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From anncoulter.com...

Before Falwell Ever Mentioned Teletubbies In February, 1999 -
If Tinky Winky wasn't gay, he was about one Broadway show away . . .

“Gays have championed Tinky Winky and his beloved red purse, and night-clubbers have adopted the show as a sort of druggy daydream.”
— Newsweek, April 6, 1998

“Tinky actually became a gay icon in Britain because, for no apparent reason, his voice is male but he sometimes carries a flashy red purse.”
—The Toronto Star, April 6, 1998

“Tinky Winky, the heaviest, looks a little like an eggplant with cellulite. He also sometimes carries a red purse, which has won him popularity among gay viewers.”
— The Washington Post, April 06, 1998

Tinky?became quite the celebrity, especially after gay-rights groups fought for his reinstatement, partly because Tinky Winky has a male voice but skips about Teletubbyland carrying a red purse.
— Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Texas), April 6, 1998

“And what's with Tinky Winky, whose voice sounds strangely mature and who sometimes carries a red handbag?”
— The New York Times, April 6, 1998

But today many forms of gender nonconformity have actually become mainstream. . . . Even Teletubbies, a show for toddlers, features Tinky Winky, a boy who carries a red patent-leather purse.
— Time Magazine, July 20, 1998

“The way the original Tinky Winky carried his tote-bag-size red purse reportedly made him a gay icon in Britain.”
— Time Magazine, July 20, 1998

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Liberal media lying yet again.
 

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Tinky Winky - the Gay Teletubby?


By Carolyn Gargaro

Rightgrrl Co-Founder

February 11, 1999

Teletubbies. Love 'em or hate 'em, they are currently in the news. Why? Because it was suggested in The National Liberty Journal that one of the Teletubbies named "Tinky Winky" could be gay.

Let me first make it clear that this article is not about homosexuality itself. This is about obvious overreaction and biased reporting from the media.

Tinky Winky The February edition of The National Liberty Journal, edited and published by the Reverend Jerry Falwell, contained an article warning parents the Teletubby "Tinky Winky" may be a gay role model. The publication says Tinky Winky has the voice of a boy but carries a purse. It says: "He is purple the gay-pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle -- the gay-pride symbol."

When I first heard this, my immediate reaction was, "Oh come on!! No one would think that! This is really reaching....just because Tinky Winky is purple...?"

I then found out that the possible "gayness" of Tinky Winky was far from a new observation. The Reverend Falwell was not the first person to mention this. That's right. Other media outlets have previously reported, since 1997, that Tinky Winky is or could be gay. In fact, there were rumors that the character would be pulled because of the possible sexual orientation, but it obviously wasn't.

Some Facts:

On the 24th of December, 1997 CNN reported that Tinky Winky was gay.

"The Teletubbies also have a following among the gay community. Tinky Winky, who carts around a red handbag but speaks with a male voice, has become something of a gay icon." CNN, 12/24/97

On April 17, 1998, the Village Voice praised the Teletubbies series for their gay Tinky Winky character.

On January 1, 1999, in its New Year's IN/OUT list, The Washington Post anointed "Tinky Winky, the gay Teletubby," as next year's Ellen DeGeneres.


In 1997, when the BBC, which produces the show, wanted to fire the human who plays Tinky for dancing in the streets wearing only a balloon, gay groups protested. It has also been reported that some gay groups have "claimed Tinky Winky as their own". (Washington Post, February 11, 1999, Page C01)

So why the sudden media frenzy? It's pretty simple. Publications such as the Village Voice praised the Teletubbies; Jerry Falwell criticized them. The former is obviously more politically correct. The reason the Teletubbies have become the latest hot topic is because a publication reported that the character could be gay and criticized it. It was the criticism that caused this to become a story - not the fact that someone suggested that Tinky Winky could be gay. But to hear the media reports, you'd think that The Liberty Journal was the first and only publication or media outlet to suggest such a thing.

Perhaps the people at The Liberty Journal would not have published this new...wait, this OLD, information about Tinky Winky if it hadn't been reported here and there since 1997. Where was all this investigative reporting when the Washington Post carried the information in January 1999? Did all the news stations carry the statements made by the Village Voice back in 1998? This is a perfect example of how the media twists such a situation. The Teletubbies are ALL OVER the news, and all the news programs are acting as if this is the FIRST TIME anyone had suggested such a "ridiculous" thing. The impression people are left with is that the Reverend Falwell just thought up some outlandish thing and applied it to a children's show. No matter what one's view is on homosexuality, this should be seen as totally unfair. Somehow a "scandal" erupts when a publication which doesn't condone homosexuality reports what has already been published elsewhere. Is the media that hard up for newsworthy items?

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Jerry wasn't the first to notice.

Liberal media lying, as always.
 

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Was it reported that he was the only one to make the claim?

Or was he the only one to do it while gay bashing?

Don't forget this is the same guy who has said:

“AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals”

[homosexuals are] brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.”

“Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America”

“The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews”

“Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.”

“(re: 9/11 attacks) "...throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools, the abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked and when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad...I really believe that the pagans and the abortionists and the feminists and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who try to secularize America...I point the thing in their face and say you helped this happen."”

What a guy he was.

Don't forget home Barney Frank is the one working on helping on line poker. He may be a homo but he is our homo...lol
 

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Falwell may have lacked the humility of a Jesus Christ, but he did plenty for the downtrodden and those who celebrate faith.

I agree with Mitt Romney that we should celebrate and embrace faith and family values, rather than marginalize and ridicule and ban them, the way the intolerant SP crowd is determined to do.

No wonder the SP crowd hated Jerry with a passion...

To hell with their modern "American Makeover" agenda -- and Jerry fought the humanists right up until his last breath.

RIP Jerry Falwell. :suomi:

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JERRY FALWELL — SAY HELLO TO RONALD REAGAN!

by Ann Coulter
May 16, 2007

No man in the last century better illustrated Jesus' warning that "All men will hate you because of me" than the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who left this world on Tuesday. Separately, no man better illustrates my warning that it doesn't pay to be nice to liberals.

Falwell was a perfected Christian. He exuded Christian love for all men, hating sin while loving sinners. This is as opposed to liberals, who just love sinners. Like Christ ministering to prostitutes, Falwell regularly left the safe confines of his church to show up in such benighted venues as CNN.

He was such a good Christian that back when we used to be on TV together during Clinton's impeachment, I sometimes wanted to say to him, "Step aside, reverend — let the mean girl handle this one." (Why, that guy probably prayed for Clinton!)

For putting Christ above everything — even the opportunity to make a humiliating joke about Clinton — Falwell is known as "controversial." Nothing is ever as "controversial" as yammering about Scripture as if, you know, it's the word of God or something.

From the news coverage of Falwell's death, I began to suspect his first name was "Whether You Agree With Him or Not."

Even Falwell's fans, such as evangelist Billy Graham and former President Bush, kept throwing in the "We didn't always agree" disclaimer. Did Betty Friedan or Molly Ivins get this many "I didn't always agree with" qualifiers on their deaths? And when I die, if you didn't always agree with me, would you mind keeping it to yourself?

Let me be the first to say: I ALWAYS agreed with the Rev. Falwell.

Actually, there was one small item I think Falwell got wrong regarding his statement after 9/11 that "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians — who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle — the ACLU, People for the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"

First of all, I disagreed with that statement because Falwell neglected to specifically include Teddy Kennedy and "the Reverend" Barry Lynn.

Second, Falwell later stressed that he blamed the terrorists most of all, but I think that clarification was unnecessary. The necessary clarification was to note that God was at least protecting America enough not to allow the terrorists to strike when a Democrat was in the White House.

(If you still think it isn't Christ whom liberals hate, remember: They hate Falwell even more than they hate me.)

I note that in Falwell's list of Americans he blamed for ejecting God from public life, only the gays got a qualifier. Falwell referred to gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle.

No Christian minister is going to preach that homosexuality is godly behavior, but Falwell didn't add any limiting qualifications to his condemnation of feminists, the ACLU or People for the American Way.

There have always been gay people — even in the prelapsarian '50s that Jerry Falwell and I would like to return to, when God protected America from everything but ourselves.

What Falwell was referring to are the gay activists — the ones who spit the Eucharist on the floor at St. Patrick's Cathedral, blamed Reagan for AIDS, and keep trying to teach small schoolchildren about "fisting."

Also the ones who promote the gay lifestyle in a children's cartoon.

Beginning in early 1998, the news was bristling with stories about a children's cartoon PBS was importing from Britain that featured a gay cartoon character, Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubbie with a male voice and a red handbag.

People magazine gleefully reported that Teletubbies was "aimed at Telebabies as young as 1 year. But teenage club kids love the products' kitsch value, and gay men have made the purse-toting Tinky Winky a camp icon."

In the Nexis archives for 1998 alone, there are dozens and dozens of mentions of Tinky Winky being gay — in periodicals such as Newsweek, The Toronto Star, The Washington Post (twice!), The New York Times and Time magazine (also twice).

In its Jan. 8, 1999, issue, USA Today accused The Washington Post of "outing" Tinky Winky, with a "recent Washington Post In/Out list putting T.W. opposite Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche, essentially 'outing' the kids' show character."

Michael Musto of The Village Voice boasted that Tinky Winky was "out and proud," noting that it was "a great message to kids — not only that it's OK to be gay, but the importance of being well accessorized."

All this appeared before Falwell made his first mention of Tinky Winky.

After one year of the mainstream media laughing at having put one over on stupid bourgeois Americans by promoting a gay cartoon character in a TV show for children, when Falwell criticized the cartoon in February 1999, that same mainstream media howled with derision that Falwell thought a cartoon character could be gay.

Teletubbies producers immediately denounced the suggestion that Tinky Winky was gay — though they admitted that he was once briefly engaged to Liza Minnelli. That's what you get, reverend, for believing what you read in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time magazine and Newsweek. Of course, Falwell also thought the show "Queer as Folk" was gay, so obviously the man had no credibility.

Despite venomous attacks and overwhelming pressure to adopt the fashionable beliefs of cafe society, Falwell never wavered an inch in acknowledging Jesus before men. Luckily, Jesus' full sentence, quoted at the beginning of this column is: "All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved."
 

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How can we forget his first Time

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I don't care who said it and when, the notion is idiotic.

Judging by the press -- before Jerry chimed in and before Queer Eye and Brokeback were chic -- you're in the minority, Judge.

EVERYONE took notice but when it comes to people like Falwell, the liberal press loves making shit up -- just the way they made up "AIDS was not just a gay disease."

PC indoctrination impairs the "common sense gene" as Willie would say...
 

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Well Joe until I see an episode where Tinky takes it in the ass, I ain't buying it. Metro sexual maybe, with the handbag thing. How do we even know it's a guy? Why am I wasting my time talking about the teletubbies?
 

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"AIDS was not just a gay disease." Oh God. So what do we tell all the straight women who have it? You only have the flu?
 

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"AIDS was not just a gay disease." Oh God. So what do we tell all the straight women who have it? You only have the flu?

Back then the vast majority of cases were from IDUs (injection drug users) and homosexuals - so AIDS was mainly a homsexual disease.

Now, the overwhelming majority of AIDs cases are directly or indirectly attribuatble to IDU and homosexual males.
The majority of females getting AIDS falls in the 13 to 19 year old range getting AIDS from an IDU or bisexual source.

You can draw your own conclusions.
 

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Now, the overwhelming majority of AIDs cases are directly or indirectly attribuatble to IDU and homosexual males..

Might want to qualify that with demographics bblight. Something like 90% of AIDS cases worldwide are believed to be from vertical transfer of mother to offspring.
 

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Joe, all I know is that I have had two straight women friends die from it. And it ain't pretty. And for me, doesn't really matter whether it is a straight or gay disease, we need to do what we can. Just like cancer or luekemia. The Bush administration has done a good job in this area, but of course more needs to be done and hopefully it will.
 

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Judging by the press -- before Jerry chimed in and before Queer Eye and Brokeback were chic -- you're in the minority, Judge.

EVERYONE took notice but when it comes to people like Falwell, the liberal press loves making shit up -- just the way they made up "AIDS was not just a gay disease."

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Falwell was a POS. With this line about AIDS being Gods way of punishing people he turned a little tropper like Ryan White's precious last days on earth into a personal hell. Ryan was shunned by by people afraid to even be in the same room with him. He couldnt even go to school anymore without people saying horrible things that echoed Falwells hate speech. The truth is Falwell hated Liberals more that he hated gays. It was a political stunt that left thousands of regular people who contracted the disease in other ways stranded and branded by Falwells hate crime. You can also thank this garbage dump for the banning of sports gambling and online poker in this country, more sinful stuff to this putrid preacher who right now is rotting in hell for what he did while his fat ass was shitting on innocent people. And the drag queen Coulter turns on her own kind to write a love poem for this guy? Says alot about your honey, and maybe something about you too Josie...
 

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Well Joe until I see an episode where Tinky takes it in the ass, I ain't buying it. Metro sexual maybe, with the handbag thing. How do we even know it's a guy? Why am I wasting my time talking about the teletubbies?

My daughter was watching Sesame Street the other day. It ended and before I realized it, the TeleTubbies came on. Three of the four TeleTubbies (including Tinky Winky) came on screen and of course were prancing around the room. The narrator pointed out how they all had dirt on their knees and sure enough they all did. Can someone please tell me what the creators of the show were thinking?!

They didn't show the fourth one but I'm sure he had a big smile on his face.
 

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"AIDS was not just a gay disease." Oh God. So what do we tell all the straight women who have it? You only have the flu?

LMFAO..... hey people do die of the flew too....don't you know anything?

Be very careful you gave JoeC you email address he will start sending you offline threats too and you will get lumped into the left wing, liberal, commie, pinko, homo, loser, kook camp with me.
 

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