{"id":13414,"date":"2014-08-09T00:26:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T07:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13414"},"modified":"2014-08-09T00:26:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T07:26:46","slug":"open-thread892014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/09\/open-thread892014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–8\/9\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m writing for tomorrow, day 110.  I got a late start today, because I was tired from basking in the glow of the Orb and feasting on Seachicken.  I spent most of the day trying to make sense of the Iraq crisis.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 3:57 (average 5:40).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Media Matters<\/a>: <\/font>Anti-gay hate group leader Tony Perkins has appeared on Megyn Kelly’s shows more than all other Fox News programs combined over the past two years.<\/p>\n

Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council (FRC), an organization that was labeled an anti-gay "hate group<\/a>" by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2010. He has called pedophilia "a homosexual problem<\/a>," claimed that gay men "recruit<\/a>" children into homosexuality, and endorsed a Uganda law that would have imposed the death penalty<\/a> for homosexuality. His organization regularly produces anti-gay propaganda depicting gay people as abnormal<\/a>, unnatural<\/a>, and destined for "eternal damnation<\/a>."<\/p>\n

He’s also one of Megyn Kelly’s most frequent guests on Fox News. Kelly – who was once hailed as a harbinger of a "gay rights revolution<\/a>" at Fox – has hosted Perkins more than all other Fox News programs combined in the past two years, according to an Equality Matters analysis. Hailed by Kelly as "a captain of the Religious Right," Perkins has become a familiar face to viewers of Kelly’s shows:<\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n