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Bryan Fischer's Last Stand Against The Gays
I can't decide if this guy is a 'heavy hitter' or a legend in his own mind. I read the entire article word-for-word.
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Bryan Fischer's Last Stand Against The Gays
TUPELO, Miss. The most famous man in Tupelo spends hours each day scrolling through his Google Reader, printing out articles, and stacking them by topic on his dark wooden desk in preparation for his afternoon radio show.
And thats how the stunning news reached Bryan Fischer one recent Friday morning: Mitt Romney had hired an openly, proudly gay man, Richard Grenell, as his foreign policy spokesman.
I felt it was a signal from Romney to the homosexual lobby, that youve got a friend, recalled Fischer, the whose formal title is Director of Issue Analysis for the American Family Association.
Fischer sounded the alarm on Twitter: Romney picks out & loud gay as a spokesman. If personnel is policy, his message to the pro-family community: drop dead.
Fischer isnt a Twitter native he uses it as a broadcast medium, and follows only 26 people but the clarity and confidence of his views is made for the medium. And that tweet was the spark that set elements of the religious right into an attack on Grenell, one that in Grenells reported view, if not the Romney campaigns ultimately led to the staffers high-profile resignation and Romneys first high-profile general election stumble. The story just snowballed from there.
We got Romneys attention with Richard Grenell, Fischer said in an interview in his Tupelo, Mississippi office. We spooked him. Scared him straight. Fischer sat back in his chair, a picture of Elvis Presley gyrating his hips on the wall behind him.
Grenells departure, Fischer told the audience of his show on the AFAs talk radio network, a huge win for religious conservatives.
I can't decide if this guy is a 'heavy hitter' or a legend in his own mind. I read the entire article word-for-word.