you?You still have not said if you will support men showering with women.Yes or no.Why can't you answer a simple question?Please give the reason for your answer.Stop being a coward.
Posted by True on July 16, 2007 03:24 PMTrue,
Where the bloody hell did you get the idea that I wanted to play your stupid little game? You need to re-read my earlier post to get an idea of what I think of you, and it may give you an idea of why I refuse to play along. Nice try though, Tucker.
Posted by Paulie on July 16, 2007 03:29 PM3:23
"It’s just that they make up only less than 10% of the human population, so I see them as just a little weird, that’s all."
the above quote and the rest of your post makes you a homophobe, no matter how you spin it.
True
Your childish questions don't deserve any response.
Posted by conservative media on July 16, 2007 04:32 PMTrue
Your pathetic attempt at humor is lamer than the radio schlock jocks.
Women serving in Iraq, when going to the showers bring a knife, to cut and stab rapists from their own military. This story is buried never to see the light of news reports. But look around the google, you will find posts from women raped or those who are ready to defend themselves.
Posted by Holy Reality on July 16, 2007 04:48 PMAs a male homosexual,liberal Democrat I will answer Trues question of why men should not shower with women in the service.As a gay male I get a little sexual thrill everytime I see myself nude.When I shower,go to the bathroom or just walk around nude because I am a homosexual I get turned on by my own body.Because you are a hetrosexual you do not get turned on by your own body all day so when you shower with women you would get a much greater sexual thrill.This would be discrimination against homosexuals.It would be like a man getting paid more money for doing the same work as a women.
Posted by Bernie Butluvington on July 17, 2007 08:15 AMThanks for answering my question Mr. Butluvington.As a fellow liberal Democrat it makes perfect sense.
Posted by True on July 17, 2007 08:26 AMTrue,
If you're a liberal Democrat, then I'm George W. Bush.
Now be a good little conservative Republican and run along. The adults are talking here.
Posted by Tree Hugger on July 17, 2007 02:46 PMHoly Reality, you are very gullible. “Oh, wow man, I did a Google search and found the truth!” You think that because you read something on the internet that it must be an absolute certainty and that the story is buried in the major media. You wrote: “This story is buried never to see the light of news reports.”
The media would LOVE to get this out because it would further help undermine the military effort in Iraq. And I am a member of the military, and I would have heard about this long ago, not find it here on an opinion blog from a little nobody grinding an axe.
That’s just an absurd pile of crap! Maybe you can join the nut cases from the 1960’s and start calling our soldiers baby killers, too.
I shake my head in utter disgust and disbelief!!!!!!!!!!!
Give thanks that you and I are not in the same room together.
All you supporters of the crazy "don't ask.don't tell" policy should remember the famous words of the late US Senator Barry Goldwater, the immortal Republican Conservative World War II Veteran, Brigadier General in the Arizona Air National Guard and 1964 GOP Presidential Candidate who ran FAR to the right of LBJ. He said in 1993 "you only have to shoot straight and not be straight to be in the military". Besides, the Military of Israel got rid of any restrictive policies against gay service members serving openly a long time ago. Anyone here want to call the Israeli Military 'light in their loafers'.?
Posted by Dino on July 23, 2007 03:04 PM