Oppose Tucker and MSNBC for the Gay Violence Rant That Was Allowed to Air

The following is what I wrote on a petition I signed on September 6th, 2007 as an opposition to MSNBC airing gay violence comments by anchorman Tucker Carlson. Just a quick overview,
there was a discussion on August 28th, 2007 in which Dan Abrams, Joe Scarborough and Tucker Carlson were discussing Senator Larry Craig's arrest for "lewd conduct." Tucker Carlson had spoken about advances from another man that happened to him while he was in a public restroom and how he responded by grabbing the man's penis and hitting the man's head against a stall while the other anchormen laughed. Is this what we are to treat our children - that it is okay to respond violently if someone makes a flirtatious advance towards you, regardless of gender or sexual orientation? Read on for my thoughts about this situation around the time this report actually took place.
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Freedom of speech is one thing, but freedom of violence?! If you want to live in a world where fists fly instead of dignified thoughts and words, go ahead. But wait, this is America, after all, where violence has become the norm. So let me proposition this, and don't worry, Tucker and MSNBC--it's just a proposition in the form of a question and not a physical come-on (I'm not as despicable and deplorable as your actions)--but if you were the one flirting (or being interpreted as flirting) with someone else, gender aside, and you got roughed up while onlookers laughed, would you just push it aside and say you expected as much? I don't believe you would. With the size of your ego and the stroking it takes to make you feel like a big man, you would be pitching a bitch and standing up for action to be taken against those who "attacked" you. So for all your short-comings, and this is to Tucker and the staff and crew at MSNBC who sit back and let this roll over like water on a duck's back, I don't expect you to "be the bigger person" and apologize. I don't expect any shred of humanity to pour out from you at all. But keep this in mind, should something like this happen to you or someone you know and love, and you project it over the news waves, do you think anyone, aside from your cronies, will be on your side? No one likes a bigot. No one likes a bully. So why do you think that makes you any different or deserving of apathy? Don't fake shock and sadness next you report some kind of violent attack on a poor unsuspecting person, because you already have shown that you condone that kind of behavior. Grow up. Grow a heart. Unless it's too late.