Hilarious Idiots To Get Hour On Radio

The above is, of course, the press release the Westboro Baptist “Church” put out to announce their protest of the Amish schoolchildren’s funerals. They blamed Gov. Rendell, of course, because… well, who knows. But they blamed Rendell, and were planning on protesting the funerals.

Yesterday, however, conservative Pennsylvania radio host Mike Gallagher bartered with them and got them to cancel the protest (.pdf).

What is he giving them in exchange? Oh, that’s right, an hour of free airtime on his show, starting today at 10 a.m. (The show airs at the oh-so-popular time of 12 a.m. - 2 a.m. on 990 AM in Philadelphia.) I’ve only seen noted idiot Fred Phelps interviewed once — Michael Smerconish had him on TV when he was filling in, of course — and he said something like, “This country has gone the way of the Brokeback Mountain!”

So you know it’s going to be hilarious. We should all thank Mike Gallagher, not just for his nice gesture (and, hey, free publicity, too) but also for his commitment to hilarity on the radio.

Yesterday: Idiot To Protest Repeated Amish Viewings Of ‘Queer Eye’

Idiot To Protest Repeated Amish Viewings Of ‘Queer Eye’

Oh, the Amish school shooting saga continues: Guess who’s coming to the funerals of the five girls murdered on Monday?

That’s right, Mr. “God Hates Fags” himself, the “Reverend” Fred Phelps!

Phelps, as you may know, believes that things like Sept. 11 and soldiers dying are a reaction to America’s “tolerance” of homosexuality, which he believes is a sin worse than murder, rape or protesting outside of innocent peoples’ funerals, because he read it in Levitticus or something.

The wacky rev has been protesting outside soldiers’ funerals for a few years now, spreading his message of how to survive in America without really having a job or any purpose at all. (And hate.) And what better place to make his next stop than Amish Country, Pennsylvania. Because, really, if God were to take his vengeance out on someone for America’s love of Brokeback Mountain, it’s the God-fearing, pious Amish, who totally are responsible for Clay Aiken CDs being so hot right now.

Fear not! Fast Eddie himself has announced that he’s ready to enforce a new, possibly unconstitutional (but hopefully not) Pennsylvania law that requires demonstrators to be at least 500 feet from a funeral. It’s Eddie Rendell versus Freddie Phelps, winner take on, this Thursday and Friday in Bart Township, Pennsylvania!

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