He makes it too darn easy. He just opens his mouth, and we have ALL KINDS OF STUFF to write about. Give a listen.
Of course, I have to watch this documentary when it comes out. I just want to see him saying:
They’re the meanest buggers I’ve ever seen.
(Did he really say buggers?)
What is the morals of a gay person? You can’t answer that because anything goes.
They’re probably the greatest threat to America going down I know of.
Um. Threat to what?
Earlier today there was a video posted on YouTube, part of the Cowen interview, in which Buttars brings up the topic of “Pig Sex”. The video has been taken down now, but I did see it before it was removed. Buttars says gays engage in pig sex but he refuses to say on camera what that is. The interviewer looks it up and reads the definition. Buttars is dissatisfied as the definition is not explicit enough to suit him. Here‘s the definition from Urban Dictionary which sounds like the one read by the interviewer.
(UPDATE: Video is back up, so here it is)
And finally, I have to ask what so many others are asking tonight: Why doth Buttars protest so much?
76.23.46.69#1 by JMBell on February 18, 2009 - 10:21 pm
Becky – thanks for taking the first step and asking the “buggers” question. I’ve been too chicken to ask that question all day. It’s kinda sad that I don’t think he understood the tragic irony of the statement.
71.36.64.9#2 by Becky on February 18, 2009 - 10:29 pm
As we used to say on the playground, it takes one to know one. Just sayin’.
67.186.255.56#3 by Cliff Lyon on February 18, 2009 - 11:26 pm
Did ya see how is eyes lit up when he talked about sex?
Perv.
67.186.255.56#4 by Cliff Lyon on February 18, 2009 - 11:30 pm
Worth Watching the whole thing
166.2.124.88#5 by Richard Warnick on February 19, 2009 - 9:06 am
Becky, I managed to make it through yesterday without knowing exactly what Chris Buttars said. Now that you bring it up, one does wonder about what might have been going on at the Utah Boys Ranch when Buttars was in charge.
166.2.124.88#6 by Richard Warnick on February 19, 2009 - 9:15 am
Think Progress picked up this story yesterday, but I didn’t read it until this morning.
12.73.25.73#7 by cav on February 19, 2009 - 9:24 am
Butters buggers? What am I missing here?
12.73.25.73#8 by cav on February 19, 2009 - 9:25 am
Oh…The low-hanging fruit!
65.44.117.2#9 by Kevin Owens on February 19, 2009 - 9:29 am
To cav, from Wikipedia:
12.73.23.240#10 by cav on February 19, 2009 - 9:53 am
Thanks Kevin.
65.46.48.242#11 by Obama the Paul [merLot] on February 19, 2009 - 11:03 am
why anyone even listens to this one-man mormon freakshow is beyond me!
65.44.117.2#12 by Kevin Owens on February 19, 2009 - 11:51 am
It’s entertaining to have such a colorful senator. He’s like our Robert Byrd.
65.243.149.174#13 by Anonymous on February 19, 2009 - 12:25 pm
Buttars is such a cool anachronism in this day and age. Kewl! We love him for standing up for what is right!!!
67.186.254.104#14 by Shane Smith on February 19, 2009 - 5:09 pm
“And finally, I have to ask what so many others are asking tonight: Why doth Buttars protest so much?”
He and Paul Mero both.
Just saying….
Now all we have to do is wait for the inevitable outting alla Ted Haggard and the tearful ‘non-apology apology’ with the devoted wife standing by his side.
“A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite.” -Oscar Wilde
71.36.64.9#15 by Becky on February 19, 2009 - 6:38 pm
Richard,
The comments at the Think Progress link are pretty entertaining as well. Over 700 of them so far. They’re all kind of wondering the same thing we are.